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Wonder Craft: A birthday card
Birthdays keep coming up; sometimes it’s a friend, a cousin, your mum or sometimes your classmate. There are also times when you don’t have a gift to present to them and that’s fine. What people usually remember is the effort.
A simple card, especially if it’s handmade, means more than anything expensive. Because it shows you made an effort just for them. So let’s make one today.
Things you need
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Cardboard (colour of your choice)
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An A-4-sized paper (colour of your choice)
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A piece of sketch paper
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Glue stick
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Ruler
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Pencil
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Colour markers
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Scissors
Directions
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On a piece of sketch paper, draw a doodle of a cat holding a cake (you can choose any character you like). The cat should be about two inches tall and one inch wide. See picture 2.
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Colour the cat, outline it neatly and add some highlights as shown in picture 3.
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On the cardboard, mark the size of the card you want to make. I made mine five inches long and five inches wide, so I adjusted the cat’s size to match the card; picture 4.
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After cutting out the card, measure two inches from the folded side and draw an arched door shape; picture 5.
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Cut out only the door shape on one side, making sure the folded edge stays intact. Then paste the coloured A4-sized paper on the front side of the card; picture 6.
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Cut a strip of paper one centimetre wide and three inches long; picture 7.
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Paste one end of the strip to the inside edge of the open door as shown in picture 8.
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Open the card and, leaving about one inch from the pasted side, stick the cat onto the strip; see picture 9.
(The idea is that when you open the door, the strip pulls forward and the cat holding the birthday cake pops out.)
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Close the door and write “OPEN” on it; picture 10.
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Write “Happy Birthday” either directly on the card or on a separate piece of paper. You can draw flowers or small doodles, and paste them on the front of the card; see pictures 11, 12 and 13.
The writer can be contacted at ithecraftman@gmail.com
Published in Dawn, Young World, February 14th, 2026
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