This is a really cute Mother’s Day craft that you can do yourself, or help a child make. It makes a great keepsake, especially if you do it every year, so Mom can watch the child growing…
To do this Mother’s Day project, you’ll need construction paper (in spring colors or in whatever colors your Mom likes best), a pencil, a pair of scissors, some ribbon, some tape or a stapler, and some plastic drinking straws.
Start by deciding how many flowers you want in your Mother’s Day bouquet and choose your colors of construction paper. You can make them all the same color, or you can make a variety of colors. Think about what colors your Mom likes.
Lay your hand (or your child’s hand) on a piece of the construction paper, with the wrist at the edge of the paper and the fingers spread out across it. Trace around the hand with a pencil. Do this on as many pieces of paper as you’ve picked out. Keep in mind that each hand tracing will become one flower.
If you’re doing this with a small child, consider doing the tracing while the child is sleeping, (or at least sleepy!). Very young children tend to curl their hands up tightly most of the time. They relax their hands when they’re sleepy though, so it’ll be a lot easier if you do the tracing then. Also, you actually only need *one* original hand tracing. Once you get one, you can cut it out and use it as a template to make the others.
Once you get them all traced, cut out each of the hand print tracings carefully with your scissors. If you’re doing tis with a very young child, they may need an adult to do most of the cutting. It’s especially tricky between the fingers.
Pick one hand cut-out to start with and, using the edge of the closed scissors blade, drag each finger and thumb of that hand cut-out across the closed blade edge. This will cause them to curl slightly. Make sure you curl them all towards the same side of the paper. Repeat this curling with each of your other hand cut-outs.
Beginning on the thumb-side of one of the hand cut-outs, curl the wrist around a straw, and tape or staple it in place. The curled fingers and thumb should be curled to the outside, so that it looks like the flower is opening up. Repeat with each of the other hand cut-outs you made earlier.
Gather all your Mother’s Day hand cut-out paper flowers together by their straw-stems, and tie a nice bow around them with the ribbon to hold them together. Now you have a beautiful Mother’s Day Paper Flowers Bouquet! Mom will love it!
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