This Puppy Ears Card is an adorable card that is easy to make and a delight to open! Kids will love making and giving this fun 3D pop up card. Drop it in the mail, and it is double the delight for a kid who likes to get their own mail!
If you are looking for other kids’ crafts. You might like these paper towel butterflies.
Puppy Ears Card
Let’s make a silly, flappity-eared puppy card that has a tongue pull tab! It’s just the thing to make to say Hi to friends you miss, or just give to someone who could use some puppy love. Are you ready?
First things first. Gather your materials! You need:
- Letter-sized sheets of white, blue, yellow, orange and red card stock
- Scraps of white and black paper
- Tacky Glue
- Scissors and/or craft knife (Remember the craft knife is sharp! Be careful!)
- Circle punches in 1 inch and 5/8 inch sizes
- Ruler
- This Puppy PDF
- Printer
Get Started:
1) Download the PDF template, open it, and follow the directions on the template to print on your card stock.
2) Score and cut out all the pieces as directed on the template. I use a
ruler and the back of my craft knife* (not the sharp side) to score. You
can also use a table knife to score. Keep the extra uncut pieces to make a card
in opposite colors later!
*Get a grown-up involved if you are using a craft knife. It’s sharp!
3) Cut the white piece of card stock in half so that you have two pieces
that are 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Fold them in half. You’ll use one for this
card and have an extra to make another card later.
4) Glue the tongue to the earpiece. Note the writing is facing up on the ears and facing down on the tongue.
5) Glue the semicircle to the bottom of the blue piece, flush with the bottom edge. Note the text is face down on both pieces.
6) Feed the tongue through the slit from the back.
7) Put glue only on the top and sides of the text side of the head and center it flush against the top edge of the blue.
8) Punch two white 1-inch circles and two black 5/8 inch circles. Make eyes by gluing the black onto the white. Then glue the completed eyes on, being sure they are in a spot that is hidden by the ears when they are folded down.
9) Use a template piece to trace a nose on black paper with a pencil. Cut it out and glue to the face.
10) Fold over the blue side flaps toward the back and crease them well.
11) Add glue to the back side of
each flap, then glue to the front of the card you made in step 3. It’s easier to add the card to the back of the puppy instead of the other way round, but be sure you have the card opening on the correct side.
12) Open the card and fold over the yellow flap between the ears and glue it to the inside cover of the card.
13) Test the ear action! Pull the tongue down and watch the ears flip up! Push the tongue back inside and the ears can fold back down.
14) Using a gel pen or thin magic marker (not a permanent marker – those may bleed through
your paper), add the word “PULL” to the lower part of the tongue that shows
when the ears are laying down. Add a message to the inside of the ears if you like, for example:
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It’s a funny idea. I’ll make for my son.
Thanks for sharing.
Kisses from Barcelona
My 5 yr old daughter and I just made this for a friend’s birthday. To make it more feminine, we used light and dark pink paper instead of orange and yellow and added purple hairbows (making sure they were far enough down that they didn’t get stuck when the tongue was pulled). Thanks for the idea! I love it!
My granddaughter age 7 and I made this while she was staying with us this summer. What fun. Thanks for the idea , template and instructions.
Oooh thank you!! My sis’s kids will love this! Thank you!!! Xxx
superbe carte animée; je vous remercie pour les explications.
I was looking for a little something extra to put in my best friends birthday bag and found this on the web site, I love it! i made it with different colors than they had on the site, but it still came out amazing:) Thanks so much>>>
This is a great card. Mt great nephue will love it for his birthday.
That is cute as cute can be. It would tickle me to get a card like that.
I cannot seem to download the template that goes with this card — love the idea. Please help.
What a wonderfully cute puppy. Thanks so much for sharing this great card!
So cute…I can’t stop looking at him! hugs, mb
Oh my that’s the cutest little puppy card! Can’t wait to make it with my munchkin!
So cute!
This is so cute! I’m going to make some of these for child birthday cards.
So cute! My son would love this.