Holiday Card Project

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Introduction:

In this project you will be making a holiday card in Word by using tables. You may consider this card to be an invitation to a holiday party or simply a holiday greeting card. You will be making a card that will be printed on a sheet of paper and and then folded into 4 pieces so it can opened like a greeting card

The purpose of this project is to further our knowledge of Word and have a little fun at the same time

Procedure:

Finding Images

  1. In your thawspace, go to your images folder and make a holdiay images folder inside it.
  2. Go to Google images
  3. Find images you want to use for your card or invitation.
  4. Save them in your holiday images folder

Create a Model

  1. Take a piece of scratch paper (8X11)
  2. Fold the paper in half horizontally and then in half vertically.
  3. This will create 4 sections that you will be entering images and text.
  4. With the card folded, write the numbers 1,2,3 and 4 in the pages.
  5. You should have a front page, 2 pages inside and then a back cover.
  6. You will be adding information to each area in your card.
  7. By writing the numbers in these sections you will see how the areas of the card relate to each other.
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Insert a Table in Word

  1. Open Word and save the file as last-first-holiday-card.doc
  2. go to <Table> and insert a "2x2" table.
  3. This will section your Word document into 4 parts that will allow you to fold it into a card later.
    • Adjust rows and columns to make 4 equally sized sections
    • Fill the table on the page to take advantage of the most space
  4. Notice how the numbers in your folded model are oriented and compare to this table

Create Content

  1. Page 1-
    • Image and some kind of welcoming text
  2. Pages 2, 3-
    • Message and at least 1 image
    • Organize this any way you want
  3. Page 4-
    • Made by:
    • Period #
    • Date
    • One more image would be nice too
Rotating Text/Images

Text and/or images will have to be rotated to achieve the correct results

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Good Luck!!