How to Create an Easy Mother's Day Craft

Mothers love their children's hand prints!

The perfect gift from children to their mothers is something they made themselves. This handprint garden craft is perfect to make in the classroom, and it is one any mother will always treasure. The children can give these to their mothers with pride knowing that they made them themselves.

Things You'll Need

• Small terra cotta pot
• Poster board in three light colors
• Permanent marker
• Flower seed packets
• Small ball of playdough, any color
• Drinking straws or pipe cleaners

Instructions

1. Trace the child’s handprints on three different colored pieces of posterboard. Cut them out.

2. Place a rolled-up ball of playdough into a small terra cotta pot. Attach the cut out handprints onto the tops of the drinking straws or pipe cleaners, which will create the “flower stems.”

3. Insert the drinking straws or pipe cleaners into the playdough at varying heights to create a hand print flower bouquet. If you have some pretty ribbon, tie it around the terra cotta pot. You can also have the child paint the pot, if desired.

4. Use a permanent marker to write the child’s name on the flower pot as well as the year so Mom will later remember the year it was received. You could attach a flower seed packet by either tucking it within the “garden: or stapling it to a card the child could make to accompany the gift.

Tips & Warnings

• Let children do as many steps as possible because the gift will be more special when they feel they've participated.