Gift Bags, Tags, and Cards - Matching!
This craft activity is all about others. What better way to show someone you care than by making them a matching gift bag, tag and greeting card? This may sound complicated, but it is super easy! All you need to do is come up with a theme and make everything match.
Materials You Need
- Undecorated paper gift bag (with or without handles)
- Heavy cardstock in a variety of colors
- Ribbon, string, yarn, twine or floss
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers, crayons and/or colored pencils
- Liquid or dry glitter, other embellishments (optional)
- Tissue Paper (optional)
Steps to make a snowman themed bag, tag and card:
- Draw and cut out several different sizes of circles on white cardstock for your snowman’s body. Make a big snowman to fit on the front of the gift bag, a medium sized snowman for the card and really small one for your tag.
- Measure the front of the gift bag and cut a light blue piece of cardstock to fit the front of the gift bag.
- Glue the big snowman to the blue cardstock, decorate with markers, crayons or colored pencils (you can cut out a top hat and nose with paper or just draw it all in) and then glue this onto the front of the bag.
- Using the same color of light blue cardstock cut it 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half for your greeting card base.
- Glue the snowman to front of card and decorate with markers.
- Write or stamp something on the inside of your card, make sure you sign the back, so whoever gets it knows who made it.
- Using the same color of light blue cardstock cut out a small rectangle 3” x 6” and fold it in half; punch or poke a hole in the corner of it.
- Glue the snowman to front of tag and on the inside of tag write who it is to and from.
- Tie the tag to the bag handle, using ribbon. If bag does not have a handle, punch or poke a hole in the bag and then tie the tag to bag.
Add tissue paper in the bag, insert your present, and give to someone special!
An alternative to this project: You could make any theme you wanted: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or any special occasion throughout the year. This project would also be great for a special someone’s birthday.
About the Crafter
Dawn Sorem teaches arts and crafts classes and she does private classes/parties for both children and adults. If you would like more information or to set up a time to have her do an art project for a group you can contact her at envelopcards@gmail.com. Dawn is also the owner and designer of Envelop Cards, you can view her latest designs and see a list of her upcoming classes at: www.envelopcards.com
