Hi there! I’m Jeremy, and today we’re going to make a super cool greeting card. It’s perfect for a birthday or any special occasion. Let’s get started!
First, grab a piece of paper and fold it in half. Once it’s folded, make a cut right in the middle. This will help us create something amazing!
Now, take the little flap you just cut and fold it into a triangle. Make sure the edges line up nicely. Do the same thing on the other side. Great job! Now, flip the paper over and fold the triangles the other way.
Open up your paper and flatten it out a bit. Gently poke out the cuts and fold them down. When you open the page, you’ll see a mouth shape!
To make the mouth pop, glue another piece of paper onto the back. Be careful not to glue the mouth part. Once it’s lined up, press it down and fold the card in half. Now you have a card with a mouth in the middle!
Now comes the fun part—decorating! I’m going to make my card look like a bird. I’ll use a red marker to color the face and a black marker to draw two nostrils. My bird needs eyes, so I’ll cut out two paper circles and draw eyeballs with a black marker. Glue them onto the card.
Let’s add some feathers! I’ll bunch up a few feathers with tape and stick them on the card. I also found a tiny spring and a green pipe cleaner to make it look like a worm coming out of the bird’s mouth. It looks like my bird is eating a worm!
Let’s make a fun movie trick! I can make it look like I’m walking up the wall. Here’s how:
Take a picture of someone, like your dad, and stick it on the wall sideways. Tie a rope to a chair and turn your camera sideways too.
With some acting skills, pretend to walk up the wall. The camera will make it look like you’re really doing it!
Turn the picture upside down and put a fan on the floor. Drag the rope across and turn the camera upside down. When you jump, start recording, and stop when you land. It will look like you’re jumping off the ceiling!
Let’s explore some optical illusions! Here’s a fun one: look at two blue circles. Which one looks smaller? They might look different, but they’re actually the same size!
Download a spiral image and print it out. Cut it out and glue it to some cardboard. If you have a salad spinner, stick the spiral on top and start spinning. It’s mesmerizing!
For a fun challenge, try making a ferris wheel using a coat hanger, a paper plate, and a plastic cup. I even made a movie starring a paper bag and some candy wrappers. What will you create today?
Remember, you can find more fun ideas and step-by-step instructions on our website. Happy crafting!
Card Creation Exploration: Now that you’ve made a greeting card with a mouth, try creating different shapes! Can you make a card with a nose or ears? Use your imagination and see what other fun designs you can come up with. Share your creations with your friends and family and ask them what they see in your designs.
Optical Illusion Investigation: Find different objects around your house that are the same size but look different. For example, you could use two cups or two books. Place them side by side and see if they look the same or different. Why do you think that happens? Try explaining it to a friend or family member.
Recycling Adventure: Gather some recyclable materials like cardboard, plastic bottles, or old magazines. Use these materials to create a new craft project, like a robot or an animal. Think about how you can use different shapes and colors to make your creation come to life. Once you’re done, present your project and explain how you made it using recycled items.
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Uka hey, I’m Jeremy! Let’s create something fun! Happy birthday! So, let’s make a greeting card that really stands out. Start off with a piece of paper. The first thing I want to do is fold it in half, just like this. Now that I have it folded, I want to make a cut right in the middle.
Next, I’ll take this little flap and fold it over into a triangle, making sure that this end lines up with the edge of the paper. I’ll do the same thing on the other side. That looks good! Now that we have these folds, let’s turn the paper over and fold them the other way.
Now, open up your paper and flatten it out a bit. I want to fold my paper slightly and poke out those cuts, then fold it down. When we open up our page, we have a mouth!
After you have your folds and your mouth is working, glue another piece of paper onto the back to create the back of the mouth. With my glue stick, I’ll carefully glue the back of the paper, avoiding the folded part that makes the mouth. Once all the glue is on, line it up and press it down into place. Fold it in half, and now we have a card with a mouth in the middle!
Now comes the fun part—decorating! I’m going to make this one look like a bird using my red marker. I’ll trace the face with my black marker and draw two nostrils. Now my bird needs some eyes! I cut out two pieces of paper into eye shapes and drew in the eyeballs with my black marker. I’ll attach these with a little bit of glue.
Let’s get the back of that eye full of glue so it’s sticky. There’s one eyeball, and there’s the other! I think it needs one more thing—how about some feathers? I took a few feathers, bunched them up with tape, and found a good place to put them. Now I’ll add some more feathers to create a big feather beard.
I found a tiny spring and stretched it out, then added a little green pipe cleaner to make it look like a worm coming out of my bird’s mouth. I’ll open up his mouth and tape it into place. It looks like my bird is eating a worm!
Here’s one I did before with the same fold but decorated differently—I made him an alien! The same fold can create totally different creatures. Here’s the rest of my collection: a fish, a horse, and a lion.
Pop-up books are fun and easy to make! Once you learn the simple folds, you can create all kinds of them. We have step-by-step instructions on how to make the fold on our website. Once you learn the fold, you can make your own pop-up card!
One way to decorate is to glue a different colored piece of paper behind the mouth. Be sure not to put any glue on the mouth part. Then fold the two pages, and you have a card with a mouth in the middle. I traced a face and drew some nostrils, cut out and decorated two pieces of paper to look like eyes, and added colorful feathers on his head and chin. A small spring with some green pipe cleaner makes it look like my bird is eating a worm. You can use the same fold to make all kinds of creatures!
And don’t worry if you missed any of this; it’s all on our website at artzooka.com.
Now, let’s make an upside-down movie! Making movies is awesome, especially when you add some tricks that are almost magical. I can make it look like I’m walking up the wall! I took a picture of my dad and stuck it on the wall sideways. Then I tied a rope to my chair.
To make it look like I’m walking up the wall, I turned my camera sideways. With a little movie magic and my acting skills, I pretended to walk up the wall. Here’s what the camera saw.
Now we can go totally upside down! I turned my dad’s picture upside down and put a fan on the floor. I dragged my rope across again, then put my camera upside down. Before I turned the camera on, I gave this a push to make it look like it was on.
Here’s what the camera saw. To make it look like I’m landing, I turned the camera right side up and jumped again. When my feet were in the air, I started recording and stopped once I landed. Here’s what the camera saw, and when I put them both together, it looks like I’m jumping off the ceiling!
If you make a movie using all these tricks, it might look something like this!
Did you miss some of that? Don’t worry, we have step-by-step instructions for making a movie to make it look like you are climbing the wall and jumping off the ceiling on our website.
And now, time for a safety message: remember, when building a giant skeleton out of doggy bones, you might need to keep an eye on your dog!
Now, let’s see what I can create using only items from the cafeteria! I have a straw, a spoon, and paper plates. I’ve got an idea!
It’s a pig! It’s all in how you look at it. Here are two blue circles—tell me which blue circle is smaller. Most people would say that this one looks smaller and this one looks bigger. But take a look at this—they’re exactly the same size! It’s an illusion, a trick of the eyes.
Here’s another illusion: take a look at this. It makes your eyes go googly! I downloaded the spiral image from our website; it’s much easier than drawing one yourself. When I printed it out, I made it bigger to fit at the bottom of an old salad spinner.
Why, you ask? Because I want to make it do something cool! It’s easy to make this—I just cut out the spiral design and glued it to some cardboard to make it sturdy. If you don’t have an old salad spinner, you can take a pencil, poke it into the back, and spin it on the pencil.
To supercharge this, we want to work with the lid of the salad spinner. I’m going to grab four pieces of masking tape and stick them right onto the lid. Then I’ll stick a few pieces on the back of my disc, pop it right on top, and start spinning!
If you want to decorate it, grab some cardboard and cut it into strips just big enough to fit around the lid. Then get some colored duct tape and attach the cardboard to the salad spinner lid. You can paint it any way you like!
Now that’s art! If you want to make your own spiral spinner, you can download the picture from our website. There are lots more great ideas there too!
And now, time for another safety message: remember, when drawing pictures, it helps if the thing you’re drawing stays still!
For my recycle challenge, I challenged myself to make something out of a coat hanger, a paper plate, and a plastic cup. I put them in a movie starring a paper bag. Can you guess what it’s going to be? Yes, it’s a ferris wheel!
Now let’s see it in a movie!
Did you like the movie? I made a ferris wheel out of a coat hanger, a paper plate, and a plastic cup, and I put them into a movie starring my pal, the paper bag. Did you spot the candy wrappers? Take another look at how I used them!
I challenge you to make something out of a coat hanger, a paper plate, and a plastic cup. When you do, take a picture and email it to me at the website. What will you create today?
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