Mother's Day Craft Carnival

Hold on to those seats and get ready for the kids to run through as they terrorize your arts & crafts supply. What you didn't think they'd forget about Mother's Day did ya?

Just leave this page up for them once they get home: (They'll sure'll make MOM something for MOTHER'S DAY)

Over at MomGadget we decided to have a craft carnival, so I'm the host today and I bring you a great bunch of gals that well, they want to help you out.

For myself, I'm hoping my kids are going to make me those handprint cards. Yes, I know these are simple but my kids are young.

Handprint Cards
Items needed:
1 piece of colored paper (aka construction paper)
paint
1 marker
1 pair of hands

See, it doesn't even take a lot of materials. However your best bet would be to do this outside but with the weather being so iffy these days you might want to grab a newspaper and toss it on your kitchen table and let them have at it.

Kids: All you need to do is fold the paper in half. Pour paint on the newspaper and smear your hands in it. Gooey huh? Now place your painted hands on the inside of the card, one on each side. Lift up and you've got two handprints in a card. Let the card dry before you write in it.

Tell mom why she's special and tell her this card is giving her a giant hug, that's why the hands are there. Mom will treasure this always as it'll be a reminder how little your hands once were...plus moms are sentimental that way.

Okay that was my little entry, now to read what the other girls are doing.

Gayla over at Momgadget likes her kids to make her pop up cards.

Pop up Cards
Items needed:
1 pair of hands
2 pieces of construction paper
1 pencil
scissors
glue

With one of the pieces of construction paper trace your hands and cut them out. Fold the second piece of paper in half to form a card. Now glue one hand on each side of the card. Now when she opens the card, she'll be getting lots of hugs. This is really great for you teens out there that don't always want to hug mom.

Or

Trace your hands and cut them out. With that second piece of paper paste/glue a picture of yourself on the center of it. Now tape/glue your hands so they go over the picture and hide the face. Make sure not to get glue on the picture itself. Now mom will have to lift up the hands to see who's hiding from her.

Char has some great printables for Mother's day: Mother's Day Maze and a Mother's Day Word Search

Randa has some free coloring sheets for Mother's Day: Mother's Day Coloring Sheet There are two options, one is a single flower and the other is a bouquet of flowers.

Linette at Life's News is offering up instructions on how to make paper roses: Paper Roses for Mom These are VERY pretty Linette.

Katelyn over at Free Holiday Ideas has a Mother's Day Card for ya'll to make your mom.

Bev over at Easy Crafts 4 Fun has lots to choose from:
- Homemade Mother's Day Cards
- Love letters this just explains it all to mom.
- Plate Wall Hanging with the handprint inside is sure to make her smile.

Debbi from Work From Home Momma has two ideas for you:

Flowers for Mom/Grandma:
Items Needed:
coffee can (creamer jars would work best)
water
flowers
paint

Take those coffee creamer jars and peel the outside off and let your little one paint it. Once dry fill the jar up with water and have them pick flowers from outside. You may want to warn them not to pick the neighbors flowers.

Taekwondo Mother's Day Frames
Items Needed:
Broken wood from Taekwondo practice
glue
macaroni noodles
paint

Debi says her child takes the broken scraps they use during class and makes picture frames out of them at home. At home he'll glue them into the shape he wants and glues macaroni noodles on them. Once dry you just slip the picture in and you've got yourself a fancy frame.

Another way to add some color to it is to paint the noodles or frame before it dries.

For you kids out there, we hope you have fun making your mom a gift for Mother's Day.

To you Moms out there, have a GREAT Happy Mother's Day!