Kai-lan's Father's Day Pop-Up Card

This pop-up card looks like it's from a fancy stationary shop. But kids simply cut out the pieces and fold them to create the design.

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The best gifts are handmade. Make this craft together and give it as a gift to a parent, grandparent, or your child's classmates.

This craft requires extra parent involvement and a watchful eye, because it may require sharp tools or intricate handiwork.

This craft has plenty of steps kids can do, like tracing, coloring, decorating, and cutting with safety scissors.

Create with us skills involve self-expression, experimentation, and imagination through visual arts (like painting and sculpting), dramatic play, cooking, and dance.

Share & Care skills are part of social-emotional learning and include: building self-esteem, cooperating, empathizing with others, and identifying feelings.

Read with us skills focus on early literacy and include: listening, comprehension, speech, reading, writing, vocabulary, letters and their sounds, and spelling.

Ages: 4-6

Materials

Kai-lan Father's Day Pop-Up Card Templates
Scissors
Glue stick

Tip: Sturdy paper will give you the best results.

Directions

Step 1
Cut out the inside and outside card templates. Glue them back to back.
Step 2
Let the card dry and fold it horizontally in the middle.
Step 3
Cut out the pavilion, the figures, and the greeting banner along their dashed outlines.
Step 4
Fold accordion-style inward along the solid lines and outward along the dashed lines.
Step 5
Glue the pavilion and the greeting banner at the designated spots on the inside template. Glue Kai-lan and YeYe to the bottom of the banister from behind.

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