DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
3D Mother's Day Paper Craft

This is a cute, simple paper craft that results in a 3D ornament you can hang around the room.  Hang it up to decorate a "surprise" Mother's Day party!

Materials:

• printer,
• paper,
• scissors,
• something to color with (if using the B&W version),
• hole punch,
• string, thread, ribbon or wool.
• Optional:  thin cardboard

Instructions:

• Print template of choice and color as necessary.
• Cut out the template pieces.
• Fold each piece in half (on the dashed line) so they are all colored on both the front and the back.
• Optional:  Put thin cardboard in between the front and back of each template piece to make them a bit sturdier.
• Glue together so the pieces are colored on both sides.
• 3D Hearts:
  • Cut on one of the dotted lines of each template piece (only cut as far as the dotted line goes, not all the way through the piece).
  • Slide the pieces together, top to bottom
  • Glue a piece of ribbon, string or thread onto the top (or hole punch a small hole and tie a ribbon through).  If you hole punch, do it through the heart that is cut from the bottom, not the one that is cut from the top.
• Happy Mother's Day sign:
  • punch three holes in the bottom of the Happy Mother's Day sign template (one in the center and one on each edge).
  • String one heart through each of the holes so it hangs down from the sign.
  • Punch a hole in the bottom of the middle heart and string the fourth heart through that hole
• Optional:
  • Print as many copies of template 3 as you like and keep adding hearts to the bottom of the other hearts and the Happy Mother's Day sign to make a very busy scene!
  • 'numbers practice' -- count the hearts.
  • 'colors practice' -- color the background of each heart a different color.

Craft Templates:

• Close template window when done printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Template 1    color   or   B&W

Template 2    color   or   B&W

Template 3    color   or   B&W

Printable version of these instructions