MAKING CARDS
WITH POEM INSERTS
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Handmade greetings cards show the receiver of the card that you really care enough to do something special for them. Sending a poem with the card can be especially fun too. So why not combine the two things together?
For children, you have a good choice of poems on this website, but don’t forget that many adults equally love the children’s poems, and adults also love making cards, especially for their grandchildren.
Here is an idea for your first birthday card, and I hope you can go on to do many others. For children at school, ask your art teacher to get involved, or perhaps your parents at home.
I have started with the poem called “The Winter Picnic” and will add further cards as time allows We have made this poem printer friendly in the form of an insert for your card. Remember that you are printing it off on A4 landscape.
For the card itself, I would suggest that a good contrasting colour for the card would be a black A4 card because the subject of the picture, i.e. Winter and Ice, are likely to be in the winter colours of white and light blue and these colours contrast very well.
You can easily purchase birthday greetings as “peel-offs” from a sheet, and they come in both silver and gold greetings, which would look wonderful on a black card.
If you wish to show snow coming down on your card, just flick white paint from a stiff paint brush onto the card. You could draw shapes for the friends “Winter” and “Ice” onto white card and then cut the shapes out and stick them onto your card. As “Winter” is wearing his white, woolly vest, you might consider sticking some white cotton wool onto him. “Ice”, on the other hand, can be glittery, and you can achieve this effect by adding glitter to the paint you have given him. Why not cut out red and black hats for the two friends, and perhaps, with short pieces of felt or wool, make them some scarves and gloves. The rest of the picture will be entirely your own design, but I am sure you will have good fun adding the food, drink and the freezing cold water of the river.
If your friends don’t tell you that yours is the very best birthday card, I will be quite surprised.
Please leave my name on the poem (copyright) and, of course, the website address, as your friends may also like poetry.
Good luck with your projects – Josie