Make your friends and relatives happy by sending them a beautiful greeting card at Christmas time. But don't choose ordinary store-bought ones, instead use the free afternoons to do crafts and make your own Christmas cards together with the children. There are many different beautiful craft ideas that you can use and that will be great fun even for the little ones. Take a look at our ideas and choose your favorites. Then you can sit down together and make attractive and unique Christmas cards with the children.
The handprint is a fun option if you want to make interesting Christmas card motifs. You have two options here. One is, as in the example above, to transfer the outline of the hand onto colored paper, cut it out and then use it to design a Christmas tree, for example. So if you want to make Christmas cards with a Christmas tree, this is a good option. The print can also be used upside down. Then add a rectangle of brown paper for the tree trunk and decorative elements such as stones, pompoms,Buttons as materialor something similar, which in turn represent the Christmas tree decorations. Don't forget a star for the top of the Christmas tree.
Handprints can also be created directly on the card. You can then use these for different motifs. Do you want simpleMaking Christmas cards with children, this is a great opportunity that the little ones will really look forward to. Not only Christmas trees can be made so quickly, but also mistletoe, reindeer and even Santa Claus. Simply use other materials such as googly eyes or paper elements to create the desired figure.
Use fingerprints
If handprints and footprints are suitable, then fingerprints are no less so. They can even be used to create more precise motifs. The thumb or index finger can be the head for a reindeer. You can get a snowman from three fingerprints that you create one on top of the other or you can make a print of the entire finger. The variants are numerous.
Colorful paper Christmas trees
Color sample cards are great materials for such card motifs. Simply cut triangles of different sizes out of them. Of course, individual strips can also be cut from different colors of paper and then put together to form a Christmas tree. The greeting card becomes particularly interesting if you decorate it with several trees, creating a small forest. In addition, you can come up with other decorations such as small snowflakes or beads. If you want a star with a 3D effect like this, stick it on with double-sided adhesive tape instead of glue. Also choose a high-contrast color for the card so that the Christmas trees can stand out better.
DIY greeting cards with potato stamps
You canMake your own stampsand then use these to print the cards. This is very practical for small children who are not yet good at painting. For example, use potatoes as a stamp. The potatoes are halved and should be as round as possible in diameter. Then you can use them not only for snowmen's snow globes or for Santa's head and stomach, but also for such original Christmas tree baubles. You can also combine different colors for the balls. For example, create stripes of acrylic paint on the potato and then press them onto the paper. Then let the paint dry and add other things as you wish, like here with plush wire for the cord or something else.
Instructions for a penguin
Winter motifs such as funny animals are also suitable for Christmas. Penguins, foxes and polar bears are just a small selection. This penguin, for example, is easy to make once you have prepared the individual elements. Use a black paper card that is as rectangular as possible. Then you need an oval shape made of white paper, an orange triangle and googly eyes. Glue the oval shape onto the card at an angle. Simply cut off the excess part that protrudes below. Then there are the googly eyes and the beak. If you make Christmas cards like this with children, you can also distribute other elements around the penguin. In this example, snowflakes were chosen. You can use the penguin's white belly to write down your greeting. If the children have already learned to write, they can do this too.
Idea for a Santa Claus hat
You can either print out the hat and then cut it out and stick it on, or you can draw it yourself on red craft paper. You can find a link for the template at the end of the article. Once you have glued the hat to the card, all you need is cotton wool to create the fur and the pompom of the hat. To do this, put a little glue on the respective areas and stick the cotton wool in place.
Making 3D Christmas cards with children in primary school
This idea consists of two layers that are necessary to create the so-calledto achieve a pop-up effect. You get the outer one as usual by folding a piece of cardboard or paper in the middle. The second card can be the same size or slightly smaller so that a colored border is created when stuck together, as in the example. Fold this second card in half in the same way. Then cut the fold three times.
Start with a shorter incision at the top, make the second one underneath slightly longer and the third one the longest. Also make sure that the incisions are the same distance apart and parallel. Now, when you open the card, press the areas between the cuts in the opposite direction so that the folds are now on the other side. You already have the basis for the gifts. Now you can use shiny paper to create the ribbons and bows of the gifts and some stars using punches. If you are making Christmas cards with children, stick this part of the card on top of the first one and you are done.
Ideas for Christmas crafts with iron beads
If you have ironing beads available, you can use them to create Christmas figures and motifs and then use them to design greeting cards. If you would like to make such Christmas cards with children, first create the motifs as usual. Use the plates provided and then iron the beads. You can find Christmas motifs and templates to imitate in the articlein the article here. Then the figures are simply glued onto the card. As you can see, you can use a variety of things to make cards for Christmas with children.
Santa Claus hat templatehere.
