Kids Arts & Crafts: Children's Holiday Cards

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Brenda and today we’re making cards using sponges. Now on the table before me I’ve got various little sponges that I bought at the craft store and I also just have household sponges like you’d use in the bathroom and the kitchen, I have some scissors, some 5x8 cards stock that you can buy in the school supply department, got paper towels, got some acrylic paints, got my paintbrushes and a calligraphy pen and here’s a paper plate with our paint and we’re ready to begin. Now I take a sheet of my card stock that I mentioned earlier the 5x8 and I'm just going to fold this in half and this is what’s going to become our card, now this has lines on it so we don't really want that on the project so I have a sheet of white paper that I’ve have cut that’s the same size and later in the project we’ll just be gluing that on there to cover up the lines because we really don't want that. Now on the plain side here this is where we’re going to begin our sponge painting, now I’ve cut one of these sponges here and just cut a small amount like this and I'm going to take some of the paint and I'm going to get it off so that we don't have too much of excess like this and I have it right here and I'm just going to begin to dab in random patterns, I'm using red today just random patterns like this. Now I believe I'm going to take the other side and I'm going to use the green, this could be a holiday card with red and green, I'm just going to randomly put my green like this and as you can see it’s starting to take shape now if I wanted to I could go in and fill in every bit of the white space or I could just leave it like this. Now I'm going to take my sheet of paper that I cut earlier or it could be a different color red or green if you like, I'm going to be gluing this on the inside so this would be covering up the lines and then if I want to write a message like “Happy Holidays” with my calligraphy pen I can do that or if I want to write a message on the outside I could do that, fold it over like this, put it in an envelope and it’s ready to mail to someone we care about. "