Flash Cards

Hello!

This is one of the projects that I was asked to do this past week, and got sidetracked with!!  My sister in law asked me to make 'sight words' flash cards for her kindergarten class over two years ago.  This was pre-cricut for me, so I just printed them on the computer.  She asked me again this week to make her two sets for her daughter who is in preschool (these sight words are for the kindergarten curriculum)  Of course, I had to make  them cuter than just normal flash cards....I do have a CRICUT now, and they're for my niece!  So I took normal white index cards that measured 4"x5" and used various patterned papers that I thought were cute.  I then used the Mickey Font Crucit Cartridge for all the words.  I liked that it was a bold font, a good one for flash cards!!  With the patterned papers, I had to keep in mind that they couldn't be too distracting from the sight word.

 

I then laminated them using my Your Story machine. (love that thing!)  I organized them into groups of 25 (for each quarter of the school year.)  Then I made a cover for each set of 25.  I used the Makin' The Grade cricut cartridge for the apples with the numbers, colored the leaf on them, and used Mickey Font again for the "sight words" title.  I used my Bind-It-All to bind them together. I think they turned out cute!!

The apple paper is from an All Seasons stack from the Paper Studio.  The apple paper was found in the 'back to school' section.  I again wanted something simple, and cute.  here is a picture of the front and back covers:

For set #2, this set she wanted to place various words around the house so my niece can see them on a daily basis.  For these, I wanted to make them something 'fun' to look at.  My niece LOVES mickey.  Her whole family loves everything Mickey, so I made the flash cards out of Mickey heads!!!

The mickey head is also from the Mickey Font Cricut Cartridge.  I used the San Serif Font cartridge for the words on this one because the Mickey heads are smaller, so the words couldn't be as 'fat.'  San Serif offered a thinner letter, that is still bold at the same time.

 I made these double sided.  The first 50 is on one side while the last 50 is on the backs.  That way there weren't so many of them!  With these being three layers of good quality cardstock, the completed cards feel like chipboard!

I also laminated them (pictures were taken before this,) and punched a hole using my cropadile in one of mickey's ears, and put them on a jump ring for safe keeping.  That way, my sister-in-law can take off the words they want to work on that week, and keep the rest all together! 

I hope my sister in law and niece like them, and have many hours of fun learning!!

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my project!!

-Lori