Cards Kids Can Make

A card your child actually made, ten times over. Each page is one card: a big picture to colour on the right-hand half, the greeting already dashed so a three-year-old can write it too, a fold line down the middle and a blank inside for the message. The occasions are the ones a family really has — a birthday, a thank you, an I-love-you for no reason, get well, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Christmas, a valentine, a well done and a miss-you. There is also a page of coupons to give away (one big hug, one extra story, I will tidy up) and an envelope to cut out for them. Then play Post office: make a mailbox from a shoebox, add a stamp from the page of stamps to color and cut, put on a hat and deliver a card to everyone - knock, knock! Draw a mailbox and a bow in four easy steps, join the dots to 12 to find a birthday cake, finish the other half of a tulip, snip along four cutting lines, spot the difference, sort birthday from bedtime and find the way through four mazes.