Mother’s Day Plant Pot Family Wind Chime for Kids – A Cute Keepsake Craft for Parents, Teachers, and Classrooms

April 11, 2026 by Shellie Wilson Leave a Comment

If you are looking for a Mother’s Day craft that feels a little more meaningful than the usual quick paper activity, this Plant Pot Family Wind Chime is a really sweet option. The original project uses terracotta pots in different sizes to represent family members, then adds painted faces, twine, beads, and foam message pieces to turn it into a hanging keepsake gift. It is one of those crafts that feels personal straight away, which is probably why it has such strong Mother’s Day appeal.

What I like about this one is that it gives kids the chance to make something that actually feels gift-worthy. Instead of sending home another flat craft that gets tucked into a drawer, this is the kind of project a mum or grandma might genuinely hang up and keep. Little people can have fun deciding who each pot represents, painting the faces, and choosing the colours, which gives the whole craft a lot of personality.

From a parent or teacher point of view, I would say this is best as a guided activity rather than a totally independent one. The project includes painting, sealing, threading twine through the pots, and securing beads and foam pieces, so it is better suited to older kids or younger children who have some adult help nearby. That said, it is still very manageable if you prep a few parts in advance, and I can easily see this working well for a small classroom group, a church craft session, or a Mother’s Day activity at home on the weekend. One of the comments on the original post even mentions it would be a good spring project for Sunday school kids, which feels very on brand for this kind of craft.

It also has that lovely slightly wonky handmade charm that makes kids’ crafts so special. Not every painted face will be neat, and not every pot will hang perfectly straight, but honestly that is part of what makes it feel made with love. Those are usually the crafts that end up meaning the most anyway.

This is definitely one of those crafts that takes a little more effort than a five-minute printable, but that extra effort is exactly what gives it keepsake value. For teachers wanting a memorable Mother’s Day project, or parents looking for something handmade and heartfelt, this one has plenty of charm.

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Learning Numbers for Preschoolers

Learning numbers actually involves a few different skills, from recognizing the shape of the number and knowing the word that goes with it to understanding one to one correspondence for counting and what order the numbers go in.

A lot of this is learned best through play and activities that get kids counting and tracing and otherwise interacting with numbers. These activities can help.

I specifically mentioned tracing above because of these number formation rhymes cards from Teaching Mama, which can be used in lots of ways to practice making the shapes of the numbers, including tracing, lining up items on the number shapes (and counting them!), using playdough to shape the numbers and so on. Each number has a little rhyme to help you remember how to make it, which is cute.

And speaking of playdough, you can find lots of playdough number mats with different themes for kids to use as they learn about numbers. Preschool Play and Learn, for example, has these cute apple themed ones that also teach one to one correspondence as you learn the numbers and count to 10.

Or use these tree-themed ones from Live Over Cs to form the numbers, count out items on a ten frame and place the correct number of items in the tree to match the number (do this with playdough, little buttons or whatever manipulatives you have on hand). Your little builders will also love these Duplo number mats from Life Over Cs, which allow you to shape the number out of blocks and count out the number of blocks that corresponds to each number.

I also love these mats from The Savvy Sparrow that include the number and the word you can trace with playdough or marker, showing how to count the number on your fingers, a tens frame and a number line.

Finger plays and counting songs are lots of fun for little ones, too, and Childhood 101 has a great collection of songs and rhymes having to do with numbers (as well as printable song cards you can use with them.

This cardboard roll number chain form Hands On As We Grow would be a fun addition to singing number songs or to use in other play and counting games. And we all love something easy to make with stuff we already have.

Older kids who already know the order of numbers can also use these connect the dot number printables from Fun Learning for Kids. Or use the shapes for playdough mats or to practice tracing even for kids who don’t know all the numbers in order yet.

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