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Build a 3D flower card in this fun Mother’s Day craft for kids! This is a great way to give flowers to Mom or Grandma and get creative, too.
I am totally loving these flower cards the kids made for a Mother’s Day craft for kids to make. It’s a great gift for Grandma (and myself!).
In previous years, we’ve made bouquets of flowers for Grandma. We could have totally made these into a bouquet too.
Instead, we made homemade cards this time. This Mother’s Day craft for kids is really easy, and fun, to make.
Here are 10 more cute flower crafts to make for Mother’s Day!
The boys ask to paint all the time. Usually, it doesn’t turn into much by itself, especially when I leave it completely open.
This time I just had them paint on bright, pretty, colorful scrapbook paper in coordinating bright, pretty colors. Pinks and oranges mostly.
They painted them however they liked, smeared it around, made prints with cookie cutters, and ended up finger painting most of it.
With those painted papers, I cut out three sizes of circles. As many as I could fit on there.
Henry could have helped out with cutting because the circles don’t have to be anywhere near perfect, but he was super excited about getting PVC pipes for his birthday. He didn’t want anything to do with the cutting.
So I cut all the circles out myself.
When we got to the next step, the boys were very interested again!
Now that we had three sizes of circles, the boys crumpled each circle up and then kind of flatten it out again.
We had a lot of circles to do!
The crumpling is to give the flowers a little bit of a 3D effect and to look a little like flower petals.
The boys stacked up the circles by size. One large, one medium and then a small.
Then, we glued them together. We used Washable Mod Podge, (affiliate link) because we had some leftover from the L we made for Louis’ room.
This part was definitely tricky for George. He wasn’t quite ready to do this on his own and needed quite a bit of help.
There’s 10 more stunning flower crafts for the kids to make! They’d be perfect for homemade gifts or cards!
For the middle of each flower, we glued on a button. George was super excited to do this part and he wanted to put that on right away for each flower!
And repeat, repeat, repeat until we made all the circles into very colorful flowers.
Henry and George both drew stems, leaves, and grass onto folded scrapbook paper.
I first had them draw in green crayons, but they were barely showing up. Later, I had Henry retrace his (and I retraced George’s) with green Oil Pastels (affiliate link).
Now, those showed up bright! Perfect!
And then with a dab of glue to attach the flower to their stems to finish off the cards!
As Mother’s Day comes up, I’ll have Henry write a quick note to Grandma inside!
I seriously just love these flowers and this Mother’s Day craft for kids!
And the whole cards turned out pretty dang cute too, I think! I just love their colors!
A gorgeous Mother’s Day craft for kids to make!
Bonus: Mother’s Day Craft from the Kids!
We had so many flowers left over, that both George and Henry got to make a piece of art to hang up in the playroom, too!
More Mother’s Day crafts for kids to make:
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drift boss says
Thank you, thank you, and thank you once more for coming up with this idea! I’ve been looking for a Mother’s Day card that my kids can make for their grandmothers on their own, and this will be so much fun for them.
Proserpine Ildi says
It’s a perfect gift for mother’s day. It shows how creative and passionate you are in doing hand crafted things. I will make one as well for my mother.
Agnes says
What a great idea these flower cards are! FINALLY I know what to do with all these paintings which I’m ordered to keep. I din’t use the whole painting making the flowers. Instead of, I kept a rest to make envelopes, fitting the cards.
It was a very creative time with lots of fun: my older son (4 years) was laughing until tears ran down his face as he crampeld the circels for the first time. He couldn’t believe he really was allowed to.
Laura says
I did this with my second grade class! I didn’t want to paint, though, so I had them color coffee filters with bright markers. I sprayed them with a spray bottle filled with water. After we scrunched them to get the color to bleed (forming a tie-dyed effect) we laid them out to dry. Then we cut them into circles and layered a piece of solid, crumpled tissue paper in between. We layered it coffee filter, crumpled tissue paper, coffee filter and then a button. They turned out great! Thanks for the idea!
Jamie Reimer says
What a great idea to use coffee filters and tissue paper! Share a photo on the facebook page if you have one! http://facebook.com/handsonaswegrow — were they able to hold the crumpled effect at all?
Mothers Day Flowers says
Creative Idea and you got the boys to help. That’s wonderful.
alexa-cade says
Adorable! I love this and my preschooler will, too! Cute and quick!
Jamie Reimer says
Thanks Alexa!
Rita C says
Love your Mother’s Day craft project! Thanks for the flower card tutorial! Perfect for kids to make for their mothers. Would you like to submit your project to our Mother’s Day Contest?
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really pretty
Jamie Reimer says
Thanks Melinda!
Rebekah @ The Golden Gleam says
Thank you, thank you, and thank you again for this idea! I have been trying to find a mother’s day card easy enough for all my kids to make on their own for grandmas, and this will be so much fun for them. I think they will like the wrinkling up part the best. ;)
Jamie Reimer says
Thanks for the kind words Rebekah! I hope you guys have fun making them! Crumpling the paper was the best part!