Making Christmas cards – 10 simple ideas for beginners and children

Pretty Christmas cards delight young and old every year. Homemade cards in particular are particularly beautiful and very appreciated. Whether embroidered, painted or glued: Here you will find different ideas for original Christmas cards that are so easy to make that they are ideal for both beginner crafters and children. Making Christmas cards is a lot of fun and a great activity on cold Advent days.

Christmas card with fir tree

Materials required:

Construction paper
Decorative ribbon
Hot glue
felt
Scissors
1 branch

And it's that easy:

  1. From thered construction papercut out a rectangle. (A5 14.8 x 21 cm is a good format for folded cards)
  2. Shred the twig to the desired size and glue it to the front of the card.
  3. Cut the decorative ribbon and stick it on both sides of the branch so that it looks like a Christmas tree.
  4. Cut a star out of felt and glue it to the top of the Christmas tree.

Christmas tree with pearl garlands

Materials required:

Construction paper
Nadel
thread
Pearls
Marker
Lineal
Pencil
Scissors

And it's that easy:

  1. Make a folding card out of the construction paper.
  2. Now use a ruler and pencil to draw dots in the shape of a Christmas tree, about 2 cm apart from each other.
  3. Poke the needle through the dots.
  4. Thread the thread into the needle and tie a knot.
  5. Insert the needle through the first hole from the back to the front.
  6. Thread three beads.
  7. Now slide the needle through the second hole.
  8. Repeat the same process until the tip.
  9. At the end, draw a tree trunk and a star at the top with a green marker.

Snowflakesembroider

Materials required:

Construction paper
Nadel
thread
Pencil
Lineal
Scissors

And it's that easy:

  1. Make a card out of light blue paper.
  2. Draw snowflakes with a ruler and pencil.
  3. Poke the needle through the dots.
  4. Then cut a piece of white thread and thread it into the needle.
  5. Embroider the snowflakes on the Christmas card.

Christmas card withFairy lights

Materials required:

Construction paper (in different colors)
Marker
Scissors
Glue
Circle

And it's that easy:

  1. Make a card out of light blue construction paper.
  2. Use a compass to draw circles on yellow construction paper.
  3. Cut out the circles and glue them onto the card.
  4. Draw the details with a marker.

OneChristbaumkugelmade of rhinestones and pearls

Materials required:

Construction paper
Pearls
Hot glue
Decorative ribbon
Scissors

And it's that easy:

  1. Make a card out of green construction paper.
  2. Glue rhinestones and beads, arranged in a circle, to the front.
  3. Complete the look with a bow.

Pretty set ofChristmas tree balls

Materials required:

Construction paper (in different colors)
felt
Hot glue
Pearls
Marker
Scissors

And it's that easy:

  1. Make a card out of blue cardboard.
  2. Cut out different shapes: a circle from green felt, a circle from shiny gold paper, an oval from red construction paper.
  3. Glue the cut out pieces onto the card.
  4. Decorate the Christmas tree decorations with rhinestones and beads.
  5. Draw the details with a marker.

Christmas card with3DChristmas tree ball

Materials required:

Construction paper
Glossy paper
Glue
Jute twine
Hot glue
Circle
Scissors

And it's that easy:

  1. Make a folding card measuring 11 x 11 cm out of red construction paper.
  2. Cut out circles from gold and silver glossy paper.
  3. Fold all circles in half. Coat half of a circle with UHU and glue it to half of another circle.
  4. Glue the 3D Christmas tree ball onto the card.
  5. Tie a loop of jute twine and glue it over the ball.

Paper cut Christmas card

Materials required:

Construction paper (in 2 different colors)
Double-sided tape
Decorative ribbon
Scissors
Lineal
Pencil
Hot glue

And it's that easy:

  1. Make a rectangular card measuring 15 x 10 cm from green construction paper.
  2. On the red construction paperthose SilhouettesDraw and cut out three Christmas trees.
  3. Fix the resulting template onto the card with double-sided adhesive tape.
  4. Complete the design with a silver decorative ribbon.

Make Christmas cardswithButton snowmen

Materials required:

Construction paper
Buttons (in two sizes)
felt
Scissors
Hot glue
Marker

And it's that easy:

  1. Make a folding card in the desired format.
  2. First glue the large buttons onto the card.
  3. Cut two rectangles out of felt and fold them in half. These are the snowmen's scarves.
  4. Glue the felt pieces over the “body”.
  5. Then attach the small buttons.
  6. Cut out two hat shapes of different sizes from green felt and glue them over the “head”.
  7. Last but not least, paint on the details with silver fineliner.

Make a “Rudolph” Christmas card

Materials required:

Construction paper
Red thread
Nadel
Fineliner in gold and silver
Lineal
Pencil
Scissors
Circle

And it's that easy:

  1. Make a folding card measuring 11 x 11 cm out of black construction paper.
  2. Draw a circle with the compass. This is Rudolph's nose.
  3. Poke points along the line with the needle.
  4. Thread the red thread into the needle and embroider the card.
  5. Paint the antlers with a gold-colored fineliner.
  6. Paint the eyes and you're done!