Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card

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Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - closed card A token with a personal touch is much more valuable than ready made ones. It's the thought that counts, they say. So here's an idea for a pop-up greeting card you can make with your children for their teachers. This can also be made for any occasion.

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - open card

Supplies:

2 sheets plain paper
colored paper
floral printed paper
ribbon
crayons
pencil
scissors
glue
double sided tape
stickers (optional)

Steps:

Start by drawing the letters for your greetings.

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - draw the letters for greeting

Let your kids help in coloring them.

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - add color to the outlines

Cut out the letters, then set aside. Choose the word with the greatest number of letters and count them.

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - cut the letters out and set aside, count the number of letters in the longest word

Fold one piece of plain paper into a zigzag or accordion form. The fold must be based on the number of letters you counted. Here in "HAPPY TEACHERS DAY" the word with the greatest number of letter is "TEACHERS" consisting of 8 letters. So we need to make 8 equal folds.

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - fold one piece of white paper in an accordion form with as many folds as letters in your longest word

Take another paper and cut into half.

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - cut another piece of paper in half

Stick one half onto the end of the accordion. Then the other half onto the opposite side. This will serve as the cover.

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - stick the two pieces onto the accordion at each end

Now get the longest word first and start sticking them onto the folds one by one. It should be placed in the center of the paper. Only stick half of the body of the letter onto the paper fold. See attached photo.

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - starting with the long word, stick one side of the letters onto the folds

Then stick the rest of the letters into position along with other figures/stickers.

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - continue with the other letters and any sticker you choose to add

Cut out some floral printed paper and design your cover page on the front and back portions.

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - cut and use floral paper to to design the front and back cover pages

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - open card with floral paper rectangles in place

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - floral triangles added to the corners

Add more decorations by using colored paper made into flowers. You can create any figures you want.

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - paper flowers added

Close the card and tie a ribbon around it and your greeting card is done.

Teacher's Day Pop Up Greeting Card - close card and tie a ribbon around it

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