by Christina Strong

Aunties send out greeting cards to family and friends wishing them joy each year around this time of year. Those greeting cards usually come from a store and are bought individually or as boxed sets. Well, there are some creative geniuses in your lives that can help you add a personal touch to every greeting card you mail out this year. How? Nieces and nephews can help you make the cards yourselves. Most kids love drawing and coloring.

All you need is thick, colored copier paper and a lot of crayons. You can even go a step further by using glue, buttons, glitter, and other craft supplies: anything your nieces and nephews may want to use when assembling their own arts and crafts will work. You may end up with a cutout Christmas tree or a regular folded card with dozens of snowflakes. The possibilities are endless.

Encourage your nieces and nephews to be artists this season and let creativity take over. Then, after they have finished their wonderful creations, you can take a picture of them and give them each a copy, so all of you have a picture and memory of a happy and creative time.



Published: December 14, 2011