03
Jun
If you are looking to entertain the kids and get them outside in the yard or garden for some fresh air, this resource is full of fun gaint pavement chalk games for kids which can help keep boredom at bay
1: Learn Math
2: Follow the line and hunt to treasures
3: Have fun and learn to count
06
Dec
With the festive season holiday’s kicking off today all across South Africa, all eyes are on the day we all call Christmas. With a newfound focus centred around what we gift to each other, especially the gifts we give to the children! Not so many years ago, family and friends alike would gift sweets, chocolates and toys. In recent years the popularity of practical and useful gifts has increased.
Being that the gifts from extended family and friends are usually small, the gift-givers are now giving arts and craft supplies, and these are splendid stocking fillers.
Top 12 Stocking Filler Gift Ideas:Shop wisely and enjoy being a part of the smart stocking filler movement! Enjoy your festive celebration!
25
Nov
For decades, we have been using arts and crafts to unlock the creativity within ourselves and our children. Children tell stories through their creations. Whether they are drawing with crayons, painting on board, using boxes to make houses and swords or using clay to shape out animals, children are showing us what interests them and where they are emotionally and mentally. And adults have been known to do the same.
Using various mediums is what is so enticing about the items in an arts and crafts cupboard. Because there are very few boundaries set in place with regards to arts and crafts and its vast potential, you find that creativity expands from one understanding to another. There are always new ways to present a particular subject. Across different fields, you find it has been incorporated into science, biology, maths, geography, history, even languages and drama make use of the broadness of arts and crafts. It is a personal touch added to the presentation of ideas, the use of visual aid to bring life to what could have been quite flat.
When we are allowed to explore our favoured medium, it has been found that people identify with their passions using art as a form of expression. Arts and crafts induce thinking, collaboration, conversation and research. As people, we are drawn to that which is beautiful and creative, as well as that which is unique. In homes, it has become almost a norm to see pieces created by the people who live there. Everyone adding something that leaves a trace of who they were in the moment they created something.
Embrace your inner artist and allow yourself to use what is around you to create a portrait of who you are inside.
15
Nov
Winding down during November is never truly winding down. During November we are busied by the preparation for year-end and the needs of the new year. We really want our December to be focused around spending time with our families and friends. And so, thus begins the November Rush. There are office supplies to replenish, papers to reorganize, stationery to hunt for, gifts to buy and of course everything needs to be delivered before the world slows down for a very merry time of year.
Thankfully with the help of technology, we can online shop for most of the office and stationery supplies. Online shopping is definitely a fast-growing norm in today’s world. Not only does it save you time and more than likely a ton of money. You are saving the planet by reducing the number of car trips you are taking to hunt for the ever needed “Stationery”.
No School, Home School, Learning Center, Home Office or Corporate Office can completely function without the use of pens, pencils, paper, clipboards, sticky notes, markers, paint or even files.
The list of stationery needs grows at a rapid pace and the time is now to get a jump on it.
07
Mar
What’s the one thing these all should have in common?
Liquid Chalk… No, you read right, Liquid chalk, is literally the most useful product invented since superglue ( don’t get us started on that )
Do you make grocery lists and constantly leave them at home, well we sure did, until we found out that you can write your grocery list on the front of your fridge, so as you finish something, add it to the list, and all you need to do is snap a pic with your phone before you go shopping, and use a wet-wipe to clean off last weeks list once you’ve packed away your shopping…. Genius!
Glass sliding doors, who hasn’t been there, running full force into a closed sliding door on a summers night, not only can you use liquid chalk to mark any glass sliding doors, you can get pretty creative about it too, and mix it up month by month, all you need it a wet-wipe and some glass cleaner. And maybe some blood remover for your new carpets…
With a home office, literally, any surface becomes one big to-do list, the window in front of your desk, the wall next to you, the possibilities are endless.
And naturally, at Statesman Stationery, we have every type of chalk ever invented, including liquid, in awesome shades. Why not give it a try!?
Save the planet…
Save that carpet…
And definitely save the date for date night!
