Emily asked me for some ideas for crafts for Mothers Day. One idea that can be easily adapted for kids is Decorated Candles and Matches.
Here are some candles I decorated last year for a project I was working on. Simply wrap the candles with strips of paper – you can use scrap booking paper, wrapping paper, pages from old books etc. Affix the paper with double sided tape, and tie a piece of ribbon around the middle. Kids could embellish the candles with all types of details – buttons, stickers, chip board accents – to put their own stamp on the project! Candles are relatively inexpensive if bought in bulk or on clearance if it is a group project.
Safety Tips – Ensure the recipient removes the paper before lighting the candle; remove the matches before giving the box to children to decorate.
The latest Marie Clarie Idees has a picture of some matches that have been decorated. Some citronella candles for outdoor use could be tied together for gift giving.
Martha Stewart also has some candle inspiration.
The gift can then be easily wrapped with plain shipping tags, kraft paper bags, paper doileys, and Japanese washi masking tape.
If you have any brilliant ideas for kids Mothers Day craft or have received a sweet gift from your child, please leave details in the comments or link to tutorials. I will do a follow-up post next week with all the ideas.
Posted by Lisa
The candles look great…simple yet so effective!
I need to get my nearly grown up children to check out this post to give them some money saving ideas, off course they would be using my supplies! Then they will probably give me a card they i have made myself.
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These are great ideas Lisa. I love the candles especially. The chocolate chip cookie mix (all the dry ingredients) layered in a jar with the recipe wrapped around the outside of the jar is always a favourite around here! xo
The candles look really beautiful – what a lovely idea.
Last year, our kindergarten got the kids to make a sweet papercraft gift. The children traced and beautifully decorated two cardboard hands, which were held together with a piece of ribbon the width of their armspan. One of the cutouts had a little “I love you this much” written on it. Definitely something sentimental to keep!
Fun ideas! Thanks for sharing. I will,in turn, pass this along to others that I KNOW will appreciate your cleverness!
Lovely! great ideas!
Another fun project Lisa — you always have the best ideas!
Such lovely treatments to dress up simple things! I like having a prettily covered match box handy–much more cheerful to look at, pick up, etc.! Thanks for always having so much fun here. :o) Happy Weekend ((HUGS))
Lovely candle projects! I especially love the pink and black combo. These would make such great hostess gifts to have on hand.
Yet another colourful, interesting and inspiring post! Thank you for sharing. 🙂
Great idea girls…..Thanks for the safety tips too.
These are very pretty, never would have thought to decorate matchboxes 🙂
lovely Ideas…You Girl’s are soo Clever..
cheers
Brilliant in it’s simplicity!
Just brilliant! When is the mother´s day there?
Very Cute! I love the idea of decorating candles. I am throwing my sister a French Bridal Shower and the Pink, Black and White Candles would be perfect! Thanks for sharing!
Wonful idea for mothers day gifts. I decorated wooden cigar boxes with scrap things last year with my day care childs and they loved it. I just stopped by with my latte an read every post I was missing and got lots of inspiration, thank you and have a great week Hugs Myriam
I love your blog! We are a Mother and daughters blog also. 🙂
Lucy, Molly, and Caroline
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You always have great ideas! I like the gift bag with the tag, it is sweet!
great ideas.
The candles look beautiful – as always! Your blog is always so full of great ideas! Thanks.
Fantastic easy to do presents especially the matchboxes.
Great idea-one i could easily do with the kids at school-thanks for sharing:)
Great ideas as usual! Really love the doll sleeping bags in your last post, Sophie’s doll might want to go camping with her this year…
Very, very sweet and creative. I love all you ideas. I may be a “copy-cat.”
the candles look nice, pitty one cannot lite them like that!
I will add this blog to my favorites, it is great.