Nowadays, the children go away with school for a week almost every year: forest classes, cycling classes, snow classes, sea classes, sports classes and so on. Or the kids go to camp with the (sea) scouts or the giro. And of course they would like to receive mail from the home front. Make an original card yourself. A ticket that you adapt to the theme of their week away. With natural materials and a fun, matching text. Your sprout will be quite surprised!
Your child is at scout camp or away from school for a week. If you like to make your own cards, you can surprise your sprout with a beautiful card adapted to the theme and an original text.
Cycling classes
What are cycling classes?
When the children go on cycling classes, they usually bring their own bicycle and often go on bicycle trips. Often there is also a cycling route in that week and they learn more about the traffic.
Ticket adapted to the cycling classes
An adapted map is part of a cycling week. Find a picture of a bicycle, stamp a bicycle or draw one yourself. The drawing should be about four to five cm in size. Take a white card. Cut it into a circle with a diameter of about 10 cm. Stick the bike on one side. Now find a picture of your sprout, preferably standing or just the head. Stick this on the other side. Now make two holes on both sides of the circle, on a horizontal line. Thread a rubber band through the hole on each side. Wind up the rubber bands and insert the card into the cover. When your child receives the card and grabs the rubber bands, the card starts to rotate and it appears as if the child is on the bicycle. Guaranteed success!
Sports classes
What are sports classes?
Numerous sports are practiced during sports classes. Ball sports, dancing, defense techniques, indoor sports, athletics, and so on.
Sporty ticket
You make a sports ticket for the sports classes. Stamp three sports on squares of three out of three (ball, bicycle, tennis, …). Stick the three squares on the card. In the fourth square you write a nice text.
Sea classes
What are sea classes?
As the name says, are sea classes, a week at the sea. Here is played in the dunes, on the beach. Shells are sought and tinkered with. There is a walk along the beach and museums are visited on the theme of sea, fish and specific flora and fauna.
Ticket adapted to the sea classes
Make a card that has something to do with the beach or the sea. Take, for example, the image of a shell and stick it in the middle of a white card. Take different colors of colored sand. Apply glue over a strip. Make wavy movements with your glue stick. Sprinkle one color of sand over this. Now apply a second strip of glue. Sprinkle a different color of sand. Skip the shell image when applying glue. Continue like this until your entire map is colored with sand. Colorful, simple and beautiful!
Forest classes
What are forest classes?
Forest classes are in a wooded area. Children learn more about the forest, the fauna and flora in the forest and work with natural materials from the forest. They go to forest-themed museums.
Card with leaves
Go to the forest and collect some beautiful leaves. Let them dry under a thick book for at least three days. Make it a background. Then glue a gnome on it, or an elf or another hedgehog or a squirrel. Or make a card with a sheet. Another option is to coat your top with paint and then stamp with it. Add a nice text and you will be satisfied.
Sea scout camp
If your children are with the sea scouts, they will definitely go sailing during the camp. Send them a postcard with a boat, but personalize it by writing the name of their boat on the boat. Draw waving kids. If you have a photo where your child is depicted rather small, you can put a photo of your child in the boat. To do this, make a small slit in the boat, cut the child out of the picture and insert it into the slit. Secure at the back with a piece of adhesive tape.
Scout Camp
Camping usually involves camping on an air mattress. You can also make a nice card with that theme. Find a pack of markers or pencils with different curves. Fill the “mattress” with glitter and glue on tightly. Stick the “mattress” on a card. Now take a picture of your child lying on the beach or on the grass. Cut out and glue on the mattress. If you don’t have a picture of your child, find a picture of someone lying down and glue your child’s face in place of the picture’s face. You can add a needle somewhere and “Pff”. Or a cloud with snoring. Ready! Be careful, this card is quite heavy and thick. More suitable to give with someone who is visiting or to the cook parents. Or to hide between the clothes in the bag!
A few more ideas for additional cards
Sweets card
Put small candy in small plastic bags or buy small bags of individually wrapped candy (for example from Haribo). Stick two or three candies on a card or put a bag in the card. Write under “Only to be opened in an emergency”. Your sprout will be very grateful to you for this unexpected candy moment!
Waving hand
If your child has a younger brother or sister, make a nice card together. Take a white card. Write “Hello” or “Hey” in horizontal lines in different colors. Let your little one put his hand on a colorful, sturdy piece of paper. Trace the outline of the hand. Cut out. Now take a piece of iron wire of about 6 cm. Wrap the iron wire around a hook pin. You now have a feather. Insert the spring through the card, stick it on the back with adhesive tape. Put the other side of the feather through the hand. Stick with adhesive tape. Make a strip with “Hello brother / sister” on it. Stick this strip on the hand to hide the feather. You now have a waving hand!
Time to go home!
The time to go has come: the suitcases have to be packed. Not such a nice prospect, but this card eases the pain a bit.
Packing up!
Take thin wool. Knit the front of a sweater with cheerful colors. Cast on 10 stitches, knit approx. 3 cm. Add 4 stitches on each side and knit 1 cm. Turn everything off. You now have the front of a sweater. Now cast on five stitches and knit about five cm. Take off the stitches. You now have a scarf. Cast on 10 stitches, knit 1.5 cm. Then continue working with five stitches over four cm. Cast off and then finish the other five stitches in the same way. You now have the front of a pair of pants. Write or print in colorful letters “Time to pack up!”. Cut out the strip with the text. Now stick everything on a colored card. Ready! If you do not like knitting or if you are sprouting at snow classes, you can also make nice clothes with felt by simply cutting out the shapes. You can make a sweater, but also mittens and a hat, for example. Beware: this card is quite heavy, so pay attention to the value of the stamps!