Use flower crafts like this to create a Mother’s Day card with your kids. Mother’s Day crafts teach your kids to show their mothers, grandmas, aunts, or any other moms how much their kids love and appreciate them. This Mother’s Day card will have a flower made from hearts and a loving message written by the children to their moms. Don’t forget to play some Mother’s Day music while your kids make these cards!
Skills
Types of skills can include math, science, fine motor, and social and emotional. Here is how this Mother’s Day card made out of hearts and flowers applies these skills:
Math
Add in math concepts by having your child count how many hearts they use for the petals or how many colors they use to create the flowers. You can count how many shapes they use to create the card.
Science
If you have other crafts with your child, have them classify the flowers along with the other crafts. For example, flowers fall under plants, where butterflies are classified as insects.
Fine Motor Skills
Depending on which cards you choose to use, your child will learn how to use their pincer grasp to crumble and glue the tissue papers to make grass. They will also glue the hearts, leaves, and stem to create the flowers.
You can challenge your child to trace the heart and circle templates and cut them out.
Dramatic Play and Social/Emotional
Children can pretend to pick this beautiful flower to give to their mother, grandmother, aunt, or anyone they want. They can also pretend to smell the flowers.
Boundaries
Make sure you supervise your kids when using scissors and other sharp items.
Materials
You will use red, yellow, green, and white construction paper, green tissue paper, heart and circle templates, scissors, and glue
Steps
First, make a circle and heart template that you will reuse with all of the kids. They will be using this template to trace the shapes that make up the flower. Keep the size of the card in mind when you make these templates so everything looks coordinated.
Next, trace a circle on the white construction paper to create the center of the flower. Then, trace three hearts on red construction paper.
Don’t forget to cut a long thin green rectangle to create the stem of the flower. And cut out green tissue paper.
Then, have the child glue the stem in the middle of the yellow construction paper toward the bottom. Next, glue the red petals on the green stem to create the flowers and add the white circle in the center of the flower petals.
Lastly, have the child use his or her fingers to crumble the green tissue papers and glue them on the bottom of the paper to create the grass which gives a 3-D effect.
Let it dry and the child can give card to his or her mom on Mother’s Day to enjoy!
Modifications
You can have your children color in the grass or use green shredded papers instead of using tissue papers.
The flowers can be any color the child prefers. Maybe he or she wants the flower to be that “mom” favorite color? Who knows?
Take a picture of the child and glue on the circle of the flower or have the child draw something special for it instead.
We made an alternate Mother’s Day card using blue, green, brown, red, white, and pink construction paper. This card is folded in half to look like a traditional card and has a lovely message for mom inside it.
Be creative and make it special!
Happy Mother’s Day!
Mother’s Day flower card crafts are a way of having your kids express their love to that special someone. Will you craft a card for that special someone?