The theme for May's Bostik Blogger challenge is Creatures. After our very artful and detailed flowers from April, I decided to go with basic and messy - my son's favourite.
Before I go any further, I'd just like to say this doesn't need to be just your toddler's art, this can be yours too. I had a lot of fun with this!
The first step is to source templates to fill an A4 piece of paper. Once printed, turn the sheets over! Yep, you don't want this side showing. You want your child to have a blank piece of paper to get artistic on. Be it with crayons, paints, decoupage pieces or even glitter glue.
So I had my own pieces to cut up, this is where it is a great family craft project.
Once the paintings have dried, turn the sheets back over and cut out the templates. Once finished you will have some rather lovely mythical creatures, in unique and unusual colours to be glued on to backing card. And just like that in a weekend you and your children have created some pretty homemade cards to send out for all and any occasions.
This is a really clever idea, but I know what you mean about them being attached to artwork. My dining room window sill is full of mainly broken pieces of their craft, which I'm not permitted to remove
ReplyDeleteAn alternative (if you have a cutting machine or a craft knife) would be to cut the negative of the creature out of the dark paper, creating a frame - the original art could stay intact. Or photocopy the original artwork with a good laser copier or photo printer and you can use it again and again for multiple cards.
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