Flowers in a Vase Mother

Flowers in a Vase Mother's Day Card

Materials:

- Card stock: blue, green, red, yellow
- Cover-weight art paper
- Craft glue
- Marker: medium-point (optional)
- Scissors
- Wrapping paper: tiny polka-dot patterned

Instructions:

1. Fold art paper in half. Using scissors, cut out three stems and four leaves from green card stock. Cut out flowers from remaining piece of card stock. Cut center for flowers from polka-dot paper. Cut vase from patterned paper.

2. Make slit in upper part of vase to insert flower stems. Apply glue under outside edges of vase and adhere to front of card.

3. Determine placement of stems and flowers. Apply glue to stem and slide bottom end of stem through slit in vase, then press to adhere. Repeat with remaining stems.

4. Adhere flower to top of stem. Repeat for remaining flowers. Adhere polka-dot paper to center of each flower. Adhere one leaf to each outside stem and two to inside them. Optional: Using marker, write Y-O-U or M-O-M in center of each flower.

5. Write your own personal Mother’s Day message to Mom inside.