Ideas for making cards with a 19mo

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Can any of you lovely people offer any ideas for making cards with younger children or point me in the direction of a website that might be able to help?

Want to make a birthday card for DH with DS, and want to do something a bit more creative than the usual scribbling with a crayon!
Thanks.

Printing,

Hand printing is easy & effective or finger prints built up to make pictures, you know the sort of thing - 2 thumb prints on top of each other, with a bit of added drawing for ears, tail & paws & some glue on eyes makes a Cat

Potato printing - you cut spuds in half & cut a relief of a shape into it, your DS uses them to print onto the card, choose your shapes well & he can even make a picture

Marbling - shallow tray full of gelatine, let your DS dribble paints on top, then show him & let your DS drag sticks, fork etc through the colours to make patters - lay card on top so that it picks up the paint

Blow pens - you buy these in sets quite cheaply, you can make similar with a straw & paint, but probably not best idea at 19mth :) - lay a few objects onto your card, blow the paint pens over it as per instructions, lift object off to show silhouette of it - layer up with different shapes to make pictures or patterns

hope that lots helps :)

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I have a post on there called 'making a card for nanny'. My daughter made this and she is two she has been using this contact pictures technique since she was ten months hope it is helpful. Hopefully other things on there you may like to try out xx