Make Personalized Playing Cards

Use your favorite portraits of family members or snap new photos to create a custom deck of cards for your child to enjoy. They will love playing classic card games with the faces they treasure most.

Crafting your own 36 card deck is easy and fun. The only difficult part is decidng which pictures to use! This simple project will be done quickly, leaving you plenty of time to enjoy playing Memory, Go Fish and Old Maid with your preschooler. Allow your child to set the pace for fun and watch their little faces glow when they master matching skills, and expand their ability to concentrate while playing with a deck of cards made just for them.

What you will need for this project:

• 18 different digital photographs of family members, friends and favorite pets.
• Con-Tact Paper or other adhesive decorative paper for the back design of cards
• Cutting mat or safe cutting surface
• X-Acto knife or scissors
• Ruler (metal edged is easiest)
• Laminating supplies (optional)

Design Your Deck

1. Shoot 18 digital portraits and download them onto your computer. You can use already exixsting photos if you like.
2. Print 2 of each image on heavyweight photo paper (3 1/2 x 5 sized prints) with 4 photos per page.

3. Roll out the Con-Tact paper on your work surface with the adhesive side up.

4. Peel the backing off the Con-Tact paper.

5. Attach photo paper to the Con-Tact paper.

6. Trim the edges to the size you want using an X-Acto knife and ruler.

7. To keep your cards in great shape for years to come, laminate them.