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.

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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