Mom is one of the most important dear and close people for a child, whom he can please with the help of simple to perform, but at the same time original surprise crafts.
Made from colored paper, cardboard, felt or candy, they can become the first, memorable gift from a son or daughter for any holiday, complemented by a memorable inscription and allow the child to show his or her creativity and talent.
Features of creating crafts
Children can make the crafts themselves. Adults are recommended to help them, if necessary, and teach them the skills of working with threads, plasticine, and scissors.
The technique for making a surprise craft can be any, but When organizing work, adults helping the child should remember that:
- The idea of creating a future craft should belong to the child himself. In this case, the creative process will be able to give him pleasure and will allow him to show his talent and imagination.
- You shouldn't force or coerce the baby to make a surprise for his mother. He should express the desire himself, and adults can simply help a little and guide his actions.
- The product must be original. You can use any bright colors that your child likes, adding solemnity to the process and creating a festive mood.
- You should not create large crafts. Their size should be small and comfortable for the child, which will allow him not to get tired during work and not to lose interest.
- Only safe and high-quality materials can be used in work.
- The complexity of the craft should be selected depending on the child's age. Thus, preschool children can be offered to make a holiday card for their mother from cardboard, candy or plasticine. Older children can try their hand at creating a bright flower arrangement from foamiran or corrugated paper.
- While working, the child should have the opportunity to demonstrate his or her creative abilities in drawing, beadwork or cooking.
Tools and materials
Crafts for mom should be made only from high-quality materials that are safe for the child's health. The list of them can be anything.
The most commonly used accessories are:
| Paper and cardboard | For work you will need both various colored paper of any texture and white cardboard. The first can be used for applications, and the cardboard will serve as a background for postcards and decorative paintings. |
| Colored ribbons | They are used to create flowers, hair ornaments and decorate compositions. You can also make a bow from satin ribbons to decorate a package with a surprise. |
| Rhinestones and beads | Used to decorate flower cores and crafts. |
| Scissors | A child can only work with high-quality, well-sharpened scissors with rounded edges. |
| Glue stick, PVA, floral | It is used to fasten the parts of the craft, to apply decorative elements to it. When using PVA glue, it is recommended to use a special brush. |
| Foamiran | A plastic, soft, velvety to the touch material with an elastic structure, used to create a variety of products (flowers, jewelry). |
| Felt | A dense, non-woven textile material used in the manufacture of toys, keychains, and coasters for hot objects. |
The festive composition can be any version, but the most popular gift for mom is considered to be a variety of flower compositions. Made from colored paper, foamiran, colored ribbons, they will allow the baby to show his imagination and learn the necessary skills of working with various materials.
Beautiful postcards
The child can add a memorable inscription to the crafts in the form of beautiful, festive cards. It is recommended to select the complexity of the product depending on the age of the child.
Applique postcard
Young children can try making simple cards decorated with paper and flower appliques.
To create them you will need:
- paints and markers
- glue stick or PVA;
- scissors;
- hole punch.
During work you need to:
- Carefully fold the sheet of yellow cardboard in half.
- Write a greeting chosen by the child for mom on the inside.
- Use a pencil to draw a three-dimensional figure 8 on green paper, carefully cut it out and glue it to the front of the card.
- Using a hole punch, make 13 white (large) and yellow (small) circles of the same size for the daisy flowers.
- Glue a small yellow circle to the center of each white circle, and then carefully use scissors to form the flower petals.
- Use the resulting daisies to decorate the number 8 that was previously glued to the card.
The finished card can be a wonderful gift for International Women's Day.
Postcard with roses in quilling technique
School-age children can try their hand at quilling and decorate a cardboard card with voluminous flowers.
You will also need the following for work:
- white cardboard;
- red, pink, purple colored paper;
- glue and scissors;
- simple pencil;
- compasses (it can be replaced with a round saucer or cup).
To create a postcard you need:
- On colored paper (you can choose red, pink, yellow) draw a circle with a diameter of 12-15 cm to create a rosebud.
- Using scissors, move in a circle from the outside to the middle, cut out spirals with a thickness of 2 cm.
- Wind the resulting spiral onto a pencil, starting from the outer edge, to form a rosebud.
- Proceeding in a similar manner, make other rose buds and stick them in any arbitrary shape on the outside of the card. You can complement the composition with cut out green paper leaves.
- On the inside of the card, write a greeting for your mother in any form.
Sweet postcard
A delicious surprise would be a card decorated with sweet candies, which you can make using:
- a sheet of white cardboard;
- double sided tape;
- scissors;
- satin ribbons;
- candies.
To create a postcard, a child needs:
- From a sheet of cardboard folded in half, cut out the number 8 so that it remains solid on one side and opens like a postcard.
- Cut the double-sided tape into small squares, remove the protective film from one side and stick them to the card in any order. To the other side of the tape, after removing the protective tape, apply the candies and gently press them with your hand to adhere.
- Tie a bow from satin ribbon, decorate its center with rhinestones and attach it to the card.
- Write a wish for your mom on the inside.
Paper crafts
A child aged 5-7 years can make crafts for mom from corrugated paper in the form of a basket of flowers on their own, using Chupa Chups lollipops as the basis for the flower.
To create such a bright and delicious gift you will need:
- 15 lollipops;
- 2 rolls of corrugated paper (for example, green and pink);
- glue stick;
- threads and satin ribbon;
- basket;
- floral foam.
During work you need to:
- From a roll of pink corrugated paper, cut out a rectangle measuring 12*18 cm.
- From its left side, cut out a trapezoidal rectangle and place it on the remaining part to create additional volume.
- Place the Chupa Chups lollipop on the left side of the blank and twist it inside the rectangle.
- Twist the protruding bottom part of the paper around the lollipop stick, forming a semblance of a flower bud and tie it with a ribbon or thread slightly above the candy.
- Turn the top, remaining, free edge of the paper outward, forming petals for the flower.
- To create the leaves, cut the green corrugated paper into strips 7 cm wide and 10 cm long, fold them in half and cut out the leaves.
- Coat one side with glue and place them on different sides at the base of the flower.
- In a similar way, you need to make 5-15 flowers.
- Place a floral foam into the basket and carefully insert the prepared flowers into it one by one, forming a beautiful basket.
- Decorate the basket handle with a satin bow.
Heart made of colored paper
A heart craft made from colored paper will be a wonderful gift for mom on her birthday.
Your son or daughter can make it from colored cardboard and
- a simple pencil and scissors;
- glue stick;
- pink and white napkins;
- satin ribbon;
- pens.
During work you need to:
- Cut out a heart 25-30 cm wide from red cardboard.
- Place your palm on its white side and trace around it with a pencil.
- Cut the napkins with scissors or tear them first into strips 3 cm wide, then into small squares and roll them into balls.
- Apply glue to the drawn surface of the palm and carefully, placing the lumps next to each other, fill it with white balls.
- Glue a pink satin ribbon to the top of the heart.
- Grease the remaining part of the craft with glue and fill it with pink balls placed next to each other.
- Draw and cut out a daisy flower from white paper, paint its center yellow and attach it to the pink heart.
- On the back of the card you can write a greeting or any poem.
Felt crafts
Crafts for mom made of felt allow the child to show imagination and make various beautiful keychains, coasters for hot cups or flowers.
Felt Butterfly Keychain
A kid can try to make an original keychain by himself, choosing a suitable shape, for example a butterfly. Adults can help him by drawing a sketch and teaching him how to work with a thread and a needle.
To make this craft you need to prepare:
- colored felt
- multi-colored buttons of different sizes;
- needles and thread;
- synthetic padding for stuffing the product;
- scissors;
- white cardboard and a simple pencil.
During work you need to:
- Cut out a butterfly template with wings from white cardboard.
- Using a pencil, transfer it onto felt and cut out 2 pieces.
- Sew buttons of different sizes to one of them, arrange them in the shape of a pattern on the wings and one in the center to form the body of the insect.
- Sweep the 2 pieces together, leaving a small opening.
- Use it to stuff the butterfly with padding polyester and sew up the hole.
- Sew a small loop to one of the butterfly wings.
In a similar way, you can make a keychain in the shape of a flower or a cartoon character.
Felt Cup Coaster
A son or daughter can give a gift to their mother a homemade stand for a hot cup in the shape of an orange or lemon slice, using in the work:
- sheets of multi-colored felt;
- pins;
- scissors;
- a needle and thread;
- white cardboard and a simple pencil.
During work you need to:
- Cut a circle-shaped template out of cardboard, place it on a sheet of felt, trace the outline and make 2 identical green blanks and 1 smaller white one.
- Cut out 8 identical triangles from the green material.
- Sew 2 green circles together, then add a white circle to them, laying out and pinning the green triangles to it.
- Sew the product along the contour.
If desired, the coaster for the cup can be made in the form of funny little animals. Their heads will need to be filled with padding polyester for additional volume, and the body will need to be left flat.
Crafts from foamiran
Bright, original and easy to make multi-colored daisies as a gift for mom a child and an adult helping him (dad, grandmother, teacher) can do this with the help of:
- blue and yellow sheets of textured foamiran;
- glue stick;
- double-sided tape;
- cocktail straws;
- pencil and ruler.
To create a flower you need:
- Cut a sheet of blue foamiran into 12 identical strips.
- Glue the ends of each strip to create teardrop shaped petals, then join them together in a circle to form a flower.
- Using a figured hole punch, make 2 circles of different sizes from yellow foamiran.
- After smearing a large circle with glue, place it in the middle of the flower.
- Cut a small square out of double-sided tape and use it to glue the smaller circle to the large yellow one.
- Attach a cocktail straw to the back of the flower and mask the place where it is attached with a circle cut out of blue foamiran.
- In a similar manner, you can make 2-4 more daisies of different colors, form a bouquet out of them and present them as a gift to your mother.
Bouquet of tulips made of foamiran
Surprise craft for mom, school-age child can be made in the form of a beautiful bouquet of multi-colored tulips made from:
- floral buds and wire;
- green dry pastel;
- wet wipes packaging;
- tapes
- glue;
- scissors and ruler;
- warm iron;
- sheet of white cardboard;
- toothpicks.
During work it is required:
- Cut out a cardboard template of a tulip petal measuring 6*24*3.5 cm. Apply it to a yellow sheet of foamiran, carefully trace the outline with a toothpick and cut out. In a similar manner, you need to make 6 identical yellow parts.
- Make a 25*3.5 cm flower leaf template from cardboard. Attach it to the green foamiran leaf, trace the outline with a toothpick and cut out. In a similar way, you need to make 2 identical parts for each flower.
- Using dry pastel and wet wipes, tint the lower part of the yellow petals green, then apply them one by one to a heated iron, heat them up a little and bend them, giving them a realistic shape.
- Heat the green tulip leaf blanks slightly and bend them in half lengthwise.
- Glue 6 petals onto the floral bud to completely close it and wrap the stem with tape.
- Glue floral wire into each leaf and attach them to the stem.
- By doing this, you can make several multi-colored tulips, put them into a bouquet and decorate them with a bow made from satin ribbon.
Crafts from tape
Crafts for mom can also be in the form of hair decorations, and for such work the child will need:
- a small piece of satin ribbon;
- a string of small, golden beads;
- 2 pieces of thin, black, rapeseed tape;
- Automatic hair clip
- scissors and glue;
- needle and thread.
During work you should:
- Cut out an oval of 40*50 cm from satin ribbon;
- Sew the material, stepping back 5 cm from the edge, and then pull it together, gathering the fabric. Use a thread to divide the resulting workpiece into 2 parts, giving it the shape of a bow.
- Cover the center of the bow with a strip of black ribbon, coat it with glue and decorate with tightly fitting rows of ribbon with golden beads.
- Glue a metal clip to one side of the bow.
Crafts from plasticine
Any child of any age can make items from plasticine.
To create a bright, festive flower, you will need:
- colored plasticine;
- marker;
- photo frame;
- sample with a picture.
While working, the child needs to:
- Place a piece of plastic glass from a photo frame on the selected flower image and carefully transfer its outline with a marker.
- Color the drawing using the plasticine method, for which take plasticine of different colors and apply it and smear it on the selected area, without going beyond its edges. Green plasticine is best left for the leaves of the flower, blue, yellow, pink, orange colors - use to form the petals.
- Using a thin black marker, draw eyes and a nose on the flower and shape the petals.
- After the painting is finished, the frame should be wiped with a damp cloth to remove any oil stains.
- Choose blue colored A4 cardboard for the background of the drawing, place it on the bottom of the photo frame, and place the finished flower on top.
A child can make a variety of crafts in the form of paper flowers, bright cards and decorative figures from felt, foamiran, colored paper and present them to mom as a pleasant surprise on International Women's Day or any other holiday.
They are quite simple to make and can be done by children of any age, but they require mandatory supervision and a little help from a father, grandmother or teacher, explaining and showing the kids the skills of working with auxiliary materials, scissors, thread and needle.
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