How to Help Your Kids Make Cards

Thanksgiving may be a time that you spend with your whole family or just your immediate the choice is yours. Either way you can get the whole gang involved in the card making sport. We use to make cards every year with my grandmother around Thanksgiving and by the time Christmas would come around we would have forgotten the card all together. Receiving the card reminded me always that is was the time that we spent together that meant the most.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• stock paper(optional)
• scrap
• magazines

1. Start by laying out all of the supplies ahead of time. You can make an inexpensive card with lots of color and design without all the money. To cut cash corners but make the designer card that each person will love stick to personal touches. You know each individual person in your family. You just need to let it come out in each and every card you make. You can use pictures that you took while you were last together right down to reprints from when every one was just a little younger. Magazines, stock paper, glitter glue, crayons, spices and dollies. Anything goes here and the sky is the limit.

2. Choose your base to start with. It could be a magazine page that you layer additional items over the top of or it could just be a piece of paper. My grandmother loved hearts and we would always save all the hearts we could find all year long to make her card while she was not looking. It was like a field of hearts in an envelope pocket.

3. Asking how someone’s day went along with letting them know that you think of them are two things that we all forget to do but mean the most to others. Putting a little poem, rhyme or not in the card or just adding a simple thinking of you script where it can be easily seen might make someone’s day later on. Holidays are a great time to make cards. My grandmother use to tell us not to send cards on holidays but rather to opt for the regular days that everyone starts to feel lonely on.