While this leaf birthday card/letter isn't the most sophisticated birthday card, it was perfect for all of us to work on, especially the three year old.
We used the leaf template from Kathy's Art for Children blog. The paper was purchased at OfficeMax, left over from another project. We don't have Microsoft Word, so I use one of two free programs for word processing: Jarte or Google Documents. Jarte has a better selection of Fonts from which to choose.
This was so easy, and the grandparents will enjoy this as frig art when they receive it.
If you want outlines and you don't want to draw your own, vintage public
domain drawings can be manipulated so that they are very light. Just light enough to be able to color them. I have a big collection which I've been using as coloring pages with the help of Google's Picasa(free) photo editor. One nice feature is the ability to manipulate the size in one click when using Picasa's print feature. They have a few standard sizes from which to choose. Here's one we did - a fall apple. We made it light enough to color over, printed it 
out nice and large, cut it out, and taped it to the window. The pumpkin template is at Kathy's as well.We are making another card for a grandparent tomorrow. I'll try to share a few of my fall themed public domain drawings in another post.
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