Scary Mouth Pop-up Card - Arts, Crafts and DIY

52 Comments

Make a Mouth Pop-up Card. When you open the card, the mouth opens! You can make your card look like a bird, a shark, or a big-mouth monster. This is a very easy project and a lot of fun.

Material

2 A4 coloured paper (card-stock works great)
glue
scissors
crayons and/or markers

Method

Fold a piece of paper in half. Cut a line about 2 inches long (5 cm) about the middle of the crease.
Fold back each of the flaps to make 2 triangles. Open up the card, lay it down like a V. Push one of the triangles up and pinch the edged together above the card. Repeat with the other triangle.
Close the card and push down on the folds to make them well-creased. When opened, you have a pop-up mouth.
Fold another piece of paper in half (a different colour looks great). Glue this new card to the outside of your pop-up card. Don't glue near the mouth area or it won't open! Let the glue dry.
Draw a scary animal around the mouth and finish decorating your card.

Notes

For variations on this card, don't cut a straight line - cut a wavy line or a zigzag for scary teeth. You can even make more than one mouth for 2 monsters or a two-headed monster. This pop-up area also looks a lot like a bird's beak or a shark's mouth.

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- kjgarner
- 26 Mar 2014
  9:02 pm

52 Comments

- - mom465683 said
  - 30 Jun 2022
    8:02 pm
Doesn’t look scary at all. Kinda cute.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 15 Oct 2020
    2:41 pm
Or you could make it a happy one. Either way very cool

- - MrsA said
  - 11 Jan 2019
    8:04 pm
How simple and clever! My son is too young for the scary one but a bird sounds fun.

- - mom111059 said
  - 21 Jun 2018
    1:20 pm
Halloween invitation perhaps? Thanks for the project.

- - mom111059 said
  - 19 Jun 2018
    11:03 am
Aaarg so scary but fun for the kids. Thanks.

- - mom112217 said
  - 04 May 2017
    2:35 pm
Love the card,very scary!

- - mom109229 said
  - 28 Sep 2015
    9:07 pm
Very cute and fun! Thanks for sharing.

- - dannsbuild said
  - 20 Sep 2015
    11:03 pm
Really great idea! Thanks for sharing this!

- - Kell said
  - 22 Jun 2015
    4:43 pm
Thanks for sharing, this looks like so much fun!

- - mom93821 said
  - 16 Jan 2015
    9:45 pm
Thanks again for this idea; lots of fun!

- - mom57522 said
  - 13 Jan 2015
    9:46 pm
We love making our own cards.

- - mom94125 said
  - 01 Nov 2014
    12:45 pm
you can also make it into a chicken or duck
- mom94125 replied
  
  07 Oct 2015 , 11:24 pm
  cheers. great to get the imagination working here for sure
- - mom93821 said
  - 05 Oct 2014
    8:27 am
Love this creative card. Lots of fun, time to let little imaginations run wild!

- - jade2 said
  - 10 Sep 2014
    8:26 am
Wonderful idea for the kids.

- - mom57522 said
  - 04 Aug 2014
    8:46 pm
Something a bit different for the homemade cards.

- - ginoula5 said
  - 04 Aug 2014
    10:17 am
what a great idea, ideas are endless for the mouth and animal to make, thanks for sharing

- - no1ladydj said
  - 23 Jun 2014
    11:34 pm
This is a very clever way to keep little hands busy, and encourage them to use their imagination and creativity. The are a lot of kids who’d love to make something like this as a personalized card for someone’s birthday. Much better than a shop-bought card.

- - kazh said
  - 31 May 2014
    12:21 am
My kids would love these!

- - scottie said
  - 24 May 2014
    8:56 pm
You could do so many different variations

- - caramello said
  - 23 May 2014
    12:48 pm
looks good, thanks for sharing