Sweet Mother’s Day Cards for Kids to Make

April 11, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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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Try This Fun Bake Off Drawing Challenge with a Group of Kids

My daughter is 16 and one of her favorite things to do on school breaks is watch The Great British Bake Off. It’s such a soothing show, as well as being creative and fun, and it’s low stakes enough that it isn’t stressful, which is just the thing you need when you’re on a break from school.

If you don’t have an oven or want to do your own real Bake Off challenges, this baking show inspired drawing challenge from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls is a great alternative. This works best if you have a group of kids to play, but you could also do it along with a child at home.

The post includes a bunch of different “baking” challenges for kids to draw. As an example: “Draw a dozen delicious doughnuts! Be sure to include at least two different flavors of icing. Challenge yourself to think of as many creative toppings as you can.”

Give them a set amount of time (maybe 10-15 minutes) to draw their creations based on the prompt. Then have each child present their creation, explaining what they chose to draw and why (and what the different flavors are if it’s not obvious).

There doesn’t have to be a winner, but kids can vote on their favorites or you can “award” things like most colorful, tallest creation, etc. Sarah suggests if doing this with little kids you can come up with an award for everyone, but there need not be prizes involved.

With older kids you might do a couple of rounds and pick winners so that you can have a “star baker” just like in the show.

This is a game that would be a lot of fun for kids of different ages, and you can do it multiple times with the different prompts.

Get all the details and the challenge cards from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls.

[Photo: Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls]

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