Printable Summer Postcard for Kids to Send in the Mail

Kids love sending and receiving mail. Send a summer postcard to family or friends with this fun printable. It’s an easy way to connect during a staycation.

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Even if your summer vacation doesn’t take you very far outside of your neighborhood, it can be a blast. My kids have mastered the art of staycation this year.

We made a summer bucket list of fun things to do and have been checking things off almost every day.

They have been to the park and have splashed in the fountains at Sundance Square. They have built tiny cork boats to sail around the bathtub.

Today they are writing letters to each other, so I thought I would make them some real postcards that they could mail. They are so much fun!

Summer postcard

I designed this postcard using a playful font called Only Hope from Kimberly Geswin. The postcard is two pages and includes the instructions, but you’ll be printing one page on either side of a piece of paper.

I used regular card stock but I discovered that you can also buy special postcard paper.

How to mail a postcard

I did a good bit of research and made sure that these meet the USPS rules.

1. Print your postcard (front and back) on card stock or postcard paper.
2. Cut out your card if necessary.
3. Write your postcard message in the blank space on the back.
4. Put your address in the top left corner and the recipient on the right.
5. Stick a postcard stamp to the box in the corner. When I first wrote this post in June 2014, that was 34¢; while updating in 2020, I checked and the cost is 35¢.

My kids are sending their first postcards to grandparents. And then a few to each other. Then school friends. Maybe a cousin.

I have a feeling I will need to stock up on postcard stamps.

Printable Postcard

This printable is available as a PDF download. It includes an 8.5×11-inch page with 2 postcards and a 4×6 page with 1 postcard, so you can print however you need.

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Prints on 8.5×11-inch or 4×6-inch paper. All printables are for personal use only.