Mother's Day Handprint Crafts

Mother’s Day is one of the top days of the year for homemade crafts and cards. It’s especially moving to create a card or artwork that incorporates kids handprints into the craft so Mom can remember forever how little they once were. We’ve got lots of Mother’s Day handprint craft ideas that will make Mom smile and feel loved on her special day!

Handprint crafts are great in that you can use paint to make a solid handprint or trace it onto paper and cut out to practice scissor skills. You can even trace with a crayon or marker and color in the handprint from there from if you don’t want to get out the paint. Use or flower template as another craft for Mother’s Day or make a bouquet of tissue paper flowers to go with your card!

Assortment of Mother's Day handprint crafts on a counter.

Why Kids Love Handprint Crafts:
Tips for Making Handprint Crafts:
Cactus Handprint Craft
Strawberry Handprint Craft

Why Kids Love Handprint Crafts:

A lot of kids love to get a little messy at art time (and painting their hands tickles a little!), so this gives them an opportunity to have some “hands on” painting time.
Since you are using their handprint, each card or artwork is unique to that child!
Older kids can help trace handprints for younger kids and help cut out the handprint shape as well for scissor practice.

Tips for Making Handprint Crafts:

If you want a more sparse handprint where you see more fingerprints, use a small paintbrush to coat a dry hand with paint and stamp right onto paper.
If you want a more solid looking print, coat the hand and stamp a scrap piece (or just make two of the same handprints to make more than one craft). Then, immediately add another coat of paint and stamp another piece and the second stamp will look more filled in.
For easier paint removal, don’t let the paint fully dry before washing it off. Make as many handprints in that color as you want and then wash before it fully dries.
If you are worried about paint on clothes or tables, try a smock or coated tablecloth for easy clean up!

Handprint Butterfly

handprints being painted to make a butterfly next to acrylic paint and a paintbrush.

Handprints made into butterfly wings gleud onto a piece of yellow paper.

To create your handprint butterfly, use two pieces of white paper and stamp overlapping handprints with two different spring colors.
Cut out around the handprints to create the butterfly wings.
Glue your wings overlapping in the middle on another piece of paper (a piece of colored paper is fun!).
Cut out and glue a long oval from a brown or gold piece of paper to be the body of your butterfly and glue that on.
Love butterflies? Grab our printable butterfly template or make an origami butterfly too!

Handprint Mother's Day craft butterfly next to crayons, a sharpie and a paintbrush.

Add antennae and a smile with a marker and google eyes with some glue.
Write “Happy Mother’s Day!” at the bottom and you’re done!

Flowerpot Handprint Craft

A purple, yellow and pink handprint on white paper next to cut out pots from brown paper.

A purple, yellow and pink handprint on white paper next to cut out pots from brown paper with green stems to make the handprints look like flowers.

Add three sprint colored handprints to a horizontal piece of white paper.
Cut out flower pot shapes from brown paper.
Cut out thin green paper rectangles to be the stems and a few leaf shapes for your flowers.
Glue your flowerpots and green stems and leaves underneath your handprint flowers.
You could also make a handprint bouquet of flowers if you don’t want to cut out pots!

Handprint flowerpot Mother's Day craft with MOM spelled out on the flower pots.

To create the “MOM”, use large letter stickers, or cut out paper letters, or draw on your letters with a marker to finisih off your project.

Paper Lilly Handprint Bouquet

Purple paper cut into handprints to make a lily shape next to a gluestick, scissors and a pencil.

Trace your kiddo’s handprint and cut out 4-6 of the shapes.
At the base of the palm area, curl the flower to create a cone shape with the fingers up at the top. Use glue or tape to secure in place.
Curl outward the finger petals of your flower (wrapping them around a pencil or crayon briefly is a good way to curl them).

yellow and green pipe cleaner being made into a stem to make a craft flower from a handprint.

Hand holding a purple handprint flower rolled to make a lily with a green and yellow pipe cleaner stem.

Cut a section of yellow pipe cleaner about 5″ long and fold in half. Wrap around a green pipe cleaner twist the yellow part to be the stamen of your flower. Thread the green pipe cleaner through the base of your cone to be your stem.

Handprint Mother's Day craft lilly flower with a green pipe cleaner stem on a counter next to a pair of scissors.

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Repeat with each flower until you have a small bouquet to give!

Ice Cream Cone Handprint Card

Pink construction paper handprint next to crayons and a paintbrush.

Pink construction paper next to a pair of scissors, a glue stick, crayons, and a handprint made to look like an ice cream cone.

Trace your kiddo’s handprint on the color paper that matches the ice cream flavor you want to make. Cut out shape.
Cut out a cone shape from brown or gold paper.
Glue your handprint shape upside down on top of your cone.
Write “Mom you’re the COOLEST” on your card.
Love ice cream? Here’s a printable ice cream template you can make all the flavors with!

Add a pom pom cherry (or use a paper circle) and paint/draw sprinkles on top of your ice cream to complete.

Heart Handprint Card

Child's hand being traced onto a folded piece of purple paper on a counter.

A traced outline of a hand on apurple paper next to crayons and scissors.

Fold a piece of colored paper in half.
Where the crease is, put your child’s hand so that the thumb and tips of fingers touch the crease line.
Trace the hand.

Handprint heart Mother's Day craft made from purple paper next to crayons and a pair of scissors.

Cut out the shape while the paper is still folded to reveal a heart shape.
Add personal note and the card is ready to give!

Bee Handprint Card

Two black handprints on a piece of paper.

Two black handprints on a piece of paper next to cut out yellow shape and black strips of paper.

Stamp a left and right handprint with the palms facing each other with black paint on a white sheet of horizontal paper.
Cut out a yellow “8” shape to be the body of your bee.
Cut out some black strips of paper to be the stripes and a paper triangle to be the stinger (or you can choose to paint or use marker to make your stripes and stinger).

Handprint bee Mother's Day craft on a counter next to crayons.

For paper stripes, glue on your stripes and cut off excess paper that hangs off the bee’s body and glue on your paper stinger.
Attach your bee body on top of your handprint wings with glue and add google eyes, a smile, and some antennae with a marker.
Add “You Couldn’t “BEE” A Better Mom!” to the bottom of your artwork.

Cactus Handprint Craft

A cut out green handprint, brown construction paper, scissors, and paint brushes on a counter.

A handprint card made to look like. a cactus next to paint brushes and scissors.

Trace and cut out your child’s handprint from green paper.
Cut a flower pot shape with a rectangle top and then a bottom section that tapers towards the bottom.
Cut out some paper flowers or use some faux flowers.
Glue your flower pot sections together and glue your cactus hand behind it so it’s growing out of the pot.
Use a marker to add some “needles” and glue on your flowers.
Tell Mom “I’m stuck on you!” and it’s ready to gift!

Strawberry Handprint Craft

Red and green cardstock paper cut to make a strawberry next to scissors and markers on a counter.

Handprint card made to look like a strawberry next to markers and scissors on a counter.

Cut out your strawberry shape from red or pink paper (make sure it’s large enough to fit your child’s handprint).
Cut out a green stem cap that will fit over the top of your strawberry.
Use a lighter or darker red/pink shade of paint to stamp your kiddos handprint onto the strawberry section.
Add some seed dots with a marker or paint.
Write “Love you BERRY much!” with a marker to complete!