Homemade Mother's Day card - for your child to make
The most thoughtful, touching Mother's Day gift has to be a handmade card from a child, sticky with glue and maybe a bit wonky in places, but created with love. With these simple step-by-step instructions, you can help a child make this beautiful spring flower card for Mothering Sunday on 10 March 2024
The most thoughtful, touching Mother's Day gift has to be a handmade card from a child, sticky with glue and maybe a bit wonky in places, but created with love.
With these simple step-by-step instructions, you can help a child make this beautiful spring flower card for Mothering Sunday on 10 March 2024
What you'll need
- Pencil
- Thick coloured paper in green, plus 2 other colours (we've used orange and yellow/purple)
- Scissors*
- A4 sheet of white paper or card
- Glue
*Adult supervision required
Step 1
Draw a flower with 3 petals on a piece of thick coloured paper, and then carefully cut out the shape you have drawn
Step 2
Make a fold down the middle of each petal neatly, roughly following the dotted lines shown below
Step 3
Then make another fold between each petal to make a flower shape
Step 4
Fold a long piece of green paper in half lengthwise and cut a thin leaf shape against the fold. Remember to keep the paper folded as you cut
Step 5
Cut a stem from green paper. Then, from the orange paper, cut 3 small strips with points at one end to make the flower's stamens
Step 6
Fold the sheet of white A4 paper or card in half. Glue on your stem, leaf, and stamens, then stick the flower on top
And there you are – all done!
How to add some special extra touches...
You can also add more flowers to create a meadow effect (see above right), or use a different coloured background to give greater depth (see above left).
Images: With thanks to the Little Children's Book of Things to Do