Flowers to Make Mom for Mother’s Day

April 2, 2026 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

It’s nice to get flowers for Mother’s Day, but even better to get kid-made flower crafts that you can keep for years. Check out these easy flower crafts for Mother’s Day that kids can make, or at least help with.

These pretty paper flowers from Made with Happy are made from circular petals, which kids can cut out or you can use a punch if you have one. They use construction paper so you probably already have what you need to make them.

Older kids can make more involved projects like these flower shaped salt dough magnets. This idea from The Best Ideas for Kids can be totally made by kids, or younger kids can decorate them. They can also be made into picture frame magnets, which is always a good choice for moms and grandmas.

Handprint crafts are another classic, like these handprint lilies from One Little Project. You’ve probably seen flowers like these before but they’re always popular because they’re so pretty and easy to make.

Try your hands at origami with these pretty origami tulips from Red Ted Art. The post says this is a good one for beginners and that even preschoolers can make one with help. Use them on a card or make a bouquet.

Another option for tulips is shown in this Mother’s Day card video tutorial from CraftISH Corner. These are cut out by hand from petal shapes as shown in the video.

I love this flower that folds into a heart and unfolds back into a flower. I found a video showing it on Pinterest from Child Fuel but I can’t find their template, so see also the heart shaped flower idea from Easy Peasy and Fun to get a template for this one.

And one more video I also found on Pinterest but was able to track down the original on Instagram from Ballarteskids. She used sticky note squares to make the flower shape, but you could use any paper cut into a square. So fun!

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Celebrating Terry Fox Day

In our continuing exploration of lesser known holidays, let’s take a look at Terry Fox Day, which is probably one you know if you’re Canadian.

Terry Fox was a Canadian athlete who had a leg amputated at age 18 because of cancer and then did a cross-country run to raise awareness and funding for cancer research. He was born July 28, 1958, and the first Monday in August is celebrated as Terry Fox Day in Manitoba.

Fox is considered a kind of folk hero in Canada despite the difficulties of traveling across Canada on foot (no one on his team spoke French, for example, the weather was often bad and cars would force him off the road) and the low number of donations at the beginning of his run. He ultimately had to end his run after 143 days and 3,339 miles, or 5,373 km, because his cancer had returned and spread to his lungs, but he raised $1.7 million, and a telethon a week after he ended his run raised $10.5 million.

Check out some Terry Fox quotes collected by My Little Desire. You can learn more in this video from CBC Kids, and listen to the Terry Fox song illustrated by a first grade class.

Twinkl has a bunch of Terry Fox related activities in both English and French, including an activity pack with a maze and word search, a coring challenge, a fact sheet and coloring page.

Most of the resources I could find were at Teachers Pay Teachers, but you can learn more about the activity pack for grades 1-3 that Mrs. Bremer’s Class has made, which tells his story and has kids write things they learned and discuss why they think he is a hero.

Creative Classroom Core has a few paid resources include writing activities, reading comprehension and a Terry Fox fact book.

That Fun Reading Teacher has a K-2 singalong with a differentiated reader and activity to teach kids about him.

You can also celebrate Terry Fox Day by talking about what makes a person a hero and who the kids in your home or classroom think of as heroes. And if you’re Canadian, there are Terry Fox runs in more than 650 communities in September, so you can make plans to participate or cheer on the runners to remember his legacy.

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