As Emma turned one earlier this week we made some thank you cards. I have written before about the cards we make to say thank you, and I was keen for Emma to have *some* role in creating them.
I had a few different ideas but decided to go with a bit of paper tape and paint. Emma doesn’t have many words in her repertoire at the moment but she does say ‘ta’. I therefore got some card (A4 card halved then folded in half again) and with the paper tape spelt out ‘ta’.
I put some poster paints in a paint tray and gave Emma piece of sponge dipped in the paint and let her loose with the paint. I had fully expected she would do one or two then get bored, but she was really into it and had lots of fun rubbing the sponge all over the cards.
Once the paint had dried I peeled away the tape and I was pleasantly surprised wi
th the final result. I think they look pretty impressive given she is only one! I then wrote inside the cards (trying to avoid the various splashes of paint inside) and they have now been distributed.
This was really easy to do and I am sure we will be doing some more cards and art works using this method.
I’ve made a few lots of thank you cards now, you can take a look at them here and here.
Ahhh, they look amazing!
Very effective, persuading my teens to write theirs now is much harder!
Such a simple and effective idea. #ToddlerApprovedTuesday
These look really good – I’ll have to make some!
What a great idea, very personalised, especially as TA is a word she says and I bet she had fun making the too.
Thanks for sharing #LetKidsBeKids
A great idea and they look like lots of fun to make 🙂
So easy but so effective! Lamb turns 2 in a couple of weeks so will definitely be making something like this! x #toddlerapprovedtuesday
So cute! What a great idea! Thanks for sharing on #ToddlerApprovedTuesday
such a great idea! I really like tape resist and love the use of the word TA 😉
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Ah, such a lovely idea and they look really good! #LetKidsBeKids
Great idea and so effective!
We love making home made cards as well, people really do appreciate them, This is a great idea to get little fingers involved. #letkidsbekids