Five Mother's Day Craft Ideas for Children of All Ages

Mother's Day is fast approaching but there is still time to be creative and have fun doing it. The following five ideas can all be done by children of any age, with a little help from an adult, and are sure to create wonderful memories for Mom.

One: Create a menu for mom for a meal of your choice. Decide which meal of the day mom enjoys most, breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner and create a menu for her. Think of choices for the menu that will be relatively easy for a child to create, with a little supervision and assistance from an adult, such as pancakes, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, macaroni and cheese, or maybe a nice fruit salad. The key here is to allow the child to do as much of the work as possible. Let mom choose which items she wants, get in the kitchen and start cooking. You can present the meal to mom on a tray so she can eat in bed (if it is breakfast) or set the table very nicely, put a table cloth on and maybe even putting a little bouquet of flowers on it as a centerpiece (this is the one day of the year that dandelions are a perfectly acceptable choice). If dinner is the meal of choice you can even have the child place candles on the table and the adult can light them. A menu is a unique and fun way to spoil mom for Mother's Day this year.

Two: Create a huge banner or sign on poster board or poster paper that says something appropriate, such as, "We Love You Mom!" or "Happy Mother's Day." Let the kids go all out and use construction paper, glitter, puff paint, etc. You can do construction paper cutouts of the children's hands with a message written in them for mom, glue photographs of the family on it in a collage or different shapes, make fancy cut-out or drawn letters, etc. The more creative the better. Because the banner or sign will be large and need time to dry, this project must be started a few days early and it is a good idea to have a place to hide it so mom doesn't see the surprise early. Hang the finished project in the house or on the front porch as a big surprise for mom. Make sure to take a picture of mom with the project so she will have it for always.