Short New Year’s card messages for elementary school kids! Ideas for words that bring a smile
Have you ever struggled with what to write as a short message when sending New Year’s greetings on a postcard? Especially when sending a New Year’s card to an elementary school friend, you want to add a warm message that will make them smile.
In this article, we’ve gathered perfect one-line ideas—from messages kids exchange with each other to notes from teachers to students.
We’ll introduce a wide range, from friendly messages for classmates to words that convey your feelings to friends you haven’t seen in a while.
We’ll also share tips on how to write them, so please use them as a reference and create a heartfelt New Year’s card!
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One-line New Year’s card messages for elementary school kids! Smile-bringing phrase ideas (51–60)
Let’s have a wonderful time this year too.
With friends you made lots of fun memories with last year, you naturally want to make many more in the new year too.
How about sending this message with that feeling in mind? If you include a few things you’d like to do together in the new year, it will boost the excitement even more! You don’t have to go anywhere special or do anything out of the ordinary—time spent with your favorite friends is irreplaceable.
It’s also a great idea to use this message to say, “Let’s stay close 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.
Let’s dash through this year with energy!
It’s a phrase that really captures a lively, childlike energy.
The word “dash,” inspired by the zodiac horse, conveys a sense of dynamism and strength, making it perfect for a New Year’s resolution.
It’s also striking that it invites the listener with “let’s dash,” as if saying, “let’s move forward together.” Add this phrase alongside a horse illustration, and you’re sure to have a stylish New Year’s card! Writing it in brush calligraphy could help express a sense of speed, too.
I’ll try not to play too hard again this year! Probably.
That final “maybe” makes it sound like, yep, we’re going to go all out having fun again this year—and that’s what makes it such a funny message.
And why declare that on a New Year’s card? Everything about it is amusing, but it’s the kind of thing you can send precisely because you’re close.
Also, going all out to have fun is something that happens because it’s so enjoyable.
The kind of friend you’d want to send this to is probably someone you’d want to hang out with every day.
It’s a message that makes you laugh and gets you excited for the start of another fun year.
Straight to the fun again this year!
These are lively little messages that are perfect for New Year’s cards—just reading them makes you excited.
For example, “I had so much fun going around together on the field trip the other day,” or “I always get excited when we make plans to hang out.” If you add a small memory like that, your feelings will come across much more clearly.
It conveys a positive feeling of “Let’s keep finding fun things this year and move straight toward smiling,” so the friend who receives it will surely think, “I want to have fun together again!”
Let’s make lots of happy memories this year, too.
When you look back on your memories and a fun moment comes to mind, the feelings from that time return and you can feel happy, right? This is a positive message about continuing to create enjoyable memories this year as well—memories that will make you feel happy whenever you recall them.
It calls on us to spend the year savoring the fun and to turn those experiences into lasting memories.
It also emphasizes leaving behind many memories, conveying a sense of supporting one another along the way.
Let’s run and run and run like crazy this year, too!
Perfect for New Year’s cards to friends who love sports or are always working hard! It conveys the message: “Let’s keep giving our all, like a horse that dashes forward with energy.” For friends who play sports that involve running, it directly says, “Keep running lots and doing your best!” For friends who are dedicated to something, it encourages them to “keep charging ahead without getting discouraged.” Send your warm words of support!
Let’s come up with some fun games again this year!
These words are perfect for a child who loves thinking up and creatively enjoying different ways to play with friends every day.
As you remember the games you played last year—this and that—try writing with excitement about what new things you might do in the coming year.
It might be nice to include a few ideas on your New Year’s card as well.
More than any year before, you want to have lots of fun games this year! Send this message with that feeling to your creative friends.
Let’s make this year so fun we’ll be jumping for joy!
In equestrian sports, horses hop and jump over obstacles.
If your child wants to make this year as joyful as a horse leaping, why not use this phrase? It’s not just about having fun; being so happy that you feel like jumping for joy is truly wonderful, isn’t it? It may be difficult to have days like that all year long, but it’s important to make your own effort to create a year that’s that much fun.
If your child wants to build joyful days together with the friends to whom they’re sending New Year’s cards, encourage them to share this phrase.
This year, we’re going full speed ahead like a horse!
A short phrase that overlays a forward-looking, powerful message—“Let’s charge full speed ahead this year!”—with the image of a horse.
The words “full throttle” convey the determination to give it our all, filling this message with the positivity and energy perfect for the New Year.
It’s a line uniquely suited to a Year of the Horse New Year’s card, and simply adding “like a horse” gives it a witty, thoughtful flair.
It’s the kind of phrase that can boost not only the recipient’s spirits but your own motivation as well.