How to make greeting cards for the elderly?

A greeting card is a kind of card that people greet each other when they meet a holiday date or event. There are usually some words of blessing on greeting cards.

1. First, fold A3 cardboard in half as a greeting card.

2. Then cut a circle with a diameter of 8.6 cm, fold it in half and cut it into a semicircle. Stick a semicircle on the bottom of the greeting card as grandpa's body part.

3. Then cut a circle with a diameter of 9 cm and stick it on the semicircle of the body as the head. This color is easy to choose, just close to people's skin color, light yellow, beige, light brown and so on.

4. Continue to cut out two circular white or brown pieces of paper with a diameter of 5.5 cm, fold them in half and stick them on the top of your head as hair.

5. gawk and cut 2 pieces of white paper with a diameter of 3 cm. Fold in half and stick the arc outward on both sides of the head as ears. Ears can be the same color as the head.

6. Cut two white circular pieces of paper with a diameter of 2.5 cm and stick them in the middle as eyes.

7. Then cut two black circular pieces of paper slightly smaller than the eyes, with a diameter of 2 cm, and stick them in the middle of the eyes as eyeballs.

8. Then cut off a semicircle with a skin diameter of 2.7 cm, and choose red to stick under your eyes as your mouth.

9. Cut two white circular pieces of paper with a diameter of 2 cm, fold them in half and stick them on the corners of both sides as beards.

10. After the cover is completed, the inner page is slightly decorated. As shown in the picture, stick a piece of blue paper as decoration, and then stick a few pieces of red paper to cut into hearts and hang them below.

1 1. The handmade greeting card for grandpa is ready.

The origin of greeting cards

Emperor Taizong greeted the ministers with greeting cards. Every Spring Festival and Spring Festival, from the head of state to ordinary people, he has the habit of sending greeting cards to relatives and friends. When did the greeting card, a special blessing medium, come into being, why has it spread so far, and what kind of development and changes have it experienced?

China's traditional culture attaches great importance to "ceremony", which was once the essence of China culture. Many contents in etiquette are expressed through forms, such as greeting cards. Giving greeting cards before important personal activities or public holidays is solemn in form on the one hand, and convenient for both parties to inform each other in advance on the other. So since the Han Dynasty, greeting cards have been preserved as a traditional form, but the name has changed.