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Baby Made Mother’s Day Cards

in Celebrations, Crafts & DIY, Kids' Crafts, Mother's Day, Papercrafts

Baby made Mother's Day cards | spotofteadesigns.com

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After a successful Valentine’s Day card making session with Brielle doing footprint art, I thought she was ready for another round of crafts and we got to work making cards for Mother’s Day!

Baby Made Mother's Day Cards | Spotofteadesigns.com

I sat her in her highchair and put one of my old t-shirts on her as a smock.

Baby Made Mother's Day Cards using Crayola Fingerpaint and process art method| Spotofteadesigns.com

I poured some of our Crayola 4ct Washable Fingerpaint onto small plates and was ready to dip her hand in the paint and press it onto pieces of paper.

Baby Made Mother's Day Cards | Spotofteadesigns.com

This didn’t go as planned, since our little one is so “busy” and always wanting to “touch, touch touch” things. I decided to take another approach. I let her have fun and create “process art,” a term I recently learned about from Stephanie of Two-daloo in this post. As Stephanie describes, “process art is basically any activity where the focus is placed on the act of creating, not the finished product.”

Baby Made Mother's Day Cards | Spotofteadesigns.com

And create she did! Brielle seemed to be more fascinated with the paper plate than the act of adding paint to the page.

Baby Made Mother's Day Cards | Spotofteadesigns.com

I watched as she explored the new textures in front of her and ultimately made a colorful mess.

Baby Made Mother's Day Cards | Spotofteadesigns.com

In the end I got three sheets of colorful papers and no true handprints. But I had one happy girl who had a fun time playing around with paints.

Baby made Mother's Day cards | spotofteadesigns.com

After letting them dry, I decided not to let these pieces of art go to waste. I cut out some parts to use as background papers and worked up a card for both Brielle’s Gwenma (a term Derek coined merging my mom’s name Gwen with her title of Grandma) and her Great Gramma Ingrid. I know this goes against the “process art” concept so I guess in the end you can consider this a great mommy/daughter collaborative art session. :)

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  1. Helen Gullett says

    May 14, 2014 at 9:07 am

    This is just too adorable and amazing idea! And this card will make the best gift to grandmas!

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    • Spot of Tea Designs says

      May 14, 2014 at 9:22 am

      Thanks Helen. The Grammas loved it!

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  2. Katie says

    May 14, 2014 at 5:57 pm

    awww so cute

    great project and looks like we have a crafter in the making xx

    Reply
  3. Leslie says

    May 20, 2014 at 11:08 am

    These cards are so sweet! I LOVE the colors and they are extra special because of the sweet fingerprints they were made with. So glad that you shared them with us at tMN!!! Hope you will share again!!

    Reply
  4. Marti says

    May 22, 2014 at 1:04 am

    Awww, the paintings are so adorable!! I’m sure Grandma loved it!! What a great gift idea. Thank you so much for sharing it with us!! :)

    Reply

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