Mini Pots of Care Day

Your Mini Pots of Care Day should take place on or around February 25, 2010. This day is an opportunity for children to celebrate their daffodils in bloom by getting craetive and painting their pot wrappers, learning all about the work of Marie Curie Cancer Care and fundraising for our Marie Curie Nurses.

Paint Your Mini Pot

Using the wrappers in their kit, children can decorate their Mini Pots of Care any way they like. They can paint, colour, draw or even write something about their Mini Pot.

Schools and groups can enter the most decorative Mini Pot wrapper into our nationwide Paint Your Mini Pot Competition for a chance to win prizes for the school and the child. All entries should be sent to the address below by March 31, 2010.

How to enter

Teachers and/or leaders should send their school/group's most creative Mini Pot wrapper (or a photograph of the wrapper) to:

Mini Pots of Care Team, Marie Curie Cancer Care, PO BOX 23897, 14 Links Place, Edinburgh EH6 9AB

The closing date is March 31, 2010.

A winning Mini Pot wrapper will be chosen within each of our 48 fundraising regions.

Download additional pot wrappers

Learning

Teach the children about Marie Curie Cancer Care and the work of our Nurses and planting by using our lesson plans, activity sheets and downloadable assemblies which you can deliver.

Celebrate Mini Pots of Care Day by going crazy with your fundraising, we have lots of ideas for your school, group or nursery or you can do your own thing. Once the day is over children can take home their mini pot with a donation envelope to gather sponsorship from thier family.