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Easy DIY Recipe Card Holders for Kids and Adults Alike (for about 20¢ each)

March 1, 2016 by Laura 5 Comments

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Oh my goodness, I could make these recipe card holder clips all day long.

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This is a craft just about anyone of any age can make and enjoy. If you’re like me and love crafts but your creations look like a pre-schooler made them without help – be very relieved and excited about what I’m about to show you. You need:

  • Binder Clips 1-1/4 width or bigger
  • Small Scraps of Scrapbook Paper
  • Glue Stick

Seriously, a glue stick. Everyone leave the hot glue gun and the whateveryouneedfordecoupage in the cupboard. We’re gluing scraps of paper onto paper clips with a glue stick. Dude, if we have to we can even use safety scissors. That’s how basic this craft is.

recipe card holder5

As you can see, I get as excited about easy crafts as I get nauseous about difficult ones. (And by difficult, I mean everything recommended for elementary on up.)

I believe the instructions for making these are self-explanatory as you look at the pictures, but to make life even easier for you, I will detail the steps for creation below:

Easy DIY Recipe Card Holder

  1. Cut scraps of paper (cardstock, scrapbook paper, construction paper, or paper you’ve decorated yourself) into pieces that fit the binder clips you are using. We made our card holders from 1 1/4″ by 5/8″ clips, so that’s the size I cut my paper scraps.
  2. See? This is a no-brainer.
  3. Use a glue stick to attach the paper to the clip.
  4. There is no fourth step. Your thirty second craft is complete.
  5. Make more than one though because once you start you probably won’t be able to stop.

Easy DIY Recipe Card Holder

Beyond Recipes

These card holders might be fun to give to grandparents with your child’s picture tucked into the clip. Or have your child draw a picture to put in the clip for his/her teacher. And what a fun way to display scripture cards around your house!

Recipe Card Holders For Kids

What I love most about using these clips to hold recipes is that for young cooks – having the recipe stand up makes for easier viewing than if the recipe is lying flat on the counter-top. And not that we ever spill anything while we’re cooking, but just in case that would ever happen, this is a great way to keep the recipes from getting slopped on.

We printed Malachi’s Favorite Cookbook and cut each recipe into easy-to-read cards. Now when he makes his favorites, he chooses a clip and slides in the recipe. It’s a fantastic system!

malachis recipes in holders

Have fun making these on your own or with your kids!

If you aren’t motivated to get your kids into the kitchen by now…well, I will keep working on ya. ;) Teaching our kids to cook is just like anything else: sometimes it seems easier to do the work ourselves instead of working a little harder for a moment to teach our kids to do the job. But trust me when I say that it is worth the effort it takes to equip our kids with cooking skills! Make the decision, and get those kids into the kitchen with you! It will change your life and theirs!

You can use Katie’s Kids Cook Real Food eCourse as a springboard. Malachi has been more eager to learn about cooking through these videos than he ever was when I merely encouraged him to put together recipes or crack eggs beside me. For me, he’s been, “Eew, I hate cracking eggs.” But then he watches a cooking video and he’s like, “Yeah. I’ve got this.” And he DOES.

Coming up tomorrow: Kid Friendly Pizza Pie Recipe. Have you and your kids tried making the Tootsie Rolls yet?

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Filed Under: Kids in the Kitchen, Things to Make Tagged With: easy craft, recipe cards, recipe holder

Comments

  1. Sophie says

    March 1, 2016 at 10:56 pm

    I bet you could use Washi tape for this too! Then you wouldn’t even have to cut paper to size and glue it, you just cut the tape and stick o_O Love the simplicity of this recipe card holder idea!

    Reply
  2. Donna says

    March 2, 2016 at 8:26 am

    These would also make cute place card holders when you decorate your table for a special occasion……., simple idea with LOTS of different applications. Love it!

    Reply
  3. Anna Chan says

    March 2, 2016 at 9:46 am

    Oh my gosh, Laura, these are brilliant! My husband is an attorney and the one thing we have around here is an unending supply of binder clips in every size available.

    Reply
  4. Joy says

    March 2, 2016 at 10:25 am

    My daughter wants to make some to add to birthday gifts for her friends!

    Reply
  5. Ruthie says

    March 5, 2016 at 12:40 pm

    This is a great idea, but I am beyond lazy. I didn’t even decorate mine! :-) Just opened up the clip and used it with the metal exposed. (gasp!) LOL! Thanks, Laura!

    Reply

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