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Make a Paper Dandelion Craft Mother’s Day Card

By ProjectswithKids

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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.

Paper dandelion craft Mother's Day card

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.

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 needed for a paper dandelion craft Mother's Day card

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.

Cutting out a template for a dandelion craft

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.

Dandelion template for Mother's Day card

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.   

Glueing on leaves for a dandelion craft

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.

Cutting and gluing together a dandelion card for Mother's Day

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.   

Dandelion craft

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.

Paper dandelion card

Take the smaller circle and glue it in the centre of the bigger circle, again only glueing the centre 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.

paper dandelion craft

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!

>> Click here to download your PDF dandelion template

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Pin this Mother’s Day card for later 

dandelion craft Mother's day card
Yield: 1 dandelion card

Make a Paper Dandelion Craft Mother's Day Card

Paper dandelion craft Mother's Day card

Wish mom a Happy Mother's Day with this pretty dandelion craft Mother's Day card! This is a great activity for kids to practice their scissor skills.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Active Time 35 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Difficulty Medium

Materials

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

Tools

  • Scissors

Instructions

  1. Print out the dandelion template onto white cardstock or have kids draw their own.
  2. Cut everything out.
  3. Choose a color of cardstock for the card and fold it in half.
  4. Use the template to trace and cut out the leaves and stem out of green paper. If you don't have colored paper, kids can color in the template and use that.
  5. Glue the stems and leaves onto your card with a glue stick.
  6. Take the white circles and fold them in half one way and then the other to create some cutting guidelines. Cut thin strips all the way around the circles to make the dandelion.
    Cut a few strips off of the bigger white circle, and cut these strips into smaller squares. These smaller squares will be used for the dandelion seeds that look like they are blowing off of the card.
  7. Glue the bigger circle to the stem with a glue stick. Make sure to only glue the center of the circle down to create a 3D effect with the dandelion.
    Glue the circle down so that the empty space where you cut the paper strips off is facing towards the top left or right of the card.
    Take the smaller circle and glue it down in the center of the big circle.
  8. Glue down the smaller square paper bits so it looks like there are dandelion seeds blowing off the paper.
  9. Use a black sharpie to write your Mother's Day message inside the card.
Project Type: Mother's Day / Category: Paper Crafts
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Filed Under: Craft Projects, Holidays/Seasonal, Mothers Day, Paper Crafts

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