Earlier this week, one of the moms in our Brownie troop invited a craft specialist to our meeting to teach our girls how to make hand-crafted cards. The crafter brought everything the girls needed for making a card, including, paper, markers, decorative ribbon, etc. It was up to each girl to decide who to make their card for and what holiday or sentiment to express.
One of my daughters, a daddy’s girl, chose to make a Father’s Day card for my husband. My other daughter promptly started working on a card for me, and begged me not to look at it, which I tried my hardest not to do.
When we got home, my daughter immediately ran to the mailbox, stuck the card inside, and asked me to check the mailbox. I reached in to find her card in a properly addressed envelope that included her name and our address as the return address and my name and our address as the recipient’s address.
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In the envelope, I found a card with hand-drawn flowers with button buds on them. The front of the card features the hand-stamped message, “All Things Grow With Love.” Inside she wrote, “You can dream a garden, but our garden is bigger and realer [sic].”
On the back of the card, she wrote, “Thank you for helping me build a garden!” (My daughters and I started a vegetable garden this spring, and are now waiting to see how our plants will do this summer.)
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It was so wonderful to see all the hard work she put into the card and to learn from her words how important our small backyard garden is to her. What was especially sweet was the expectant, excited look on her face that she had while she waited for me to open the mailbox and retrieve her card. It is moments like that that make being a mom so wonderful.
With Father’s Day being the next holiday, perhaps your child will want to make a handmade card for her dad. There are some really cute ideas she can try at the website for Family Fun magazine.
I have a whole bunch of scrapbooking supplies that I haven’t used in a while–I think I might take some of them out the next holiday or birthday, so my daughters can create their own cards. Such handmade cards say and mean so much more than any store-bought card ever could.
