Home School Project #2: Card Making
How do you check off a writing and art assignment in one go? Create a card for a family member. In our case, we created cards for my nieces’ first birthday.
Here’s what you’ll need
- construction paper – whatever color inspires you. This is both of the cards and envelopes if you wish to make one.
- paints, markers, stickers, glue/glue stick, glitter, stamps
- imagination
We started by using watercolor paper which I cut to a large card shape (rectangle) and then folded in half.
Next, we got to work decorating our cards with paint, stickers, and glitter.
Because we shipped the cards with a present, I made one large envelope for both cards to protect them during their journey.
Then I folded the sides in and glued the square panned onto the back. This is by no means the best way to create an envelope, but I didn’t have paper large enough to do some special envelope origami.
The Card Making Educational Bit
Art Lesson
Using creativity and imagination, kids get to express themselves artistically. If you want less free-form, you can impose limitations like draw a landscape, your family, your pet, or the person to receive the card.
Writing Lesson
Teach the parts of a letter: heading, greeting, body, closing, and signature.
Card making is a great way to sneak in a writing lesson. If you have really young kids, have them dictate to you and then sign their names. Have kindergarten-aged kids trace over a message of their choosing and sign their names. Older kids can write their own messages.
Need more room for writing? Use the back of your card or insert lined pages.
More Card Making Ideas
For more ideas on card making, check out RedTedArt
