Make cool Christmas cards with your kids

Professional card maker Adrienne Powell has a thousand different ideas on how to help your kids make cool – and cost-effective – Christmas cards.

We’ve got one to show you to get your imagination and creativity flowing!

What you’ll need:

•    A plain piece of white card, folded in half, card-size

•    Christmas paper

•    Coloured card – red/green and brown

•    Embellishments – stickers, glitter pens, rhinestones, stars

•    Double -sided foam tape, plain double-sided tape or PVA glue

•    Scissors

Step 1
Make sure your piece of white card is folded in half evenly.

Step 2
Cut a piece of Christmas paper for the front cover of the Christmas card, leaving a 5mm white gap around the edges. Any Christmas paper will do – you can even re-use last year’s so long as it’s flat!

Step 3
Cut a triangle out of the red or green card, big enough to look like a Christmas tree. Cut out a little stump for it out of the brown card. Attach centrally to the Christmas card paper with double-sided foam tape, or alternatively PVA glue, as per picture.

Step 4
Use your glitter pen to create streamers on the Christmas tree, and attach a stick-on star on the top of the tree.

Step 5
Add baubles to your tree by attaching the stick-on rhinestones/diamantes. Now your tree sparkles!

Note:
You can mix and match all of these items to create different and unique Christmas designs all of your own. Most of the items needed to make these cards can be bought from the $1 – $5 shops in malls.
Happy Christmas card making!