{"id":1025,"date":"2014-05-12T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/12\/you-cant-beat-home-made-card-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:34","slug":"you-cant-beat-home-made-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/you-cant-beat-home-made-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Home-made thank you cards for toddlers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBirthday cards, Thank You cards<\/strong>, Get Well Soon cards,
\nMother’s Day and Father’s Day cards and the list goes on and on.  There
\nalways seems to be an occasion coming up which is in need of a card.  <\/span>The cost of buying all of the cards you need
\nsoon adds up.  <\/span>Why not make some of your
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\nWe love to make home-made greetings cards<\/strong> in our house.  <\/span>I encourage all of my children to make their
\nown cards when they are invited to friend\u2019s birthday parties.  <\/span>They love to get involved in making their own
\ninvitations as well. I also think it is very important to send out Thank You
\ncards especially to family members whenever they have sent the children gifts. <\/div>\n
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\nOn this occasion we were in need of some Thank You cards<\/strong> to
\nsend to relatives, who had bought my 2 year old birthday presents.  <\/span>Because these cards were from my 2 year old, I
\nwanted her to play the main role in their creation, with her brothers helping
\nher to make them into something even more special. <\/div>\n
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\nHere\u2019s how we did it:<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nMy toddler<\/strong> was given free reign to paint onto a large sheet
\nof white paper. I also folded some pieces of card for her to paint. She had
\ngreat fun doing this. Once dry the boys helped to cut out shapes from the
\npainted white paper to stick onto the front of some cards.  <\/span>They then turned her pink splodges on the
\ncards I had folded for her, into funny faces with the googly eyes and feathers.<\/div>\n
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\nThere is something really special about receiving a home-made
\ncard<\/strong>, whatever the occasion. My sons have received some lovely
\nhand-made cards<\/strong> from their friends at birthdays especially and these are the
\nones they want to keep in their memory boxes. 
\n<\/span>Older relatives also love to receive hand-made cards from their
\ngrandchildren to proudly display in their homes. <\/div>\n

What kinds of cards do you like to make with your kids?<\/p>\n

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