Kids love receiving gifts and kindnesses. Less enjoyable can be the process of writing a note of gratitude for the gifts they love. Expressing their appreciation can be made fun, creative and systematic.
There are plenty of beautiful and fun styles of custom stationary that can be ordered. But kids may like to have a chance to customize their stationary themselves. Most of the stationary in this project is from Paper Source (http://www.paper-source.com/). These pieces are size A2.
There is a variety of colors in mat or pearlized finishes. They also have foldover notes, and flats with various edges. Papersource also sells sweet looking hearts that can be used to accent the correspondence.
Here’s “the system”:
1. Stock a box with favorite colors of stationary, ink pads and rubber stamp initials. Let the kids choose and design their own stationary.
2. Provide a list of the gifts and givers names with a box for kids to check off after the note is written.
4. Next, the stamp! There are a multitude of beautiful and fun stamps available on line from the US Postal Service (http://www.usps.com/).
I do enjoy writing notes…and taught my kids that if they enjoyed receiving gifts then they needed to respond in kind with a note of appreciation.
You posted on my site “calling all decorators” and I would love love love a picture of what you did in your entry! It sounds fabulous!
I too have encouraged my children to write ‘notes of gratitude’ each birthday and Christmas after receiving a generous amount of gifts. These are fun, easy and creative. Thanks Emily!! I also LOVE the stamps!
Thank you for the gentle admonishment. Your ideas are creative and beautiful. It is so important to instill the idea of gratitude in our children!