Homemade Mother’s Day Gifts and Printable Cards

I loved celebrating my mother when I was younger. We always went out to lunch after church so my mom didn’t have to cook or clean up. I remember making her more handmade cards and gifts than I can count. If your kids are wanting to bless you with gifts, they are going to love this list of free printable Mother’s Day crafts and cards.

Homemade Mothers Day Card Ideas

One thing I always remember was the look on my mom’s face when she opened our handmade gifts. The joy on her face and the tears were something I didn’t understand until I had children of my own.

Receiving those sweet, handmade gifts and cards from my kids brings me more joy than any expensive gift I could ever get.

Homemade Mother’s Day Cards, Gifts, and Printables

Some kids are really crafty and creative, while others need a little help in the craft department. We have put together some of the best ideas of crafts and handmade cards that your kids can make for Mother’s Day. 

Mother’s Day Handprint Crafts

These crafts use your child’s handprints and sometimes fingerprints to create the base of the craft. These are always so special and great for younger kids. These sweet ideas make the perfect gift that you can look back on over the years, remember those little hands that made them, and see your kids grow.

You can even adapt some of these ideas and use them for other special occasions! 

Handprint Cards for Mother’s Day

Handprint Cupcake Card – Your kids will have so much fun creating a cupcake out of their hand.

Printable Mother’s Day Handprint Craft – This is an easy project with a printable heart template to put hand prints on.

Handprint Flower Pot Craft for Mothers Day – Create a handprint flower pot with a printable handprint poem to attach to it. 

Mother’s Day Cards from Handprints

“Love You Bunches” Kids Thumbprint Grapes Card – Create a sweet bunch of grapes with fingerprints on this sweet card.

Butterfly Mother’s Day Card – Create a sweet custom card with a butterfly made from your child’s handprints.

Hand-Shaped Ring Dish – This is not your normal paint the hand craft. This great project is a pinch pot made from a clay handprint.

Firefly “You Light up my Life” Mother’s Day Card – This is such a sweet firefly themed printable mason jar card that uses fingerprints.

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Homemade Mother’s Day Gifts

Homemade gifts are a perfect gift for children to give to their moms as they can usually be created with items found around the house. They also put so much pride and love into creating something special to give away.

 

Mother’s Day Journal Jar

Easy Mother’s Day Gift: A Motherhood Journal Jar – This is such a sweet idea of creating a journal jar for kids and mom to work on together. 

Flower Craft for Mom

Flower Craft for Kids This fun activity has 4 different ideas to create a flower vase from different mediums found around the house.

Photo Memory Vase

Special Mother’s Day Tin Can Photo Vase – Create a sweet photo memory vase with mod podge, printed photos, and a tin can.

Mother’s Day Egg Carton Craft

Egg Carton Flower Canvas Art – Egg cartons are the perfect base for a special handmade gift (no Martha Stewart skills or Cricut machine required!) This recycled egg carton flower vase canvas is a very fun craft that your kids will enjoy customizing.

Mother’s Day Scrapbook

Mother’s Day Scrapbook Freebie – These free printable templates can help your kids create their own scrapbook of memories as a special gift for Mom.

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Handmade Mother’s Day Crafts for Older Kids

These Mother’s Day crafts are a little more involved, but have a beautiful end result. They are great handicrafts for older children to work on as a keepsake that will last a long time. Moms will really appreciate the effort that goes into a handmade gift.

Stamped Clay Trinket Dishes – These trinket dishes are an easy craft since they use air dry clay. The final product is pretty impressive and looks store bought, but you can make it right at home with this detailed tutorial. 

10-Minute DIY Milk & Honey Soap – This goat milk and honey melt and pour soap takes only 10 minutes and you can make it in any fun mold.

Painted Daisy Mason Jars – Painted mason jars fit any style of decor. These are a great gift idea that can be customized to mom’s favorite color.

Mother’s Day Photo Crafts

Recipe Holder for Mom – This step-by-step tutorial is a nice wooden recipe holder made from precut pieces from a craft store.

Kid-Made Picture Frame Vase – Dig into your craft stash to make this picture frame vase out of an old jar and some craft paint. Add some pink flowers, and you’re all set! 

Mother’s Day Photo Holder – Beautiful wooden photo holder tutorial with free printable.

DIY Heart String Art – String art is a great hands-on craft. This can be customized with a photo in the middle or a name or initial.

Handmade Mother’s Day Cards

My kids have always enjoyed making handmade cards for me. What mom’s heart doesn’t thrill to receive homemade Mother’s Day cards? These can also double as a last minute gift.

Don’t let the idea homemade cards scare you. They don’t have to be hard to make, and you don’t have to turn your house inside out to get the supplies together. We found some adorable homemade Mother’s Day cards your kids can make to celebrate this special day with everyday supplies such as construction paper, bits of ribbons, buttons, cupcake liners, pipe cleaners, glue, and other common supplies.

The Butterfly Mother’s Day Card is a great idea for families with multiple children, and several of these ideas include one of my favorite things – step-by-step instructions! 

Butterfly Mother’s Day Card

Butterfly Mother’s Day Card – Create a sweet custom card with a butterfly made from your child’s handprints.

3D Mother’s Day Card

Three Dimensional Mother’s Day Card – Such a fun idea for 3D photo cards which double as a craft that combines photos, green stems (courtesy of pipe cleaners), and other craft supplies for the perfect card. 

Cupcake Liner Mother’s Day Card

Bright and Cheerful Kid-Made Mother’s Day Card – Different colored bright cupcake liners create a bright and cheerful flower card.

“Ha-Pea” Mother’s Day Card – This is such a unique Mother’s Day card design! Kids will be delighted with this adorable pea in a pod heartfelt card to cut and paste together.

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Printable Mother’s Day Cards

Store bought cards are very expensive, but sometimes your kids may not have time to make you a card. These printable Mother’s Day cards are an easy way for your children to still have something to give on Mother’s Day. Just choose a free template from one of these beautiful cards to get started. Many just require a printer, a piece of paper, and writing utensils.

There are all sorts of ways your kids can personalize and dress them up. Encourage them to draw a picture of something that mom likes or that they love about mom! Maybe your older kids would enjoy adding a heartfelt message or a Mother’s Day poem. 

Printable Scripture Card for Mom

Scripture Cards for Mother’s Day – Easy print and fold Scripture cards in KJV. There are 10 different verses to choose from.

PDF Cards for Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day Handprint Printables – These printable pdfs are pretty cards with flower stems with a spot for your child to add their handprint to complete the card.

Quote Cards to Color

Quote Coloring Cards – 10 cards with quotes and pictures to color.

Printable Mother’s Day Cards

Printable Cards – These free printable Mother’s Day cards are nice printed on white cardstock and colored with markers.

Flower Wreath Printable Card – Beautiful purple flower wreath card that looks store bought.

Printable Mother’s Day Cards to Color

Cards for Kids to Color – 2 different coloring cards for kids to choose from.

Floral Mother’s Day Coloring Cards – Many options to choose from in a sweet floral design with room for a personal message. All you need is some white card stock, a printer, and some colored pencils or crayons. 

Mother’s Day Coloring Sheets

10 Free Mother’s Day Coloring Sheets – These coloring sheets are perfect on plain printer paper for little kids to color.

16 Printable Mother’s Day Cards – Colorful printable cards that look like cute cards you can purchase from the store.

Mother’s Day Birdhouse Card  – This is a cute card idea! Use these printable bird house templates to create an adorable birdhouse for kids