Mom: No single Mother's Day card could possibly express all you mean to your family, but this one comes close.
Kids: At a loss for words? This clever wheel-shaped card lets you tell Mom just how great you think she is.
| Prep Time: Under 1 hour | |
| What you need: | |
| Card stock
Pinking shears Craft knife Paper fastener Glue | |
| Seasons: Mother's day | |
| Materials: card stock, pinking shears | |
| Instructions: | |
| 1. |  Trace around a small plate onto colored card stock and cut
out the circle (ours was about 7½ inches across). Using this
circle as a guide, cut out 3 more (we used different colors),
each one slightly larger than the previous one. Trim the circles
with pinking shears, if you like. Glue together the 2 smallest
circles and the 2 largest circles to create 2 double-thick
wheels. |
| 2. |  Use a craft knife (an adult's job) to cut a small window
(ours was about ½ by 2½ inches) in the smaller wheel,
then write the beginning of a message (such as "To me you are:")
above the window. From newspapers or magazines, snip
complimentary words and phrases to complete your message, such as
"amazing," "wonderful," "the greatest thing" (they should be the
size of the window or smaller). |
| 3. | Poke a hole through the center of each wheel and attach them with a paper fastener. Use a glue stick to attach the cutouts to the larger wheel through the window, gluing the edges down well and spacing them so that only one word can be seen at a time. Finally, decorate the top wheel with more Mother's Day greetings and messages. |
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