Christmas Card Design Ideas Ks3 – My children and I made Christmas gift cards. This year we tried something new – it was a Christmas activity I used to do when I was at school. I loved trying this because the kids had to fold the paper, cut the paper, glue a little and they had to decorate. This idea sounds like a bunch of Christmas presents. The kids had so much fun making them and enjoyed decorating them with stickers and paper (I had to help my youngest make the pile of presents stand out).
To begin, fold a sheet of paper in half. Then you need to draw 4 lines on the paper (where the paper folds).
Christmas Card Design Ideas Ks3
The two lower ones should be the longest and have the same length. You should have enough space between the lines (in our first test it was too narrow and didn’t look very good – you can see in the image below that thicker lines look better). Cut the lines, open the card and carefully pull out the strips.
Christmas Cards For Kids To Make
Then glue the card to another colored background card. We found that the inner card looked nice even though it was a little smaller than the back card as it made a nice frame.
For my daughter we use the Westcott 5″ Soft Handle Baby Scissors – Pink and other styles
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This entry was tagged with arts and crafts ideas, homeschooling and kids crafts, christmas cards, christmas crafts, home publishing, homeschooling, modern christmas cards. Tag the permalink. There is no getting away from the fact that everything is different this year. We usually try to get a few days off for the Christmas break, but it doesn’t seem to be happening this year. So even though we’re taking a break from our more structured learning activities and the kids are staying home as usual, we’ve had to rethink our usual Christmas break. Reading and movies are still on the agenda, as is baking (a lot) and a bit of Minecraft, and we’re bringing back a bit of crafting. But made with a twist, we use what we have at home and buy parts without going to the store.
Our first attempt was to make a folding Christmas tree card. I’ve seen a few examples of people using cup shells to make animals and designs, but we’ve never tried that (we’ve used cup shells in collages) so this was something new for us. The bonus is that we LOVE, I mean LOVE, cupcakes and have quite a few cupcake drawers in our kitchen cupboards. Making a tree out of what we can gather depends on how you stack your cupcakes. So we started flattening ourselves and then folding them in half or in half.
We made a few patterned cards, but tried to make two cards with plain cases. With a simple cupcake shell Christmas tree, we felt we needed to add a little something more, so we added our gold stars.
This was our first time using a cupcake liner for anything, but setting up and cleaning up afterwards was fun and very easy. And now we have some extra Christmas cards.
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This entry was posted in Homeschool and tagged crafts for kids, Christmas activities, Christmas cards, home publishing, homeschooling, homeschooling. Tag the permalink. We have a busy time leading up to Christmas with lots of family time and travel so I thought the kids would enjoy giving homemade Christmas cards so I thought we’d take advantage of a few sick days at home and start making them. Some.
We kept the first batch of cards light and easy because everyone at home was a little uncomfortable.
My daughter started with this great Christmas card coloring page from Activity Village (my homeschooling mom loves kids coloring pages with words).
We thought it would be fun to add a frame to the card. Therefore, we cut the edges of the postcard and glued it to a sheet of thick green paper.
Christmas Creations In Dt Lessons
My youngest also came to color the lovely Santa from Activity Village (her dad’s Christmas tree ornaments) so she used some of them on the card (I cut them out for her). He calls it the Merry Santa card.
We also made some art cards of our own. Children have already made several of these puzzle cards and are becoming experts at creating their own puzzle cards. We usually just use a sheet of A4 paper and then the children glue a few pieces of tissue paper onto the sheet. We have found that it works best to glue a piece of paper and then glue the tissue paper, and if you want to glue real tissue paper, it tears a lot. We’ve also found that for textured art projects, it’s more efficient to stick to a color scheme for each sheet of paper—we often make one sheet a cool color and the other a warm color.
This time I thought it would be fun to use the tree template from the Event Village website. I printed the pattern on cardstock (I think we might use it for a few other projects, so I thought it would hold up better if it was cardstock). The daughter cut them off.
The children then cut out the trees and glued them onto heavy colored paper to make cards.
Make A Paper Christmas Wreath
Renewal. The Event Village page we used when I originally wrote this post was free to download, but the Event Village website has since changed and you can only download pages if you are a member.
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