Christmas is upon us, and it is time to start congratulating friends, colleagues, families and all those people we love so much. Although they seem somewhat outdated Christmas cards fill the recipient with joy. If you have children at home, you can choose an afternoon to make very funny and personal cards.
A good idea is put these cards in the mailboxes of the neighborsSurely after the year that we have passed you will like it. Your children can also take it to school and give it to their friends. We give you many ideas, suitable for children of all ages, many of them do not even need to know how to write.
Fun Christmas cards for the little ones
Until babies can help you make a very funny Christmas card. To do this, paint the soles of your baby's feet with green paint, and his toes red. Now stamp them on a white cardboard carefully, making the shape of a Christmas tree, for this you will have to put the baby looking at you. Finish the card with a star on top and draw the trunk of the tree.
To make these cards you will need colored cardboard, it can also be white, Eva rubber and wool or tape, as well as scissors and glue. The idea is to make several circles of different sizes with the Eva rubber. You can ask your child to help you, or if he is very young, give him all the cut-out figures. Now touch stick them on the card as if they were Christmas balls. The ribbon or the wool simulates the string. A variant of this card is to ask the child to make the silhouette of a snowman with the two circles.
Another very simple idea for the little ones is to make little balls of tissue paper. I would recommend you to make them all the same size and in red, you can draw a star, or a Christmas tree and ask him to stick all those balls on the cardboard If they look like the lights of the city!
Christmas cards for the slightly older
Boys and girls love to participate in whatever is done at home, so here are some fun Christmas card ideas for them. Take the opportunity to talk about emotions such as gratitude and surprise. You can make these cards with the boys and girls from 6 years old and surely they will already have a lot to contribute.
We propose you a very simple and fun card made with 3 white buttons of different size. You also need thin rope, black construction paper, glue, and scissors. On the black cardboard glue the three white buttons of different sizes, like a Christmas doll. Between the head and the first body you can put the string as a scarf, or a broom with an open clothespin. Now it's up to you to imagine!
Working with collage is always a very interesting technique, because children learn to cut and combine, in addition, everything looks good! I propose that you draw a christmas motif, It can be Santa Claus, the star, the tree, and you fill it with different cut out magazine papers. Then at the end of the whole include some shiny papers, in the form of little triangles. The result is spectacular.
Envelopes for cards
And we can't just make cards without make their corresponding envelopesThis way they will be much more formal and we will be able to increase the surprise of those who receive it. In order not to complicate you too much, I recommend that you buy the envelopes already made, there are many colors and you decorate them yourself.
For example, you can turn the closure of a white envelope into a whole chicken beak. For that, what you have to do is paint the ends of yellow, or orange and put two eyes in the triangle. This way it will have the effect of a beak and it will be a very funny Christmas card.
Also with purple paper, or wrapping tape you can create your own ornaments, small details that are very elegant. You can also use burlap fabric, bells, tinsel, stickers and everything you have within your reach to make it clear that this envelope contains something very special: your Christmas greeting.