Upcycling card making workshop with kids

             

  

As part of the Upcycling card making workshop I did with the kids last week, I brought a Postal Ad from Tesco and we cut the bottom and upper part of the pages ( which had nice Christmassy designs) to make cards of our owns.

We also used the shapes of Christmas balls and gifts and snowflakes printed in that Tesco Ad and we cut the shapes into divider tabs and here is the result of one of my young creative students ( card to the right) Quite proud of her.

I also showed the kids how they can reuse their old Christmas cards this year to make new ones for next year.
Here's an example of an old christmas that I got. I cut the bottom part of this card and stuck nice ribbons around it and voila!

                 

Making Xmas Cards out of Packaging materials and Workshops

Card Making and Recycling two things that I really like.

Soon I was thinking: "Why not try to make 1 or 2 Xmas cards out of packaging materials?" and then I made another and another and before I knew it, I had lots of ideas and cards and was thinking of sharing this fun activity with kids.


So this is one of my ideas:
I started cutting triangle shapes out of the Baked Beans Heinz packaging, Peppermint tea packaging and perfume packaging ( any white packaging that i could find around the house)

Then I used a coloured tab divider that I had and cut a rectangular shape for the background and stuck it to a blank greeting card.

Then I bought some foam squares to raise the triangle shapes. I also bought  1 meter of  nice ribbon where it said"Merry Christmas" on it, glued the little stars and a little golden ribbon and star for the tree to make a nice finish  and voila!

 Project Recipe:

• Scissors
• Glue
• Foam Squares
• Little colourful stars
• 1 meter of  a "Merry Christmas" Ribbon that you can buy in any Crafts shop (Inspiring ideas Shop in this case)
• Food Packagings
• 1 star and a golden ribbon but you can cut a Star or a snow flake design out of a magazine or advertising that comes through your letter box and it will do nicely.  
• Colourful Tab divider

I will be doing a Christmas card making Workshop for kids ( 9 to 12 years old)  in:

• Hunstown Community Center - Wednesday 11th of Dec  - from 4 to 5:30 pm
• Mountview Youth and Community Center - Friday 13th  of Dec- from 5 to 6 pm. 
•  Hunstown Community Center - Wednesday 19th of Dec  - from 4 to 5:00 pm
• Mountview Youth and Community Center - Friday 20th  of Dec- from 5 to 6 pm.

 So join in!

Warm Regards
Laura A Speedwing