Children can use various types of recycled materials to make personalized greeting cards. These include cardboard from old cereal boxes, scrap paper, paper from old magazines, leftover fabric scraps, or old clothes. Children can use natural materials like leaves, flowers, petals, and twigs to make their cards interesting. They can also use colorful bottle caps and labels to decorate their creations. One can use a variety of materials and creativity to make the best greeting cards. For example, Prachee, a blogger from Mumbai, discusses how she used a potato to create a beautiful card. She says, “I have used a small potato, made a flower and a leaf stamp using a pointed knife, obviously kiddo was not allowed in this step. Later on, we had lots of fun. we put different colors on our new stamps and made two sweet cards... I added some stems, he helped in putting glitter and pearls for the centre of flowers (i).”
Kristen, another blogger who enjoys upcycling for decor, shares how she made pinprick greeting cards. She explains, “I wanted something more elegant than simply writing Happy Birthday in sharpie marker so I decided to try the pinprick technique. What resulted was a card that surpassed my envision and became something I was proud to ship off. (ii).”