Do you send thank you cards for your Christmas presents? It’s something I encourage my two to do but I’d like them to think of it as a fun part of our traditions rather than a boring chore. We try to make sure it involves something they love doing – drawing and making – and not too much of what they’re not so keen on – sitting for too long writing out line after line of ‘thank you for..’ This year we decided to make our thank you cards in to a little gift of their own and made these: New Year Thank You Calendars.
A simple design of one piece of card glued on to a larger one of a different colour, to give us our frame.
A chance for the children to be creative and come up with whatever drawing they thought Grandma and Aunty Jenny would like.
A little calendar, picked up for a few pence from the newsagent, glued on the bottom.
A thank you message they typed on the computer, copied and printed and stuck on the reverse side.
A ribbon attached on the top – and they’re done.
Here are all our other New Year ideas.
Happy New Year!
happily shared with Kids Get Crafty and Tot Tuesday and ABCand123
Aaaah these are very cute! Love them. Love that they were quick and easy to make – definitely means making “lots of thank yous” does not become a chore!!
maggy
These look great and so much more fun than thank you cards i agree xx
This is a very cute idea – thank you cards that are useful all year round!
love this!! what a great idea! so much better than writing all the same-y notes! will be doing this today thanks!
Great idea for thank you cards!