Mother's Day Handprint Flower Pots

These turned out SO cute!! Hope the moms like them when they pick them up this afternoon. I couldn't wait to post this, though, so hopefully they won't see this before then.

This is a more substantial gift, but still the same general process as our last year's Mother's Day Card. 

Hopefully they won't notice, but it's just too cute of a process to not repeat.

I bought the pots at Home Depot for under $2 a piece. 

The children did a green hand print for the base on Monday.

Tuesday morning, they did the yellow center finger prints. Even the youngest 2 year old was able to do it with me just holding the pot. 

We let that dry and came back in the afternoon to do the fingerprint petals. This required a little more assistance from me.

I used a silver Sharpie marker to put "Happy Mother's Day 2014" on the hand print.

Wednesday, they still weren't dry. Some of the little ones were a little gloppy in their fingerprints, so I let the pots rest for the day and once the children went home, I sprayed the painting with lacquer. [WARNING: Contact high!]

Thursday, today, we filled and planted and watered.

They looked pretty darling as is, how I planned it, but I'd come across an idea I loved, and decided to incorporate it. Just wish I knew where I found it so I could give proper credit.

I took some mug shots of the kiddos, manipulated them to 1 3/4 inch circles, printed out and laminated. 

They chose a color of cupcake wrapper and glued their pics into the center with a glue stick.

I created some cards to add as well. FREE to download on TPT.

I printed those out and laminated them, to protect when the moms watered their plants.

The children planted their flowers and signs in with the flowers, to create a finished piece that they are thrilled to have to present to their wonderful mommas. 

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Hand Print Flower Bouquet with Printable

These handprint flower bouquets turned out DARLING!

They were more teacher-assisted than I prefer for the under-4 crowd, but they make a cute keepsake of hand and finger print art. I believe 4 and over could do independently. 

We used them as a Mother's Day card on a 1/2 sheet of cardstock, but they would be a good craft for a Grandparent's Day card or garden, spring, or flower theme as well.

I loved the poem, but wanted a different font and pot design than the ones I found. So I re-did it in a 4 set to print out on the colored paper of the child's choice. I made the outside lines much wider to make it easier for little ones to cut out. 

My file has 4 different font styles and one page of blank pots. 

CLICK HERE TO PRINT OR DOWNLOAD

1. We did the handprint first, let dry 

2. Decided on the pot colors, printed out poem and cut out and glued on with a glue stick

3. Decided as a group on the flower colors we would use, and then stamped the flowers one color at a time using finger prints, let dry

4. Stamped the yellow centers using thumb prints

5. Wrote the child's name and the year at the bottom

I found the craft on Pinterest and followed the links to funhandprintart.blogspot.com and on to the poem from Tip Junkie.

SKILLS:
Social: following directions, taking turns
Math: counting fingers/stems, flowers, petals and centers; who has the tallest/widest/smallest handprint; left/right hand
Art: creative expression, color choice, mixed media, process art
Language and Literacy: poetry, headings, vocabulary, sentiment, writing name and date
Science: flower physiology
Fine Motor: hand and finger prints, cut, glue, writing
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