Mother's Day Craft

Not necessarily one for little hands to help with, this was still a fun/quick/nice craft that I made for my moms and grandmoms for Mother's day.


I cut out 2 pieces of the foam display board, 5" x7" (using an exacto knife and a ruler).

I cut out the inside frame, about 3.75" x 5.5" on one of the boards, and cut 1 cm (or 1/2") off the other.

I cut a piece of fabric that was 7" x 9", and using a hot glue gun (set on low temp so I didn't mangle my fingers) I glued the outside edges to the open frame (folding the cloth over the back and tacking it down with the glue). I then cut an X in the material inside the open frame, and folded those edges back and glued them down.

I then put a thin bead of glue around the side and bottom edges on the back and glued the other (shorter) rectangle to the back, making the bottom and sides flush, but the top being offset lower. Finally,using adhesive magnetic stripping, I stuck the magnet on the back.

It fit a 4x6 picture perfectly, and the photo can be changed out. Travis complained that if you bumped the top corners the magnet would fall of the fridge, but I figured it was a trade-off for being able to change out the photo. I suppose you could not cut quite so much off the back, and it would be more stable.

To one (to cover up a glue mess-up) I added a button, but for the most part I let the material be the embellishment.

I know that my mothers/grandmothers loved the photo, but I think they were happy with the frame, too. I used different material for each frame (trying to match the material to the personality of the person). It took me a less than 2 hours to make 4 frames (and that was with figuring out dimensions, cuts, sizes, etc.) I imagine one could easily make one in about 20 minutes from start to finish.