Teacher Trip: Kaifeng
Sat. 12/11 – Sun. 12/12/2010 trip to Kaifeng.
Sat. 12/11 – Sun. 12/12/2010 trip to Kaifeng.
There’s still time to send out those little Christmas greetings, so let me show you another one of my Christmas cards and what I did to create it: The card comes with five parts – two background mats, two center-piece mats and a ribbon. Simple enough, right? I used four different kinds of papers – one patterned one, and the other three ones are plain solid colored. Now, what’s special about this card is that the top layered mat has a lot of writing on it – all words that have to do with Christmas. So, while it took me some time to brainstorm all the different terms, assembling them wasn’t all that hard. Simply pick a lot of different fun fonts and arrange them on the mat until there is no more space left. The trick is: re-size. You can make some words big and bold, others can be quite small. That way arranging everything is a relatively simple task. Once you’ve clipped all the papers and finished arranging the wordart, you can prepare …
Christmas is always a good time for giving and sharing with others what we received. Now, we have a club on campus that supports orphans in our area. It’s a great opportunity for students to get involved in a charity project (they usually have very little exposure to anything like that). Every year for Christmas the club organizes the “Christmas in a Box” project where they collect boxes with goodies to give to the children in those orphanages. This year, instead of boxes, they use red bags. So, the other day I took some of my own students out shopping to fill my bags with goodies for some of the orphans. It was the first time for my students to do anything like that. The goal was to get something useful as well as something fun. So we went on a tour through some of the shops on campus, and look what we found: