This year for Mother’s Day, make your mom a unique handmade card! Listed below are unique and fun cards that will brighten your mom’s day!

Finger Paint Flower Card

This card is a fun and easy spring-themed card!
For this card, you will need:

• Finger paint
• Pencil
• Colored construction paper
• Scissors
• Tape
• 9 x 12″ white paper

Directions:

1. Trace a large flower (rose, tulip, etc.) on the colored construction paper.
2. Cut it out of the construction paper.
3. Tape the flower to the center of the white paper.
4. Using the finger paint, make colored polka-dots all over the white page!
5. Carefully remove the taped flower to reveal a white flower shape in the middle of your colored page.
6. Write a note or sign your name in the white flower part.

Mom’s Wish Express – Accordion-Fold Card

This fun train card uses accordion folding to create a Wish Train for Mother’s Day! Children will write what they wish for their mom this Mother’s Day in the provided writing forms and use patterns from the reproducible to create the Wish Train! This simple and fun card comes from Art for All Seasons, an Evan-Moor activity book for year-round art projects.

Download this free accordion-fold card template here.

Butterfly Pop-up Card

This activity guides children through making a beautiful butterfly pop-up card! These types of cards are easy to make, with just a few necessary materials, but produce colorful and fun cards! The activity also provides a reproducible butterfly page for the inside of the card. This activity also comes from Art for All Seasons, for grades 1–4.

Download this free butterfly pop-up card template here.

Mother’s Day Poems for Handmade Cards

Looking for inspiration to write a poem for your Mother’s Day card? Listed below are some free downloads of activities that will help your child write his or her very own personalized poem.

1. 1. Description Poem: This activity will help your child write a five-stanza poem describing his or her mom! This lesson comes from Evan-Moor’s Poetry Patterns and Themes activity book (grades 3–6).
       
   2. Rhyming Couplets: Write rhyming couplets about your mom or what she likes with this activity’s help! This activity is from Writing Poetry with Children (grades 1–6).
       
   3. Acrostic Poems: This activity demonstrates how to write an acrostic poem, where you make a poem by using the letters M-O-T-H-E-R. This lesson comes from Evan-Moor’s Writing Poetry with Children (grades 1–6).

Use these activities and your own creativity to make unique homemade Mother’s Day cards. Mom will love getting a personalized and handmade gift from her favorite people in the world!

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Christine Wooler has experience working with children as a youth soccer coach and summer camp counselor. She is currently studying English Literature and journalism in college. She enjoys exploring educational topics that help students have fun while learning.