How To Make A Christmas Card... Show Me Style!


There's nothing better than getting your own homemade Christmas card.

Shows a photo of a yellow hand-printed star decorated with gold star stickers on a black background.

A card you've made yourself shows you've really put some effort in and tried to make something special.

This picture was made out of two hand prints and some sticky stars - isn't it beautiful?


We've got some top tips for fantastic Christmas cards - all based on printing with your hands, which is nice and messy!


We got the poster paints out in the office to make these great cards - how about using these as ideas? Remember you can have a go at making up your own designs too.

You will need:

Paints
Card
Newspaper (to spread on the table)
Paintbrush

You could also use:

Glue
Glitter or glitter glue
Sticky stars
Sequins
Anything sparkly or Christmassy you can find!

Shows a photo of some paint pots, glue, glitter glue, star stickers, paintbrushes and card on a sheet of newspaper.

Shows a close-up photo of a person's hands. She's using one hand to paint the palm of the other hand green.

No, it's not the Incredible Hulk, this is Kristen, one of the Show Me team, painting one of her hands ready for printing.

Make sure you don't touch the walls once you've got the paint on, or your parents will never let you visit Show Me again.

This fab Christmas tree was printed with that green hand. Is there no end to our talents?

The baubles are fingerprints and tree was finshed off with lots and lots of glitterglue and a star.

Shows a green handprinted Christmas tree on a red background. It's decorated with yellow splodges, red glitterglue and a gold star on the top.

Shows a white printed, swirly pattern, shaped like a star, decorated with red glitter glue.

This swirly snowflake was also made with hand prints, but this time not the palm of a hand.

Look at the next picture to see the secret method...


Kristen curled up her hand and painted the side only, then printed several swirl patterns. Very clever Kristen.

Shows a white painted snowman wearing a green scarf, decorated with red glitterglue, with white snowflakes dotted all around the black background.

If you live in Scotland you might stand a chance of having a white, snowy Christmas. For the rest of us, this snowman in a snowstorm will have to do.

Again it was printed, this time with the palm of the hand and a bit of squidging. The snowflakes are blobs of paint printed with fingertips.

We've saved the best 'til last. This beautiful angel is two hand prints, with fingers outstretched, and an angel painted over the top.

She's been decorated with some sparkly glitter glue too.

Shows a picture of a yellow angel. She's decorated with red glitterglue and her wings are made from white hand prints. The background is black.

Hopefully these have given you some ideas - why not have a go at making your own? They're especially popular with teachers, mums, dads, grannies and grandads.

We all know this is a very good time of year to make those people extra happy so get your paints out... what are you waiting for?

If you do get arty, we'd love to see the finished cards, use our Get In Touch page to send us a picture and we'll put it up on the site.