How To Make An Easter Card

Easter is nearly here again, and you'll be in everybody's good books if you rustle up a couple of these fantastic cards.

Photo: yes, you too could make a beautiful card like this!

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It's no good buying a card you know... homemade cards are always more popular.

You will need:

Thin coloured card - two or three A4 size sheets is plenty.

Glue

Scissors

Sticky tape

Crayons, felt tip pens or paint.

Photo: start off by cutting your card into strips, halfway down the sheet. Don't make the strips too skinny, or they might break.

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Step 1: Cut a sheet of card into strips, but only halfway down the sheet, like in our picture.

Step 2: Cut out some flowers in another colour. You could make them different sizes or different colours... use your imagination!

Step 3: Stick a flower onto the end of each strip of paper.

Photo: this is what you should end up with after step 3.

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Step 4: Curl the card around with the flowers facing inwards and stick the two sides of the card together, so you end up with a cylindrical shape.

Step 5: Now curl down the flowers carefully, so that they all droop outwards - and look just like flowers in a pot.

Photo: this is how it will look before you start turning the flower stems outwards.

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You could adapt this by making the card slightly bigger, and turning it into an Easter bonnet, or by putting a small pot of real flowers into the centre of it, as an extra surprise.

You could stick a base onto the card, making it into a pot, and fill it with pot pourri (that smelly stuff that mums and grandmas really love) or yummy chocolates.

We left our card quite plain - you could decorate yours - stick glitter onto it, colour in the flowers, draw designs on the pot, stick scraps of material around the pot - it's up to you.

Whatever you do with it, your mum or grandma will love it, we guarantee it!