Surprise friends and family with beautifully designed Advent cards. In today's post we give you several inspiring ideas for creative Christmas cards with natural materials. Bring joy to your loved ones with thesenext beautiful card, which you can easily recreate even without templates.
A nice Christmas card is always well received. The first Advent card is perfect forFamilies with children. You only need a few materials:
- Tonkarton (A4)
- Two tree branches for the antlers
- self-adhesive googly eyes
- an autumn leaf
- a red button
- Glue for paper or tape
Organize a trip to the forest or a walk in the park to collect the necessary natural materials. Line a windowsill with newspaper and let the autumn leaves dry there overnight.
The next day you can start crafting. First, fold a sheet of cardboard in half. Then glue the two tree branches together. Cover the adhesive strips with the autumn leaf. Then attach the button and the googly eyes. If you don't have a red button, you can cover another button with red fabric.
Make creative Christmas cards with natural materials: Christmas tree made of needles
The next idea promotes fine motor skills in children.For this greeting cardYou also need a bit of patience because the needles are glued on individually. You need the following materials:
- Cardboard in white, beige and reseda green
- Strasssteine
- Cotton
- Tannennadel
- a pair of scissors
- Superglue with fine tip dispenser
Directions:
- First, fold a sheet of cardboard in half. Then cut out a rectangle for the tree trunk from the beige cardboard and a triangle for the treetop from the reseda green cardboard. Then put the tree together and glue it to the white sheet of paper.
- Now patience is required: Remove around 30 needles from the pine branches.
- Apply glue to the construction crown. Make sure it doesn't leak. Try to work as precisely as possible and essentially draw the picture with the glue.
- Then glue the individual needles so that they form rhombuses.
- Now you can start decorating. Make small balls out of the cotton and glue them in the middle of the rhombuses. You can also attach rhinestones or paint the rhombuses any way you like.
Make Christmas cards with natural materials: Christmas trees made from cypress branches
Alternatively, you can opt for a greeting card with several Christmas trees. Luckily, cypress branches have the right shape. All you need to do is cut them out and stick them onto the card. By the way, children can also master this task as long as the glue has a dispenser with a tip for precise application. After the glue dries, it canstart decorating. You can decorate the “Christmas trees” with wooden beads in different colors (yellow, orange, red). You can also embellish the Christmas trees with self-adhesive rhinestones or spice them up with glitter.
Create a fragrant Christmas card with natural materials
A Christmas card that not only looks good but also exudes a pleasant scent is something very special. Use natural materials to increase anticipation of the celebration. You need:
- a noble fir branch
- a cinnamon stick
- 1 piece of star anise
- a slice of orange, dried
- Bindfad
- a pair of scissors
Don't have a dried orange slice? No problem. Buy an orange and cut it into slices. The slices should be 1 to 2 cm thick. Line a baking tray with baking paper and spread the slices on it. Let them dry for about three hours at 80 degrees Celsius without circulating air. Leave the oven door ajar. Turn them 5-6 times during the drying time.
Now you can put together the decorations. Tie the individual decorative elements together and then attach them to the cardboard.
Design your own Advent cards: Christmas tree made from maple seeds
You can collect maple seeds from the beginning of November. The sycamore maple, which can be found in many parks and forests in this country, reaches seed maturity in late autumn. You will need these maple seeds for your next craft project. Other necessary materials are:
- 12 Maple seed
- red cardboard
- Desiccated coconut
- Glitter
- Superglue
- a brush
- a star made of yellow cardboard
Instructions: Spray the maple seeds with glitter spray. Fold the red cardboard in half. Place the maple seeds in the center of the cardboard and arrange them to form a Christmas tree. Glue the yellow star on top. Glue the coconut flakes at the bottom.
Make creative Christmas cards yourself: decorate children's drawings with natural materials
Another variant that leaves a lot of freedom for imaginative designs: leave it aloneChildren's Christmas motifspaint on clay cardboard and decorate with natural materials. For example, making the reindeer's antlers out of twigs, embellishing the garland with real pine branches, and making Santa's arms out of twigs.
Christmas cards with natural materials: form Christmas trees from autumn leaves
Christmas tree made of ferns and dried flowers
Creative Christmas cards: Christmas tree made of fresh green leaves
Make creative Christmas cards with natural materials: Christmas tree made from dried flowers
