Make Your Own Pop-Up Card

With a few simple materials, like paper, scissors, and glue, you can make your very own pop-up cards. It sounds more intimidating than it really is. The sky and your own creativity are the only limits here. This would be a great father-child project to do for Mother's Day and then mother-child project for Father's Day and birthdays forever. Reading all the way through the instructions once before beginning will help you understand the desired end product and give you a mental picture of where you are going.

POP-UP CARD INSTRUCTIONS
What you will need:
2 pieces of construction paper or thin poster board
Ruler
Pencil
Scissors
Glue
Markers or crayons and other other items to use to decorate

Steps:
1. Decide what size you want your card to be and have both pieces of paper that size.
    Fold both pieces of paper in half and then close and crease along that fold.
                                                            

2. Take 1 piece of the folded paper (and move the second piece aside - (you will need it again in step 6) - and divide and mark the folded paper into thirds at the fold line. Using a pencil, draw lines from  the marks at the fold to the center of the paper.
                                                            
3. Cut along the 2 lines only.
4. Fold the cut-out section down and crease on the fold.      
5. Open the folded paper and push the small cut section through to the inside.
                                                             
6. Glue the second folded piece of paper (from step 1) to the back of this piece you have been working on. Be sure to keep the pop-up section from getting glued down. The card will open and close like any card and the middle will pop-up when you open it.
                                                             
Now the fun part begins! Decorate with markers and crayons, ribbons, glue down jewels, buttons, pieces of wrapping paper and anything else you have at home. Once you have mastered the engineering part of this creation, it will get easier and you can make your own pop-up cards again and again!



Crayola has some more good ideas for Mothers' Day Art and anytime art.