Pop Up Cards for the Holidays
I’ve mentioned before that I love having my kids make and send gifts to their grandparents. Each year we do a special ornament, wrap it up, and send it to our family that lives far away. My hope is that every year they will hang it on their tree and think of us.
This year we are doing an ornament, but we are also working on some pop up cards.
These are super easy, but cute and fun for the kids to make and the grandparents love them.
Ingredients:
paper (all kinds of paper)
scissors
glue stick or glue dots
markers
glitter pens (optional)
cotton balls (optional)
Instructions:
Start with two pieces of 8 1/2x11 inch paper (letter sized). Fold them in half.
Plan what you would like to have pop up inside the card. If you want trees, plan how many trees, this will determine how many slits you cut in this step. If you want to spell out something like “merry” you will need to cut a slit for each letter. Once you have determined what your pop up will include, take one of the pieces of paper, and cut slits in the fold about an inch two two inches wide as shown.
Open the folded piece with the slits, and take every other slit and fold it inside the card.
Take other paper (red for words, green for trees, yellow for stars, brown for gingerbread, etc.) and cut out what you want inside of the card to pop up.
Using a glue stick or glue dots, attach your cut out pieces to the slits inside the card.
To finish, add the other piece of paper from step one that you folded but does not have the slits cut in it and glue it to the outside of the piece with the slits and now pop up pieces. Write on the outside or add more letters, trees, gingerbread, etc. Don’t forget to sign the inside!
Step 2
Step 3
For this one I used tree cut outs (perfect for winter or or a non-holiday card) and cotton balls for the snow.