Share you Mother's Day Craft

[yodaone]

Let's share our mother's day craft ideas! Ready... go!

[Crazy8]

I was just searching pinterest for something new that maybe I haven't done a bunch of times in the last 15 years, !

I am thinking maybe a canvas tote bag with the kids painting on them. Tired of flower handprints but will either do those or handprint sun or maybe just let them go to town painting on them and have "mom" in tape or something to peel off.

Would love some other ideas!

[Baby Beluga]

We are doing shrinky dink necklaces:

http://dollarstorecrafts.com/2012/05/tutorial-kid-art-necklace-for-mothers-day/

[Sunshine74]

We made keychains with beads and a Sculpy (clay) heart at the bottom with their fingerprint. I will post a picture after nap.

[Unregistered]

Michael's keyrings. Pic on one side, drawing with name & year on the other. Haven't done them for a while but moms seem to like them.

[Josiegirl]

We're making oven mitts with the handprint in fabric paint, then printing Happy Mother's Day, Love, ...... 2016. In the process of doing cards too. I just have to find a cute Mom's Day poem I haven't used before and print off pictures of them. It's so hard when you've been doing this a lot of years and I am NOT an original creative thinker..

For some reason I thought I had another week to procrastinate but found out it's THIS Sunday. Ackkkk

[NillaWafers]

We are doing a bunch of stuff. Handprint flowers, we did the "all about my mom questionnaire", we are going to mix Epsom salts with some coloring and essential oil to make lavender bath salts, package them in a small mason jar. I'm also going to take pictures of the kids holding a sign that says, "My mom is awesome because....." and fill in what they say. I have a nice camera so I"ll print those and give them to them.

It's mother's day week here. Too bad I teach my own kids so I don't get these nice things myself

[Unregistered]

I bought plain wooden frames and black chalkboard paint. Developed pictures of the kids. Having the children paint the frame them use chalk to decorate it for their moms. Cost me less than $3 per child.

[Michael]

More crafts here: https://www.daycare.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82334

[Sunchimes]

I just have 2 kids, one barely 2, one not quite 2. I try to do things that they can do most of, so that I'm not sending home my own work.

I traced their arms and hands and used them as patterns for 2 crafts. One is a tree, with hands as the trunk and branches. They glued hearts on the tree like leaves. I used the full arm on their cards. I printed out a poem, then crisscrossed the construction paper arms like a hug.

I'll also do the handprint flower pot. I was going to do a paper plate garden, but I may let that go.

Thank goodness for Pinterest.

[Sunchimes]

Michael's keyrings. Pic on one side, drawing with name & year on the other. Haven't done them for a while but moms seem to like them.

What are Michael's keyrings? I'm already searching for Father's day ideas.

[LovingLife]

I've got a variety of ages. We colored with markers (or fingerprint flowers, or thumbprint hearts) on tissue paper cut to size. I wrapped it around a plain candle, and heated it with a hairdryer to melt the picture onto the candle. They turned out pretty cute.

[Unregistered]

Craft store - Michael's, probably other craft stores too - sells a plastic rectangle attached to a key ring. Kids color on a paper insert, or do any flat kind of art really, and I always have put a picture of the child in too and if kids are writing, they can write their name too. You snap two pieces of plastic together with the art and pics in between the plastic pieces. Wrap it, make a card, done. Each time we've done it moms have loved it - their child is always with them.

Babies or toddlers can do fingerprints or fingerpaint.

[Sunchimes]

Oh. I was thinking our Michael had posted an idea sometime in the past. It's been a long week. Thanks.

[hope]

I've got a variety of ages. We colored with markers (or fingerprint flowers, or thumbprint hearts) on tissue paper cut to size. I wrapped it around a plain candle, and heated it with a hairdryer to melt the picture onto the candle. They turned out pretty cute.

I saw your post and went on youtube to see how this is done. It is beautiful! Lools like you can do soap also with the same process. Can these candles be lit?