A Mother’s Day Craft that Will Hand the Moms in Your Life a Smile

It is hard to believe that I will be celebrating my second Mother’s Day already! Although my little one hasn’t started making me homemade crafts – I’ll give her a break, she’s only 14 months 🙂 – I can foresee in my future these being my most treasured gifts! Here is a fun craft that your kids are a part of that will definitely ~hand~ the moms in your life a HUGE smile!

What You Need:

Acrylic Paints

Paint brush

Cardstock or construction paper

Green straws, dowels, tongue depressors
(I used green Starbucks straws…I always grab extras when I go to have them on hand at home…shh don’t tell :p )

Scissors

Hot Glue Gun

A Child’s Hand and Foot

What To Do…

1. Brush a good coat of paint onto your child’s hands and press on the paper to create the handprint. Apply more paint as needed and make a few handprints on each page. Repeat with other colors of paint – fully cleaning the hand and paintbrush with the previous color of paint. Repeat with one foot – this will serve as your “vase”. If you have multiple kids, put their name on each of their own handprints or do certain colors for each child.
   
2. After they have fully dried, cut around each handprint and footprint.
3. Arrange on a 12×12 piece of cardstock to look like a bouquet of flowers.
4. Use the hot glue gun to secure the handprints to the straws (or dowels or tongue depressors; or you can even use a green marker to draw the stems) and under the footprint vase. Cut the straws different lengths so you can arrange the handprints more visibly. Secure the “flowers” to the paper with a dot of hot glue behind each one.
   
5. Write a cute message at the bottom for Mother’s Day with your child’s/children’s names and ages!

This was such a fun craft to do and I know it will be such a meaningful gift for the moms/grandmas in my/Sophie’s life!