Cricut Christmas Cards With A Preschooler

 
Preschool Christmas Cards - Working On Simple Scissor Skills

No SVG for this one - But I linked to the public Design Space Project [FREE] and I gave the measurements if you want to just make your own from scratch.  It's just basic shapes.

My head crafting assistant will turn 4 years old here in a couple of weeks.  He's VERY excited when he receives mail,  so recently we took a trip to the post office, and learned about how it all works.  It's common for us to make things here on the farm and then let him mail them from our mailbox to his own home.  

So obviously, he wanted to make his own Christmas cards.  

There's no svg for this - it's just a rectangle for the card base, a star, triangle, some score lines (most changed to "draw") and some text. You can easily make this by hand with no machine at all, or create it completely yourself in Design Space. Or, you can access my public, shared, Design Space Project here:

https://design.cricut.com/landing/project-detail/656dbb718f18a38916468cb4

If you would rather just create this all yourself from scratch, the measurements I used include:

Card Base is 10 wide by 7 tall

Triangle For Tree is 3.644 x 4.61

Star is 1.5 wide by 1.427 tall

Font Used For Merry Christmas is Always Here (Free on Dafont)

NOTE - The Text I used is in the Font "ALWAYS HERE" - which you can find free on Dafont.  I used it because it's a great free font that works with the pens in Cricut, drawing without bubbling.  For long lists of FREE fonts that work with the pens in cricut, go here:

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/11/6-single-line-fonts-that-will-write.html

If you do not want to install the font, you may need to delete the text.  Other options are to change the font to one you know works with the pens to draw, or, flatten the text to the card and print rather than draw.

Remember - When using pens in cricut you ATTACH the text.

When doing print then cut with cricut, you FLATTEN TO A SHAPE (in this case, flatten to the card base)

I had cricut draw lines, with a pen, on a triangle, and cut out the triangle shape.  

Then the not quite 4 year old cut on the lines, cutting the triangle into 4 pieces he then glued, along with a star, onto the card.

Make sure you ATTACH the text to the white base card.  Select the text, select the base and then click on attach.

If you forget to attach the text, you will see it appear on its own mat.  

When the text is attached, you will see it on the card when you click make it.

I had considered using a selection of paints and a q tip to add paint "ornaments" to the tree, but we were doing a lot of  things today - just the cutting and gluing was enough for this project.

While making these, he said "Grandma, I'm getting a little tired.  You may need to help me.  All the people will be sad if they don't get my Christmas card."  LOL!  "All the people"???  I don't know how many he thought we'd be making, but I limited him to 6 family members today.  Maybe we'll make more another day.  "All the people"....  this kid!

We did make stickers for the inside of the cards.  He chose the photo, I used the free background remover website: https://www.remove.bg/

Then I added the text
 add an offset behind the text, which overlapped the photo.
Turned the offset to white, sent it to the back.  
Chose Select all, and then chose Flatten.

Quick and easy print then cut stickers.  :-)