School hours are an opportune time for kids to carefully create their Mother’s Day crafts to take home to their mums or other guardian. Are you planning to help your students mark Mother’s Day in the classroom this year? Creating Mother’s Day crafts can be exciting for kids who can’t wait to bring home something for a mother or other guardian, and creating small cards and gifts allows them to practise a whole host of skills from working those fine motor skills to letter writing.
But how do you make sure your Mother’s Day activities are fun and engaging for all students? And what crafts are the best use of your students’ time? The teachers on the Teach Starter team have pulled together some of our favourite ideas that can work in any classroom.
Mother’s Day Crafts for Kids in the Classroom
Crafty Mother’s Day Cards
For a simple yet thoughtful gift for Mum, have your students get crafty with these super adorable Mother’s Day card ideas.
Make Flower Handprint Cards
If you’re looking for a fun activity for ‘crafternoon’, this is it! To make these beautiful handprint flower cards by primary teacher Miss Jawkridge, you’ll need paint, coloured cards, glue, and scissors. Students can get their hands messy (literally!) and make a personalised piece of art that will for sure be a centre piece on the fridge.
Photo courtesy of primary teacher Miss Hawkridge of @childquoteoftheday
Create an ‘I Love You to Pieces’ Card
With our ‘I Love You to Pieces’ Mother’s Day Card Template, students can tell any special parent figure they love them, and it’s also great for working those fine motor muscles! Students have to practise using scissors, pasting, and writing. Print out the card template and decide if you are just going to use the white background or have the students cut out the heart and ‘I love you’ words to stick on a coloured piece of card. Then, use tissue paper cut into squares for the ‘pieces’ of the heart.
Australian primary school teacher Hayley Farrugia swears by this activity, saying, ‘This resource is brilliant in its simplicity and versatility. It is perfect for any special occasion…’
Photo courtesy of @followingmissfarrugia
Build an Exploding Card
One creative craft from a member of our Teach Starter teacher team is the Mother’s Day exploding gift box idea. While this isn’t your traditional ‘card,’ it certainly still serves the same purpose!
This craft requires kids to carefully put the pieces together to get the ‘exploding’ effect, testing those engineering skills as they create something special for that special person.
Craft a Flower Card
Pull out the craft table and let your students get crafty by creating their very own card with whatever design they wish. This is a super cute idea: They place a picture of themselves in some pattycakes to create a pop-out flower on the card!
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Easy Craft Gift Ideas for Mum
While you have the art and craft materials out, have your students make a thoughtful gift to accompany their handmade cards.
Treat Mum to Breakfast in bed (Sort of!)
This nifty (and super easy!) gift idea by mum and creator of early years activities @thestayathometoddler will make Mother’s Day morning even more special. Best of all, you most likely have all the materials you need in the classroom! This is a perfect opportunity to recycle any cardboard you might find around or recruit your students to bring some from home. Early years learners can also practise their fine motor skills by cutting out all the yummy breakfast foods!
Photo and idea from @thestayathometoddler
Compile Photos in a Bookmark
Teacher Hannah of Australia created these sweet Mother’s Day bookmarks with her students. You’ll first need a camera to take photos of your kids (this would be a great opportunity to bring in a parent volunteer if you have access to one!). In the first photo, they’ll hold an ‘I’. The second is a heart, and the third is a ‘U.’ You can also modify this idea by having your kids hold one sign that says ‘I Love You’ or ‘I ❤️ U.’
Photo courtesy of Year 6 teacher Hannah of Australia
Once the photos are printed, have each child glue their photos onto a piece of coloured paper of their choice. You can either have ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ already printed onto the paper or have each student write it themselves in their own handwriting. Opening a book will never be sweeter for those special mums!
Looking for more bookmark ideas? Print out our ready-to-color Mother’s Day bookmarks.
Nothing says ‘I love you’ more than a bunch of flowers, right? Here are some super creative flower craft ideas for Mother’s Day. The beauty of these is that the students can give them to anyone special.
Compile a Mother’s Day Magazine
Make Mum front page news (the best kind!) with our Mother’s Day Magazine Article Project. Students can craft their magazine about their mum, grandmother, aunt, or another mum figure and write about everything that makes them unique. While creating something that will be treasured forever, your little learners can develop their writing skills.
Photo courtesy of Aussie Year 4 teacher Kim of @teach_inspire_dream
Make a Pom-Pom Cactus
Do you have a million and one pom-poms in the classroom? Grab the little fuzzy balls, and have your students get creative in creating plants the mother figure in their life can admire and never have to water!
Make a Hand Flower
For this creative craft idea, all you need is some coloured paper, some pipe cleaners, a ribbon, and a cute hand to trace around! Students trace around their hands (they may need help) and cut out the outline. Then, use a pencil to curl the fingers around, creating this gorgeous flower.
Then, all you need to do is sticky tape the rounded hand onto some pipe cleaners and send the bouquets home with your students to make Mum’s day.
Fold a Blooming Heart
Hearts and flowers are both iconic Mother’s Day symbols, so why not combine them? This creative Mother’s Day craft template has been designed as a flower with a twist! Students fold it up in the shape of a heart and add their messages for Mum. When she unfolds her gift, she’ll reveal the flower blossom!
Dye Paper Towel Roses
You can call making paper towel roses a Mother’s Day craft or turn it into more of a STEM activity by having students hypothesize what will happen when you try to dye paper towels, recording observations all throughout this fun activity. No matter what you call it, the result will be some gorgeous flowers they can take home to gift to a special person in their world on Mother’s Day weekend.
Get the flower creation instructions here!
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