Mother's Day Crafts

From LoveToKnow Crafts

Mother’s Day are just as much a tradition as the holiday itself. Whether you’re a dad looking for some ideas for presents from the kids, or a child looking for something fun to give mom on her special day, here are some ideas for great Mother’s Day crafts.

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Mother's Day Crafts: Painted Flower Pots

Terra cotta flower pots are inexpensive and widely available. Use an unglazed terra cotta pot and acrylic paints to paint on whatever design you like. If there are multiple kids in the family, each child can paint a different pot. The pots can be sealed if you want to plant something that you will eat in that pot. Or plant a colorful flower in the pot, and wrap it with colorful cellophane and a pretty bow.

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Mother's Day Crafts: Picture frames

Every mother needs more pictures of her kids, so a picture frame is a great Mother’s Day gift. A plain wooden frame can be sanded and painted or decoupaged (think about using pieces of old artwork or school papers on the frame). Or take a smooth-surfaced plain picture frame, spread thin glue all over, and glue beads or glitter to the frame. You could even do this in stages and spell out words in beads on the frame. Frames with beads on them will need to be sealed (you can buy clear sealer at a crafts store on the glue aisle) so that the beads won’t fall off as easily.

Other framing options include gluing on items that are meaningful to mother or child. Or you could collect acorns, rocks or other natural objects to glue to the frame. Or simply make a frame from a collection of small twigs. Use three or four twigs of about the same length on each side of the frame, and tie them together with twine. Use a little bit of glue to secure if necessary. Attach a piece of cardboard to the back with some double-stick tape to hold the photo in.

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Mother's Day Crafts:Napkin Rings

Plastic beads are easy to work with and come in many different colors. Use pipe cleaners to make rings, and decorate with various colors of tri-beads (these are shaped like triangles and stack together nicely) or pony beads (round).

Older kids or children who can get a parent to help could use bracelet-sized memory wire for this project. This is a heavy-gauge wire that is coiled in the shape of a bracelet. Each package will have about 12 rounds in it, but it’s all one strand, so you will need to use a wire cutter to snip a little more than a whole ring off for each napkin ring.

Use needle-nosed pliers to bend a little curl into the end of the wire. It should be tight enough that it won’t poke people using the rings, but loose enough that it holds the beads on the ring.

Thread the beads on the wire in a pattern or randomly (a pattern is nice because it lets you make all the rings match). You’ll need about 50 beads for each ring, and should make four to eight rings for each gift, depending on how many people are in your family or normally eat with you at meals where cloth napkins are used.

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Mother's Day Crafts: Candle Holders

Get a glass baby food jar, clean it up, remove the label and decorate it. Or buy a plain glass votive candle holder. Some options for decorating include paint pens, decoupage, gluing or taping on a drawing, gluing on glitter or beads, or really anything you want.

Add a small votive candle. A collection of three or four of these candle holders makes a really cute gift.

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Mother's Day Crafts: Homemade Cards

Get a pre-made blank card or fold a piece of card stock into a card shape. Decorate the outside of the card with markers, paint, crayons, stickers, glitter, or whatever else you want. On the inside, write a poem to mom or a statement about why you love her or what she means to you.

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Mother's Day Crafts: Bath Salts

If mom has a bathtub, make her some relaxing bath salts. Combine two cups of Epsom salt with one cut of sea salt in a large glass bowl. Add ¼ teaspoon glycerin (available at grocery stores in the pharmacy or at natural foods stores), a few drops of food coloring (don’t make it too dark or it will stain the tub) and four or five drops of essential oil (also available at natural foods stores). Lavender is a great choice, but rose, orange, vanilla, or any other scent your mother likes are good choices.

Put the salts in a jar with a cork or screw-on lid (it’s important to keep moisture out or the salts will get clumpy). Add a little tag with the recipe printed on it and an instruction to use 1/3 to ½ a cup in each bath.

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