Pop Up Cards

The kids have really loved doing these.  It's just a matter of adding a few slits into some card and adding anything you want to the pop up mechanism.  Have a look at this website for more instructions and photo's of the mechanism.  I think we are going to do all of our Christmas cards this way.  x

http://lahinks.blogspot.com/2009/07/whatever-wednesday-pop-up-zoo-birthday.html

Christmas Craft Ideas: Santa, Stockings, Chrismas train Mural and Snowmen

These are what we made around Christmas but I didn't have time to put down the steps to create them.  Most are pretty easy and you will get the gist just by looking at the pics.

Enjoy :)

Santa:  A little difficult to explain but mainly just a cone shape with legs, arms and face added.

Christmas train mural:  Trees were create by tearing out triangle shape, a rectangular trunk shape and adding some decorations.  The train was drawn carriages that were painted over the top of pastels/crayons.  The paint was watered down.  Then glitter and photos were added.  Linked together by ribbon,  Precut foam flowers for the fields.  A few dodgy looking clouds and star stickers completed the picture.

The snowmen equalled 2 round circles one larger than the other.  A few bits and pieces to create faces and buttons.  Pipe cleaners or sticks for arms.  A hat and your done!

Stockings:  Cut out a couple of stocking shapes and then let them do whatever they want.  We used glitter, paper cut outs, pom poms foam etc

Christmas Craft - Torn paper trees and presents

This present picture is just two pieces of A4 coloured card, one A5 piece, some ribbon and scatters.  Tear around one A4 pieces edge and around that of the A5. Glue them one on top of each other (see above).  Then glue on the ribbon and scatters and there you have your christmas present artwork.

The christmas tree is similar to above using just two pieces of A4 coloured card, one A5 piece and then a smaller piece for the tree trunk.  This time we used buttons for the baubles but scatters would be ok too.  We used a fiskars star punch to cut out the tree star.  Easy for my 5 year old to do.