A Calming Chaos: Wacky Wednesday- Grandparent's Day Card Crafts

Mom, Dad, Bobby, Laura - Don't read this post until after Grandparents Day!

My kid has some incredible grandparents. They all love her so much, and she knows it. She has a different relationship with each of them. Alyssa is at a great age where she is really interested in doing crafts, coloring and really getting her hands busy. Seems like the perfect year to do more than just me going to Walmart and trying to find 4 different cards from her.

Today, we are making cards to give them.

Before we get started, here is a little random trivia about Grandparent's Day.
Grandparents Day is celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day. On Grandparents Day, people honor and thank their grandparents. Grandparents Day was declared a holiday in the USA by the US congress in 1978. The congressional proclamation was signed by President Jimmy Carter. The idea of Grandparents Day began in 1970, when Marian Lucille Herndon McQuade (from West Virginia) started a campaign to designate a special day to celebrate grandparents. (Wiki)

For Nana and Grammy, we are making Butterfly Cards, and for both Grandpas, we are making alligator cards.

You will need 1 piece of construction or scrap book paper for the alligator, and 2 for the butterfly.

We will start with the alligator cards.

Take a green (or whichever you decide) paper, and fold it in half once.

Here is where you will need mad drawing skills like mine.

Draw the profile of the gator. Basically a half circle with 2 pegs for legs. Make sure his "back" is at the fold.

Cut it out, leaving the fold intact.

Next what you are going to do is cut little slits along the back and tail, but not on his head. Then unfold the gator, and bend back the cut corners to make spikes on his back.

Fold it back up, and give him eyes and a mouth, and decorate how you like!

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Now for the grandmothers, we will be doing butterflies.

First get your 2 sheets of paper, and fold them in half, cutting them together, in the shape of a butterfly.

Next, take one of the papers, and mimic a smaller butterfly within the larger one, and cut it out as well.

Take the center of the cut butterfly and glue it to the center of the inside of the card. Then put the outer part on the outside. (Im not sure when I started taking pics of the yellow one instead)