December 12, 2012

Easy Handmade Christmas Cards for kids

Yesterday we made our own Christmas cards!  I loved Merrilee's idea last year, but alas, at 8.5 months pregnant and with family stuff/illness going on I didn't get the chance then. I'd forgotten all about it until I was reminded of it again over at Grace designs last week.

Handmade Christmas Cards

Handmade Christmas Cards

This was a super easy craft and therefore great for a four year old to manage.  We just used watercolours instead of fingerprinting inks, and it turned out fine -  I printed the image onto blank cards I already had and it took about 30 mins for the lot.   It's safe to say I loved this craft.  It was just like colouring in to me -  placing all those little coloured dots onto the page....so therapeutic.  I wished I could keep going and going and I think I liked it more than the 4 year old!

Now we have cards for preschool teachers and a few other special people, handmade with love.  *High five!*


If you need to make some too, you'll find the template here on the Mer Mag blog.



5 comments:

  1. These are terrific. I'm going to pin for next year! x

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  2. Fantastic! I've just printed off some to do with the kinder boy.

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  3. What a great way to get kids involved in Christmas crafting - thanks for the idea.

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  4. lovely! so simple, and they look great!

    mezz

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