Mother’s Day is a wonderful opportunity for preschoolers to show their love and appreciation through creative crafts! These five simple and heartfelt projects ensure children can express their feelings while creating something memorable for their moms.
1. Handprint Flower Bouquet
- What You’ll Need: Construction paper, washable paint, scissors, glue, craft sticks, and markers.
- How to Make It:
- Paint each child’s hand with washable paint and press their handprint onto colorful construction paper.
- Cut out the handprints to create flower petals.
- Attach the handprint “flowers” to craft sticks and decorate them as flower stems.
- Arrange the “bouquet” and tie it together with a ribbon.
- Why It’s Special: It’s personal, colorful, and makes for a keepsake that moms will cherish forever.
2. Heartfelt Photo Frame
- What You’ll Need: Wooden frame, finger paint, foam stickers, markers, and a photo of the child.
- How to Make It:
- Provide each child with a plain wooden photo frame.
- Decorate the frame with finger-painted designs, foam stickers and drawings using markers.
- Insert a photo of the child or one of them with their mom.
- Why It’s Special: A unique combination of art and a treasured memory.
3. Coloring sheet
- What You’ll Need: Fun coloring sheet, markers, crayons.
- How to Make It: Find a fun sheet to help kids express their love for their mom. We’ve got you covered there … download our printable sheet that asks the important question of what children would do “waddle” their mothers:
4. Mom’s Special Coupon Book
- What You’ll Need: Construction paper, crayons, scissors, hole punch, and string.
- How to Make It:
- Help the children cut construction paper into small rectangles.
- On each piece, have the child dictate or draw an act of kindness such as a free hug, helping with chores or setting the table.
- Punch holes in the cards and tie them together to create a small book.
- Why It’s Special: Moms will love redeeming these thoughtful “coupons.”
5. Flower Pot Fingerprint Designs
- What You’ll Need: Small terracotta pots, acrylic paint and soil with flower seeds or a pre-potted plant.
- How to Make It:
- Give each child a plain terracotta pot.
- Decorate the pot with colorful fingerprints, turning them into flowers, hearts or patterns.
- Plant seeds or add a small pre-purchased potted plant.
Why It’s Special: Beautiful and functional, this craft grows alongside a mom’s love.
Make Moms Happy Every Day By Sharing Photos and Updates!
These crafts will surely bring a smile, and maybe even a tear, to moms on their special day. Including mothers in their children’s days will bring the same happiness year round!
By using the Procare child care mobile app allows families to be immersed in their children’s day-to-day activities – that includes tracking developmental milestones, sharing photos and videos as well as enabling two-way communication.
Teachers can send photos and videos to parents with one tap! Families can see their child’s activities that are shared from school and easily message staff. They also can send reports on daily activities for infants and toddlers, as well as record activities such as diaper changes, bottle feedings and naps.
Your center can record custom student activities and attach development skills like fine motor, social behavior, language and more as your younger learners prepare for their big preschool graduation!
The Procare child care mobile app gives you the ability to:
- Get information quickly via an app
- Take the hassle out of check-in/out
- Have a direct mass communication channel
- Keep parents engaged
- Go digital
- Empower your staff
- Collect tuition and payments effortlessly
It saves child care programs time and money by streamlining core administrative functions while raising the bar for the parent experience with professional communications, easy-to-access portals and the ability for real-time updates from the classroom.
Check out this on-demand webinar to learn more about the app and see for yourself what it can do!
