Christmas card making day.

OK laaa.. so that wasn't really the Best Mom Award I was presented with on that concert day. But I guess they wouldn't mind presenting me with that too if I had asked..

It was a token of appreciation for participating in their program called "Guest teacher Day" where we are invited to be a guest teacher for an hour or so, unpaid (what you think!) and let us have a feel of handling 20+ kids at one time. Easy peasy, so I heard myself saying. But I never did go as a guest teacher though I promised to. And they put my name in there anyway.

I didn't need to, but somehow I thought I ought to. Mainly just to make my kids happy. And so happened, came along this Hope for Gavin Card Drive word spread by Goolyahma, I thought it might just be the right thing to do with the kids. How hard would that be, anyway? Can do charity as well. So, it would be killing 2 birds with 1 stone.

Oh, how wrong I was! It wasn't easy at all planning and going through it all from beginning to the end. I was having some hard time figuring what cards I should make with those kids, 1 class of 5yo(s), and the other of 6yo, it has to be easy for them to follow but presentable at the same time.

Finally, I decided the simplest form should be some crafty work, some cut and paste jobs instead of drawing and writing. Hence, I set forth to get all the pretty pretty stuffs ready. Choosing the right papers for the work is tough call as well, and I thought if the work isn't that presentable, at least some perfumed card might be a compensation.

The kids are eagerly looking forward to that day. As for me, "huh? easy only nia.." until that night before, I was actually getting panicky! Haha..

In the end, I played along, went to meimei's class first and told them the story of little Gavin. I think they don't quite comprehend what his plight is but anyway, we started making the cards. They were very cooperative, and it concluded after 1 hour, which I thought 10 mins would be able to kaotim. Ha! Think so easy.

I hopped over to the other class. There were over 20 kids in there! And they were soooo noisy! Nevertheless, I felt very happy to be standing there talking to them. Especially seeing didi swelling with pride watching me.

This time, the kids asked more about Gavin. And I would have wanted to tell them more and show more of his pictures, but time was running out.. with that number of kids, I wanted them to complete their (and mine!) task before the school dismiss. Lucky we have another 3 teachers over to help me out, else I would really be knocked out by them.

Things were going on fine.... until....

.... when I told them to sprinkle glitters on their cards!!! Absolutely wrong move!! They went almost wild, man!

Without proper supervision, the glitters were all over the place! And after it's over, I do actually think that before the glitters invasion, the cards looked pretty good! Heiz... *sob*

Anyway, task completed and it was time to go home! I was so relieved.

These cards made by 5yo(s). Cute anot?

Well, what I would do now is to see how to "save" those cards and send them over. Now, where do I send to actually?