Family Mothers, Past and Present

5/9/2015

My daughter and I created this fun three-dimensional Mother's Day poster representing some of her female ancestors.

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Family Mothers, Past and Present Poster

It was simple to make. You will need:

Poster board (any size, depending on how many mothers you'd like to include)
Cupcake liners
Colored construction paper or scrapbook paper
Photos of family mothers
Pencil and marker
Glue
Scissors

First, we made a title on the poster board. You can title it however you choose; if you choose to do one branch of your family, you can use the surname at the top. I wrote dotted letters for the title and let my daughter trace them so she could practice her writing. I later used a pink marker to make the letters stand out more.

Daughter tracing title of poster

I cut out flower shapes from assorted scrapbook paper that I had lying around. The photo headshots get glued into the bottoms of the cupcake liners and then that gets glued onto the flower shapes and poster board. I printed out all of our photos in black and white to give it a little more uniformity, but if you have a mix of black and white and color photos, that's fine, too.

Gluing flower shapes onto poster

My daughter enjoyed arranging the flowers and photos. Have fun with it! This activity is another one of those fun crafts that gets your child to look at family photos and learn about the people in them!