Birthday is a holiday that all children love. Surprises, congratulations, cake - everything for the birthday man. Parents and guests buy gifts for children in the store. But you can make a memorable birthday card for a boy with his own hands from colored paper, glue and improvised materials. In the shops, the choice of ready-made cards is huge, but a piece of the soul is invested in manual work.
Theme
Girls traditionally love flowers, and there is usually no problem with choosing a theme for greeting cards. But boys are a completely different story. They are interested in cars, computer games, dinosaurs, football or martial arts. A self-made birthday card for a boy should reflect the character of the birthday man so that he knows that at the time of making the present they thought about him.
You can make a card in the form of a ball, decorate it with a car picture or dinosaur figures. If the kid loves cartoons, then it will not be difficult to make cards in the form of minions, angry birds or other simple characters.
Ribbons with "boyish" patterns and colors will become an additional decoration. Now there is a decorative tape on sale, which can also be used as a decor. You can stick buttons, parts from cars, gears and other little things. Such a gift will please the traitor.
Greeting card with balloons.
You can quickly and easily make a DIY birthday card for a boy, decorated with balloons. For work, you need a sheet of cardboard for the base, colored paper or cardboard for balls, a blue ribbon, glue, scissors.
Fold the base sheet in half. The edges can be cut with curly scissors. Glue thin flat paper or thread from the center of the bottom edge that will imitate the ribbons of balls. From oval cardboard or kraft paper, cut ovals - balls. You can use old postcards, candy boxes and other bright elements for this purpose. Stick on the base. At the intersection of the threads, glue the bow from the ribbon.
To give volume to the work, it is recommended to glue some balls first on a small piece of thick cardboard, and then on the base. Buttons can be used instead of cardboard.
A boy made a self-made birthday card to sign and give.
Such an easy-to-make craft looks very bright and festive.
Postcard in the form of a minion
These are funny cartoon characters, which are easy to repeat from paper, making them the heroes of a birthday card for a boy with their own hands. The master class is described below.
For work you will need yellow, blue and white cardboard, black paper, glue, scissors.
- A sheet of white cardboard folded in half is the basis. To make a minion, you need a little less than half the yellow sheet.
- Cut a rectangle, round the edges.
- In the upper part, glue a black strip 0.5 cm wide - this is an elastic band of glasses.
- Glue 1 or 2 eyepiece circles and pupils.
- Make jumpsuit out of blue paper, do not forget about hands and hair.
- Glue the minion to the base, decorate and sign.
In the same way, you can make SpongeBob, Evil Birds, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and other heroes.
Volumetric postcard
Volumetric options look very nice. You can make such a birthday card for a boy with his own hands.
You need two sheets of cardboard for the base, you can have different colors. To make the craft brighter, a strip of 1 cm on each side can be cut from the sheet to be glued in.
- Take a twine or thread of yarn with a size equal to the length of the sheet.
- Cut out diamonds with colored paper with a side of 3-4 cm. Fold each in half, put on the thread at the place of bending and stick the ends together - you get a garland of flags.
- You can make several tiers and write on the triangles "Happy Birthday!" or enter the name of the birthday person.
- Fold the base sheets in half, put one into the other and grease with glue. Before connecting both components, you need to insert the ends of the threads between them. To dry.
- Decorate the front side.
There are many options for ideas for birthday cards for a boy with his own hands, and, inspired by them, you can create a unique gift.