How to Make Badges Easily

Need to make some badges but don't have a lot of time? These tips can help you make a lot of badges quickly, be it for a corporate gathering or a play date. Keep samples to use as guides if you need to make more later.

Things You'll Need

• Card stock
• Magic markers
• Safety pins
• Scissors

Instructions

Making Easy Badges

1. Consider the audience for whom you are making the badges. The requirements will be different if you're doing it for a corporate gathering or for a 6-year-old play date. Some badges might need to be more formal than others.

2. Purchase the needed materials. For a corporate gathering (for example), you'll want card stock you can run through a printer. For the play date, the cards and some safety pins would suffice.

3. Design your badges. The website listed in Resources lets you choose colors, borders, sizes and various shapes such as squares, ovals and five-pointed stars.

4. Make the badges. For a corporate gathering, print out the badges on a computer. For the play date, children could cut out their own badges.

Tips & Warnings

• Use colors like gold, silver, or bronze for metal badges. For children's badges, use tape instead of safety pins so kids won't get pricked.

References

• Free Badges

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
• Card stock
• Free Badges Print Out