Archive for May 2011
I very shamelessly stole then modified this idea from my son’s preschool who sent a large canvas project home last year . You don’t have to make this a card, it would be precious framed as a gift for Mom or Grandma too!
- Gather your materials. You will need 2 blank card or 2 large pieces of cardstock, a bath poof, plate, paint, double stick tape, contact paper, pen, scissors, crayons or colored pencils. As well as a picture of your child in profile.
- Start by cutting out the picture of your child. Tip use sharp fine pointed scissors. I luckily had 2 photos on hand, this is not the first which when cut with my dull old scissors made my son look rather alien-esque. Nothing says Happy Mother’s Day like a card from your martian child .
- Place on your contact paper and trace with your pen.
- Cut out. Make sure you place the picture in the right direction, I had to do this twice because I wanted the profile facing right. See a trend? I was up too late watching the news the night before.
- Peel the contact paper off the backing and place on card stock. Make sure to place it on the finished side , if it’s on the unfinished paper it may rip a little , it did for me, but I wasn’t going to have my daughter redo it , it looks ok but would have been better if I’d been paying closer attention or got more sleep.
- Pop some paint on the plate, dip your bath poof in it…
- And paint. She squished the poof in her hand for a good 3 minutes before attacking it. Yes it was messy. Unlike her brother she didn’t eat too much paint, bath poofs tend to elicit more touching with hands than tasting.
- Let dry.
- While it’s drying use another piece to make a mat , even though it’s behind it will look like a mat when it’s done. Color however you want, write words , whatever your child wants. The big guy put his playmobil away to come do the part his sister couldn’t . Although you could totally just add another color of paint to the plate and paint more. This was just a good way of making one craft with two siblings.
- Remove the contact paper and cut the silhouette out in an oval when dry.
- Tape to the mat using permanent double stick tape.
Trim and tape to the card. 
Besides this wonderful card( or equally awesome kid made creations) what do you hope you are given this Mother’s Day?
Year after year when you ask young kids what they want to make their moms for Mother’s Day they might say their favorite thing ( firetruck, superhero, princess…) but after some prodding you will probably hear “Flowers!” . So here are some of our favorite flower projects but if you want firetrucks, superheroes or princess crafts we have those too.
Pool Noodle Flowers - they look great for years not days!
Mother’s Day Cupcakes – fun and easy for kids to help decorate.
Even though this Poppy was made for Remembrance Day but it’s so pretty ( and easy to make) I included it.
These Newspaper Flowers would be a perfect addition to any green mama’s Mother’s Day card – just make them smaller and glue to a plain card or recycled paper.
These Family Flowers celebrate love and you could make them of your mama’s kiddos if you want.
Give mom what she gives you every day - Bunches of Love!
Time for Link & Learn . Join us and show off your very best post of the week because it deserves to be read again (and again and again). My favorite post this week was all about underwear and superheroes! All you have to do is click the link to enter , be sure to put the title of your post and link to your post’s permalink not your blog address so we can go straight to the post. Have a wonderful week !
So sorry I bungled this – first time using a new linky service. I really shouldn’t blog , nurse and watch a movie at the same time 
