How Kids can Make the Perfect Sunflower Mother’s Day Gift

Making a Sunflower Mother’s Day Gift with the kids is one of those lovely ideas that feels personal, costs very little, and means the world to the mum receiving it. We’ve pulled together everything you need to make it as easy and fun as possible.

It is really easy to make your Mum their very on sunflower gift and definitely something that even the really little ones can help make. It is also not going to cost you that much either.

What You Will Need to Make a Mother’s Day Sunflower Present

You won’t need much to create this thoughtful Mother’s Day Gift, simply:

• A 500ml old juice bottle, including the lid
• Compost
• Sunflower seeds
• A metal skewer, or something to pierce holes through the bottle.
• Water
• Our free printable bottle labels (link below)
• Some wool or string

How to Make the Perfect Sunflower Mother’s Day Gift

1. It is really easy and quick to make your Mum this pressie all you have to do is:
2. Make sure you have thoroughly washed out and dried the old juice bottle as well as taking off any labels around the outside of it.
3. Then using the skewer you want to pierce four holes around the top of the bottle. Top tip we used a metal drill bit, which we heated up with out barbecue lighter and it easily pushed through the bottle as it melted its way through, this is dangerous for kids to do, as the metal gets very hot so very much an adult task.
4. Fill the bottle up with around 2 inches of compost.
5. Tilt the bottle slightly on to one side, then drop a sunflower seed in, turn a little and drop another and so on until you have all four seeds in the bottle.
6. Pour about half an inch of extra compost on top of the seeds so you can’t see them.
7. Slowly add water, just enough to get all the compost wet and not too much that it leaves a puddle of water at the bottom. Top tip let water drip down the sides inside of the bottle slowly as if you go too fast it will move all the compost and mean the seeds won’t be covered anymore.
8. Screw the lid on the bottle.
9. Print off our free labels, cut them out and glue the Happy Mother’s Day one onto the front of the bottle and the little instructions label you can punch a little hole in the corner and thread your wool and ribbon through. Top tip we use a pin from our sewing kit to carefully punch a hole in our label.
10. Tie the instructions label around the rim of the bottle in a pretty bow style.
11. Finally give to your Mum with a Big Hug, Smile and Kisses on Mother’s Day x

How to Care for Your Sunflower Gift

The brilliant thing about this gift is that your mum won’t need to do a thing to keep it going. As long as the bottle is left in direct sunlight, it works as its very own little ecosystem, with the water inside evaporating into condensation and dropping back down onto the soil. No watering required!

Once the sunflower is big enough, an adult can carefully cut around the base of the bottle with a knife or scissors, take the sunflower out and pop it into the garden or a large plant pot to keep growing outside.

So there you have it, the perfect thoughtful Sunflower Mother’s Day Gift that any mum would love to receive.

Want to get the kids involved? Download and print our free sunflower bottle labels to make this gift extra special. And if you’re looking for something a little more heartfelt, our free Mother’s Day coupon book and printables pack includes vouchers, a certificate, and cake toppers, perfect for little ones to personalise themselves.