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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Envelopes

Do you like to share notes with your friends? Here's a fun way to make envelopes to use for correspondence.

Materials: square paper, markers, tape and maybe stickers

Step 1. Fold your square piece of paper in half along the diagonal
Step 2. Unfold it and then fold along the other diagonal
Step 3. Unfold it and fold in all four corners to the center dot (made by the x you folded into the paper)
Step 4. Tape three of the flaps you've created closed
Step 5. Write your name on the front
Step 6. On the open flap, make a list of things to write about to keep your friend from getting stuck without ideas
Step 7. Decorate your envelope
Step 8. Trade with friends
Step 9. Start writing notes and crafts you can slip in your friends envelope and then return to her!




My babysitter and I made these yesterday. I already made lots of notes and crafts to give to her.

3 comments:

Grandma Esther said...
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Grandma Esther said...

What a beautiful envelope. Thanks for the tip on making my own. Very useful idea. :-)

Liz, Jeff and Miriam said...

This looks like lots of fun. Thanks for sharing the idea. I think Miriam would really love this.