Mother's Day Muffin Flower Card

These are simple and fun crafts for even the youngest children to do as a decoration or a Mother's Day card. The center of the flower can be further decorated with sequins, small seeds or a photo.

Materials:

• a printer (or draw your own stem and leaves).

• glue,

• scissors,

• a piece of paper.

• Two muffin cups (the paper cups you make muffins or cupcakes in) - we used one small and one large, but you could use two of the same size.

• Something the color with (paint, crayons, markers, etc) -- pink, silver and purple are nice choices for mother's day.

• Small photo

Instructions:

• Colour the two muffin cups mother's day colours (they will be the flower head).

• This step should be first, especially if using paint, so it has a chance to dry while you're doing the other steps.

• Set aside to dry.

• Print out the craft template of choice.

• Cut out the template pieces and colour if necessary.

• Fold a piece of construction paper in half to make a card.

• Glue the leaves and the stem onto the front of the card.

• Glue the two muffin cups onto the top of the stem (one on top of the other) to form the flower.

• Flatten out the bottom cup a bit more t

han the top cup so you can see the petals.

• you can use more than two cups if you want... the more cups you use, the more petals your flower will have.

• Print "Happy Mother's Day!" on the card.

• You can decorate the card further by colouring in grass. Alternatively, you can use balled up pieces of green tissue paper as grass.

• Optional: Glue a photo into the center of the flower.

• Fill the inside of your card with hand drawn pictures, a photo, stickers or a message to the person you're giving your card to.

Templates are Available at This Site if you want.