46 easy Mother's Day crafts for kids of all ages 2024 - Netmums (2024)

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Such an easy, but lovely, idea.

Buy gorgeous soaps then wrap in fabric and tie with ribbon or lace for a gorgeous gift that Mum will love.

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Make cute handmade cards and add a posh tea bag and a special message to give mum the gift of a five-minute break with a brew.

Even toddlers can make this one!

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Buy a cheery bunch of daffodils or tulips (or pick some wild flowers from your garden) and wrap in fabric or tissue.

Tie with mounds of raffia or ribbon for a lovely gift that will make Mum smile.

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Use colourful bun cases to make the prettiest bunch of spring flowers, like these ones made by First Palette.

Such a quick and easy spring craft for kids.

Instructions:

– Thread a button onto the end of a pipe cleaner and twist the end to secure it in place.
– Take two or three bun cases of different sizes. You can cut the bun case into smaller circles if you need to, or cut petal shapes out of them.
– Thread your pipe cleaner through all your bun cases until the button nestles in the centre of the top-most bun case.
– Make a few blooms and arrange them in a vase. You could also glue them to a piece of card to make a beautiful 3D card – perfect for Easter or Mother's Day.

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These salt and sugar scrubs are super easy to make, and they look and smell divine.

Toddlers and preschoolers will love getting messy to make these, too!

You can make salt scrubs with sea salt, and sugar scrubs using brown sugar.

They make your skin so soft and clean, and are a real luxury in a jar.

Instructions:

– Use one part oil to two parts salt/sugar – so for every spoon of oil, you add to your bowl, add two spoons of salt or sugar.
– For our most basic salt scrub, we mixed one part coconut oil to two parts sea salt.
– For our sugar scrub, we mixed one part almond oil with two parts brown sugar and then grated in some orange zest. Mix your ingredients well in a bowl.
– Spoon your scrub into a Kilner jar. Press down well.
– Add a pretty sticker to the top of your jars or as a label on the side, and tie on a gift tag.

You can try:

Simple salt scrub – made with one part coconut oil to two parts sea salt.

Sugar scrub – made with one part almond oil to two parts brown sugar with grated orange zest added in.

Lavender salt scrub – one part almond oil to two parts sea salt and add in dried lavender. You could also add a couple of drops of lavender essential oil.

Coconut lime salt or sugar scrub – use one part coconut oil to two parts sea salt or white sugar and add in grated lime zest or lime essential oil.

Shelf life

These scrubs should last at least six months, as long as they're stored in an airtight jar. They don't fare well if water gets into the mix. Salt scrubs last slightly longer than sugar scrubs.

When making them, check the shelf life of the oil you're using as a guide. Then, as long as they're stored in an airtight jar, that should be an indication of the product's shelf life too.

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Say thank you to Mum with a bunch of tissue flowers that will last a lot longer than the real thing!

Instructions:

– Thread a small bead (or you can use a button) through the end of a pipe cleaner and twist the ends to secure it in place.
– Take three tissue paper circles (it looks nice to use two contrasting colours and to 'sandwich' one of the different colours in between the top and bottom circles). Then poke the pipe cleaner through the circles.
– Scrunch all the way round the flower head to make petal shapes.
– Then either pop into a pretty vase to brighten your home or glue to a piece of card to make a beautiful 3D card.

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Even toddlers and preschool kids (with adult supervision due to the choking hazard) can make these pretty bead bracelets, as they're so easy.

They make for lovely colourful gifts.

Instructions:

– Gather some beads. You can buy them in packs really cheaply from craft shops or online. Or perhaps you have an old set of beads you can cut up?
– Thread the beads onto a pipe cleaner. You can use string or elastic but the beauty of a pipe cleaner is that it doesn't move around and is easy for little hands to thread.
– Once you have enough beads to go round Mum's wrist, twist the ends to fasten.
– These bracelets are so quick and easy, you could make a whole bunch and give some to all the mother figures in your life, from nans to aunties and even family friends.

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These pretty bracelets are just as easy as the pipe cleaner style to make, but are made with elastic instead.

– Choose a selection of beads in your chosen colour scheme.
– Take your thread or elastic, make a knot in one end and start threading your beads.
– When you have enough beads to fit around Mum's wrist, tie the elastic securely and then, to hide the knot, tie on a short length of pretty ribbon in a bow.
– Why not make a whole set of beaded bracelets to give as gifts?

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Make little clay pinch pots as lovely gifts. Your child can go to town on the painting and decoration to make each pot unique. You could fill with sweets or tiny treats, too.

Instructions:

– Roll clay into a ball between the palms of your hands. If you're doing this with very young children, warm up the clay in your own hands a bit first before they have a go.
– Place your clay ball on the table and use a thumb to make a deep hole in the centre.
– With your thumb at first, start to push the clay from the centre to the sides. Then use your fingers to pinch the sides and work all the way round the pot until you get a nice shape and thinnish sides.
– You can add detail by pressing in a drinking straw or a fork to make patterns.
– Mix some paint with PVA glue (a mix of about half and half).
– Now paint your pot. The PVA will act as a varnish when your pot is dry. Of course, you could simply paint, then varnish instead.

You can make these pots out of Fimo modelling clay or playdough, too.

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This craft is so simple and clever, and it gets the kids outside for a minute too!

Use black pen to draw a vase onto a piece of paper. Then pick fresh flowers from your garden or local park, and glue them onto the vase.

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These felt flower brooches are so quick and easy to make, and add a pop of colour to any outfit. Kids will need a grown-up to help them make them, though.

Instructions:

– Cut out a circle of felt. The bigger your circle, the bigger your brooch will be.
– Starting at the outer edge, cut your circle into a spiral.
– Then coil the spiral round, starting from the inside and working outwards.
– Secure your flower with a small stitch in matching thread.
– Turn your flower over and sew stitches all along the back to secure the flower shape in place.
– Sew on a safety pin or brooch to the back.

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You could put these together with a pretty apron or a gorgeous bowl, too.

Instructions:

– Buy some wooden kitchen utensils. We bought a set for under £2, and you should be able to find them at most home stores and even supermarkets. You'll make them look so much more expensive and unique by the time you've finished.
– Wrap some masking tape around the top of the 'neck' of your spoon or spatula. If you're painting a spatula, it looks nice to place the tape at an angle so you get a neat diagonal edge.
– Paint the handle of your spoon/spatula. We used acrylic paint.
– Once dry, peel off the tape and paint with a coat of food-safe varnish. Wrap your set of utensils with pretty paper and tie with a ribbon for an extra flourish.

Want to add more?

Include a bowl, a pretty apron or some baking goodies. Package together in a box or basket for the perfect gift for foodies.

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When you hang out the laundry, why not have the prettiest pegs in town?

Instructions:

– Take some wooden laundry pegs and choose three or four paint colours.
– Paint your pegs. If you paint the bottom of the pegs first then clip onto the side of a tin or mug, it's then easier to paint the tops.
– Dip a co*cktail stick into paint and print on tiny polka dots and stripes (or let the kids' imaginations run wild as they create their own designs, or even make the pegs into little people).
– Gather a bundle of pretty pegs and wrap with twine or ribbon and add a pretty gift tag to complete your pressie.

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These paper hyacinths look gorgeous in a vase.

- Cut out several thin strips of pink paper (you'll want 20-30 strips in total).
- Hold each strip flat between your thumb and a scissor edge, then pull the paper between the scissors and your thumb to make them roll up.
- You can add a little glue to the rolled pieces of paper to help them keep their shape.
- Paint a dowel rod green, or cover it in green paper.
- Glue your rolled up strips of paper onto the dowel road so that the top half is covered in paper petals.

Make sure that your kids are supervised by adults with this craft – you may need to take over with the scissors bit to avoid any unwanted cuts!

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How pretty are these flowers? They're actually made by printing with celery!

Such a quick and easy craft for kids, but a lovely one to make cards for Mother's Day.

Instructions:

– Cut the bottom section from a stick of celery – about 2cm from the bottom. This bit needs to be done by an adult.
– Dip the celery heart in red or pink paint.
– Print the celery on your piece of paper or card. The prints look like flowers.
– Finally, embellish by painting on leaves with green paint.

These prints are perfect for making special greetings cards. Let your children experiment with different colours of paint and printing with different parts of the celery to make different patterns.

You can print with a whole host of other vegetables, too – everything from the humble potato to broccoli, carrots and more.

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For all you animal lovers, this is a really simple collage craft to try.

You could also make a sheep with white and yellow paper, or a tortoise with different shades of green.

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Fold some pretty paper accordion-style and tie with a ribbon at the bottom.

Decorate your Japanese-style paper fan with flowers, to make a cute gift for Mum.

Some home decorating shops offer free or very cheap wallpaper offcuts, which would be perfect for this! Or the kids can just paint some plain paper with their own designs.

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A very easy craft for younger children to do.

All you need is some coloured card and some old loo rolls which you can decorate and turn into butterflies.

Browse more of our ideas for upcycled toilet roll tube crafts.

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For the bookworm in your life, these bookmarks make an adorable and thoughtful gift.

- Cut the tiger bookmark shape out of a coloured piece of card, with one rectangular end and the other end shaped like a tiger's head.

- Cut out two flaps to make the paws that will hold your book's page (this is a bit fiddly, so make sure you supervise young children).

- Finish by drawing on the tiger's face and stripes.

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Keep your old jam jars and repurpose them as pretty candle holders.

All you need is a little lace, or a lick of paint, to upcycle your glassware.

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Treat mum to a hamper of all her favourite things. This idea is less about cutting and pasting and more about choosing and arranging!

A hamper is really simple to put together:

• Pop in mum's favourite tea
• add yummy biscuits
• a lovely scented candle or soap to make it smell good
• then just arrange it all in a pretty box or basket
• add some ribbon and you've got a lovely, thoughtful gift!

Make it EXTRA personal ...

Add some thoughtful additions:

• share one of your favourite toys to show you trust her with your most precious possessions
• collect treasures from the garden for mum to keep as a special memory of her Mother's Day hamper.

Alternatively ...

Make your hamper into a Memory Box

It's easy to make your hamper into an 'All About Mum' hamper that's more like a memory box!

Include things that remind you most about mum.

Like:

• her favourite earrings
• her favourite flower
• her favourite chocolate
• the book you love to read together
• the toy you love to play with together.

It’s all about the memories…

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Treat mum to some tasty homemade biscuits.

Check our our super-simple recipe for delicious Mother's Day biscuits.

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Shortbread is super simple to make, with very few ingredients and tastes delicious.

Try our easy shortbread recipe for kids.

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These are really easy to make and the kids can have fun decorating them and making them look pretty for Mum.

Check out our simple fairy cake recipe.

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Handprint flower crafts are a great way to celebrate Mother's Day with kids.

Poster paints work brilliantly for this, and kids will love the feeling of paint squidging between their fingers!

Once you have your child's handprint, just quickly paint a stem and leaves for the full effect.

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Get the kids to paint and decorate some pebbles, to make cute paperweights for Mum.

Super fun and easy for toddlers to do, too.

You can just use your kids' regular paints, or if you want to get fancy, stick on some googly eyes to create an old-school pet rock.

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These delicious truffles are at once decadent and surprisingly easy to make!

Follow this recipe to whip up a mouth watering batch of chocolate truffles.

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You only need a microwave to make these delicious sweet snacks, which makes them perfect for baking with kids.

Our step-by-step recipe shows you how to put together these crunchy chocolate cornflake cakes.

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We found this gorgeous idea for a Mother's Day picture or card on Pinterest.

To make these effective rose prints just cut up some sponge, roll them up and secure with an elastic band.

Then dip the end into some red or pink paint to stamp a rose onto the page.

Add in a few details around your bunch of roses, like leaves, stems or a bouquet.

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How cute is this flower planter decorated with adorable thumbprint flowers by 5minutesformom.com?

If you can't get hold of an actual flower planted to decorate you can use any wooden crate.

The thumbprint flowers prints are a fun craft activity to do with little ones to celebrate Mother's Day.

The finished planted can be filled with flowers and herbs from the shop or you can plant your own seeds and watch them grow.

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These paper flower rings are an easy craft activity for mum to do with the kids to spend some quality time on Mother's Day.

Little girls and boys will love helping to make mum a ring on this special day.

Find the video with full instructions on easypeasyandfun.com

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These cute pebble love bugs double as a fun craft activity to do with the little ones to celebrate Mother's Day AND fun toys to keep them occupied so that you can enjoy a nice cup of tea when they're dry and ready to play with!

Just paint some pebbles shimmery white with a coloured heart chest, and glue on pairs of felt wings and googly eyes (or draw them on with a sharpie if you're worried the kids'll pick them off and put them in their mouths!)

Get full instructions on thecrafttrain.com

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The kids will love getting involved to make these pretty flowers for mum that'll never fade! Alternatively they could be a lovely gesture to send to grandma on Mother's Day.

Get the full instructions on iheartcraftythings.com

Find and inspiring quote to write inside your Mother's Day card

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Every mum deserves a crown on Mother's Day! We love this idea from designimprovised.com

All you need are glitzy coloured pipe cleaners, glitzy coloured pompoms, scissors and a glue gun.

Follow the link above for the full instructions, and don't forget to change 'MOM' to 'MUM' if you prefer it.

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This is a fun craft to do ahead of time if you want to give it as a gift for mum on her special day ... but if it's too late that's okay because it's also a lovely activity to do together!

There are loads of different ways to press flowers. You can do it the old fashioned way in a flower press, use a heavy book, or even do it in the microwave.

We got this idea from lilyardor.com.

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Inspired by hellowonderful.co these woven hearts are really effective and so easy!

• First get some sturdy card
• Fold it in half of you want to make it into a greeting card
• Use a pencil to light trace around the outline of a heart-shaped cake mould
• Alternatively you can draw a paper template to trace around – make it symmetrical by folding the paper in half, then draw half the heart, cut it out and unfold
• Next, using a large threading needle poke holes along the pencil line. You can do them further apart for younger kids so there is less weaving
• Now rub out the pencil line
• tie a knot in one end of the yarn and thread it through the first hole from the back so the know is concealed
• Weave the yarn in and out of holes on opposites sides of the heart until it's all filled in
• Knot it at the back to secure.

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Visit b-inspiredmama.com for free printable flowers and full instructions to make this pretty paper flower bowl.

It's a lovely Mother's Day gift and activity, not to mention, super easy to make!

Mum can use it on her dresser to keep trinkets and remember Mother's Day all year round.

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We love this easy but super cute craft activity inspired by kidscraftroom.com ...

... it's great for keeping the kids busy on Mother's Day so that mum can put her feet up and relax with some tea and cake!

• Make the wreath easily by cutting out two hearts (one big from coloured card, and one small from white paper).
• Then glue the white heart on top of the coloured heart.
• Attach a ribbon at the top to hang it by.
• Next, fill the wreath with cut-out paper flowers. You can use a flower-shaped paper punch if you have one to make it easier for little ones.
• In the centre get your kids to write you a special message.

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We know how our readers love a good printable craft activity for the kids to get stuck into on special occasions ...

... and so we found this adorable love bug in a jar printable on gluedtomycraftsblog.com.

Just print them off and you kids can make a love bug inside the jar using their own thumbprints and some paint or ink.

Add a smily face and antennas with a black pen, and any other adornments they wish - like heart stickers, sequins, biodegradable glitter, mini pompoms etc.

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This sentimental handmade card is a lovely Mother's Day keepsake. You can even get the kids to help you make one for Grandma!

Just cut out all the following parts for the flower:

• 1 yellow circle for the centre
• 6 large petals of any colour
• 2 green leaves
• 1 green stalks

Then write in the middle – 'I love Grandma/mum because...' and fill in all the reasons on each petal!

This idea is inspired by mamapapabubba.com

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If you liked the flower wreath idea, you'll love this 3D version with paper roses, inspired by easypeasyandfun.com

You'll need a large piece of foam board to cut out a heart-shaped weather base.

To make the roses use a variety of different coloured papers, cut out circles and then cut each one into a thick spiral. Next wrap the spiral around itself starting at the centre to make a rose!

Check out the link above to see how and find out how to make different shaped flowers to stick onto your wreath.

What a lovely way to spend Mother's Day!

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What mum doesn't love a nice cuppa tea? If the kids want to make a handmade Mother's Day card and gift try out this idea from intheplayroom.com

It cleverly uses part of an egg carton and a pipe cleaner for the teacup so you can slip a fancy teabag inside!

Maybe you could all get messy in the kitchen on Mother's Day to bake a nice cake to go with the cup of tea. Get some ideas for Mother's Day cakes and bakes.

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Inspired by craftprojectsideas.com this fun rainbow craft using popsicle sticks and string is a great way to get the kids to sit down and think about how much they appreciate mum!

To make:

• Paint all the popsicle sticks in fun colours (both sides)
• Write 'What I love about mum ...' on one of the sticks, replacing the word 'love' with a picture of a heart
• Write all the things you love about mum on each stick
• Lay the sticks down in order with the backs facing up
• glue the string down each side on the back of the sticks, leave enough at the top for a loop to hang
• Wait for it to dry before picking it up and al the sticks should be held together by the string!