Humorous Birthday Card Ideas for Kids

You can easily make homemade humorous birthday cards for kids, either by hand or on your computer. To make homemade birthday cards, you'll need some quality heavy card stock. If making the card on your computer, you will need print or photo editing software and a computer printer. If making the card by hand, you'll need a craft knife or scissors, glue sticks or liquid adhesive, stickers, colored markers and an ink pad if you'll be using rubber stamps.

Humorous Birthday Card Sayings and Verses for Kids

You can find humorous sayings by famous people on the BrainyQuote.com site. There's a category of funny sayings with nine pages of sayings to choose from. You can also search the site on any topic you like to find funny sayings for your birthday card.

Jokes and riddles also work well for humorous kids' birthday cards. You can find a list of free birthday jokes and riddles on the Yahoo! Kids jokes website. They include jokes and riddles about animals, food, health and body, music, people, school, science and nature and sports. When using a joke or riddle in a kids' birthday card, place the question on the front of the card. Put the answer inside the card, along with "Happy Birthday."

Humorous Birthday Card Pictures for Kids

One of the best sites to download free art for humorous kids' birthday cards is Clker.com. You can find just about any picture you want for your birthday card. The site is organized by categories. They have both vector and raster clip art. The lines in vector clip art can be manipulated if you have the right software, such as Adobe Illustrator. Raster clip art has static lines that can't be moved. The clipart categories that would work best for kids' birthday cards include "Animals," "Aircraft," "Cartoon," "Comedy," "People" and "Play." You can also search the Clker.com website for pictures if you know what type of clip art image you're looking for.

OpenClipArt.org also has clip art that's appropriate for humorous kids' birthday cards. The site has over 32,000 images in all. The best categories to find images for kids' birthday cards include "Animal," "People," "Cartoon," "Insect," "Photorealistic," "Face" and "Line Art."

Tips for Making Humorous Birthday Cards for Kids

If you plan to make your birthday card on the computer, create two documents that are 8 1/2 inches high by 11 inches wide. Divide the documents in half vertically. In one of the documents, place the image and greeting for the front of the card on the right side of the page. In the other document, place your personal birthday message on the right. If you prefer to make your birthday card by hand, you can still use the computer as a tool. Simply print out the saying and picture on your computer, making sure that the print-out will fit on the card. Then place the print-out over a piece of corrugated cardboard and measure it with a ruler, leaving an equal amount of space one each side of the text or picture. Then use the ruler as a straight edge to guide you as you cut out the text block or picture. Glue the saying or picture to the card using a glue stick or liquid adhesive. Use rubber stamps or stickers to add more decorations to your homemade humorous birthday card.

For more ideas on this topic, read Beautiful Handmade Birthday Cards You Can Make Yourself and Best Free Printable Birthday Cards Online.