It's no secret that receiving a hand-made card is a real treat, especially when it's a thing of beauty. Thank goodness relatives who love us are the ones receiving our Christmas-Tree cards this year, because it takes a fairly big jump in imagination to get a tree out of some of this year's 'greeting for Christmas' collages!About a month ago, I blogged a magazine collage for kids to make where my daughters used long strips of aqua-coloured paper from old magazine ads. The craft we made together this morning was similar, although this time I cut out squares from assorted sheets of green craft paper. Whilst I drew a pencil sketch of a triangle for them to fill in, only one card actually stayed inside the lines, the others were a jumble, albeit a pretty green jumble. At the end the girls added a yellow tree-trunk (or pot), and some sticky-dot decorations. On the back of the card Mimi stuck a Santa-bear from some old wrapping paper, and Lotti put hers 'under the tree' on the front of her card.
Two year old Lotti also added a healthy dab of glue inside the card, which she then covered with 'more tree,' so I'll have to be a bit creative about where I write 'Merry Christmas'!
Christmas for kids is such fun, and craft for kids at Christmas time is 'funner' still, so go on - make a card, or two, with your children!
And don't forget to vote on the quick poll on the right hand side - 'what materials make the best Christmas Trees' or pop across to my other website for free printable cards from the printpaper package and plenty of free printable craft activities for children!
