Christmas Card Craftiness

With the kids home from school for the next two weeks I am constantly on the look out for things to do with them to keep them busy.  One of the most recent crafts that I came across was a craft for making pop-up cards.  This was so simple to do and came out so cute that I've decided to let them make quite a few to mail out this year instead of our standard photo cards.

Items needed to make the cards are : construction paper, scissors, glue, crayons/markers, foam stickers (optional), printed coloring pages.

For complete directions on how to make these cards please visit http://www.enchantedlearning.com/.

Basically you use two pieces of construction paper (one for the inside of the card the other for the outside.)  Fold the construction paper in half so that you have a card and cut small slits in groups of two into the fold.  Open the folded piece of paper and push the slits through so that they bend oposite of the way the paper bends.  Glue the inner paper to the outer paper (careful not to glue the slits).   Create your own images or color pre-printed ones and cut them out then glue them to the slits.  Decorate the card to your liking and add a message.

These are the cards that we've created so far.  It really was very easy. My 6 year old was able to do it all by herself and with a little help from Mommy my 3 year old was able to create his own too.