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.

Michaelmas is one of those holidays that is religious in nature but also has a more secular meaning, especially in England.

Michaelmas is variously known as the Feast Day of saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael or the Feast of the Archangels, and it is generally celebrated on September 29 (or November 8 in Eastern Christian calendars). In England it also marks the end of a quarter both financially and academically (if you’ve ever read a book that talks about Michaelmas term, this is what it’s talking about) and historically the end of the farming year, when accounts would be settled.

In a religious context it celebrates Michael’s defeat of Satan, which also involves slaying, or a least controlling, a dragon, but it’s also a day to mark the progression of the year into fall because it falls near the equinox.

Waldorf educational communities celebrate Michaelmas because Rudolf Steiner believed it was the second most important festival of the year after Easter. They may have a play or a field day celebrating feats of strength and overcoming fears. Season to Gather has a guide available for purchase that includes the story of St. Michael and the dragon, crafts and activities, recipes and more with a Waldorf approach.

I also found this publication from a Waldorf school that has lots of ideas for celebrating Michaelmas with groups of kids, doing things like obstacle courses, rope tugs and races. The booklet also includes songs and recipes to try.

Because they both have to do with saints and dragons, you can pull out your St. George’s Day activities for Michealmas, too, but here are a few more ideas specific to Michaelmas. I’d love to hear about your traditions if this is a holiday you celebrate.

Faith and Fabric has a cute St. Micheal softie project kids or adults can make.

Catholic Icing has a printable pack for purchase that includes stand up figures of the angels in color and black and white as well as coloring pages and the St. Michael prayer printable. She also has a printable party pack with a banner and angels you can use as cupcake toppers.

There are a lot of traditional foods that are involved in a Michaelmas celebration including bannock (a Scottish harvest bread), blackberries and goose (though many people sub chicken or Cornish game hens these days). You can also throw in angel food cake, or devil’s food cake, deviled eggs or spicy foods to celebrate overcoming the devil.

Another traditional activity at Michaelmas is hitting a pinata that is shaped either like Satan or a dragon. You can see this in action and get more details about how one family celebrates Michaelmas at Catholic All Year.

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