Bear Heart Card Craft

Looking for a cool Father’s Day craft idea for this Father’s Day? This Papa Bear Heart Card would be a perfect craft for kids to give to Dad.

This Heart Bear Card Craft is also suitable as Valentines Day Craft or Mother’s Day Craft for kids.

The Bear Craft Template has all that is need to make this craft which includes the heart template and bear parts.

Kids will have fun cutting out and assembling the small Bear and big Bear.

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Cool Dad Father’s Day Card

Printable Dad Glasses.

You will need three different coloured card stock paper.

The 3 page printable template includes heart shape, the face and outer ear, and the inner ear, eyes, nose and bow tie.

There is a lot of cutting involved so younger kids may need supervision.

Once all the cutting is done, assemble the bears on the heart card with glue.

Materials Needed to Make a Bear Heart Craft Card

3 different coloured card stock paper
Glue stick
Scissors
Bear craft template (small sized bear and larger sized bear)
Marker

Steps to Make a Bear Heart Craft Card

Print out the templates on each coloured cardstock paper.

Use dark coloured paper for the template with the face (the ones with oval shapes) while the light coloured ones for the other parts of the bear.

Cut out every piece of the template with glue stick in tow.

The heart shape and all the pieces on the template

Some of the pieces can be tricky but it’s fine as long they have fun making it.

Start by glueing the smaller ear pieces to the bigger ones. Then glue them on both sides of the face.

Glue the eyes, nose and cheek pieces as shown in the picture.

Use a marker to define the nose by drawing a circle and two slants underneath

Repeat the same process to make the smaller bear.

Glue your Bears to the heart card. Leave some space to write a message on the card.

Then glue the bow ties to both bears.

You could opt to make just one bear. This will give more space to write messages for further decorate as you please.

Happy crafting.

Download bear heart template

Cool Dad Card

This cool dad Father’s Day card is a simple and creative Father’s Day crafts for kids to make at home for dad or as a father’s crafts at school.

This is a very easy Father’s Day card craft that children will have fun making and of course Dads will love to receive as it shows Dad as very cool.

This comes with a free printable template you can print, cut out and use to create your handmade Father’s Day card.

To make cool, I have given him a fashionable hat, eye glasses, moustache and a bow tie.

And of course, arms and legs to complete the look.

This craft cool dad Father’s Day card should put the children cutting skills to the test.

Once all the accessories have been cut, simply glue them on the card.

Another cool craft Dad will like is this Printable Dad Glasses. You can make one for him and one for you.

But if you rather stick to cards, this Heart Bear Card Craft fits the bill.

Cool Dad Father’s Day Card

Materials you will need for your handmade card are as follows

2 Card stock paper (different colours)

Scissors

Glue stick

Printable Template (download below)

Instructions

Print out the template

You can print on white card stock paper if you want to colour the accessories

Carefully cut out all the accessories on in the template.

Younger kids may need supervision when handling scissors.

Lay the second cardstock paper in landscape.

Fold it in half right down the middle.

Start gluing the accessories. Glue the hat, glasses, the moustache and the bow tie in the middle of the page.

You may want to leave space to write a message at the top and the bottom .

Glue the arms to back of the card.

Glue the legs on the inside of the card. The left side of the card when opened.

This is to enable the legs to be folded to give the illusion of sitting down.

Fold the legs

Done. Your Handmade Cool Dad Father’s Day Card is finished.

Don’t forget to rite your Father’s Day message on your card before presenting it to Dad.

Download the template

Photo paper flower crafts are cute and colourful photo crafts or flower crafts. They are ideal as greeting cards for kids to make for a special occasion like Mother’s Day . It is a wonderful option to make at home or school as a Mother’s Day flower card craft

If you are looking for more Mother’s Day crafts ideas, our Mother’s Day flower heart card is our most popular Mother’s Day craft. It is a heart shaped card held my a paper straw which opens up and collapses with an inside message.

You will also like our flower card on a popsicle stick.

This flower photo craft is an easy and fun paper craft and does not need fancy materials. All you will need to make this flower photo card are different coloured paper, scissors and glue.

It involves a fair bit of paper cutting which is good for developing fine motor skills of the children. It also involves meticulously arranging the paper strips which help develop focus and attention to detail.

When the flower craft is finished, you can encourage the kids to write their heartfelt message on the inside of the flower card. The standard “I love mom” or “Happy Mother’s Day” will do.

You can also encourage or guide them to go even further and express their sentiment in any way they want. There is no right or wrong way to say”Thank you” or “I love you to” to mums.

And what’s not to love about this flower craft, it is a three in one keepsake. It is photo frame, greeting card and a flower

How to Make a Photo Flower Card

Materials needed

Card Stock paper
2 different coloured paper
Glue Stick
Scissors or Paper cutter
Photo (to put in the centre of the flower)
Printable template below (optional, you can make one without the template just follow the instructions below)

Instructions

Cut out two 10cm circles, two leaf shapes 7cm long and a small rectangle 2cm by 5cm

Use the card stock paper to cut these out. The small rectangle piece is to be used to join the two parts of the card.

Now, cut out strips form the two different coloured paper. Cut out strips 1.5cm by 15cm from one and from the other cut out 1cm by 15cm.

For a flower craft this size, 32 strips will be needed so 16 strips of each colour

Take a strip rub a bit of glue and stick together to form a loop. Repeat until all the strips have been looped.

If not using the template, take one of the paper circles and use a pencil to draw a circle 7cm in diameter. This is where the photo goes.

Start glueing the paper strips to the edge of the circle neatly. Glue the 1.5cm strips first. Then glue on the different coloured (1cm wide strips)

Finished gluing the strips together? Glue the photo to the centre of the flower. The photo should be 7cm in diameter.

Take the other card, glue the two leaves at the back and thenwrite your message on the front.

To join both the two parts of the card together, take the small rectangle and fold in half and glue it to both parts of the card. This acts as a hinge so it allows the card to open and close.

All done.

If looking for more easy Mother’s Day crafts to make at school or at home, you can get the kids busy with these set of Mother’s Day colouring pages

Easter Bunny Card

Put a smile on someone’s face with this simple printable easter bunny card. This cute easter greeting card is a very easy to make Easter craft for kids. Even better, it comes with a free template. Simply print out this easter bunny card template, cut it out and your message. This is a perfect token kids can give to their friends and family members during Easter.

It is really simple and straightforward making this easter bunny card. This free printable easter bunny card template allows you to simply print out, cut out and simply write your easter message on your card.

This is great for preschool age kids and above as long as they can hold a pair of scissors for cutting. The younger kids may need some supervision and it is ok if the cut isn’t clean. It is all part of the fun.

After cutting, all that is needed is to fold the card and then decorate. Give the children free will to decorate however they like with whatever they want.

The kids can keep it clean as pictured or use markers or crayons, glue pom poms, paper pieces etc

How to Make Easter Bunny Card

To make your card with the easter bunny card template, you will need the following

White A4 paper

Easter bunny card template (below)

Scissors

Crayon or marker (optional)

Print out the easter bunny card template.

The coloured or plain version.

If using the plain version, the kids can have fun colouring in the easter bunny on the outside and the Easter egg basket inside the card.

Cut out the template along the thin lines and the bunny faces on each side.

Fold the bunny faces back on either side in line with the edge.

Turn it over and fold each side in half to meet in the middle.

Go ahead and decorate your easter bunny card as you please. Write your Easter greeting on either side of the inside of the card.

Have fun crafting.

Easter Chick Card

Here is another pop up handmade card the kids will love. This Easter Chick card is one many easter craft ideas the children will be thrilled to make.

This 3d easter chick card is easy to make and can be assembled with or without a printable template.

Make a gorgeous pop-up chick card – as you open the card his little beak will open and then close again as it is shut.

This is an ideal easter craft for kids albeit the fairly older ones as this involves cutting out the parts of the card from the template. For the preschool age kids, you might have to do the cutting and then let them glue and decorate the card.

Some easter craft ideas you might like…

3d egg card

Paper chick craft

How to make a pop up Easter Chick Card

You will need the following

Yellow paper

White paper

Any other coloured paper

Scissors

Glue stick

Template (optional)

If using the template, print out the circles on the yellow paper and the parts of the chick on the white paper.

Cut out each individual parts.

You will need 6 circles so fold the yellow paper in half making sure the printed side is on the outside. Then cut out the circles. Folding it saves you the time as you would only cut three times instead of six.

If you are not using the template,

Find a round object measuring 8cm in diameter, draw 3 circles on the 1st half of the yellow paper. Fold in half and the cut out the circles.

Cut out zig zag on measuring 3cm in height and 21cm in width.

Cut 2 L shapes for the feet and a triangle shape for the beak on an orange coloured paper. Cut 2 wings on a yellow paper.

Fold the six circle in half

Ready to assemble your easter chick card

Take the A4 coloured paper of your choice and fold in half so that it measures 21cm by 14.85cm.

Then fold in half from left to right as pictured.

Glue the green grass to the bottom of the page

Start assembling the chick by gluing two folded circles to the card. One to the left and the other to the right.

Then glue the rest on top of each other.

Glue the wings, legs, eyes, and beak. feel free to decorate the inside of the card as you please.

Finished.. Your Easter chick card is complete.

Flower Card Craft

Why not make this simple flower card craft. This flower card is easy for kids to make using a flower card printable template.If you are looking a cute flower craft or a simple Mother’s Day craft card idea? Well look no further. Take a look at this Mother’s Day hearts card.

This card is cut out from a printable template and glued on to a popsicle stick with a message written on the inside of the card.

This flower paper craft involves a fair bit of paper cutting which improves hand eye coordination and fine motor skills.

The kids can also express their creativity by colouring the card anyway they want.

This popsicle stick flower craft is great a Mother’s Day craft for kids, Easter crafts as well as a valentines day craft for kids. To make your flower card, you will need the following supplies.

Materials needed

White A4 cardstock paper to print template

Flower card template (Download free below)

Glue stick

Popsicle stick

Markers or crayons

Scissors

How to make a Flower Card

Start by printing the flower card template.

If you are using the non coloured version, now is the time to get creative by colouring using a markers or crayons. Make sure to use bright colours to make your finished card pop.

Colour the leaves that will be glued to the popsicle stick as well.

Once you are done colouring, cut out the template using a pair of scissors. Careful not to rush cutting the round edges.

Cut out the small leaves and flowers too

Finshed cutting? Now fold the flowers in half along the dotted line.

Write your message on the inside and the outside. You may choose to only write your message inside the card and just decorate the outside. It is up to you.

Take the popsicle stick, add glue to the top and stick it to the back of the flower card. Make sure it is glued to the back such that you can open and close the card the right way.

Glue the leaves to the popsicle stick

Download templates

Plain

Coloured

For more card making ideas, check out Card making ideas for kids

Happy crafting.

Mother’s Day Hearts Card

If looking for a mother’s day craft idea, you can make this adorable Mother’s Day card that is glued to a piece of straw and collapses into a heart.

This simple Mother’s Day card can also be a valentines day craft too. Check out this Valentines git box card

Using the free printable, all you need to make this craft is paper cutting and gluing.

Print and cut out the template, glue plain (coloured paper) in the middle and fold in to hearts.

Cut out shapes and decorate how you want.

Materials needed for Mother’s day card include

Printable template. Get a template below
2 A4 Coloured paper (different colours)
Scissors
Glue dots or cellotape
Paper straw
Gluestick
Hole punch
Shape cutter (optional)
Tiny clothes peg or ribbon

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How to make Mother’s Day Heart Card

Download and print the card template. Download here

Cut out the template

Cut out a circle 10cm in diameter. Write the message on it.

Then apply glue using the glue stick. Firmly place it in the middle.

Fold the template along the dotted lines.

Once folded, it should be collapsible as shown in the video above.

Apple 3 glue dots to the heart

Glue on the straw.

Then decorate with paper shapes. If you have paper shape cutter, cut out different shapes and get creative and decorating as you please.

Remember to use different colours. Use craft gems to add some sparkle.

You can also glue paper shapes to the straw

Decorate the inside of your mother’s day heart card

Using the hole punch, punch a hole on the side of the heart.

To hold the heart in place, insert a ribbon and tie it in place.

Another option is to use a mini clothes peg, colour it or glue on paper shapes on it. Then use it to hold the mother’s heart day card into place.

Happy crafting

Download the free template here

More Mother's Day Activities

Valentines Gift Box Pop up card

Easy printable valentines pop up card with a 3d heart on the front and a gift box pop up inside.

This simple valentines day pop up card is pretty enough on the front with the 3d heart with a contrasting colour. However, it has a pop gift box on the inside. Great valentines craft for kids to make as pop up crafts are always fascinating.

Adding a 3d heart or in fact any 3d paper cut to the front of your greeting card is ab easy craft technique if you want a simple design.

A red card stock paper is used for the outside and the inside of the card is a printable template.

There is a fair bit of gluing and paper cutting which should encourage fine motor skills.

Materials needed

Red card stock paper

White card stock paper

Any coloured paper ( for the 3d heart)

Printable template

Glue stick

Scissors

paper

Hole punch for hearts (optional)

To make your valentines pop up card

Cut the red A4 paper in half measuring 21cm by 14.9cm.
Print out the template that goes inside the card on what paper
Print out the hearts on the different coloured paper
Cut out the template. Fold in half in the middle with the printed side outside. Then cut from the edge to the end of the gift box at the top and bottom
Unfold and make sure the the gift box pops
Glue to the left side of the inside of the red card. Do the same with the right side.
Punch out heart shapes and glue to the side of the card.
Cut out the printed hearts and cut them out
Stick the first heart on the front of the card. Make sure it is centred. Fold the remaining hearts in half and glue to the left and to the right. When finished, fluff out the 3d paper heart

Valentines kids crafts you might like

Paper plate hand bag

Butterfly clothespin craft

Enjoy

New year pop up card

A handmade new year pop up card is a creative way to ring in the new year. This is a great craft to make and gift to family and friends.

This simple paper craft is quite simple to make.

New year crafts activities should be fairly easy as the kids have barely recovered from all the christmas crafts and decorations that have been made during the festive period.

Paper folding and cutting a few paper strips is all that is required. A circle cutter would be very useful for this new year pop up card. If you don’t have one, you may use scissors to cut out the circles

Materials needed

3 Card stock paper (different colours)
Circle cutter
Scissors
Glue stick
Hole punch (optional)

How to make a New year pop up card

Fold an A4 yardstick paper in half. Then cut 8 equal slits 2.5cm in length.

Fold down and crease 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th section. Then open up the card fluffing out the folded sections.

The card should have the four sections popping up out when opened and folded when closed.

Cut five 2.5cm sized circles and four 4cm sized circles. Chose a colour different to the card. You may write your message on the cut circles. In this craft, “Happy 2021”.

Cut tiny 2cm paper strips.

Using the glue stick, form a chain by gluing the circles and strips.

Cut 4 strips 6cm long and 0.6cm wide.

Glue each strip to the base of each section.

Now glue the paper chain to top of the four strips.

Take the four bigger circles and glue to the base of each section. Make sure it is glued firmly in the centre of the four sections.

Take different coloured A4 card stock paper and fold in half. Insert your orange coloured card and glue together on both sides.

Decorate the front of the card with paper shapes of your choosing. Add craft gems, stickers etc

Decorate the insides as simply or elaborately as you please.

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Christmas pop up card

Pop up cards make a great christmas craft for kids to hand out during the festive season.

The 3d effect of the card is fun for the kids to make .

This pop up card is a fairly easy paper craft to make. Simply print the pop up card template, cut and assemble.

It simply a christmas character going down or coming up the chimney. With this diy pop up christmas card, the kids can choose any christmas character they want to glue to the chimney.

To make your DIY christmas pop up card

Materials needed

Free template colouring template.

White card stock paper (print the inside of the card)

Glue

Scissors

Crayons

Instructions

Print out and cut the inner and outer template.

Fold neatly in half

Cut from the edge to the end of the chimney as pictured. Make sure you cut the exact length of the top of the chimney.

Unfold and it should look like this

Turn it inside out and fold to the left from the edge.

Apply glue to the whole surface except the folded part.

Glue this template to the inside of the other card.

Grab your christmas character template

Cut out any character to glue to the inside of the chimney.

If you choose the colouring version, colour your character.

Glue your character to the inside of the chimney.

You may write what you want on the card like the recipients.

Christmas Tree Card (Parallel cut)

Christmas Tree Card with Parallel Cut

A simple parallel cut technique is an easy method to create beautiful handmade cards.

It is an even smarter way to make a handful of cards to hand out to friends and family during the Christmas season.

A simple parallel cut design is stuck on plain cardstock paper and decorated. Easy!

How To Make a Christmas Tree Card

Materials needed:

Red cardstock paper

Green cardstock paper

Gold craft foam

Glue stick

Scissors

Instructions

Cut the green paper 8cm by 12cm and the red paper 13cm by 18cm.

Fold the red paper in half.

Fold the green paper in half (horizontally)

Draw a line from corner to corner. (Draw from the folded corner)

Then cut on the line

Cut parallel slits at a slight angle from the folded edge and ending at 1/2cm away from the opened edge.

Then unfold the paper

Fold up all the triangles by gently but firmly lifting up the slits upward.

This is the Christmas tree that goes on the red cardstock paper

Apply glue to the back of your Christmas tree and stick on the red cardstock paper.

Cut out a star shape from the gold craft foam using scissors or a star shaped craft punch.

You may substitute the gold craft foam with yellow paper

Stick on top of the tree

Cut out tiny circles using craft punch and glue on to the card.

You could also use craft stones or different coloured paper

Here is an easier version of the Christmas tree card

Find more christmas crafts like this christmas paper wreath

Happy crafting

3D Easter Egg Card

Looking to make a simple easter themed craft?

Why not handmade and personalise a 3d easter egg card.

It is very simple to make with basic materials and is suitable for all ages.

The 3d egg is the centrepiece of the greeting card.

It can then be embellished with stones, shape cut outs, buttons and any craft accessory you fancy

How to make 3d Easter Egg Card

Materials needed

Paper stock cards (at least 2)
Glue
Scissors
Hole punch (optional)
Craft stones (optional)
Buttons (optional)

Instructions.

Print the 3d easter egg template on the card stock paper. You may print the egg templates on one side and the patterned background on the other side. The Blue egg and blue pattern as well as the Pink egg and pink pattern can be printed in the resource library

Cut out the egg shapes using a scissors. For a 3d egg that pops, you will need at least 5 cutouts.

Take a plain card stock paper and horizontally fold in half.

Glue on an egg cutout right in the centre of your folded paper.

Take the remaining egg cutouts and fold in half as pictured.

Glue the folded halves making sure they are glued on, the right side up (ie the domed side up).

Repeat the step and glue the remaining two halves.

Decorate and embellish with craft accessories in any way that takes your creative fancy.

As pictured, you may use adhesive gold foam letters or even a felt pen for words.

Craft stones is a cheap way to embellish any craft project.

Another great way to decorate your card is with colourful buttons and hole punched shapes.

Your 3d easter egg card is complete

Free templates here

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DIY Valentine’s Day Card

Get paper crafting for that special person or people in your life with this DIY Valentine’s day card.

Some card stock papers, glue and paper strips and you are good to go.

Materials needed

Paper trimmer
Card stock paper (two different colours)
Glue
Hearts hole punch

Instructions DIY Valentine’s Day Card

Fold the A4 card in half
Using the paper trimmer, cut 1cm and 1/2cm strips in width of the different coloured paper
Take the 1cm wide strips, trim to 15cm in length, glue one end, join the the other end to make a heart.
Repeat the steps to make two more
Glue the hearts on the card.
Glue the 1/2 cm wide strips and glue underneath each heart.
Punch tiny paper hearts using the hole punch and glue as you wish.

More greeting card inspirations

Paper weave greetings card

Christmas tree card

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Paper weave greetings card

A paper weave greeting card is a simple DIY greetings card idea.

It suits any occasion and suitable as Birthday cards, Easter cards and even Thank you cards.

The paper weave technique on the front is very easy to do so is suitable for all levels

The front of the card can be designed whichever way you want

Materials Needed

Paper trimmer
A4 Card stock paper (Various colours)
Glue
Craft Jewel or Gem stones
Marker or felt pen

DIY Paper Weave Greetings Card

Horizontally fold an A4 card stock paper in half
Using the paper trimmer, cut 1cm wide strips from different coloured paper.
Take the strips to be laid vertically and trim them to the length of the card from the top to the bottom
Do the same to strips to be laid horizontally ensuring they are equal length from the left to the right.
Glue the vertical strips at the top.
Glue the horizontal strips to the left side of the card
Weave the horizontal and vertical strips and glue the ends of the strips
Glue the craft gems on the card
Using a marker, write what you want on the front as well as the inside of the card.

Check out this Christmas tree card tutorial

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