Paper Cut Cards

Create paper cut holiday cards. Make two cards with a few snips and slices!

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1 Choose My Schedule

2 Is This Activity For Me?

Tablet posing and thinking
Stick figures of varying sizes waving

My age is between 10 - 18

Yellow and blue gear

All experience levels are welcome.

Child and mother stick figure standing

I can do this independently.

An open book

All reading levels are welcome.

3 More About my Activity

Many cultures have paper cutting traditions. In this activity, we will sharpen our exacto knife skills, experiment with shapes and create designs to communicate to friends and family, through card-making.

4 What Materials Do I Need?

Various colours and weights of paper, exacto knife, scissors, cutting pad/surface, glue, basic drawing supplies, ideas for shapes that you may want to cut out.

5 I learn useful skills too?

  • Communicating
  • Creative thinking

6 My Guide!

Amber Santos

I’m of German Canadian, Anishanaabe and Metis descent. I’m a practicing artist with over 20 years of exhibiting and selling paintings and drawings, painting murals and teaching art!

I’m a beginner surfer—I’m not very good at it, but every wave I drop is worth the hundreds of wipe outs.

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