To Ruin Card Making
More often, in as much as we want to give our friend or loved-ones a personalized card, our time does not permit us to do so. We are almost always pre-occupied with so many things that even during weekends we can’t take time to think about making and designing a handmade card ourselves. We could not even find time to sit down and think about the personalized message that we should tell our friend or loved-ones on this special day.
All along, we always have this notion that card making is never worth it. We are always made to believe after one of our primary or secondary teacher way back grade school or high school forced us into doing something that we detest the most, a card making activity. A card making activity is the common denominator in every primary and secondary educational institution. Almost all of us was once forced to make a card, once upon a time. For a large majority of us, it is not really a good experience. Most of us loathe the fact that we have to squeeze the creative juices out of our brain and forcibly think of a message just so we could come up with a pretty decent message.
But this is not how children and even adults should know and remember making cards for the rest of their lives. Sure, a card making activity indeed could develop the many facets of the developing brain. It could hone the child’s creative, writing skills and even his or her resourcefulness. But have we ever realized that when we force children to embarking into a craft project like card making, we are indeed ruining it for them. We are giving them the wrong impression about this wonderful art of expressing our feelings and emotions creatively through pen, paper and many more.
Card making should be introduced to children in a very swift manner as possible. It should not be something as forced or something that we should work on in a deadline. We should never fail to teach children that personalized cards should be made with a heart. We should work on a cardmaking project with love. The single and most important factor that cuts a personalized card above the rest is the fact that is made by you and that you are thinking of the recipient of this card at the very time that you are working on the card.
-By: Michelle Anne Leah Custodio
Visit Paper Mill Direct to know more about Card.
