Mother’s Day is one of the most widely celebrated holidays of the year, perhaps because mothers are so special. Show your mother just how much she means to you by making one of these pop-up cards.
Use your imagination to make a personalized Mother’s Day card. Sometimes the strangest shapes make the cutest cards.
Materials Needed:
- 2 pieces of 8-1/2 x 11 cardstock
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Rubber cement
- Crayons, markers, colored paper, paper doilies, cotton balls, etc.
Instructions:
Prepare the Card:
• Fold each piece of paper in half. Set one aside to be used later as the outside of the card.
• Place the paper so that the folded edge is on your left. Mark a large triangle on the bottom left corner.
• Draw and cut a curved line from the folded edge to the triangle line. Fold along the triangle line between the cut and the point of the triangle. Fold the other direction along the same crease.
• Open the card and pull the cut middle pop-up piece toward you. Firmly crease the fold lines so that the pop-up piece points toward you.
• Glue the inside and outside of the card together. Be careful not to apply glue on the pop-up area of the card.
Design Ideas:
Turn your creativity loose to decorate the card. You can follow one of these suggestions or design your own.
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Flower Card:
- Turn the card upside down so that the pop-up forms a vase.
- Draw, color, and cut flowers out of colored paper and glue them into the vase.
- Decorate the front of the card with flowers.
- Inside, write: “Mother, every time I see a beautiful flower, I think of you.”
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Angel Card:
- Use the triangle pop-up for the robe of an angel.
- Use paper doilies for the wings and glue paper feet onto the bottom of the triangle.
- Inside, write: “You are my Guardian Angel.”
- On the front, write “Mother” and add clouds, either drawn or made from cotton balls.
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Nose Card:
- Draw a self-portrait on the inside, using the pop-up triangle as your nose.
- Write: “Everybody nose, but I just had to tell you again.”
- On the front, write: “Mother, I Love You!”
