This paper dandelion craft makes such a pretty Mother’s Day card! Kids will have fun making this card to wish mom or grandma a Happy Mother’s Day.

This is also a great activity for kids to practice their scissor skills! Take a look at this beautiful 3D butterfly paper craft for another activity that also works on scissor skills.

If you are looking for more Mother’s Day cards for kids to make, have a look at this bookmark and card watercolor project and this 3D flower Mother’s Day card craft for more fun ideas!

For this project, I created a printable to make this craft even easier for you. Scroll down to the bottom of this post to download your PDF template.

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Learn about dandelions

This is also a great craft for kids to learn about dandelions and the life cycle of a seed!

Dandelions are one of the first flowers of spring and a very important flower for insects and pollinators. You can also eat parts of a dandelion plant!

• Here is a short animation of the life cycle of a dandelion.
• This page gives some facts for kids about dandelions.
• This video shows a field of dandelions and how the wind can carry their seeds for miles.

Dandelion books for kids

Create your own dandelion craft Mother’s Day card

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Supplies

• Printable template (optional)
• Colored cardstock
• White printer paper
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Black sharpie
• Glue stick

Instructions for your dandelion paper craft

1. Print out the dandelion template onto white printer paper and cut everything out. Kids can also choose to draw their own dandelion without using a template.

2. Choose a color of cardstock for the main card and fold it in half. I love how this card looks with bright colors, we used purple, blue, and pink for our examples.

3. Use the template to trace and cut out the leaves and stem out of green paper. We used cardstock but colored printer paper would also work well.

If you don’t have any colored paper, kids can use the template to color the leaf and stem green and use that for the card.   

4. Glue the stem and leaves onto the front of the card using a glue stick.   

5. Now it’s time to cut the dandelion flower. To help kids find the middle of the white circles so they don’t cut all the way through, fold each circle in half one way and then the other to get some cutting guidelines.

Cut thin strips all the way around each circle. Remind kids to go slow so they don’t cut all the way through the circle.

6. Take the bigger circle and cut off a few strips. Cut those strips into smaller squares. These squares will be glued onto the card for the parts of the dandelion seeds that get blown away.   

7. Glue the bigger circle down first to the stem. You only need to put glue in the center of the circle, you want the edges to be able to lift up a bit for a 3D effect.

You want to glue the circle down so that the parts that are cut off are facing toward the top right or left of your card like in the example.

Take the smaller circle and glue it in the center of the bigger circle, again only gluing the center of the circle.

8. Glue down the smaller square paper bits so it looks like there are dandelion seeds blowing off the paper. Make sure that you are gluing them down in the space where you cut off the paper strips.

9. Use a black sharpie to write your Mother’s Day message inside the card.

This is such a fun dandelion craft that kids will love making for Mother’s Day and learning about dandelions!

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