DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Mother's Day Muffin Flower Card

These are simple and fun crafts for even the youngest children to do as a decoration or a Mother's Day card.

The center of the flower can be further decorated with sequins, small seeds or a photo.   We glued a small photo of Kaitlyn (she made the card) into the center of the flower.

Materials:

• a printer (or draw your own stem and leaves).
• glue,
• scissors,
• a piece of paper.
• Two muffin cups (the paper cups you make muffins or cupcakes in) - we used one small and one large, but you could use two of the same size.
• Something the color with (paint, crayons, markers, etc) -- pink, silver and purple are nice choices for mother's day.
• Small photo

Instructions:

• Colour the two muffin cups mother's day colours (they will be the flower head).
  • This step should be first, especially if using paint, so it has a chance to dry while you're doing the other steps.
  • Set aside to dry.
• Print out the craft template of choice.
• Cut out the template pieces and colour if necessary.
• Fold a piece of construction paper in half to make a card.
• Glue the leaves and the stem onto the front of the card.
• Glue the two muffin cups onto the top of the stem (one on top of the other) to form the flower.
  • Flatten out the bottom cup a bit more than the top cup so you can see the petals.
  • you can use more than two cups if you want... the more cups you use, the more petals your flower will have.
• Print "Happy Mother's Day!" on the card.
• You can decorate the card further by colouring in grass.  Alternatively, you can use balled up pieces of green tissue paper as grass.
• Optional:  Glue a photo into the center of the flower.
• Fill the inside of your card with hand drawn pictures, a photo, stickers or a message to the person you're giving your card to.
      

Templates:    

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

Template   (color)   or   (B&W)

Printable version of these instructions