Canva is a great tool that can be used in many ways. For this art activity, I have used it to design cards.

I typically make my cards from a blank flyer format page and add in the rectangle border and center line but I believe there is also a specific card making template to use if you don’t want to have to fiddle with it too much.

———————————————BIRTHDAY———————————————–

I made this card for a friends birthday.

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This one was for my cousin’s daughter’s 3rd birthday that was dino-themed.

—————————————— THANK YOU ——————————————–

Again we have dinos, but this one was for a friend (in her 20s) who helped me with a home project.

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I made this one for a teacher and her class who had invited myself and some of my coworkers in to run a drama/puppet activity with the class.

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This one was for a sports and rec program leader I worked with back home over the summer.

————————————– MERRY CHRISTMAS————————————–

I screen recorded myself making this next card. It took me a little over 10 minutes but I have slightly shortened it, still I do recommend watching at 1.5 or 2 speed because its still kind of long.

The final product!

Admittedly making vertical cards can be tricky the way I did it and involves a lot of dramatic head turning but it still ends up pretty nice.

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This is a great activity to introduce to students because it gets them thinking about art in a digital format but it is still very easy to understand and accessible. You could very easily have the kids design a card or poster and print them out as a fun memento. You could run this as a 15 minute activity or as long as you want because there is so much fun stuff on Canva that it could keep the students invested for an extended period of time.

I hope you found this interesting and give Canva designing a go!

Au revoir,

-Kristen