Flowers are a popular gift choice to gift mothers on Mother’s Day. Instead of giving Mom a fresh set of blooms this year, have you thought about having the kids craft a meaningful and memorable floral gift for Mother’s Day? I am positive your kids will love to make one of these 25 flower crafts for Mother’s Day!
Let’s find out why flowers are a go-to gift to give on this special day and to find some inspiration for kids to craft and gift this year!
Why Do We Give Flowers on Mother’s Day?
With the variety gift ideas available for people to give on Mother’s Day, why are flowers such a popular choice? In North America, celebrating this day began with Anna Jarvis campaigning for a day of recognition for all the work mothers do for their families. The tradition of this special day began when Anna sent 500 white carnations to the mothers of her local church.
What flowers symbolize mother’s day?
Each flower holds its own special significance for different occasions. There are a few flowers that are popular to gift for Mother’s Day. Below is a list of meanings of popular flowers given on Mother’s Day that you can use as Mother’s Day flower craft ideas:
- Carnations are seen as the official flower of Mother’s Day signifying purity, faith, love, and the virtue of Motherhood.
- Roses are a classic choice to give but opt to give Mom either deep pink roses which show appreciation and gratitude, light pink roses that represent happiness and admiration, or peach roses that symbolize gratitude.
- Tulips are a fabulous choice to gift to Mom, not only because they are in season, but because they symbolize perfect love.
- Hydrangeas are a multi-pedaled bloom that are lush and signify gratitude, grace, and beauty.
Ideas for Mother’s Day Crafts
If actual flowers are not an option for your kids to gift for Mom this year, a flower craft for Mother’s Day would make a fantastic alternative. There are numerous mediums for kids to choose from to create and give to their special person. These are some ideas for Mother’s Day crafts using paint, paper or felt.
Paint Craft: Paint can be used in many imaginative ways for a Mother’s Day flower craft. Kids can paint flowers onto paper to make cards or paintings. Fun floral designs can also be added to a t-shirt to produce a gift Mom can wear.
Paper Craft: Paper is another medium that yields a plethora of Mother’s Day flower craft ideas. There are a variety of ways paper can be cut and crafted to create a beautiful and colourful Mother’s Day flower bouquet craft. Paper can also be used as a backdrop for other materials to showcase a floral design Mom would love to receive.
If you are looking for a simple and DIY Mother’s Day crafts that also makes a great gift, then you will enjoy this easy construction flower paper craft that you kids can make.
Felt Craft: For something more tactile, felt is a great option to consider for quick easy Mother’s Day crafts. Younger kids can cut out flower shapes out of felt and glue them onto a firm board to create a pretty flower design. Older children can cut and sew flower-shaped pieces of felt to material and frame it to create a piece of art that will surprise Mom on the big day.
25 Flower Crafts for Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is fast approaching, so this means handmade crafts from your kids! These Mother’s Day Flower crafts are easy to make so your little ones can give you or grandma a gift from the heart this year.
I am positive that you cherish the Mother’s Day crafts your kids make for you! When my kids were in preschool or elementary school they love making crafts. If you are like me, I always kept the Mother’s Day crafts my kids made for me. I actually still have a few “Best Mom Ever” certificates and flower crafts preciously stored in my office filing cabinet! It is so special when I open the drawer and see all these Mother’s Day crafts my kids gave me years ago!
- Button Flower Pins
- Colourful Paper Flower Wreath Craft
- Handprint Paper Flower
- How to Make Pressed Flower Bookmarks
- How to Make Pressed Flower Greeting Cards
- Bouquet Tulip Paper Flowers
- Easy Mother’s Day Flower Craft [Free Template]
- Flower Pop Up Card
- Kids Summer Paper Flower Craft
- How to Make Tissue Paper Peony Flowers
- Heart Bouquet Cards
- Felt Flower Craft With Printable Template
- Mother’s Day Flower Fortune Teller
- Delicious Dark Chocolate Mother’s Day Bouquet Tutorial
- Water Bottle Flower Craft for Kids
- Fingerprint Flower Pot
- Colorful DIY Resin Pendants with Organic Flowers
- Paper Flowers Made From Straws
- Hands Full of Love: Flower Bouquet Craft with Template
- DIY Flower Bouquet Mother’s Day Card
- Beautiful Paper Rose Craft Tutorial
- DIY Picture Frame with Flowers
- Recycled Egg Carton Flower Bouquet
- DIY Fabulous Flower Wreath
- Spring Crepe Paper Flower Wreath Craft
Whatever your child gives you this Mother’s Day, be sure to lavish them with love in return! Let them know that on this day we not only celebrate our status as a Mom, we also celebrate what made us a Mom in the first place, our children!
this is absolutely adorable, I love the flowers, definitely going to try these out for my mother and put my kids photos in them, she loves flowers!!
Thanks so much for this post. I’m going to st with my grandkids and make some of these with them for their Mom’s. 🙂 When my 7 were very young they made me the photo bouquet was just amazing and I still have it after all these years. 🙂
Carol L
Thanks ladies, for the great comments! I appreciate them! 🙂 Glad you like the crafts. 🙂
this is great idea for kid and then i never seen the one for the tulip
great ideas for the kids to make for moms on mothers day
Thanks great ideas!
Thanks so much for including my craft! xx
You are welcome Jennifer!
Going to help the grand kids to make this for their great-grandmothers 90th birthday
kids made these for great-grandmothers birthday and she cried,she thought they were so beautiful.thanks
Thanks so much for sharing! Glad she liked them.
My daughter made me something like this on Mother’s Day it was really cute. I should have them make one for grandma this year 🙂
I am positive that she would be please!
Going to make the beautiful Photo Flower Bouquet for gran with the kids on the weekend
Awww, these are so sweet, I really love the Tulip card so adorable, and the picture flowers are so precious, thanks for sharing these lovely craft ideas!!
The flowers with the photos are simply adorable, thanks for sharing these wonderful ideas with us 🙂
such wonderful crafts! thanks !
Such nice craft ideas! I love the bouquet of flowers. My four kids would make perfect posses!
I love the bouquet of flowers and the kids made some for the ladies next door who bakes them cookies every other weekend
I love making these will thekids,nice just to say im thinking of you
These ideas are all adorable. One of my granddaughters made me a pop up card all by herself this year, she’s 9 yrs old and I thought it was pretty neat that she could do that. 🙂
So many great flower ideas to make with my granddaughter for her Mom. Thanks for sharing.
We so love doing crafts like this one and I just know the kids will love to make these flowers. Thanks for sharing this one we will make these this weekend for Mother’s Day.
My kids would love to make these for Mother’s day sometime. Thanks for sharing
What super cute ideas! Very creative and fun.
So many bright beautiful colors to chose from.
We would love to make these flower crafts for summer.
These flowers are a great gift for the grandchildren to make any time of the year.
Such a pretty craft. This would be a fun project to make with my granddaughter.
Lots of cute and awesome ideas! Tons of fun!