Going Green Tip #4: Christmas Cards

For those of you sending Christmas cards (or holiday cards or New Year’s cards– whatever you may call them), there’s an easy way to green them up and help reduce the amount of paper in your recycling bin.

Use the cards you received last year.

Pretty simple, huh? EcoKid and I have been hard at work cutting, glueing, and piecing together cards we saved from last Christmas. EcoKid has really enjoyed using scissors, though she hasn’t gotten the hang of the quite yet.

We’ve been dazzling them up with glitter and stickers (because EcoKid has a mild sticker addiction and no craft is complete without slapping a sticky bit on it…)