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Virtual Book Club for Kids and Craft Link-Up

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I love to hear about wonderful link ups that involve crafts to coincide with something educational. This Virtual Book Club has over 30+ bloggers that share some wonderful crafts that match up with some great books! This month, they are featuring a wonderful author, Lois Ehlert.  My children love her books, and its great to get learn a little more about her in the post and additional links. You will definitely want to check out this Link-Up, and maybe even come up with some ideas of your own! Head on over to The Educators’ Spin On It.

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  1. We’ve team up with some of our favorite Kid bloggers to host this amazing event. Come check them out and tell them thanks for all their terrific ideas for Lois Ehlert! The Virtual Book Club for Kids is Cohosted by
    Toddler Approved, Mommy and Me Book Club, Rainy Day Mum and The Educators’ Spin On It
    Participating Blogs
    Adventures in Reading with Kids – 3 Dinosaurs – Royal Baloo – – Inspiration Laboratories – Pleasantest Thing – Edventures with Kids – Two Big Two Little – Playing With Words 365 – Kitchen Counter Chronicles – Outlaw Mom – – Crafty Moms Share – No Twiddle Twaddle – The Good Long Road – Ready. Set. Read 2 Me – Reading Confetti – Mama Smiles – Juggling with Kids- Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas – Creekside Learning – Creative Family Fun – The Usual Mayhem – Teach Preschool – PlayDrMom – CraftoArt – Here Come the Girls – Being a Conscious Parent – Smiling like Sunshine – Crayon Freckles – Train Up a Child

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Sweet Mother’s Day Cards for Kids to Make

Making Mother’s Day crafts is something you can do in the classroom (if everyone in your class has a mom to craft for) or at home. Here are some easy ideas for Mother’s Day cards that kids can make.

Handprints are always popular in gifts for parents, and this handprint butterfly card from Frankly Speaking Too is a classic. This one uses handprints from two different kids, but you can do it with a single kid’s handprints as well.

Older kids can make a handprint that looks like their mom with this idea from Non Toy Gifts. The fingers can be painted mom’s hair color while other touches can be in her favorite color or kids can draw on glasses, etc. to make them look more like their own mom.

Our Kid Things has a super cute card with tissue paper flowers that would be fun to make for Mother’s Day or any other spring or summer holiday.

Or use different sizes and colors of cupcake liners to make even easier flowers for the front of a card, like in this tutorial from Feeling Nifty.

I also love this pasta “You Are My Sunshine” card from Crafty Morning. Great to get in a bit of painting and gluing practice, too.

Do some simple printmaking as part of your Mother’s Day craft time to make this card from Rainy Day Mum. Turning bottle prints into flowers is a great craft idea to use all year long, too.

You can also do printmaking with celery to make flowers that look sort of like roses to add to your Mother’s Day card. Mum in the Madhouse has all the details.

Or cut sponges into different shapes such as flowers and letters and use them as stamps to decorate cards. This idea comes from The Best Ideas for Kids. They made a tulip and spelled out mom but you could also do hearts, other flowers, whatever the kids want.

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