Hearts, Cupids, Love Letters
Twelve designs repeat across the forty-eight cards, so a classroom of twenty-four children can each take two without ending up with the same picture twice. Hearts, cupids and love letters are the recurring motifs, outlined in the black coating and filled by whatever rainbow sits underneath. Which colors appear depends on where the child scratches, so no two finished cards match.
Twenty-Four Wooden Styluses
The styluses are natural wood rather than plastic, with a point blunt enough for small hands and firm enough to lift the coating in one pass. Twenty-four of them cover a full table at once with the rest of the class working in a second round. A toothpick or a coin does the same job if one goes missing, which happens by the third afternoon.
Strung Across A Room
Each card comes with its own cord, which turns a craft session into a display. Finished cards hang from a length of string across a classroom window, off the branches of a paper tree, or from the handle of a gift bag as a tag with the child's own artwork on it. Threading the cord is the part a four year old will need help with.
Dust On The Table
One thing to plan for: scratching produces a fine black dust that gathers wherever the work is done. A tray, a paper plate or a sheet of newspaper under each child contains it, and the whole mess tips into the bin at the end. Doing this outdoors on a mild afternoon removes the problem entirely and gives the youngest crafters room to spread out.
