Birthday Party Hat Cards
Create a beautiful birthday card using household materials.
Materials
Directions
Cut small triangle shapes, nearly the same size as the front of your card, from colorful birthday party wrapping paper.
Glue a triangle to the front of your card, making sure to leave enough space for the pom-pom you will be making and adding to the top.
Make a pom-pom using yarn and your hands. Twist yarn around two of your fingers about 20 times.
Snip the yarn with scissors, then slowly slip the loop of wrapped yarn off of your fingers and tie a long piece of yarn in the middle of your loop.
Snip the loops with scissors on both sides, then trim into a tight pom-pom. You can use many colors of yarn wrapped around your fingers or a single color.
Using your hole punch, punch two holes side by side in the top of your card near the tip of the triangle.
Tie the pom-pom onto the card by slipping the long yarn pieces (the ones you used to tie the center together) through the holes you punched and tying in the back.
When you're finished, be sure to have your child write a special message inside!
Caroline Gravino Urdaneta, a PBS Parents resident crafter, is a designer of creative family projects, tinkering painter and mother of four children. She writes about project ideas for the whole family and how to encourage creativity in kids on the popular blog, Salsa Pie.
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