10 Apr

Highlighter Easter eggs

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April 10, 2020

How cute are these Highlighter Easter Eggs? If you don’t have a colorful dye kit but still want to decorate some last-minute eggs for Easter, then simply raid your stationery supplies drawer for some highlighters and markers for a quick and easy way to add some color to your eggs!

What you will need:

Step 1: Poke a hole in the egg with a needle and take out all the yolk

Step 2: Paint you eggs white is they arnt already white

Step 3: Draw on the eggs with your highlighter

Article from: www.saltycanary.com

06 Dec

Brilliant stocking fillers for the festive celebrations!

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December 6, 2019

Festive Stocking Fillers!

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.

Great stocking fillers for children are items found in stationery stores.

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

Arts and Crafts are Fun!

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November 25, 2019

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

The November Rush!

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November 15, 2019

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.

13 Nov

Using Colour!

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November 13, 2019

Considering the level of colour required to continuously engage children, it makes sense that stationery is produced in so many bold and beautiful colours and designs.

Colour helps us to remember facts, add fun to what we are learning and bring new light to the world of black and white. Not even 30 years ago, most textbooks were set in the ever-economical print of black, white and greyscale. However today, we see a massive change in this practice. Today’s textbooks, readers and learning materials are becoming bolder, more outspoken and definitely more fun to read and use. All of a sudden, a dull picture is brought to life with picture-perfect illustrations jumping out of books. Children’s books are written using exciting texts to highlight special, new or interesting words. This is a new spin on the way we learn, and it is done with a new colourful and engaging twist.

Providing tools to bring colour to a child’s world is not just to keep them excited it is to equip them with the means to bring life to what knowledge they are absorbing.

11 Nov

For the love of sticky notes…

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November 11, 2019

Sticky notes are the cutest and most effective of all note-taking inventions. They come in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colours. As you have guessed, they stick, not like glue, but definitely like sticky. Professionals, housewives, students and everyone in-between will tell you they have used and will continue to use a large number of sticky notes for the foreseeable future.

It is easy to understand why, they remind us of what to do! We use them to pass on notes and messages to each other. They make collaboration simple and effective. They are bright and memorable, and who is going to disagree with their ability to brighten and streamline our daily processes? We write our shopping lists on them. Sticky notes are used to take notes in class and lectures, even in meetings and during presentations. They get stuck to our mirrors with affirmations written on them. Contracts are signed using these little flags with “Yes, here I am” written all over them. Sticky notes are a breath of fresh air when it comes to passing a message along.

Today we say thank you to the inventors of the sticky note and the people who love to use them.

https://statesman.co.za/search-results?q=sticky%20notes

15 Mar

Keep your Memories with Memory Markers

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March 15, 2019

Happy Friday to you, one and all!

It’s weekend and at Statesman Stationery that means one thing for sure, something crafty is brewing. Let’s face it, kids grow up too fast, they always have, and they always will. We can remember our ages and heights being marked on the inside of our bedroom door frame. But life happens, people move houses, and little memories like that get lost along the way.

But what if they didn’t need to?

At Statesman Stationery, you can get rolls of self-adhesive #Blackboard Decifix, that paste’s on and peel’s off any surface, 2m long and 45 CM wide, and if you want to mix it up, we do the same size rolls in #NEON (and we mean NEON) with four in a pack – cut a few into strips and #zing up the Blackboard.

Then use our #Chalkpaint, #Permanent markers, #Glitter Glue Pens to capture their #ages, #heights, holiday locations, and more!

Stick on some of the #seashells finds from the holidays, add a #photo or two, #stickers, #paint #handprints, little #keepsakes, the #firstday of #school photos. The list of what you can add is basically as long as your imagination.

And if or when you have to move house, peel it off and roll up safely for the next house.

It’s more of a memory measurer than a height and age chart.

Remember, It all starts at Statesman Stationery!