Your child can create a truly special card that will impress anyone! With a few simple materials, a couple of your child’s favorite pictures can transform into a spinning card perfect for any occasion.
What You Need:
- White construction paper
- Watercolor paints
- Markers
- 2 small pictures
- String
- Glue
- Scissors
What You Do:
- Offer your child the sheet of construction paper and invite her to use the markers and watercolor paints to decorate the entire page.
- While waiting for her paper to dry, she can go on a scavenger hunt for two small pictures to use for her spinning card. They can be photographs of herself, or her favorite things.
- Once things are dry, she can start creating her card! Invite her to fold the paper in half, and then in half again, creating the form of the card.
- Have your child decide what shape she’d like her spinning card to be. She can use a square or circle for her creation.
- Offer your child a marker to use for drawing the shape on the front of the card and then invite her to use a scissors to cut the shape out, making sure to only cut through the front two folded pieces of paper.
- Now she can cut her two pictures into the same shape of the hole she just created, but just a bit smaller so the pictures can “spin.”
- Invite your child to cut a short length of string to use for finishing her card. She can position the string between the two pictures and secure with glue.
- Once the glue has dried, she can open the card, position the string between the front two folded sheets of paper, and then secure with glue also.
As soon as everything is dry, she can add a special message to the inside of her card and send it in the mail!
By Sarah Lipoff
Sarah Lipoff has a K-12 Art Education degree and enjoys working with kids of all ages.
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