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These Giant DIY Greeting Cards Are Easy to Make!

Make these cute and easy GIANT DIY greeting cards! Yup. These are the extremely large cousins of your typical grocery store cards. Aren’t they a hoot?

Skills Required: None. You can make these, even if you’ve never crafted before! So easy that even kids can make them.

giant birthday cards

Maybe it’s just me, but there’s something super fun about seeing GIANT things. Hi! It’s Leslie from Pink Stripey Socks! Today I’m sharing a really neat series of GIANT greeting cards! Yup.

If you like making your own birthday cards, this is going to be fun for you.

These are the extremely large cousins of your typical grocery store cards. Aren’t they a hoot? They’re easy to make and sure to provide giggles and laughs all around!

Child holding a giant birthday card

They’re fun for kids or adults. I can see making these with kids of course, but I would have no hesitation making one for a friend or co-worker.

You can hand these out for birthday parties, baby showers, graduation, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day . . . wouldn’t a ring be fun for a bachelorette or wedding? They’re so cute and perfect for photo props.

They’re also a great idea for Earth Day since they’re a great way to recycle cardboard you have on hand. Ready to start? Ok! Let’s get crafting!

Giant Greeting Cards

Here are the materials you’ll need:

  • Clean corrugated cardboard
  • Pencil
  • Eraser
  • Scissors
  • Paintbrush
  • Craft paint

Alrighty, let’s make some GIANT greeting cards!

1. Print out images that you’d like to incorporate into your cards. You can use any kind of design – emojis are a fun place to start if you don’t have any ideas.

2. Sketch your images onto corrugated cardboard using a pencil. Then, cut them out with scissors.

Cutting shapes out of cardboard with scissors

3. Paint the images onto the cardboard with acrylic paint! (I found that I needed two layers of paint to get really vibrant colors).

Note: you can also paint or spray paint the cardboard white first to make painting easier.

Painting a big birthday card with acrylic paint

4. Once your paint dries, write a message on the back. Then, hand them out to coworkers, family members, classmates, and friends!

Messages written on the back of the giant card with a Sharpie

I hope you have a fun time crafting these GIANT greeting cards. If you have kids, I’m sure they’d love to dive on in and make some too!

DIY big birthday cards

If you’d like to get the printable how-to card for this project, you can grab it below.

Yield: 3 cards

Giant Greeting Cards

DIY big birthday cards

Learn how to make oversized greeting cards the easy way! Make these for Christmas, birthday, graduation, baby showers, and more.

Prep Time 30 minutes
Active Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Difficulty Easy
Estimated Cost $5

Materials

  • Clean Corrugated Cardboard
  • Craft Paint
  • Sharpies

Tools

  • Pencil
  • Eraser
  • Scissors
  • Paintbrush

Instructions

  1. Print out or design images that you’d like to incorporate into your cards.
  2. Sketch the images onto corrugated cardboard. Cut out with scissors.
  3. Paint the images on using craft paint. I found that I needed two layers of paint to get really vibrant colors.
  4. Once your paint dries, write a message on the back using the Sharpies. Then gift!

Notes

If you already have paint and cardboard on hand, this project can be free!

Did you make this project?

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If you liked these DIY greeting cards, let me know in the comments! You’ll also love these super easy kid-friendly posts and DIY gift ideas:

Nora

Saturday 16th of September 2023

These look so fun to make. I seriously can't wait to make them. Thanks for the fun Idea.

Amy

Saturday 16th of September 2023

Thanks for looking!

Laura / Pet Scribbles

Monday 31st of August 2015

Total cuteness!

Lisa

Thursday 16th of July 2015

These are amazing!

Paige

Tuesday 14th of July 2015

These cards are so fun! I love giving people obnoxiously large cards like this!

Paige https://www.thehappyflammily.com/

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