Mother's Day Crafts for Kids: Handprint Card, Flowers and Frame

Quick answer

Cut out handprints and plant them in a paper flowerpot for a card, make heart flowers with tissue-paper centres, or decorate a plain frame with paint, glitter and buttons. Ages 3 to 7.

Mother's Day is a special chance for children to show their love, and a homemade gift beats anything from a shop. Here are three ideas to make with your children, each simple enough for little hands with a grown-up nearby.

Handprint flowerpot card with a flower sticker on each fingertip

1. Handprint flowerpot card

Cut-out handprints with a flower sticker on each fingertip, planted in a paper flowerpot.

Best forCutting practice and gift making
Age3 to 7
Time20 minutes
Mess levelLow
DifficultyEasy
CostUnder £2

You will need

Card and coloured paper
Pencil and scissors
Flower stickers
Glue

How to set it up

Draw around your child's hand and cut it out.
Add a flower sticker to the end of each finger.
Cut out a flowerpot shape and glue it over the bottom of the hand so the flowers grow out of the pot.

Why it helps

Cutting around fingers is a real scissor challenge, and placing a sticker on each fingertip practises precision. The card records your child's hand size, which is why parents keep them.

Safety notes

Child-safe scissors and supervision while cutting.

Paper heart flowers with scrunched tissue-paper centres on pipe-cleaner stems

2. Paper heart flowers

Paper hearts on pipe-cleaner stems with scrunched tissue-paper centres. A gift for someone special.

Best forCutting, scrunching and gluing
Age3 to 7
Time20 minutes
Mess levelLow
DifficultyEasy
CostUnder £2

You will need

Colourful paper
Pipe cleaners
Tissue paper
Glue and scissors

How to set it up

Cut hearts from the coloured paper.
Glue a pipe cleaner to the back of each heart as a stem.
Scrunch small pieces of tissue paper and glue them to the heart to make a 3D flower.

Why it helps

Scrunching tissue paper is a workout for the small hand muscles, and cutting the hearts practises scissor control.

Safety notes

Child-safe scissors and supervision. Bend the pipe-cleaner ends over so no wire is exposed.

Picture frame decorated with paint, glitter and buttons for Mother's Day

3. Decorated picture frame

A plain frame decorated with paint, glitter and buttons, with a photo or a traceable 'I love you' inside.

Best forDecorating and mark making
Age3 to 7
Time30 minutes, plus drying
Mess levelMedium
DifficultyEasy
CostUnder £5

You will need

A plain wooden or card picture frame
Paint, glitter, buttons and other embellishments
Glue
A photo, or paper for a dotted message

How to set it up

Paint the frame and let it dry.
Glue on buttons, glitter and any other decorations.
Add a photo of your child, or write 'I love you' in dots for them to trace over, and put it in the frame.