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.

Ghost crafts are a lot of fun for kids to make and they’re a way to get into Halloween crafting that’s not really scary. Here are some easy ghost crafts for you to make with kids, whether it’s your kiddo at home or a class full.

I love this simple ghost made with a pompom or cotton ball covered in paint and used as a stamp. This one is from Crafts on Sea and you can have kids just hold the pompom or hold it with a clothespin to make it a little less messy.

Use cotton balls and printable facial expressions to make these silly ghosts from Housing a Forest. The post includes the printable templates or you can just add googly eyes.

Little fabric ghosts are a classic, whether you make them with white fabric or fall or Halloween fabric. Buggy and Buddy shows you how to make these little ghosts with a few cute embellishments. Just make one or two or make a garland or Halloween tree full of them.

There always seem to be paper plates lying around, and this paper plate ghost from Crafts by Amanda is a fun one. There’s a printable in the post for the facial features and arms, or kids can draw their own faces (and leave off the arms if you want to keep it simple).

What kid doesn’t love peeling dried glue? Turn that impulse into a craft with these glue ghosts from Friends Art Lab, and don’t miss the tip in the post that helps you turn these into window clings.

This handprint ghost in the window craft from Glued to My Crafts is so cute and easy for kids to make alone or with help. The post shows lots of variations so it would be fun to make these in a classroom and let each kiddo design their own “window” or add embellishments.

These sweet little tissue paper ghosts from Red Ted Art are actually mini pinatas, but you can just make it as a ghost without anything inside if you’d rather.

And you know I love a good kids’ sewing project so I can’t resist sharing these little felt ghost puppets from The Craft Train. Kids can sew them by hand or you can make them out of paper if you don’t want to try sewing them. The template for the ghosts is free to download, and you can also just make little softies instead of puppets if you like.

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