Make a We Three Kings Christmas Card

Why not have a go at making this easy handmade Christmas card with the Three Wise Men following the star to bring their precious gifts to the baby Jesus?

It's quick to do and you can even use up scraps of paper for a great recycling idea, so you do not need to buy anything especially.

You will need:

A5 sized card
paper for sand dunes, such as a recycled brown envelope
patterned paper
glue stick
gold or silver card or paper
scissors
ruler
pencil
white paper or card

What you do:

Write a Christmas message of your choice inside the card.
Cut two sand dune shapes to go along the bottom of your card. Make them overlap across the bottom of the card and cut wavy lines across the top for a sand dune look.
Stick your sand dunes down onto a dark blue card which will look like the night sky. Now create the three kings.
Make a template that you will be able to cut round to create the kings' cloaks. Draw a right-angled triangle that is around 5cm tall and 4cm along the bottom.
Now draw gentle curves, one inside the triangle and one outside the longest edge as shown in the photograph. Cut out the cloak shape.
Using three different kinds of patterned paper, wrapping paper or brightly coloured plain paper, cut out three cloaks. Remember that all your kings need to face the same way when you cut them out.
Stick the cloak shapes onto the sand dunes in a row.
Use some flesh coloured or white paper to cut three head shapes. These can be rough circles or ovals. If you need help cutting them, try drawing around a penny first. Stick the heads on top of the cloaks.
Cut three crown shapes from gold paper and stick them on top of the kings' heads so it looks like they are all walking along.
Cut gifts from more scraps of patterned paper or gold card. Make each gift a different shape and decorate them differently if you like. Stick your gifts on so it looks like the kings are carrying them.
Add the finishing touch with a star sticker in the top corner, so the kings are being led to Bethlehem.