Mother’s Day can be a complicated holiday. For me it has it has held—and still holds—a range of emotions: dismay over my mother and parts of my childhood, a deep longing to become a mother before our daughter, or even discontentment with the mother I find myself becoming. I can get disappointed with how little appreciated I feel and how minimally my family chooses to celebrate me. I often find myself looking to others with envy as I compare what I see in other's lives to what I want in my own.
But I want more than, envy, discontentment, disappointment, or dismay, so I created a tool to help prepare a different heart.
This mother's day, I'm going to work alongside my kids to help them craft and create. While we work to make our own bouquets, I'm going to take the time to give thanks for motherhood and these beautiful kids that the Lord has given me.
Motherhood was designed by God with deep purpose. It’s not just care-taking—it’s cultivating hearts, guiding souls, and faithfully stewarding the little lives placed in our hands.
That’s why I’m so excited to share this month’s Ultimate Fine Motor Craft Sheet: a hands-on, meaningful Mother’s Day activity that helps children and mothers alike celebrate this mother's day while growing in gratitude, building essential skills, and creating something worth keeping.
Celebrate Mother’s Day
The best way to celebrate Mother’s Day is simple: slow down and be together.
We love pairing meaningful activities with stories that highlight love, sacrifice, and the beauty of family. This craft sheet becomes part of that rhythm—a simple, intentional way for children to express love while practicing fine motor skills.
It’s not about perfection. It’s about connection.
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How to Use the Mother’s Day Craft Sheet
This month I designed two different sheets to meet your child right where they are, offering multiple ways to engage and create:
The first sheet is perfect for hanging up to display and/or creating a little stem to glue on and gift. The second sheet is a jar. You can paint real flowers on the sheet, create flowers of your own and stick them in after cutting a slit in the top, or cut out and glue on cardboard, then collect real flowers to give.
Toddlers:
Have your toddler trace the simple shapes/outlines using a chunky crayon.
Expert Fact: Around age 2.5, toddlers begin imitating shapes and can often copy a circle by age 3.
Let them color freely using crayons, paint, or dot markers.
Keep the message simple:
“God made everyone. And God created you inside of mommy. Mommy loves you so much, but God loves you more!”
Preschoolers:
Have your preschooler trace (using a short pencil or crayon), color (using whatever medium you'd like).
Paint/color white tissue paper (or use colored), tare into pieces and have your child decorate the flower/jar by using tiny dots of glue and gluing on the pieces.
Ask your child who created life (God is the author of life), who sustains life (God sustains life). He makes rain fall and flowers grow. What is something you’re thankful God has given you? or What is something you are thankful for about grandma/mom?
Early Elementary:
After tracing and coloring (using whatever medium you would like), have your child poke or punch along the dashed line using a push pin or hole punch (with supervision). Then your child can cut along the poked line or thread yarn through holes and cut an oval shape around the flower or cut out the flower.
Have your child write down some things they appreciate about mom/grandma.
Ask open-ended questions like: “Who makes the flowers grow?” “Who watches over the lilies of the field?” Who watches over us?” What is something you’re thankful God has given you? or What is something you are thankful for about grandma/mom?
Bonus: you can glue the cut out jar on cardboard, poke holes in the cardboard above the jar and pick real flowers to stick in.
Why I Love This Craft
This isn’t just a cute keepsake (though it is).
It’s a way for children to slow down, think intentionally, and create something meaningful. It builds fine motor skills, encourages gratitude, and gives them a tangible way to express love. Plus, doing it with my kids gives me the opportunity to help them create something for myself or my mom, and gives me the opportunity to practice gratitude and right heart posture with them.
And for moms—it’s something worth holding onto.
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