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Kids Get Crafty: Recycled Christmas (or Birthday) Thank Yous

December 27, 2010

This is a cheeky EXTRA Kids Craft this week. The “proper one” comes on Wednesday, but I just wanted to share these very quick and easy recycled Christmas Thank You Cards. 10 took us around 15min to make and are a great way for young children who cannot write to learn about “saying thank you”, as well as little recycling! These would also work super well for “Birthday Thank Yous”…. just use birthday wrapping paper.

Thank You Cards for Kids

Needless to say, they are there to inspire, make them how you wish!

Materials card: wrapping paper, glitter & glue, card

Materials envelopes: wrapping paper, sello tape

  1. Out of the card stock, cut the card into small “card sizes” (we made ours around A6 if not a little smaller) – we hard card left over from our Christmas cards
  2. Out of the wrapping paper, cut out rectangles for “presents”
  3. Red Ted glued these on
  4. I added glue for “Ribbon & Bow” and let Red Ted sprinkle on the glitter. Older children could do this themselves

Needles  to say , you could use glitter glue or real ribbon scraps. You could also use the Christmas Cards you received to make the basic card stock… Red Ted LOVED sprinkling the glitter.

Another idea, is to reuse the gift tags you received – gluing these onto a  card directly. E.g. we had this lovely little santa who would make a great card!

As to the envelopes. I made some simple envelopes out of bigger pieces of wrapping paper, by sello taping the sides down. If you want a “cooler” no stick envelope, try this one. The envelope labels are also wrapping paper: just the reverse! Also you may like these printable thank you note!

Hope you Get Recycling. Get Crafty and saying Thank You!

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Filed Under: Card making, Kids Craft, Recycling 28 Comments

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  1. Kerry says

    December 27, 2010 at 10:13 pm

    Brilliant I love these and they look really effective Baba would love making these. xxx

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      December 27, 2010 at 10:13 pm

      Oooh you are quick!! 😉 only *just* posted these… thank you!!

      Maggy x

      Reply
  2. Jessica says

    December 28, 2010 at 8:38 am

    So clever!! Love it! I was trying to think of a good way for my 2 year old to help with the thank you cards – you saved the day!

    Reply
  3. Chris at Thinly Spread says

    December 28, 2010 at 2:03 pm

    Good idea again! Thanks Maggy!

    Reply
  4. Jude says

    December 28, 2010 at 5:50 pm

    I like this idea – we need to do some thank you cards, and these look quite easy to do. Shall have a go tommorrow!

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  5. Red Ted Art says

    December 28, 2010 at 5:55 pm

    Thanks Jess, Chris & Jude! Much appreciate your comments and hope you have fun making some. Ours went in the post today!

    Reply
  6. JDaniel4's Mom says

    December 28, 2010 at 8:00 pm

    I needed a craft for JDaniel to do for Read.Explore.Learn. Looks like I will be linking back to you on Friday.

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  7. Red Ted Art says

    December 28, 2010 at 8:05 pm

    Aaah thank you! Glad to have inspired 😉

    Hope you have fun making yours! Ours went in the post today.

    Look forward to seeing what you come up with!

    Maggy

    Reply
  8. polwig says

    December 28, 2010 at 10:24 pm

    Great idea, this way you can recycle the paper and make the giver aware you know what gift you got from them, plus great kid fun.

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  9. TheMadHouse says

    December 28, 2010 at 10:35 pm

    I love these. We are going to be recyling the chritmas cards to make thankyou cards

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  10. Julie Bagamary says

    December 29, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    These are great. I also cut them for gift tags for next Christmas!

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  11. Jennifer @ Life with the Lebedas says

    December 30, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    Great idea!! Thanks for sharing & linking this to Craftify It Thursday!

    Jennifer

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  12. B says

    December 31, 2010 at 2:17 pm

    Love this project! Definitely doing this next year!

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  13. To Sew With Love says

    January 1, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    would love to try this next year with my kids! would lvoe for you to link up at our crafty saturday party! ^^)

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  14. To Sew With Love says

    January 1, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    wow! I won’t be throwing any cards from now on! thanks for linking up at Crafty Saturday at TSWL! happy new year!

    Reply
  15. anna says

    January 3, 2011 at 11:37 am

    Brilliant – what a great way to recycle christmas stuff. And I love the look of crafty determination on your little one’s face too!

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  16. Amie Irwin says

    January 3, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    These are adorable! What a great way to upcycle and get the kids involved! Hope you will share with my Pink HIppo Party @ http://pinkapotamus.blogspot.com/2011/01/pink-hippo-party-10.html

    Reply
  17. Audra says

    January 7, 2011 at 2:54 pm

    Great idea.

    Reply
  18. Carrie says

    January 9, 2011 at 5:02 am

    What a great habit to get the kids into! Thanks for sharing 😀

    Reply
  19. Annette W says

    January 24, 2011 at 1:48 am

    What a great idea! Such fun!

    Reply
  20. Three Counties Mum says

    January 2, 2013 at 7:14 pm

    We had a similar idea using the leftover wrapping paper! http://threecountiesmum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/christmas-thank-you-cards.html

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    • Red Ted Art says

      January 2, 2013 at 7:31 pm

      Yours look lovely too!

      Reply

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