Children love to make gifts for moms and grandmas on Mother’s Day; with Mother’s Day approaching, let them express their creativity with some design-your-own free printable cards and stationery. You can adjust the card making to the age of your child also. For your pre-readers, print coloring pages and cards. For children of reading and writing age, select the blank verse or poetry cards to encourage and practice creative writing skills. Here are sites with free cards and tutorials to print. Adults enjoy making these cards as well.
You can create Mother’s Day cards with school groups, day care, scout troops, Sunday School or Religious Education, library groups and more. Teen babysitters: this is a great craft to keep your young charges occupied when you babysit also!
Vintage Holiday Cards This is a site you cannot miss if you like the sentimental art, verses and cards of yesteryear. Vintage Holiday Cards has all the lovely nostalgic images of Victorian decor in glowing colors. You can select any of the lovely cards to print and share also! The women in your life will be delighted with these gorgeous cards from a bygone day! Use these cards as invitations for my Mother’s Day Tea Party.
Brainy Betty: Here’s a site with about 15 free cards to choose from. It has a nice variety of graphics, from cartoons to artwork, to real pictures.
Mom’s Break This site features poetry cards, blank cards and coupons for printing and creating Mother’s Day cards; Mom’s Break features a make-your-own tutorial poem card. You can print and color or add your own images and verse.
All Free Printables has really beautiful artwork and lovely floral images. This is a one-click-to-print site which requires no password, user ID or subscription. The graphics are nostalgic and romantic. Some are reproductions of works of art. There are bookmarks and coupon books to print also. The image I’ve used with this article is a card option from this site. It has a beautiful verse of classical poetry included also.
123 Print Cards has a card creator feature which allows you to select a design, insert your greeting and several personalized lines. You can also choose one of the standard greetings if you are feeling at a loss for words. I made a few of these cards and it went really smoothly. I typed in my message, added my name and chose my design. When I clicked the ‘Make it’ button, a window opened up with a two-fold card that looked very personal. There was nothing to download, subscribe to or purchase. I didn’t even need to use Adobe Acrobat reader. I didn’t like the graphics quite as well, but when the card was assembled it looked cute.
Lee Hansen I really like these graphics. They are more whimsical and sentimental. I liked the pastel colors also. Lee Hansen has several very attractive print and color cards for young ones to enjoy. Lee Hansen offers free coupons books, Grandmother cards, printable coloring books, award certificates and bookmarks devoted to Mother’s Day. you can also edit pictures with the free Google pack which you can download from Lee Hansen. Lee Hansen has free clip art also.
American Greetings and Hallmark offer free one-month trial memberships which allow you to print freely from their greeting cards. You will have a larger assortment, but you will be limited on your choices and you will need to register also.
Happy Mother’s Day to all our moms, aunts, grandmas, great-grandmas, mothers-in-law, godmothers, step-moms and all women who’ve nurtured us!
