I hate to just throw away Christmas cards when I take all the directions down, so several years I go I quit! I started saving the cards and putting them in the craft drawer for the kids. Following are some ideas of things we’ve done with them and things I’ve got in mind for us to do.
1. Cut them up to make Christmas scene collages.
2. Cut a card in half, paste it to a clean sheet of paper and let the kids create “finish the scene” drawings.
3. Cut them up and recycle them into new card creations. (My kids have made new birthday cards out of old Christmas cards before. They were actually really cute.)
4. Create gift tags for next year.
5. Create ornaments by cutting out scenes from cards into circle and pasting to the metal circles from frozen juice or refrigerated biscuit containers.
Do you have any fun, creative ideas for recycling Christmas cards?
Kris is the sweet-tea-drinking, classically eclectic, slightly Charlotte Mason, homeschooling mom to her three Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers.
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Ticia said…
collect all the ones that have the Nativity story on them, and use them to tell the Nativity story (this may take several years of collecting to do it).
December 30, 2009 9:27 AM
Shelly said…
LOVE the ideas, thanks! I always feel a little guilty for throwing them out, especially the photo ones :o)
December 30, 2009 9:30 AM
Rebekah said…
Just read somewhere that you can use them for small gift boxes throughout the year or for next Christmas. Also, bookmarks, nameplates as some have more of a wintery theme than exclusively Christmas.
December 31, 2009 1:01 PM
Michelle said…
I got this idea from a Christmas craft book and made them with the kids before Christmas this year with some of last year’s cards:
Cut equal sized strip of the front panel of the card, about 1/2″ wide at least. Punch a hole at the bottom and top of each strip. Attach them with a brad fastener. Fan the pieces out and it makes a bauble. We hung them with ribbon in the front window. Pretty cool!
December 31, 2009 5:29 PM
Weird Unsocialized Mom said…
Some great ideas! We’ll have to try the brad fastener idea. I think the kids would enjoy that.
December 31, 2009 9:59 PM
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