Two Family Dance Flyers

 June 9th, 2024
contra, kids
I'm going to be calling another family dance in a week, and Lily and Anna wanted to make flyers to advertise it. I wrote out a sheet with the key details they might want to include:

Lily wanted to do hers on the computer, and it ended up being primarily about learning Inkscape:

Anna did hers by hand, and was very into the drawing:

Referenced in: Calling My Second Family Dance

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