Pop Art is a great genre of art for kids because it has many comic-book themes. For this project, use action words like BAM!” or POW!” to add comic-book action to your Pop Art card. Feel free to even draw your own comic strip on your card. These cards make great gifts and are easy to customize. Kids can add their own pop-out images to cards using the pipe cleaner technique. Some of my students drew superheroes, spelled out their name, and added speech bubbles to their Pop Art Cards. Enjoy making your cards really pop!

Difficulty level: Beginner
Time required: 10 minutes
Age range: 8+

Things you’ll need:
Construction paper (2 colors)
Scissors
Foam letters
Pipe cleaners
Ruler
Pen
Tape
Cup (to trace a circle)

Things to do:
1. Fold one piece of construction paper in half to make your card.
2. Take your other piece of construction paper and trace a circle using your cup.3. Draw dots around your circle at different lengths from the circle.
4. Use your ruler to connect the edge of your circle to one point.
5. Use your ruler to connect that point to the edge of your circle, making a pointy spike coming from the edge of your circle.
6. Continue to make more spikes around your circle with the other points.
7. Cut out your spikey circle.
8. Flip over your spikey circle speech bubble so that all the pen markings are on the back.
9. Select which letters you would like to put on your speech bubble and stick them the way you want.
10. Wrap your pipecleaner all the way around your finger to make your pop-out spring.
11. Tape one end of your spring to back side of the speech bubble and one end to your card.
12. To put your card in an envelope, simply press your spring down and slide the whole card into the envelope.