E.T. write home! Ever wanted to send someone a “message from aliens”? This craft tutorial, including a materials list, will show you how to make an extraterrestrially good UFO card with ease.
The idea to make a UFO card came to me while planning a UFO party. Since the number of invited guests was manageable, I made the plan to make suitable invitation cards at least for those I would personally invite, which I would hand over to them.
However, this DIY card works just as well as a Halloween card or simply as an original personal greeting to fans of science fiction, space, aliens and UFO mythology.
Crafting a UFO Card Step by Step
Depending on how good you are at crafting and drawing, the UFO card crafting takes about 30 to 45 minutes. Provided that you have all the materials together. You can find everything you need in the following material list.
Material List*
- construction paper, various colors
- Moss rubber, different colors
- Lineal
- Pencil
- Crayons
- Black Stabilo Fineliner
- All Glue
- Scissors
- A water glass or a compass (for drawing a circle)
- Hole punch
Step 1: The Basis of the Card
As a basis you can either take a finished black, or simply fold and cut a sheet of black construction paper. (Dark blue also works, the color should represent the universe).
![Ufo Card Crafting Diy Instructions For Mail From Outer Space "Crafting a UFO card: Fold black construction paper."](https://www.abenteuerfreundschaft.de/relaunch/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1_ufokarte_faltblatt-640x347.jpg)
![Ufo Card Crafting Diy Instructions For Mail From Outer Space "Crafting a UFO card: Cut out the card from black construction paper."](https://www.abenteuerfreundschaft.de/relaunch/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2_ufokarte_schneiden-640x347.jpg)
Step 2: UFO and Alien
The central motif when making the UFO card is of course the UFO. In addition, I wanted that an alien sitting in it is visible, or its head. So that the card gets a plastic 3D effect, I have both painted on foam rubber (gray for the UFO and green for the alien) and then cut out.
To do this, I first sketched out the respective motif in pencil….
![Ufo Card Crafting Diy Instructions For Mail From Outer Space "Crafting a UFO card: Draw the UFO with pencil on gray foam rubber"](https://www.abenteuerfreundschaft.de/relaunch/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/3_ufokarte_ufozeichnung-640x347.jpg)
UFO and the face of the alien. It is important to make sure that your alien fits into your UFO 😉
![Ufo Card Crafting Diy Instructions For Mail From Outer Space "Crafting a UFO card: Cut out UFO and alien head from foam rubber"](https://www.abenteuerfreundschaft.de/relaunch/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/4_ufokarte_ufo_mit_alien_auf_blau-640x347.jpg)
![Ufo Card Crafting Diy Instructions For Mail From Outer Space "Crafting a UFO card: The fact that the UFO and alien are made of foam rubber gives the UFO card a 3D effect."](https://www.abenteuerfreundschaft.de/relaunch/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/5_ufokarte_ufo_mit_alien-640x347.jpg)
Step 3: The Light Cone
For the UFO and the alien head I was inspired by well-known images from movies and series. A meanwhile downright classic motif in UFO depictions is a cone of light coming centrally from the underside of the UFO.
To represent this, I drew it in suitable size with pencil on yellow construction paper…
![Ufo Card Crafting Diy Instructions For Mail From Outer Space "Crafting a UFO card: Drawing a light beam on yellow clay pape."](https://www.abenteuerfreundschaft.de/relaunch/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/6_ufokarte_lichtstrahl_zeichnung-640x347.jpg)
![Ufo Card Crafting Diy Instructions For Mail From Outer Space "UFO card: UFO, alien and light-beam"](https://www.abenteuerfreundschaft.de/relaunch/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/7_ufokarte_karte_mit_ufo_und_lichtstrahl-640x347.jpg)
Step 4: Earth Globe
When crafting UFO card I always had in mind the motto “Visit from outer space”. I wanted to represent as how aliens pay a visit to Earth. And the latter was of course still missing in my picture!
I decided to cut out the earth from light blue construction paper and then paint on the continents. Since the earth on the UFO card should appear only cut, I took a water glass to help and traced the arc with pencil.
![Ufo Card Crafting Diy Instructions For Mail From Outer Space "UFO card: Drawing a circle using a glass."](https://www.abenteuerfreundschaft.de/relaunch/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/8_ufokarte_globus_zeichnen-640x347.jpg)
![Ufo Card Crafting Diy Instructions For Mail From Outer Space "Pencil drawn earth with continents."](https://www.abenteuerfreundschaft.de/relaunch/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/9_ufokarte_erde_zeichnen-640x347.jpg)
![Ufo Card Crafting Diy Instructions For Mail From Outer Space "Drawn globe with painted land masses."](https://www.abenteuerfreundschaft.de/relaunch/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/10_ufokarte_gemalter_globus-640x347.jpg)
Step 5: Stars
This is what the UFO card looks like after cutting out and gluing on the globe:
![Ufo Card Crafting Diy Instructions For Mail From Outer Space "Craft UFO card: Now only the stars are missing."](https://www.abenteuerfreundschaft.de/relaunch/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/11_ufokarte_alien_mit_globus-640x347.jpg)
![Ufo Card Crafting Diy Instructions For Mail From Outer Space "Craft a UFO card with alien on the way to Earth is quite simple, here is a DIY tutorial."](https://www.abenteuerfreundschaft.de/relaunch/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/12_ufokarte_final_bearbeitet-640x347.jpg)
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