Heart-inspired crafts for Mother’s Day

Time is ticking and Mother’s Day is tomorrow! There are so many great crafts you can make with the littlies that make a great gift for Mother’s Day. Here are a few fun ideas that your kids will love making, and their mommy will love receiving!

Hand-printed canvas

How to make it:

• Using any non-toxic paint, paint your child’s hands and arm in brown and help them place it in the centre of a canvas to form a tree stump and branches.
• Using red or pink paint, paint the tips of your child’s thumb and create heart-shaped leaves on the branches by placing two thumbprints at slightly opposing angles.
• Sign your tot’s name and the date on it and give it to their mom as a special keepsake.

Matchbox gifts

How to make it:

• You’ll need several empty matchboxes and a selection of pretty wrapping paper for this craft.
• Cut the paper to the size of a matchbox and glue it around the box to cover.
• Use ribbons, buttons, and little embellishments to decorate the boxes, then fill them with sweets.
• Add a personal message for mom.

Heart wreath

How to make it:

• Using sheets of double-sided scrapbooking paper cut into strips of about 3cm wide and 25cm long, fold in half to form the bottom point of a heart.
• Fold in the two sides to create your heart shape and glue the ends together.
• Glue the outside edge of each heart at the widest part placing the hearts together to form a circle. Use paper clips to keep the wreath together while the glue dries.
• To finish, loop ribbon through one of the hearts so you hang the wreath up.

Cupcake rosettes

How to make them:

• Use a variety of different sizes and coloured paper cupcake holders for this fun craft.
• Pinching the centre of the cupcake holder in your fingers ‘scrunch’ the centre of each one. This creates the ruffled look of the cupcake holders. The more you scrunch the more ruffled the edges will look.
• Layer the smaller scrunched cupcake holders on top of the larger ones and glue them in the center to keep them together.
• Cut little heart shapes out of cardboard and decorate with glitter glue (or just glitter). Glue these to the front of your rosette.
• Cut ribbon to size and glue to the back.
• Glue a little safety pin at the back – so mom can pin it on to her clothing.

Tip: These rosettes are also fabulous glued or pinned onto cards that your child can write in. If pinned, they can be taken off the card and worn.

Buttons of love cushion

Download the template and instructions for the buttons of love cushion here.