Flash Cards as Wall Art

Apartment Therapy features a tour of Shannon Lamden’s (Aunty Cookie) house this week. All the photo’s are beautiful, she is such a stylish and creative lady. In particular I love the photo’s of her daughters room and the use of flash cards as a frieze.

Shannon has more stunning photos of her house and fabrics on Flickr.

No longer dull and uninteresting and banished to the classroom there are some gorgeously illustrated flash cards available at the moment. For Ned’s birthday from wonderful friends Nigel and Ruth he received Eric Carle animal flash cards. They are packaged in a beautiful box and are a great size for little hands. I was really tempted to use them as a frieze in his nursery but he loves them too much. He picks each one up and examines it intently and often sits on the floor surrounded in the cards.

What he does have is G is for one Gzonk flash cards on his door, they are a bit big for a wall. Taken from the book G is for one Gzonk each card has one of Tony DiTerlizzi’s wacky creatures on it. Ned thinks they are extremely funny and I enjoy looking at them too. DiTerlizzi is the illustrator behind the characters of the Spiderwick chronicles.

Some other funky flash cards I have found…

Black and White is engaging for very young babies, check out the Wee Gallery website for an excellent explanation of babies brain development and the benefit of black and white contrasting artwork. Even as children grow up these cards remain a funky and contemporary decoration.

eeBoo makes ‘Wall Cards’ specifically. Vintage styled illustrations makes these a great option for decoration or framing. The subjects of the cards are kind of quirky too like the hardware store flash cards and the counting birds cards.

From Amazon, Paul Frank flash cards. These are great, they are bright, fun and very trendy.

Also these are very cool! Animal tracks flash cards from doggiepiggie on etsy.

On the serious side of things flash cards are a great tool for visual learning. Karen Cheng wrote a fantastic post here on the accidental effect of flash cards on her son.

Learning can be fun and pretty at the same time.

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