Make your own cards for your family and friends with these festive nature-themed ideas.
Christmas card template
Print this template to decorate:
template
Capture a winter woodland
Decorate your Christmas card
with a winter scene from your
favourite woodland.
- take a photo
- draw a picture
- paint a landscape
- make a collage
You could even collect natural treasure that's fallen to the
woodland floor and turn your
Christmas card into a festive
keepsake.
Let it snow! 
Some parts of the country have had snow
this week, have you?
Give your Christmas card a sparkly,
snowy feel with these tips:
- add texture by sticking fluffy cotton wool on your picture - it looks just like a blanket of freshly fallen snow
- use glitter to create an icy, frosty effect
- for a light dusting of snow sprinkle icing sugar or flour on your card
Colouring outlines
Turn these colouring outlines into Christmas cards - print and decorate them, then cut out the pictures and write messages on the back :O)
robin
holly
Christmas tree
pine cone
Scratch art
Turn your Christmas card into a scratch art masterpiece!
- use coloured pencils to draw
a colourful pattern on the
front of your Christmas card
template
- then colour over your picture
with a wax crayon (black
usually works best to
completely cover what's
underneath)
- finally, use a pen lid or a
spoon handle to scratch a
design into the wax crayon
- as you scratch away the
pattern underneath will be
revealed creating a really cool
picture
You could even leave it blank and let the person you're giving the card to create their own design.
Thanks to work experience student Katie Nott for creating this brilliant festive example of scratch art :O)
Send us a card
We'd love to recieve some hand-made Christmas cards from CLUB members to brighten up nature detectives HQ!
Post yours to:
Danielle and Bev
nature detectives
The Woodland Trust
Kempton Way
Grantham
NG31 6LL
Or email us a festive greeting:
naturedetectives@woodlandtrust.org.uk