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New Year's cards from elementary school kids to friends! Ready-to-use short message ideas

Are you having trouble coming up with a short message when an elementary schooler sends a New Year’s card to a friend? In this article, we’ve gathered a variety of ideas—from sincere words that deepen friendship, to phrases that touch on memories with everyone in the class, to expressions for cheering each other on with New Year’s goals.

Not too stiff, but your feelings still come through.

You’re sure to find just the right little message.

Because it’s handwritten, it carries a gentle warmth that reaches the other person’s heart.

Go ahead and look for your favorite words!

New Year’s cards from elementary school kids to friends! Ready-to-use short message ideas (11–20)

Let’s make this a year where we live recess to the fullest.

Let's make this a year where we live recess to the fullest.

Here are some words that will cheer up the person who receives them.

Adding small, joyful moments from everyday life—like “I had so much fun sprinting and laughing during dodgeball the other day,” or “We were chatting so excitedly that before we knew it, the bell rang”—helps your feelings come across even more.

As you recall how you gave it your all and had fun even in a short time, turn it into a positive, uplifting message like, “Let’s enjoy recess to the fullest again this year!” It’s a warm phrase that will naturally brighten the reader’s spirits.

Let’s share lots of laughter together this year, too!

Let's share lots of laughter together this year, too!

It’s important to share joy with others; by layering positive feelings, the excitement only grows.

This message conveys the wish to share that happiness and spend time together with smiles.

It also carries the lesson that smiles are essential for living each day positively, as well as the desire to support one another.

These are words that call on us to keep sharing fun memories over the coming year, and that evoke a sense of connection between people.

Thank you for always smiling! Let’s have another great year together.

Thank you for always smiling! Let’s have another great year together.

A smile not only lifts your own spirits, but can also spread happiness to others.

This message conveys how such smiles have spread and reminds us of the importance of spending our days with a smile.

Even someone who was smiling without thinking about it will feel happy—and more motivated to keep smiling—once they realize their smile is appreciated.

Since it also speaks about the future, it comes across as a call for us to support each other with smiles going forward.

Let’s laugh a lot and make it a wonderful year.

Let's laugh a lot and make it a wonderful year.

Above all, a smile is essential for enjoying each day—when we’re smiling, our mindset naturally becomes more positive.

This message calls on us to cherish our smiles and live each day with that spirit, making it a year filled with the same intent.

It also carries the wish that many smiles will come our way, since the more we laugh, the more fun we have.

Within these simple words lies a lesson for living healthily day by day: a reminder of just how important a smile truly is.

Wishing you a year full of smiles.

Wishing you a year full of smiles.

A year filled with smiles… in other words, it’s a message wishing for that person’s happiness throughout the entire year.

The onomatopoeic expression nikoniko is cute and evokes a child’s sun-like smile.

It’s a smile that appears precisely because you’re truly happy.

Days when you can wear that smile all year round would be truly wonderful.

If you love that person’s smile and want them to keep smiling forever, why not send them this short message? Your feelings will surely come across.

Let’s make lots of fun memories together!

Let's make lots of fun memories together!

Time spent with your dearest friends is truly irreplaceable, isn’t it? How about adding this message to your New Year’s card? Simply being together creates wonderful memories, but if the two of you discover something fun to share, I’m sure it will become an even more amazing time.

It might even turn into an unforgettable memory of a lifetime.

As you imagine those special moments with your friends, try writing a message.

From that very moment, your joyful and fulfilling days will begin.

New Year’s cards elementary school kids can send to friends! Ready-to-use short message ideas (21–30)

This year, let’s get back up like a horse even when we fall!

This year, let’s get back up like a horse even when we fall!

Foals are able to stand about one to two hours after they are born.

It’s also said that if they fall, they often get back up quickly as long as they aren’t seriously hurt.

Like those horses, this message conveys the idea of getting back on your feet and facing forward, even if you stumble.

When studying or practicing doesn’t go well, or when you fail, it’s easy to be dragged down by negative feelings and find it hard to stand up again.

But if you can share, with your friends, the determination in these words to not be defeated by negative emotions and to keep trying, you might be able to do even better in the new year than you did in the last.