Make your own party invitations or cards

October 8, 6:23 PMEarly Childhood Parenting ExaminerAngele Sionna

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Make your own invites or cards with cardstock & stickers.

Want to add a personal touch to your Halloween party invites or Halloween cards? Make your own with some stickers and card stock.

This is so simple and the kids will love it:

• Buy card stock (for a "green" card, consider recycled paper cardstock)
• Cut each piece into four parts. These should be perfect size for postcards... which mean they need less postage (only 27 cents to mail instead of 42 cents) and waste less paper.
• If you have a computer program like PhotoShop, you could pre-print the cardstock before cutting the paper with a message like, "Happy Halloween From The Andersons" with your page divided into four equal parts with the message centered in each section.
• Let your child add stickers to one side of the postcard. You can draw on them too. This can be done horizontally or vertically.
• For really babies and toddlers, you could use a non-toxic orange or black fingerpaint and let them doodle on the paper. Let it dry and add the stickers to dress up the doddles. 
• To add a special touch, and make these fast and easy, consider using the classy pre-printed stickers from the stationary website FelixDoolittle.com (see photos). They have several fun Halloween designs and can print a message plus your family's or children's names on them.
• On the other side of the postcard, you can write a message about your party or just wishing a Happy Halloween. Be sure you write on this side with the paper horizontally for proper post office delivery and leave room for the receiver's address and a stamp.

We made these as Halloween cards to send to relatives. We're also going to give one to all of our neighbors!

A slight variation to this is to take a photo of your children dressed in their costumes and have them printed on 4x6 paper at your favorite photo development center, just flip it over and write a Halloween message (or use one of the Felix Doolittle stickers I mentioned above in the message section), then address it, add postage and you're done!

You can do this for any occassion including baby announcements, birthday parties, Christmas cards, you name it. No need to spend extra money on postage or fancy cards anymore!

I actually made postcards like this and used them as RSVP cards for my wedding with an illustration of where we were getting married on the front side and the back side pre-printed with the relevant info. I got lots of compliments on them.