I want what she’s having
How do you get children to try new foods? Create a recipe book with their friends’ favourite recipes. It must be good if their friends like it.

How do you get kids to open a book?
Let them write it themselves.
In this age of computers, Wii, Xbox, PSP, DS, TV, DVD, etc. etc. etc,; how do you get a kid to read a book? Two Aussie mums have come up with a brilliant way to get kids excited about reading and writing.

A Literacy Tool with a Difference
Students Become Published Authors
Celebrated Australian Author (of over 20 books, including the popular year 7/8 text Dreamcatcher) Jen McVeity, has this to say about the activity, “With the goal of engaging children to write and have fun doing it, Schoolyard Stories is an excellent and very worthwhile idea.”

Fundraising that Feeds the Mind
With childhood obesity on the rise, schools must do away with junk food. One area that is an easy fix is fundraising. Schoolyard Stories is a new fundraising idea that not only benefits children by the money raised for the school, but from the actual activity itself.

Volunteering Mums Become Business Entrepreneurs
With six children between them, Sophia Stefanos and Deborah Kourakis have done their fair share of volunteering but a “…conflict of interest was realised when I was selling chocolates to help fund the purchase sport and exercise equipment,” Most great ideas develop from solutions to a problem.