Party Place Cards

crayola supplies

Markers
Model Magic®
No-Run School Glue

household supplies

index cards

Why

Make an extra-special table decoration for your grandparents, on Grandparents Day, or for honored guests any day. Mix up your own Model Magic® colors.

Steps

1. Being a member of a family is wonderful. Because your grandparents have lived a lot longer than you, they have many things to share: stories about what life was like when they were your age, or skills and talents you can learn from them such as cooking or fishing.
2. Grandparents are often the best teachers about giving and receiving. Many grandparents love to give presents or special adventures and opportunities. Why not show them that you also like giving as much as receiving?
3. For Grandparents Day, or any family dinner, make festive gift-box place card holders. For each one, take a handful of white Crayola® Model Magic® and color a small area with Crayola Washable Markers. To create a marbleized wrapping paper effect, mix the colored area partially into the white parts and stop midway. For a pastel color such as pink or light blue, knead until all the white Model Magic is colored. Shape the modeling compound into a box.
4. Use solid Model Magic colors to form the ribbon and bow. Press in place on the package. Dry.
5. Fold index cards in half. Write the names of your grandparents and other party guests with markers. Ask an adult to help if you are learning how to spell.
6. Attach name cards to the presents using Crayola School Glue.

When & Where

"What a great way to remind children of all the wonderful things their grandparents do for them."
- Sheree T., mom of 6-, 7-, and 9-year-olds.

"Children interviewed their grandparents at a party. How much everyone learned about each other!"
- Ntozake C., school volunteer.

Interesting Info

It's interesting to learn what other people call their grandparents. In China, grandmother might be Nai, Nai and grandfather is Ye, Ye. Japanese children may say Halmoni. A child from Crete calls Yaya. What do you call your grandparents?

Safety Guidelines

Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—

Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.