Yahoo LifestyleThese Mother's Day Crafts Are Perfect For Your Kids to Make
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These Mother's Day Crafts Are Perfect For Your Kids to Make
While flowers, chocolates and loving words are always welcome, homemade Mother's Day gifts are a special way to show your appreciation. This year, encourage your little ones to put some extra heart (and time) into their gift for Mom by making one of these fun Mother's Day crafts for kids.
Your toddlers, school-age children and teenagers can come together to DIY these projects — or they can easily complete them on their own, if they'd rather fly solo. Some double as Mother's Day party decorations, while others make beautiful gifts that Mom will cherish for years to come. We've given you the guidelines, but feel free to personalize any of these craft ideas with family photos, custom messages or your mom's signature colors. And if you really want to bring on the happy tears, go with one of the handprint crafts, so she can have an example of just how much her babies have grown. But don't stop here: Pair any of these crafts with a homemade card to make her Mother's Day the best one yet.
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Paper Flowers
Turn pastel cupcake liners into long-lasting blooms. To make, fold the liners in half and make petal-like cuts. Fold a piece of floral wire in half and twist it around faux flower stamens, then poke the wire through the center of three to four paper liners. Wrap floral tape around the base of the liners and continue to wrap down the "stem" until you're done!
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Hand-Dyed Napkins
These watercolor napkins will bring a pop of color to your Mother's Day table. Start by soaking the napkins in water, then wring out the excess and brush on fabric paint, diluting with water as you go up. Let them dry overnight and iron the fabric to set the paint before adding them to your place settings.
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Egg Carton Flowers
Assemble a bouquet of egg carton flowers that she can enjoy well beyond Mother's Day. Our advice: Have the adults cut out the "flowers" first and let kids get creative with paint!
Follow these step-by-step instructions:
- Cut off the top of the egg carton and the extra flap on the other edge.
- Cut out the center columns from the carton by making small cuts with your X-Acto knife.
- Cut out what is left on the carton to use as egg cups.
- Using the center columns you cut out, clean up the edge of the opening with your scissors.
- Paint the columns both inside and out with some thinned out acrylic paint for a washed look.
- Using the egg cups, cut around the top of the cup to make it the same size all around or rip the top edge with your fingers to get a more rough look.
- Paint the cup with your thinned out acrylic paint for a flower look.
- For a petaled look, cut down the 4 corners of the cup and clean up using your scissors and rounding the tops of each petal before painting.
- Keep the stem in place by attaching floral wire to the middle. Use the wire cutters to hold them.
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Flower Petal Bowl
Meet Mom's new favorite trinket dish! Form a large and small petal out of oven-baked clay. Press the smaller petal into the center of the larger one. Sprinkle a few plastic beads in the bottom for added color, and bake per package instructions to melt plastic and harden clay.
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Rainbow Clutch
This cheery clutch is perfect for summer, plus it's just the right size to hold all of your mom's on-the-go essentials.
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Framed Flowers
Here's a clever way to put your backyard blooms on display. Just be sure to press them flat before framing.
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Mother's Day Flower Banner
Use this banner as a photo backdrop during your Mother's Day celebration and gift it to your mom once the party wraps.
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Flower Animals
Give old cardboard boxes a whole new life by turning them into woodland animals covered in bright blooms.
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Heart Salt Dough Hangers
Your mom will love hanging these little hearts on her Christmas tree. But until then, she can place them in a window to cast a sparkly glow.
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Lemon Bath Salts
When she needs a boost, your mom can soak in a tub with these essential oil-infused bath salts.
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Conversation Marble Magnets
Kids can show their love in a unique way with these conversation magnets. Have them come up with cute phrases, like "I love you," that only Mom would appreciate.
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Milk Carton Birdhouse
All of the birds in her neighborhood will flock to this multi-colored birdhouse. Give kids an assortment of tissue paper colors to pick from to make a fun statement.
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Ladybug Mug
This ladybug mug is so cute for spring — and a great gift that your mom will cherish for years to come.
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Matisse Felt Board
Trade paint and markers for colorful felt pieces. Once their Matisse-inspired masterpiece is ready to go, they can wrap it up and give it to Mom.
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Fingerprint Heart Card
Heart-shaped cards stamped with little fingerprints make great keepsakes. Print out a recent photo and stick it in the middle, so she can always remember when it was given to her.
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Sand Art Candles
Give a plain pillar candle the '90s treatment by gluing layers of colored sand to its base.
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Wood Bead Heart
In just a few minutes, little hands can shape wooden beads into whimsical hearts. They're the perfect addition to any mantel or shelf.
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Paper Plants
Instead of gifting plants, why not make them? After DIYing these plants, place them in decorative planters to make them look like the real deal.
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Hand Heart Holding Card
When she opens up the two hands, she'll find a heartfelt message inside.
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Pom-pom Bouquet
Consider this pom-pom bouquet a symbol of your everlasting love for Mom.
Follow these step-by-step instructions:
- Start by placing a green pipe cleaner parallel with the tines of a fork so that it extends 3" above the tines. Wrap yarn perpendicularly around all the tines.
- Fold the 3" section of pipe cleaner down over the yarn, slide everything off the fork, and wrap the two pieces of pipe cleaner together.
- Carefully cut the wrapped yarn and repeat as desired.
- Wrap stems together with ribbon.
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Pom Pom Flower Box
If Mom loves flowers, fill up a window box for her with bright, beautiful blooms. This project requires a hot glue gun, and some supervision from an adult, but when it's done Mom will be delighted.
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Crayon Candle
This project is a two-in-one: It makes a cute candle for Mom, and it also uses up those crayon nubs that are too small to color with. Be sure to include Mom's favorite colors!
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Painted Rock Garden Markers
A gift that's both beautiful and practical, these rocks help Mom remember where she planted her herbs and veggies in her garden. If she's not the green-thumb type, you can use the technique to make a desk paperweight.
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Scrabble-Tile Frame
The best thing about a Scrabble-tile frame is that you can personalize it however you want: Include Mom's name, the kids' names, or even hobbies she likes to do.
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Pom Animal Card
There's nothing cuter than a mama animal showing love to her babies. For this 3D card, kids can make a family of chicks, penguins, or — our favorite — flamingoes. Or they can include all three!
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Fingerprint Heart Keepsake
This craft is perfect for a first Mother's Day, since even the tiniest ones can do it (with a little help) and make art to save forever. The mini-canvas (with easel!) makes it look like your baby's a pro already.
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Painted Pot Holders
If Mom loves to cook, give her something that'll make her smile every time she enters the kitchen. All you have to do is start with DIY canvas pot holders.
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Fingerprint Mug
The butterflies on this mug are made from kid fingerprints, so they're truly one-of-a-kind. It makes for a gift that's pretty, and also useful.
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Flower Wreath
Felt, pom poms, and the secret ingredient — egg cartons! — are transformed into a beautiful wreath you can display all spring and summer long. Making the flowers and letting them dry, then gluing them to the wreath and adding the pom-pom centers is a multi-step process, so this is better for older (and more patient) crafters.
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Thumbprint Planter
The petals on this planter are also made from a child's thumbprint. The end result is both pretty enough to display in the garden, and a meaningful snapshot of how small their little hands can be.
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Picture-Frame Vase
Acrylic paint can turn any jar into a planter that Mom would love to put on a table or a shelf. But leave a heart-shaped opening for a baby picture (clear contact paper helps you from accidentally painting in the heart area), and the project becomes extra special.
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Felt Flower Bookmarks
If Mom is a reader, she'd love a sunny bookmark to help hold her place. The petals are made of felt and finished off with a button center, but the project requires no sewing.
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Craft Stick Flower Pot
This colorful little planter is finished off with a wooden tag in the shape of a watering can, but you can also personalize it with a tag in the shape of a hobby or interest that Mom loves. Finish it off with an easy-to-care-for succulent inside.
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Button Monogram
A personalized, one-of-a kind monogram that's also easy to make? A win for everyone involved. Hint: If your little artist is messy with the glue, craft glue dots are basically made for this type of project.
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DIY Herb Garden
The secret to this project is finding chalkboard paint in fun colors, like pink or purple, so you can label the herbs and still have a pretty pot to put them all in. Then, tending the herb garden with the kids is a fun activity the family can do together all summer long.
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Heart Stamp Art
With a quick adjustment, an old, cardboard paper towel roll becomes the perfect heart stamp for use on cards, art projects, and gallery-worthy collages. Use a different color on each end of the tube for a two-in-one stamper.
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I Love You Because Flowers
Part card, part craft, Mom will be extra touched to learn all of the reasons why the family loves her so much. There may even be tears.
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Teacup Card
With a little crafty ingenuity, an old egg carton becomes a card befitting any tea-drinking mom. Gift her some bags of her favorite brew to go with it.
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Fruit-Stamped Tea Towels
Get a colorful splash of citrus in the kitchen with an easy stamping project. You make the stamp by putting paint on actual slices of fruit, and then outline everything in a black marker.
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Cupcake Liner Flowers
Upcycle all those old cupcake liners and loose buttons you have lying around the house into a garden that doesn't need to be watered and never wilts. This craft is super easy, even real little ones can get creative with it.
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Bottle Cap Photo Magnets
Preserve Mom's favorite family memories on the fridge in a delightfully retro way. Doing this last-minute, without enough time to collect caps? You can buy them.
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Stamped Fruit and Veggie Towel
For another twist on the hand-stamped towel idea, you can use different shapes and sizes of fingerling potatoes to make a variety of fruits and veggies. Paint on seeds and stems for the finishing touch.
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Easter Egg Succulent Planter
With a few tweaks, you can repurpose some of those old plastic Easter eggs into a set of succulent planters for Mom. Hexagonal tile makes for the perfect base.
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Ribbon Heart
The cutout design of this project makes for a 3D card she can hang up at her desk at work — or even a piece of art worthy of framing. For a twist, tailor the ribbons to Mom's favorite colors.
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DIY Bath Sachet
What Mom really wants? A minute to relax. Help her out with these cute, DIY bath sachets (and a promise not to bother her when she's using them).
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