DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Water Color Mother's Day Flower Wreath

This is a very fun Mother's Day themed wreath craft using water color paint. Kids can express their creativty with pretty flower and heart shapes and a paper plate. This craft is a colorful, decorative way to celebrate Mother's Day and would make a lovely gift.

Materials:

• white paper (water color paint warps paper, so the thicker the paper the better; special water color paper works the best but printer paper would be okay too),
• printer,
• scissors,
• glue,
• a paper plate
• water color paint,
• paintbrush,

Instructions:

• Cut the center out of the paper plate to leave a round "donut" shape.  This will form the base of the wreath.  (This may require adult assistance).
• Create the flowers and hearts to cover the wreath using the printer paper template:
  • Print out the template pieces - you may wish to print 2 or 3 copies of the template depending on how full you want your wreath to be.
  • Paint the flowers and hearts using different Water Color Painting Techniques. This is where children can show their creativity! (Beware, the printer ink may run with the water color ink.)
• Create the flowers and hearts to cover the wreath using traced water color paper:
  • Paint water color paper with different Water Color Painting Techniques. Don't worry about painting in lines, you will cut the paper into flowers and hearts later.

  • Make a template of a flower or heart by freehand or print out one of the templates and use one of the flowers and one of the hearts as templates.
  • Trace the flower and heart onto the back of the water color paper as many times as you can fit the shapes.

• Cut out the template pieces, either from the printer paper templates or the traced water color paper.  This will take quite awhile -- you can provide assistance if you like (depending on the patience of your child).

• Glue your flowers and hearts to completely cover your paper plate "donut".
• You can tie a bow and paste it on to decorate further.
• You can put a piece of yarn on the back to hang it.
• You can write words to describe your mom on some of the hearts or flowers as a sort of message.

• You can do these as a group with younger children -- let each child paint and cut out one or two flowers and hearts, possibly print their names on it, and glue it on the group wreath.

Craft Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Flower Template

Heart Template

Printable version of these instructions