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Elmer’s Handmade Holiday Card

December 8, 2012 By LaVonne

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We travel. A lot. Which means our home is empty for long periods of time. So we are super thankful for our neighbors across the street who take care of our home while we are gone. This holiday season, we want to do something special for them and what better way to say thank you than with handmade? Elmer’s makes creating a handmade holiday card easy.

I wanted this card to be made mostly by  my preschooler. She loves making cards, loves craft time, and LOVES glitter. So glitter glue was essential.

Went went shopping and found some amazing Elmer’s products to use in our handmade card.

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We wanted to make a simple card a preschool could help make. So we found some awesome Elmer’s products to help us with that.

Items Needed:

  • Bi-fold foam board {makes a great over-sized holiday card}
  • glitter glue
  • X-ACTO knife {that one is for me}
  • Elmer’s glue sticks
  • scrapbook paper
  • gel pens
  • stickers
Step by Step Card Instructions:
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1. Glue a favorite piece of scrapbook paper to the center of the card cover.
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2. Circles are easy for our almost 5 year old, so we decided on ornaments. My Princess loved filling each one in with different color glitter glue.
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3. My part was to use my new fancy X-ACTO knife and cut out the letters J-O-Y in this scrapbook paper. I love using an X-ACTO knife – so much more precise than scissors in my opinion.
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4. My Princess glued down the letters and also added a strip of sticker. {Her ornaments look great!}
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5. More glitter glue, mommy! So I told her to outline the letters in glitter glue. She loved that. 3D Elmer’s Glitter Glue does rock! {I made squiggles with the glitter glue and had fun too!}
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Daddy made some chocolate chip cookie bars with my Princess later that night. She picked out this fun green Christmas tree treat container at Walmart especially for our neighbors.
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A fun and easy gift for your neighbor that even a preschooler can do! A big thanks to Elmer’s for making fabulous products.

What would you make using Elmer’s crafting products this holiday season?

To see our entire shopping trip for these fun products visit our Elmer’s Google+ photo album.

*Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® Community. This content has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias™ and Elmer’s. #GlueNGlitter #CBias #SocialFabric

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Comments

  1. Tiffany Cruz says

    December 9, 2012 at 5:43 am

    Such a great idea. I swear that next year we will make our own Christmas cards. Some how time got away from us this year. I love Elmer’s products. I remember making colored glue way back in the 80s by adding food coloring to regular glue and making “puffy paint” projects that way. Elmer’s has definitely come a long way.

    • LaVonne says

      December 9, 2012 at 10:10 am

      I am just glad we don’t have to use Elmer’s glue and actual glitter to do this kind of project. I remember using glitter as a child and it got everywhere!

  2. Kathleen says

    December 9, 2012 at 7:22 am

    Wow that looks professionally done, mine would NEVER look like that!

    • LaVonne says

      December 9, 2012 at 10:11 am

      Thanks, Kathleen!

  3. Allyson Bossie says

    December 9, 2012 at 8:15 am

    What a cute idea! I love the card, and I am a huge supporter of baked goods being a great gift item!

    • LaVonne says

      December 9, 2012 at 10:11 am

      I love getting baked goods as well a giving them 🙂

  4. Michele says

    December 9, 2012 at 10:05 am

    What a lovely and thoughtful way to say thank you and happy holidays to your neighbors!! And I am positive they appreciated it even more because your daughter did most of it herself!!

  5. Isra says

    December 9, 2012 at 4:04 pm

    Aww thats so pretty and looks so easy too! I love getting kids involved, makes it more special.

  6. mel says

    December 9, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    What a truly terrific project!! I absolutely love it and the kids had fun too!

  7. Christy Maurer says

    December 9, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    Love it! I am going to try this next year with my preschool class minus the exacto knife! I bet they could do the gluing, glitter, cutting part all on their own. Really beautiful!

  8. Jerla Wood says

    December 9, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    personalized cards are better than those ready made. at least with the personalized cards you will see the time and effort was put into it and it makes it even more special

  9. Terri says

    December 9, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    Your festive holiday thank you card looks fantastic! What a great project to share with your daughter 🙂 I have to admit, I’m a big fan of glitter, too. Thanks so much for sharing your fun!

  10. Kelly R says

    December 10, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    What a wonderful job she did. Looks like it was fun.

  11. Nikki says

    December 10, 2012 at 6:39 pm

    You guys did a beautiful job! Thank you for sharing! =)

  12. Amanda @ The Frugal Greenish Mama says

    December 12, 2012 at 10:50 am

    I love it! Homemade is always better 🙂

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