Okay, I may be exaggerating a tiny bit. I didn’t exactly compile 14,000 projects, but would you really want that many to sift through, anyway?
Although there probably are at least that many projects you can make with blank index cards, I came up with 10 good, solid activities to begin with. We love blank index cards almost as much as printer paper for quick projects, and the scale and weight of the cards makes them perfect for experimenting with different media, brainstorming ideas, messing up, starting over, playing, and feeling confident because of the small size.
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1. Doodle on the cards. Here we broke out the Ultra-fine point Sharpies, drew lines intersecting each other over the entire card, and then doodled to our hearts’ content in the resulting shapes. These 3×5 cards are the perfect size for involved projects like this one.
2. Index card sculpture! Cut them, bend them, fold them, glue them all over a larger piece of colored card stock.
3. Sharpie tie-dye: Draw circles on the cards with Sharpies (we used fine point), then drip rubbing alcohol on them; set aside to dry. The purple one has more alcohol dripped on it than the green one.
4. Just grab a small stack of these and staple them together for an instant mini-book. You know kids can’t resist the mini-book; they’ll fill them with stories, drawings, and stickers for hours.
5. Silhouettes– instead of cutting out the black paper and mounting it on white, we cut out silhouettes from the index cards and mounted them on black. Draw them first with pencil, or have fun by cutting free-hand silhouettes.
6. I found this awesome idea in the new Martha Stewart’s Favorite Crafts for Kids book, and we broke into the striped paper straws for extra coolness. Just cut the straws down to smaller pieces, snip slits in the straws, and use folded cards to create an architectural masterpiece.
7. Practice those watercolor techniques! Each little card is the perfect size to mess around with a new idea. The two outer cards are wet watercolor dripped onto wet watercolor. The middle is the salt-technique.
8. But, wait! We couldn’t stop there… if you cut each card into 4 strips the long way, and tape the ends of 5 strips together, you can weave other strips through.
We just trimmed up the edges to make a square. Now that I look at this, I bet you could slap a couple coats of Mod Podge on for some sweet coasters.
9. We couldn’t resist breaking out my favorite wax sticks from Wax Works and having another go. Again, the size of the card made this a tolerable-and-stillcool-looking project. Just break off a bit off wax, form it into a ball between your fingers, and smoosh it on the card.
I’m finding it hard to find the correct product online- I bought these at Blick, but they aren’t showing the right ones anymore. I think I’ve seen them at Michaels, if you have one of those nearby… Otherwise, here’s a link to the Chenille Craft site where they show the exact product. We used the Hot (neon) colors, with a few of the bright ones mixed in.
10. Spiralize the cards- cut some strips and wrap them around pencils. We used colored pencils, since they are actually round, unlike writing pencils. We covered the card with a layer of Mod Podge, and that did the trick to hold the spirals on.
Remember our way-cool staple project? We used index cards for that one, too. Need some supplies? Amazon has most of what you’ll need.
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Love, love, LOVE these! The wax looks like a lot of fun to work with and the doodles make me smile! I use index cards for garlands all the time and they also came to the rescue when I nannied back in the day. We made exquisite corpse creatures to go and also a favorite doodle project. I’ll be adding these to the mix next time I’m hanging out with kiddos! Not spam, I promise…can’t link up the project but it’s called index cards to the rescue on scrumdilly-do!
Off to check it out! Garlands are such a great idea for these- as are exquisite corpses (I always have a tough time spelling exquisite. eqzxquisite.
What a bunch of great ideas. Perfect for what I need.We started our summer art camp and I am looking of a bunch of these kind of ideas to do with at certain points in the day.
What I would add to your activities is after doing a bunch of the activities I will have the kids cut out some of those cards into pieces and paste them onto a larger piece of maybe black paper to showcase all the activities. It is truly a wonderful batch of ideas.
That’s a great idea, Faigie. I love the recycling art projects to make a new art project idea!
OMG, you are so creative. I love all your ideas. We did none of them except for the little stapled book. I love those. I’ll have to get a stack of index cards and use this post to do more art projects. You are a creative genius!
You are really sweet, you know that? The little stapled books are good- you can make millions of them!
This is brilliant! You have me wanting to go out and buy a pack of index cards right now!
Ya-hoo! Throw them onto your list. I bet you’ll find tons more cool things to do with them…
I love the different ways of using the index cards!! I think my favorite is the spiral method . . . love the 3D effect! 🙂
The spirals were really fun- I really liked the 3-d as well, and I think we need to play with that sort of thing more….!
These look like lots more fun than using them for flash cards!
Especially love the mini books, nice and durable!
Can’t wait to try some of these awesome projects out with my kidos thanks for sharing
Of course! Thanks for your comment. Hope you all have fun!
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