Selling Greeting Cards

Date: 18 December 2013

Criteria of CAS – Service

Approximate time - 2 hours

Venue – D Y Patil International School, Nagpur

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.” - Frank Zappa

After making so many beautiful greeting cards, now it was time to sell them. This was a new challenge for me. The money we generated from this would be spend for a good cause. I and my classmate Tanmay Tembhurne sat with our art teacher and decided the price of every card.

We divided cards in to categories to decide the prices. After that we arranged the room with all cards with respect to their categories. Our art teacher Mrs. Deepshri Halve gave each one of us responsibility of one segment. I was given responsibility of most expensive cards in the range and plus I had to keep a record of every sale. I tried to show perseverance and commitment in this activity. I took this as an opportunity and tired my best. We did this activity for 2 days, 1 hour each day. By god’s help and our hard work we sold all cards in these two days.

Making Greeting cards

Criteria of CAS – Creativity

Approximate time - 8 hours

Venue – D Y Patil International School, Nagpur

Date: 2 - 12 December 2013

Our target is to make 100-150 cards and then sell them to raise funds to help poor children.

Day1

We planned the activity and made a timetable for it. We requested our art teacher Mrs. Deepshri Halve to teach us, to make greeting cards. Today she taught us to make various simple type of greeting cards. I practiced by making 2-3 cards of every sample. Making greeting card is a very creative and difficult, as it requires great concentration. Today I gave 2 hours in this activity and made 4 finished greeting cards.

Day 2

Today I was prepared for the job. We tried something new, we worked collaboratively and divided our work. We worked as an assembly line. Everyone got different responsibilities.

I was given responsibility of cutting the paper and giving it form of a greeting card. I and Tanmay worked very fast Today I gave 2 hours on this activity.

Day 3
Today I worked with Himanshu Halve and Rucha Verma  in decoration department. This was a new challenge for me, as I had no experience in this. My classmates and art teacher helped me. Art and craft requires patience. Today while making greeting card i made many mistakes but after that I didn't. Today I gave 2 hours in this activity.

Day 4
Today my classmate Himanshu Halve learned quelling, so I took his place in the assembly line. The work was to take all the raw material and make greeting cards. This activity needed dedication and commitment. Today I gave 2 hours in this activity and completed my target of 10 cards.