Mothers Day Crafts
Mothers Day crafts you can make at home
This year, make it a truly happy Mother’s Day with gifts and activities centered around a theme, based on something Mom really likes. Mother’s Day activities can include a “craft day” for homemade Mother’s Day gifts. Here are some ideas for simple and inexpensive Mother’s Day crafts that anyone can make.
Mother’s Day Craft Ideas
Decorated containers, hand-painted gardening gloves, hand-painted coffee mugs and decoupage serving trays are all attractive and functional homemade Mother’s Day gifts. They can all be tied to a common theme, they are easy to assemble, and you can use common household objects to make them.
Have everyone decide which Mother’s Day craft ideas they want to use and make a list of needed materials. As part of the Mother’s Day activities, shop craft and other stores in advance. You can also select Mother’s Day cards on your outing.
Homemade Mother’s Day Gifts
Decorated containers make great homemade Mother’s Day gifts that can help Mom stay organized. Decide beforehand the size and shape of container you want. You can use cardboard boxes or wood, tin and glass containers, with or without tops.
Cover boxes with fabric, secured with craft glue, and decorate them with photos, ribbon, sequins or small beads. You can glue cotton to the box before covering it to create a cushioned effect. Paint wood or tin boxes and glass containers with acrylic paint, using stencils for designs.
Other Mother’s Day ideas include finding some colorful rubberized or vinyl gardening gloves, painting the fingertips a contrasting color, and drawing or stenciling pictures on them with colored opaque marking pens. Outline the pictures with a black marker pen. Or paint/stencil plain white or solid-colored coffee mugs with designs, words or pictures.
More Mother’s Day Activities
For floral-themed Mother’s Day activities, create a decoupage serving tray by gluing floral pictures, pressed flowers, ribbon and small leaves onto any wood or metal serving tray, and then coating with a layer of thinned white craft glue. Be certain the decoupage items are all completely flat before coating to avoid an uneven surface!
Use the tray to serve Mom breakfast in bed. Include a tiny vase of fresh-cut Mothers Day flowers. Serve coffee, tea or juice in the hand-painted mugs and fill decorated boxes with other gifts, including the gardening gloves.
If weather permits, pack a happy Mother’s Day lunch of Mom’s favorite foods and take her to a park with a floral display or to a botanical garden for a picnic.
