This document provides instructions and ideas for making Christmas cards to send to elderly residents in care homes to bring them joy during the holiday season. It discusses who to send cards to, includes tips for designing and making cards, suggests holiday messages and quotes to include, and recommends adding decorative elements and finishing touches to complete the cards. The overall goal is to help spread Christmas cheer and connect with loved ones who may feel isolated.

1. Why send a Christmas Card?

2. Who might you send a card to?
• How does it feel to receive a card?
• How will you choose a card?
• What would you put on the front of a
Christmas card?

3. Someone else to send a card to, this year.
Send some Christmas Cheer!
Christmas may be very different for
all of us, this year.
It may be especially difficult for
those unable to spend time with
friends and family.
Some people have not been in
contact with their loved ones for a
very long time.
Some people have not been able to
leave their homes for some time.

4. Someone else to send a card to, this year.
Send some Christmas Cheer!
Design and make a Christmas
card for an elderly Colchester
resident. Bring joy to people
living in Colchester’s care
homes.
Let someone know our
thoughts and good will are
with them, this Christmastime.

5. Some Ideas…
Equipment for card making:
Card
Paper, pencils and pens for decoration
Scissors and Glue

6. Print following 3 slides

7. Create effective designs by adding detail, pattern and
decorations to simple shapes such as baubles and
wreaths (circles), Trees (triangles) or dome shaped hats
and mittens

8. Create effective collage designs by layering paper. Use
the first shape as a template to get a neat, uniform
look. Layer smaller shapes for detail. Use 3-4 colours in
your scheme.

9. Try creating 3D cards.
1) Fold a piece of paper and draw half a shape e.g. a Christmas tree or a circle for a bauble,
along the crease.
2) Cut out your shape
3) Draw around your shape 2 or more times and cut out along outline
4) Fold all the new cut out shapes in half, like your first piece
5) Line up each piece along the fold lines and glue each shape together

10. Christmas Messages
• As you work, think about what
message you could write
Wishing you a very merry Christmas!
Thinking of you ☺
From, pupils at St. Helena School

11. Print following 3 slides

12. Short Quotes
• Joy to the World! Joy to the World
• ‘Tis the season! Deck the Halls
• Let it snow! Let It Snow
• Have a holly jolly Christmas
It’s the best time of the year Holly Jolly
Christmas
• I will honour Christmas in my
heart, and try to keep it all the
year. Charles Dickens
• May your days be merry and
bright White Christmas
• Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
• It’s the most wonderful time of the
year! It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
• Christmas is doing a little something
extra for someone. Charles M. Schulz
• Deck the Halls! Deck the Halls
• All is calm, All is bright Silent Night
• It is Christmas in the heart that puts
Christmas in the air. W.T. Ellis

13. Poem Quotes
• Peace on earth will come to stay
When we live Christmas every day Helen
Steiner Rice
• I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give! Carolyn Wells
• A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away;
While quite unselfish, it grows small. Eva K.
Logue
• A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of
love from someone near, A little gift from
one held dear, Best wishes for the coming
year… These make a Merry Christmas!
John Greenleaf Whittier
• Christmas is forever,
not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving,
are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel,
in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others
is good you do yourself. Norman W.
Brooks
• At Christmas play and make good
cheer, for Christmas comes but
once a year. Thomas Tusser
• May joy be yours today,
And radiantly abide
Within your heart until
Another Christmastide. Gail Brook Burket

14. Poem Quotes
• From Home to home, and heart to
heart,
From one place to another
The warmth and joy of Christmas
Brings us closer to each other. Emily
Matthews
• Somehow, not only for Christmas
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.
John Greenleaf Whittier
• Heap on more wood – the wind is
chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We’ll keep our Christmas merry
still. Sir Walter Scott
• Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine,
Love was born at Christmas,
Star and Angels gave the
sign Christina Rossetti
• I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to
men! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• A very Merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear. John Lennon and Yoko
Ono

15. Finishing touches
Add detail/ decorations to your trees/
baubles/ stockings etc
Cut thin strips of paper to make ribbons. You
could curl the strips too.
Decorate the inside and back of your card

16. Friendly
• Mankind is a great, an immense
family. This is proved by what we
feel in our hearts at Christmas. Pope
John XXIII
• Remember, George: No man is a
failure who has friends. It’s a Wonderful
Life
• The joy of brightening other lives,
bearing each others’ burdens,
easing other’s loads and
supplanting empty hearts and lives
with generous gifts becomes for us
the magic of Christmas. W.C. Jones
• Wouldn’t life be worth the living
Wouldn’t dreams be coming true
If we kept the Christmas spirit
All the whole year through? Unknown
• May you have the gladness of
Christmas which is hope; the spirit
of Christmas which is peace; the
heart of Christmas which is love.
Ada V. Hendricks
• This is the message of Christmas:
We are never alone. Taylor Caldwell

17. Friendly
• I have always thought of
Christmas time, when it has
come round, as a good time; a
kind, forgiving, charitable time;
the only time I know of, in the
long calendar of the year, when
men and women seem by one
consent to open their shut-up
hearts freely, and to think of
people below them as if they
really were fellow passengers to
the grave, and not another race
of creatures bound on other
journeys. Charles Dickens
• Christmas is the season for
kindling the fire of hospitality in
the hall, the genial flame of
charity in the heart. Washington Irving
• My idea of Christmas, whether
old-fashioned or modern, is very
simple: loving others. Come to
think of it, why do we have to
wait for Christmas to do that?
Bob Hope
• Remember This December,
That love weighs more than
gold! Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon