Mother’s Day was right around the corner. Y week? Z week? I chose to combine Mother’s Day and Y  and do the Letter Y is for Yellow.  We studied the primary colors and learned what secondary colors were formed when we combined them. There was time in the lesson to fit in a nice craft  so we also made this adorable cupcake liner card for the moms.

The card is printed on colored card stock. For my sample copy, I used yellow-green and green crayon to fill in the foliage. The flower is a bright colored cupcake liner, turned inside out so that the colorful part shows. The sides of the liners are clipped so the flower will spread out better.

In the center I glued a yellow circle and with some dried black beans inside for seeds.

Inside the card is another liner with the child’s photo in the center. (The SAMPLE I made for my students to see has a picture of me but our moms got to have their precious little child’s picture inside of theirs.)

I love how the paper cupcake liner stands out a little bit for a 3-D effect.

 

 

DIY Cupcake Liner Mother’s Day Card

• Print the words “Happy Mother’s Day” and an outline of stem & leaves on cardstock on the right side of the paper.
• Fold the paper in half so that the words and image are on the front of the card.
• Color the stem and foliage.
• Turn two cupcake liners inside out.
• Clip the accordion outsides of the liners so that they separate a bit to form petals.
• Glue stick the centers of the cupcake liners.

• • One goes on top of the stem on the front.
  • The second one goes inside the card on the right.

• On the front, gluestick the yellow circle into the center of the cupcake liner.
• Squeeze some dots of Elmer’s glue on the circle and attach a few “seeds” (blackbeans)
• Allow the seeds to dry for a few minutes.
• Inside the card, glue the child’s picture in the center of the other cupcakeliner.
• Have the child to use crayons to write a message to mom and sign it.

There you have it … a work of art!

 

Enjoy!

 

This is super practical and not all moms would appreciate it for Mother’s Day but I can attest that lots of moms would appreciate it the other 364 days a year!!!

A new Shark vacuum cleaner!