Homemade thankyou cards for 3 and 4 year olds-any ideas????

[MilaMae]

Think we'll crack on tomorrow but could do with some whizzy suggestions.

Thanks

stickers and stamps - makes things quick but still homemade.
Have also found that if you give them a very large sheet of card each to decorate, you can then cut it up into appropriate size pieces. This tends to stop them getting bored.
hth have fun

potato stamping

sponge painting

finger painting

hand prints

stickers are always good

errr that's about all I can think of at the moment!

oh gawd you've just reminded me DS still needs to do his.

I was just going to let him type a message on the computer and print it out on nice letter paper for him to then sign. Maybe a card would be nicer though hmmm

How about a photo of them with the present? You could stick it to plain cards and do them quickly and easily with a digital camera? (I'm not doing this though, I cannot be arsed )

How about handprints out of paint then when dry paint on bright coloured rings on fingers and bangles on the wrist area, perhaps with stick on bits of tinsel, glitter, wrapping paper etc? Might be a bit poofy if they are both boys.

pritstick and pictures, sequins & shiney paper stars.

I like simple ones that look like the wee one has actually done it themselves!

We have a whole lot of collage stuff, glitter glue etc and ds likes to stick them all on.

Or I get him to paint and cut a bit out of the middle of the painting.

Or do sponge painting.

Or print out pictures from cbeebies or similar and get them to colour.

Definitely suggest photos of DC with gift. Then either get a stamp that says Thank You on it, or print out a dozen slips that say Thank You in bright colours or fun fonts. Stick photo and thanks slip to a piece of card, allow DC a go with stampers, stickers, crayon etc, then post

I was thinking today about this and reckon I am going to cut out the letters 't h a n k y o u' and let the kids stick them on to the front of the card - four-year-old can make a stab at letter order, two-year-old will produce random anagrams. Also, was going to cut some spirals out of stiff card, so that when you stick the central bit of the spiral to the card, the rest of it sort of ber-doings out at you. (Can you tell I haven't done much of interest today?)

I have blank cards and envelopes from Lakeland. DD 2.2 has done a couple of paintings on big pieces of paper which I will cut into small squares and stick on the front of the cards.

use this years xmas cards, cut out the pics and stick em on then handpainting to make em more personal
hmm thats my job for this week too then

Thanks

Great ideas, dp back to work tomorrow (sniff) should keep us busy, brain not back in creative mode yet so many thanks.

We iced IKEA heart-shaped biscuits one year, with "Thanks" or variations, went down a treat. Took a bit of ingenuity to post them in one piece!

Oh I like policywonk's idea. Consider it truly nabbed.

hmmm swedes, I did it today and it was a bit of a 'mare - I hadn't thought it through properly (cutting out enough letters for nine thank you cards was a right pain). The kids are now in a borstal. However, the cards do look quite good.

I did it yesterday, there was shouting involved but got some fab cards out of it.

I cut up thankyou in different coloured feltips several times and put pots on the table with several of each letter in
Then gave each one thankyou written down and they had to match it onto the cards.

Looked really effective but only managed 2 each and I was being called bossy mummy by the end of it so called it a day. They look really lovely, my youngest only managed a jumbled version but it still looks great.

Thanks holiday wonk!!!!

Only 10 more to go, it's the name signing that is the hardest, after all that sticking my dc thought they needed a lie down to recover. All the recipients should be getting their cards some time in Feb at this rate

lol borstal hw!
am going for scribbling (ds own description) on coloured paper and stickers
thanks for reminder!

aaargh Mila, writing the letters in felt tip would indeed be the sane way to do it. I cut out a cardboard template of each letter, drew round it, cut it out... madness.

'There was some shouting involved' lol

Go on hairy, do something ridiculously complex. Scribbling Will Not Cut It.

oh no
its a spontaneous splurt of scribbling that will most definately pass for 'thanks'
and hey, i stick in recent photo too..

ds has flea sized attention span for most arty & messy activity
washes his hands more than anything...
sometimes twice a picture

I tried to get DS to do a big painting with glitter that I could cut up and stick on cards.
He insisted on mixing the paint into brown and making a big brown splodge that just looked like a giant potato. Then he poured the glitter on the floor instead of the painting. We'd already tried his stamping kit, but the cards just looked like overtravelled envelopes.
I shall try to resume thank you activities, but know that his lovely work only comes when there's no pressing need for it.
I might just write the letters and get him to write his name or draw a face at the bottom instead or I'll still be pulling my hair out at the end of the month.

Quick and very easy - cut out flower(s)from any catalogue; get child to felt tip stems and leaves. Has worked for birthdays, Christmas, thank yous....!

1.Get some of that Crayola black paper that you can draw on and it comes out covered in swirly colours. Get child to scribble all over it.
2.Cut out shapes with crimping scissors. 3.Stick to postcard. Tie child to chair to get him to write 'Dear X, thanc yuo for my presnt' on the back, then add hastily scribbled bon mots of ones own to personalise.
4.Post. Done!

In fact I have only done steps 1 and 2. Have to gird my loins for step 3...

Oops - just read thread title. My DS is 6! But artistically challenged...

I cut the t h a n k y o u letters out by drawing them on chrismas cards in a pencil - some upper case some lower case - some large some small - then cuttting them out with nail scissors then sticking them on a folded piece of card with pritt stick. Lots of cutting but it was therapeutic. Children all ran off and played hide and seek in my washing mountain but I enjoyed myself.

I have done it before by cutting fabric flowers out of an old dress. Works well.