VIDEO: Make your own animated Christmas cards with music

The traditional way of sending Christmas cards is nice. If these are then also designed by yourself and provided with a musical greeting, the joy for the recipient is particularly great.

Folded cards with music - the music module 

There are different ways of building music into a self-made folding card. A music card contains a small electronic module with a storage medium on which the melody is stored. This is integrated into the map and is played when you open it.

• It is easiest if you buy such a module complete with a suitable song. You can get self-adhesive variants in online shops as well as in larger craft stores.
• It becomes more demanding when your animated Christmas cards are to play their own text or song. For this purpose, there are small recording units that you can record in electronics stores or on the Internet. They promise easy recording at the push of a button, contain the storage medium, a microphone and can be played on as often as you like and can also be listened to as often as you like. However, you have to limit yourself to ten seconds of text or music. You should certainly not expect the best sound quality from these variants. In this way, however, individuality is guaranteed. These modules are also simply glued into the folding card.
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• If you can neither find a suitable melody as a craft module nor do you want to play one yourself, you can try a third variant. Just browse through the finished items in the Advent season cards. At this time the selection is certainly greatest. Buy a finished card and carefully separate out the part that will play the music. This is also how you come to the handicraft element to design your own card with melody yourself.


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• Now that you have your melody for the card, it's time to start creating. Here you can let your imagination run wild. Use painted pictures or photos, pretty motifs that you cut out and glue on, or natural materials such as pressed flowers and grass. Colorful drawing cardboard, different cardboard, handmade variants or decorative paper - animated Christmas cards can have many faces. It is only important that you make a card that can be opened and closed.
• It is sure to be something very special when the grandson makes a card for grandma and grandpa. Record a very small poem that your child speaks or a short section of a song that he sings. Then let your child paint or design a card themselves. Help as best you can. Such a map doesn't have to be perfect. But it only exists once.
• If you don't have that much time and patience, resort to ready-made melodies, buy a passepartout card, and just use a photo of your choice. The photo and the module for the music are glued in quickly, but your card is still individually designed.