Fingerprint Heart Ornaments
Create simple fingerprint heart ornaments made from baking soda clay or salt dough. Shape into hearts, have the kids imprint their fingerprints in a heart shape and then bake. Paint white and add red fingerprints over the fingerprint imprints. They are really easy and inexpensive to make. You could even mount them on a card or attach them to a bunch of Mums favourite flowers.
To make the clay you will need:
Simply add the bicarb and then the cornflour into a pan and then add the warm water. Stir over a medium heat until bubbles form and the mixture starts to pull away from the side of the pan,
Allow the dough to cool for a few minutes before giving it a kneed.
You can use the dough warm or cold. Create your shapes and press the fingerprints and make a hole for the ribbon before baking at 80 C for about 2 hours, turning once. Paint the next day once they have dried thoroughly.
Mother’s Day Candle Holder
This simple and creative gift will keep the kids entertained! All you need is a jam jar, paper, primer, acrylic paint and a tag!
Begin by cutting out a heart shape out of your paper and placing it onto your jar. Then using your primer cover the jar with a layer and allow to dry. Then the fun begins- it’s time to paint! Let the kids be creative, embrace their inner Jackson Pollack (as long as you have newspaper down!!). Let them pick their own colours and then as the paint dries they can paint or write the tag. Once it is dry peel off the paper shape and place a candle inside. Use string or ribbon to attach the card.
If you can get the paper shape off in one piece you can create a matching Mother’s Day card too!
Handprint Flowers
A lovely gift to make with your younger children. All you need is some paint in Mummy’s favourite colour and some green pipe cleaners.
Make handprints with the little ones, allow to dry, cut them out and then attach to the pipe cleaners and add a card.
Heart Card
One for the older kids now, these beautiful cards and easy to make and all you need is card and wool!
Have an adult punch the holes in the desired shape, a heart or a flower maybe, Thread a needle and tie a knot at the end of the wool. The kids can then sew from the top to the bottom of the shape and work their way around until the whole area is covered. Maybe add an empty picture frame to Mum’s present list so she can keep the card and see it every day!
Cookies
We all love a biscuit to dunk into our tea and the kids will love cooking up a storm in the kitchen (and licking the spoon!) for Mother’s Day!
We love this simple cookie recipe from BBC Good Food and you can even make a box for them simply from a paper plate and a ribbon!
Cut 2 lines, 2 cm apart, across the serrated paper plate edge at the top and the bottom of the plate. Fold in both sides of the plate. Tape the tab you cut earlier to create a box shape. Fill and add a ribbon for decoration.
Feeling brave?? Try these delicious Chocolate Truffles…
With only 3 ingredients what could go wrong!
Method
Break the chocolate and tip into a large bowl. Pour the cream and butter into a saucepan and heat gently until the butter melts and the cream reaches simmering point.
Remove from heat, then pour over the broken chocolate.
Stir the chocolate and cream together until smooth.
Add any flavourings to the truffle mix at this stage (divide the mixture between bowls and mix in liqueurs or other flavourings, a tsp at a time, to taste. Try bourbon, Grand Marnier, coconut rum or the zest and juice of an orange), or leave plain.
Cool and chill for at least 4 hrs.
To shape the truffles, dip a melon baller in hot water and scoop up balls of the mixture, then drop the truffles onto greaseproof paper. Or lightly coat your hands in flavourless oil (such as sunflower) and roll the truffles between your palms. You could also use a piping bag to pipe rounds onto greaseproof paper.
Coat the truffles in chopped nuts or coconut or simply cocoa powder as soon as they are shaped.
Keep in the fridge for up to 3 days in an airtight container or they can be frozen for a month.
Happy Mother’s Day! xx
