This document provides instructions for creating a Christmas card using the printable "Be the Artist: Jesus Is Born". The instructions include: 1. Choosing the size of the card and characters/symbols from the story to feature 2. Tracing the chosen characters onto paper and coloring them in 3. Cutting the cardstock to size and gluing the picture onto the front Optional extras include adding glitter, ribbons or decorative scissors. The finished card can be personalized with a greeting.

1. Create a Christmas Card
with “Be the Artist: Jesus Is Born”
You will need:
• A printout of “Be the Artist: Jesus Is
Born”
• Flat surface with good lighting
• Plain white paper (such as used for
photocopying or printouts, approxi-
mately 70 grams)
• Sharp pencil
• Eraser
• Colored pencils or marker
• Cardstock (white or colored)
• Scissors
• Glue
Optional items you can use:
• Ribbons
• Glitter
• Glitter glue
• Decorative edge scissors

2. Decide what size card you’d
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like to make.
Choose the Christmas
characters and sym-
2 bols you would like to
feature on the front of
your card. For example,
maybe you’d like to
picture Baby Jesus
and the animals in the
stable. Or perhaps
you would like to have
Baby Jesus with Mary
and Joseph with a few
animals, or maybe just
Baby Jesus and a star.
There are a variety of
ways you can design your card using “Be the Artist: Jesus Is Born.” See “Jesus
Is Born” if you’d like to recreate some of the settings featured in the story.
Place a piece
3 of regular paper
over the top of
the characters
and symbols you
wish to create,
and trace these
onto the paper,
matching up
the heads and
bodies, along
with the back-
ground pieces.
You can try prac-
ticing on a piece
of scrap paper
first, experiment-
ing until you get what you want. Now take a clean piece of paper
and trace your final picture.

3. Color the picture.
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Cut your cardstock to
size, and then cut out
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the picture and glue it
onto the cardstock to
make your card.
Alternative: Fold a piece of regular A4 paper into an A6 booklet. Unfold,
and then trace/draw your picture on the outer side of the bottom right,
which will be the front of your card when folded.

4. Optional: You can
use decorative edge
scissors to give a
patterned edge to
your picture before
gluing it on the card-
stock.
After you have glued
your picture to the
card, decorate your
card with glitter and
ribbons.
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If you’d like, you can trace
and color a symbol to put
on the inside of the card.
7 Add a greeting to the card, and you are ready to share more Christmas
cheer with others!
Concept and instructions by Didier Martin. Design by Christia Copeland.
Published by My Wonder Studio. Copyright © 2011 by The Family International

5. Merry
Christmas
2011