Annual Holiday Card sale

Today may be Halloween, but in my classroom, we have been thinking about the Holiday's since August.  Each year, we design, assemble, and sell holiday cards.  We put our design together last spring, so we could jump start in preparations as the new school year began.  Weeks were spent folding, cutting, gluing, stamping, counting, stacking, and tying... ;)...all in anticipation of this week when we rolled out our design and began sales.  We primarily sell to staff in the district, our families, and those at our community work sites.  While this activity is a "fundraiser," the primary purpose is not money making...the purpose is to provide an onsite opportunity to expose our students to general vocational skills, social skills, and money skills.  We are very thoughtful in planning our design each year, so that it is one that the students can put together themselves, with occasional supports from jigs or other accommodations, but looks very professional and put together.  We also try to keep in school friendly, by avoiding any "Christmas" or "religious" references...this way anyone and everyone will want to buy our cards.  Now that our order forms are circulating, the waiting begins.  Once orders start arriving, we will group and package and deliver our holiday cards.  We pride ourselves on timeliness, so we are the first holiday card option for many families in our district.  Check out this years design below...

"Front" Design...holiday trees in a variety of holiday themed paper

"Inside" Design..."Holiday happiness to you!" stamped

Do you have any assembly projects or sales efforts you do in your classroom to provide vocational opportunities for your students?

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Mackenzie