Who is it for?
Q. Can kids under 7 use the Action Packs?
Yes absolutely with parental supervision. There are a huge range of projects in these Action Packs that would be suitable for family time creativity. The 7+ age range is a general guideline to enable kids to create without the need for constant parental support.
Q. What supervision is required?
Parents, when you first download the Action Pack, check the basic requirements, tools and materials, answer any questions your child may have. Assess your child’s capabilities before leaving them alone with this Action Pack. Some activities may require the use of heat or sharp tools. It is up to you to decide how much or how little supervision your children require.
Q. Is Action Pack targeted at boys or girls?
Why both of course ! You will find projects to suit both boys and girls in all the Action Packs.
Payment / back issues
Q. I’d just love to purchase a couple of your magazines, but since living in Germany, I have no Idea HOW to do so! I mean, how does the payment before downloading work? Do you possibly accept PayPal?
Q. Are back issues available?
Yes all the issues are available. Each issue stands alone and they have no end date. They are perfect for use all year round.
How to download/read/view/print
Q. I want to buy this as a gift for my niece. As it is an electronic mag, I was wondering how I ‘send’ it to her? I have never bought an e-mag before!
Action Pack Magazines make great gifts for kids, if they have an ipad or other pdf viewing device they can view them directly on that instead of printing them out. To gift these to someone you will need to purchase it yourself and then email it to the recipient as we do not have the functionality to email it to a separate email address. When you email it, make sure to send a little gift card along to make sure they know to expect it – as the links will expire eventually.
Q. Can I read Action Pack on my iPad or Tablet?
You don’t need to do any file conversions or anything like that — the iPad or tablet is able to read PDF documents as they are using your iBooks or book reader app. What you need to do: Open iTunes on your computer, drag or save the Action Pack into your books/iBooks folder. Plug your Ipad into your computer and then drag the folder onto your iPad.
Q. Images are not showing up when I view the file on my iPad, what can I do?
This problem can be easily fixed by opening and saving the pdf document first on your computer either in Adobe or in Reader and then transferring it to your iPad.
Q. Can you help if I have trouble downloading, viewing and printing the file?
Yes please read this page for help.
Licensing
Q. Can Action Pack be used by schools, holiday programs or scout groups as a teaching resource?
Yes they can – but you must purchase an educational license. $30 for up to 50 children – can be purchased from our shop or find out more here.
Q. Who owns Action Pack?
Action Pack is owned and edited by Kathreen Ricketson from Whipup.net.
Ads and cost
Q. Why are there no ads in the Action Packs?
We believe that advertising aimed at children is immoral – that kids don’t need to know about how to buy more stuff instead they should be finding out about recycling and using natural materials in their creative endeavours. Therefore our mini-mags for kids will never have advertising.
Q. Why is Action Pack not available for free?
This is our job, we do this for love but we also need to make a living and feed our family. Because Action Pack has no advertising this means that for the price of a cup of coffee $5 you can be assured that your children can create in freedom.
Affiliates
Q. Do you prefer not to have affiliates with low readership? I’m planning on getting the next Action Pack and am sure I’ll be posting about it so I figured it wouldn’t hurt to join, but perhaps it’s not worth it on your end?
I don’t mind how small or large your readership is – every little bit counts. When I first started out I decided to put a few google ads on my blog and I would earn only a few dollars a month – but you have to start somewhere. However you might have seen in the affiliate terms of use page that you won’t be paid until your total earnings reach $10.
Q. The affiliate “joining” page has room for one website address – would I be able to put my affiliate links on two blogs?
You can put any of the links, ads and creatives from your affiliate area into any of your web sites, blogs, newsletters or emails. If someone clicks on any of these links and then makes a purchase, you (the affiliate) will be awarded a commission for that sale. Just remember though not to put the affiliate links into spam type emails or on forums where they don’t accept affilate links. Read the affiliate terms of use page for more information about where you can’t put the links.