Children love receiving their own mail, and parents welcome this opportunity for a unique gift, especially around holidays! Offer a personalized letter from Santa written on colorful holiday stationery.
Prep Steps:
1) Compose one or more standard Christmas letters using a word processing program.
2) Develop an order form, distributed to parents, for personalization and orders. Order form must include vital information such as the child’s name and address, but could also include age, name of a pet, a recent good deed or accomplishment, etc.
3) Select and purchase stationery and stamps.
4) Set a price—between $5 and $10 is suggested.
5) Take orders in advance, and collect payment with orders. Set a deadline to make sure letters will be delivered on time.
Materials:
1) Computer and word processor
2) Holiday stationery
3) Stamps
4) Order forms
Helpful Hints:
• You can sometimes choose a city from which you’d like your cards mailed. North Pole, AK, Santa Claus, GA and Christmas, FL are a few holiday-themed choices. Contact a Post Master in the city to make sure that they will open and re-mail bundled letters.
• To turn this into a birthday card program, consider computer “birthday” software programs ($25-$50) that produce a birthday card/letter with has the recipient’s name, world headlines for the year recipient was born, etc.
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