Easy Christmas Craft using old cards

This is one a child did two or three years ago. These can be as fancy or as easy as you like. Some of ours look very Victorian, done neatly with ribbons, lace, tastefully added trimming of glitter or buttons, and nicely outlined in gold.
We spraypaint the backs of the cards gold (red or green also work, of course). Begin decorating after the paint has dried. We also like to fold some of them into fans, trim the end of the fan you would hold with ribbon and lace, maybe a large bauble, and then hang from the tree. These look authentically Victorian.

Another pretty use of old Christmas cards is to fold them into boxes. I'll add pictures to this post by tomorrow sometime. I like to use these little boxes to trim packages, to hang from the tree, and to stack up in the dollhouse.

Below are some websites that show you how to make the Christmas card boxes:
Look around at other ideas on this site- they have some fun ones!
The directions on this page may be clearer for some readers.
This is probably the easiest variation, although I prefer those held together by folds rather than tape.

Fold small card boxes (cut down cards to size for really little boxes), trim with a shiny ribbon and the pickiest of mothers will not be ashamed to hang these on the prettiest of trees. I'm not a picky mother- I let my children trim our tree with cardboard and construction paper if that's what they like, but I know some people really only like their tree to be trimmed with ornaments that don't look too pasted together. These little boxes help bridge the gap between a child's desire to make stuff for the tree and a Perfectionist Parent's desire to have the tree look 'just right.'