20 Card Making Ideas for Kids

The kids and I love Card Making. As I have a rather pragmatic streak, I find that making cards for relatives and friends is a great way to have a creative session with the children AND to have a good “use” for the resulting craft. We do keep a lot of artwork, but we can’t keep everything. So this is a great way to make someone smile, as well as getting crafty! We usually have to make at least one extra card to keep for us!  And Red Ted usually insists on posting it to himself too! Luckily he gets a lot of “regular” mail from Granny too! (If you are specifically looking for some Valentines Day Cards for Kids, we have a whole page dedicated to those! Do browse them too!),

So.. the benefits of having a card making session:

• a chance to get crafty,
• a chance to practice our writing,
• a trip to the postbox (you can talk about the value of stamps too) AND
• we make someone happy

Such a great activity, especially during the long holidays, when the kids miss their friends!

Here is an eclectic mix of card making ideas for you!

You will find, that as the list progresses you will see that the cards get simpler and simpler.  The list is in “reverse chronological order”. We first started card making when Red Ted was little over 2yrs old – i.e. card Nr 20 is one of the first cards that Red Ted and I made.

You can make your cards easier or simple adampting to your child’s age.

I think our favourites have been the Sunflower Cards, the Potato Print City Scape and the Robot cards! But why not see for yourself?

Which is your favourite?

Note – We will regularly add new Homemade Cards for Kids to make! So do check back for more!

 

 

Birthday Cake Pop Up Card

Easy Cork Print Snowmen

  

Adorable little Pop Up Cards for Halloween (complete with printable joke list)

Pop Up Snowman Cards

Puffy Paint Snowglobes

   

Pop Up Emoji Cards 

Paper Quilled Emojis

(More advanced) Quilled Merry Christmas Cardsx

  

1. Flower Cards

2. Fingerprint Chicks

3. Valentines/ Mother’s Day Card

  

4. Christmas Cards

5. Recycled Magazine Cards

6. Decoration & Card in One

  

7. Sunflower Fingerprint Cards

8.  Potato Print Cards

9. Sand Art Cards

  

10. Robot Cards

11. Ink Stamp Printing

12. Valentines Cards

  

13. Thank You Cards (from Wrapping Paper)

14. Gingerbread house

15. Santa Stars

  

16. Pirate Cards

17. Monster Cards

18. Easy Teddy Card

  

19. Kids Art

20. Pop Up Card

21. Super Simple Cookie Cutter Cards

Cutest little Origami Penguins – these double up nicely as Greeting Cards or Thank You notes

and finally… How To Make a Simple Paper Envelope (no gluing or cutting!)

Have fun.

Make someone smile.

Send your Homemade Greeting Card!!

We also have an AMAZING set of Valentine’s Day Greeting Cards for Kids to make – these can be made for Valentine’s or someone special’s Birthday!

If you are looking JUST for Christmas Cards for Kids to Make, check these out:

Enjoy!!