DIY : Thanksgiving cards with Toddler!

In this digital era, its sometimes nice to receive a handmade card. I am a sucker for handmade stuff and as a kid I loved making cards.

Toddler S is currently into messy painting ;) so this thanksgiving, to express our gratitude we made some cards for the Montessori teachers.

Things you would need:

Cardstock paper (Preferably some light color)
Washable brown color
Orange, Red, black and green maker
Wiggle eyes
Plate or dish for color

This is the simplest and the most enjoyable type of cards for kids. They can get their hands messy, play around with the colors and still be able to make some great cards!! Yay!!

Take a card stock paper fold into into half and cut it. Fold the half again and cut them. (You can make 4 cards / cardstock paper)
Pour some color on a dish/plate and let your toddler press their palm into the color. (After we were done with the cards, we let toddler S play with the color so she can get messy, and she had so much fun with that)
Have them then press their palm onto the cardstock cut out to get a handprint. (I recommend trying a few times on some other paper first so the toddler knows to press the entire hand and not move it etc etc. Usually they tend to press their fingers only so we had to explain that she needs to press the entire palm on the paper. Also she would move her fingers after pressing the palm on the paper which would mess up the handprint.)
Once dry - Mommy painted the legs, bick etc
Then toddler S added the turkey embellishments - Wiggle eyes

Add a nice message and your card is ready!!!

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