Awwww. Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and we’re excited to prepare with our collection of Mother’s Day Ideas for Kids! While we already have a dedicated Mother’s Day Crafts for Preschoolers Collection, I felt these Mother’s Day Handprint Keepsakes especially deserved to be shared! There’s truly nothing more precious than those sweet little handprints and footprints, is there?!
Mother’s Day Handprint Keepsakes (Fingerprints and Footprints!)
This collection mainly highlights HANDPRINT Crafts for Mother’s Day, although you’ll also discover several lovely fingerprint and footprint keepsake projects!
As with our other Mother’s Day Ideas, you’ll notice that some of these Handprint Mother’s Day Crafts also suit our Valentine’s Day Resources. Still, I truly think you’ll love looking through them. Kids’ handprint DIYs are simply adorable and make wonderful projects throughout the year!
Adorable Handprint Art for Mom
Below is a mix of simple handprint craft projects and delightful handprint gifts!
- Blowing Kisses Hand card – this entertaining handprint activity originally appeared as a guest post for Valentine’s Day. However, I think children’s handprints blowing kisses are also ideal for a Mother’s Day handprint craft!
- A lovely old craft that we made many moons ago: a wonderfully simple Handprint Flower Bouquet created with a homemade finger paint recipe
- Handprint Flower pot DIY by A Little Pinch of Perfect – a charming combination of handprint flowers arranged in paper flower pots. So sweet! These would make enjoyable classroom projects and are perfect for kindergarteners or preschoolers!
- Handprint Dish – read all about it on Mama Papa Bubba – this makes such a precious Mother’s Day Gift to create and treasure!
- Handprint Keyring Charm – as you know, we adore all kinds of Handprint Mother’s Day Gifts, and this lovely idea by Plucking Daisies is another wonderful option – UPDATE: this website is unfortunately no longer available. They combine a shrinky dink handprint with a letter charm they purchased to create a beautiful Mother’s Day handprint gift. Craft Box Girls has a tutorial for shrinky dink handprints here.
- Since we’re such big fans of bookmarks, here are some adorable handprint bookmarks by Darice [UPDATE: this blogpost is no longer active, but if you look at the lead images above, you simply cut out a cardboard handprint, attach it to a jumbo craft stick, and add a little leaf. Really easy and incredibly cute!] – always a charming present for Mom, grandparents or Dad!
- “MOM” Handprint Apron by The Craft Patch Blog
- Handprint Flower Tote Bags by Nifty Mom
Mother’s Day Fingerprint Projects
Fun with Footprint Art for Mother’s Day Crafts
We also have some adorable footprint crafts – these are particularly suitable for babies and very young children, who often struggle not to “clench” their hand into a fist. That makes footprint art and crafts perfect for these little ones.
- Heart Footprints created from salt dough – wonderfully inexpensive and beautiful
- Footprint bookmarks – we once made a set for Father’s Day, and I’m so pleased we did, because I (!) ended up using them too. Their baby feet were so tiny and precious. Say aaaah. These are definitely a must for any Mother’s Day gift project, or of course for Dad as well!
- Adorable Footprint Butterfly Pot – what a beautiful garden gift from Mamma Papa Bubba – I think this footprint butterfly would also make a fantastic butterfly handprint card, don’t you? So sweet!
- Gorgeous Footprint Flowers – such a lovely idea by Tippy Toe Crafts
More Mother’s Day Resources for Younger Children include:
As with all our “themes,” we have plenty more ideas for kindergarteners, toddlers and preschoolers this Mother’s Day, including the following –
Preschool Mother’s Day Ideas – a collection of more general Mother’s Day Crafts that preschoolers will enjoy creating!
Heart Crafts for Toddlers – a selection of lovely heart crafts. I always feel that hearts make wonderful Mother’s Day Gifts too—not only flowers!!—because we all LOVE MOM! So, if hearts are your theme this Mother’s Day, DO take a look at these sweet and easy preschooler heart crafts.
And naturally, we also have some Preschooler Valentine’s Day Cards – their loving messages are perfect for Mum too!
