I love making things for and with children, basically I think it's because I'm still a big kid myself!
I got the idea for my craft today by reading the crafty forums on MSE (See link, top right). One of the posts on there today was about Post Pals (
http://www.postpals.co.uk/) This is a website which helps young UK children that are very seriously ill by requesting people send cards, letters and/or presents (if able) to cheer up the ill children and their siblings.
I am sending these cards to a very sick little 2 year old girl and to her 4 year old sister.
The 2 year old likes Peppa Pig. I made a big card (A4) with an envelope with a great big picture on the back to match:
This was the card with nice brightly coloured pictures:
I've used decoupage glue to stick all the images down (images were from my children's old comic collection in the attic) Decoupage glue gives a great finish but the envelope and card did bend a little in the morning.
The big sister likes Snow White. I found a nice big book with lots of colour illustrations, scanned them in, printed them and stuck them down. I also used a big picture on the envelope:
This was the card (A4 size):
I added hand drawn stitches, heart stickers and letter stickers to spell out her name.
Hopefully they will raise a smile.
Please visit the Post Pals website, and maybe you could send a homemade card or present to a very sick child. I'm sure it will be very much appreciated.