This week we have been making Christmas cards

We began by creating tape trees

I bought some coloured card

And some rolls of pretty tape

I think I bought ours from Lidl

And possibly from Poundland

I showed the children how to cut the tape to different lengths

And to order the lengths

From longest to shortest

To make the image of a Christmas tree

They needed a lot of help with the cutting

Especially Bea

But the rest they were able to do independently

I was really pleased with our finished results

Again especially Bea who loved sticking spots on

For baubles

All the children were focused

And worked really hard at being card makers

Coming up with their own creative ideas

Using the pretty sticky tape and dot stickers

We made trees and stars

Tinsel and baubles

We all had super simple fun

So much so that we decided the very next morning to make some more!

This time we used torn paper

And paint dabbers

We made torn paper trees

Painted trees

Got messy and made some lovely festive things

To decorate our painted trees

We used glue dots

(I LOVE glue dots)

And pom poms

This led us to thinking about

Snowflakes and snow balls

So with some foam stickers from Poundland

We set about making snowy festive scenes

With snowmen and reindeer

We have actually made some lovely cards

And we cannot wait to hand them out

To some very lovely and special people