Halloween Greeting Cards

The more options there are, the harder the choice becomes. These days we have a number of options available to us when sending Halloween greeting cards, ranging from sending ecards via email, to preparing homemade greeting cards and sending them either by mail or delivering them personally.

Although personally I use a variety of ways to send greeting cards, for those closest to me I prefer to prepare homemade greeting cards, and to write the greeting in my own handwriting to add a more personal touch.

Whether you wish to prepare greeting cards for Halloween by yourself or with your child, here is a great original idea for preparing a homemade greeting card.

Boo! Happy Halloween

Materials:

• Printable template
• 2 pieces of size A4 black construction paper.
• A piece of size A4 white construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue

Fold one piece of black construction paper in two and cut out a rectangle to the left of the fold, in order to create a window 12.5cm X 10.5cm (5 x 4.5 inches).	Print out the template of the ghosts and cut out the two characters.
Cut out strips out of the remaining construction paper ( 5 white strips and 3 black strips ) 0.5 cm in width ( about a quarter of an inch).	Roll the white strips and two of the black strips to a roll and stick the end with glue. Squash the two black rolls to get the shape of an eye. Divide the remaining black strip into two. Roll one part up into a roll, stick it at the end and squash (this is the nose). Fold the second part into an accordion (this will serve as the mouth).
Stick the white rolls on one of the ghost characters in order to create height.	Stick the remaining character on the white rolls to create a 3D character.
Stick the character on black construction paper so that it protrudes from the window that you created earlier. Stick on the eyes, nose and mouth in the appropriate places. Cut out the front page greeting and stick it above the window.