Let’s face it, moms are the best! Celebrate this Mother’s Day with My Mommy is Magic, a wonderful tribute to all the ways a mom magically heals wounds, creates new worlds, and makes our very favorite things. Help your child make Mom feel special by assisting them in this free (or nearly, at least) art project for kids. They can create  their own bouquet of flowers to present to their mom on Mother’s Day. These flowers are beautiful and will never die nor fade, just like their love for their Mom.

The Book

Author:  Carl Norac

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Illustrator: Ingrid Godon

Reading Level: 4-8 years old

Book Brief: Is there anyone more magical than Mommy? She can kiss a boo-boo and make it better. She can chase monsters away after a bad dream. And she can make a delicous cake appear – right out of thin air!

From the author-illustrator team of My Daddy Is a Giant comes an equally hearfelt and well-deserved tribute to mothers – the everyday magicians who not only do it all but make it look so easy.

Author: Carl Norac is a prize-winning poet and the author of many widely acclaimed and bestselling children’s books. His work for children has been translated into eighteen different languages.

Illustrator: Ingrid Godon has illustrated several picture books that have been published internationally. She lives in Belgium with her husband and three children.

The Blast

Tissue Paper Flowers for Mom

from FamilyFun.com

Location: Your kitchen table

Time to Complete: 15 minutes – 1 hour

Cost: Little to nothing

It’s a Blast!

Follow the directions below or check out a video tutorial at Family Fun:

1. Start with a stack of 6 multi-colored pieces of tissue paper.

2. Fold the tissue paper accordian style the long way.

3. Twist a pipe cleaner at the center, tightly keeping it together.

4. Round both ends of the folded tissue with scissors.

5. Open up the flower by pulling up the first layer of tissue paper towards the center. Repeat fluffing all six layers.

6. Attach a stem wrapped in green tissue or crepe paper.

Extra Tips for a Good Time:

• Change the size of the rectangular paper to get varying sized flowers. You can make very small lifelike flowers or giant blossoms beautiful for decorating.
• For a different look, do a flower in all one color tissue paper but use crayon or oil pastel to the very edge of the flower before you fluff it.
• One year we attached a pretty note to the stem and delivered a single flower to all of the special Mom’s in our lives.