Mother’s Day Crafts
With Mother’s Day right around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about what you’re going to give to mom this year. Sure, moms love homemade presents from their children, but these presents are even nicer when they’re something that mom can use for herself, in her kitchen, or as a decoration. If you are the adult who gets to help the kids make Mother’s Day gifts, you’ll like that all of our ideas are simple, just a little adult supervision required.
Apron for Mom from Parenting Press
What you need:
butcher-style cotton apron
fabric paint, crayons, or markers
buttons, ribbons, etc.
glue gun
Directions:
Option 1: Make handprints on the apron, using fabric paint. Coat child’s hand with paint, and press onto apron. (Younger children will need extra supervision. Remind all children to wash their hands after applying paint to the apron.)
Option 2: Decorate apron with child’s drawing or message (“I love Mom”), using fabric crayons or markers. A drawing like stick figures of mother and child could be embellished with buttons or ribbons. (An adult should attach these decorative items with a glue gun.)
Mother’s Day Corsage from Elaine Stephen
What you need:
3 2-ply tissues – white, pink and/or yellow
glue
1 piece of construction paper
1 piece of foil
scissors
1 safety pin
pencil
1 glass
1 small bowl
Take a tissue, and fold it in half lengthwise. Then fold it in half width-wise, and finally fold it in half diagonally. The tissue should look like a triangle now. Hold the tissue at the folded end and cut a half circle around the open ended top. Squish 1″ of the folded end of the tissue together with some glue. This forms the bottom of the flower. When dry, pull out the tissue parts to form a circle. Separate the tissue layers. A flower has been made. Make 2 more flowers.
Use the glass and a pencil to draw a small (about 3″) circle on the piece of paper. Use a small bowl and the pencil to draw a larger (about 5″) circle on the foil. Cut both circles out. Cover the foil circle with the paper circle. Glue the foil to the paper. Glue the flowers on the circle. You have completed the corsage. Mom can use the safety pin to pin it on.
Thanks for including the Parenting Press project! We have projects like this almost every month in “News for Parents,” which is free at http://www.parentingpress.com/ezine.html. Since January we’ve been doing a “RRRRR” series, with “Re-purpose, Re-use, Repair, Recycle, etc.” as our motto. Saturday I used the origami boxes I’d made from advertising flyers and magazine covers for planting seeds—they’ll biodegrade when I have seedlings large enough to plant outdoors!
Comment made by Linda Carlson on April 26, 2010 @ 3:48 pm
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