30 x 30 = 900 Christmas cards?!

[Iloveyoucaterpillar]

Sorry if this has been done to death but it's my first year of having a child in nursery at Christmas time. I hadn't expected that the children would be sending Christmas cards to each other but we've had one home.

I'm not sure whether it would be best to to send cards to those who give us cards, but then the idea of another child seeing my DC putting cards into lots of trays but not theirs doesn't sit right.

Someone pointed out that if every child in a class of 30 sent cards to every other child and that would be 900 cards in total which seems insane. However if it is the done thing to send to everyone in the class then I can get a class list and spend an evening writing them out as my DC can just about write their name but will baulk at doing it 30 times.

What do you do?

I don't do them. Its absolutely pointless. Waste of time, money, and paper.

When my DD was younger she loved the whole card thing and I didn't. Bought her a stamp with her name and let her stamp her name in a pack of cards. Her school had a system where each child had a named polypocket where the parents could put the cards in and the teacher would distribute them into the correct polypocket if the envelope was named. I cba so no classmates names on envelope and the teacher would accept make sure all cards were distributed. There was a cut off date for this (I think it was usually the Monday of the week school ended) and then the kids could take the polypockets home.

It's more painful when they write them themselves - DS2 is in reception and we've just written his - I have to write the names for him on a piece of paper and then he copies them into the cards and signs them, it took us a week, doing a few every day and was surprised for each one how much space he needed to write his own name 🤔 He insisted he did it himself 😴
Glad 12yo DS1 can't be bothered with any this year.

Its nice that some families do the whole-class cards. I think, despite what a pp said, if you're that child in Reception with no special friends and you didn't get a single card you would care very much indeed.

@OrangeGinLemonFanta

Its nice that some families do the whole-class cards. I think, despite what a pp said, if you're that child in Reception with no special friends and you didn't get a single card you would care very much indeed.

I agree.

My nursery child did 3 cards to friends, plus teachers.

I'm going to force my two primary age kids to do cards for their teachers but they haven't bothered to do any for friends.
Usually I make them send a card back to any child who gives them one, but this year the school are quarantining all cards and giving them out in the last week so we won't have the opportunity.

We've only done it the years DS has wanted to himself. He's year 4 now and has loved written them all out to his friends. They have a class post box, the cards have to be in it by today and it will be quarantined until end of term when they'll open it and distribute.

It's good writing practice for him which is like getting blood from a stone usually!

We aren't allowed this year. I usually let my kids because they like doing them but couldn't tell you who they back from. Probably only half the class. I would only bother if kids want to.