Mother’s Day Dish Towel Craft For Kids


Mother’s Day is the perfect excuse to encourage kids to make crafts for a loved one. If you are wanting to make a meaningful craft for mom or Grandma that she will want to treasure forever, try making a Mother’s Day dish towel craft for kids! It’s easy to embroider a child’s drawing onto a dish towel for a sweet keepsake craft.

How do you make a Mother’s Day dish towel craft? First, you will take a child’s drawing and transfer it onto a flour sack dish towel. Then, you will put it in an embroidery hoop. Use a simple embroidery stitch and fun colors to finish your Mother’s Day dish towel craft!  

Make a Mother's Day dish towel craft by turning a child's drawing into an embroidered dish towel! Perfect for a Mother's Day gift or teacher gift!

I recently tried my hand at embroidery and discovered that it’s really not as hard or scary as I thought it would be. I decided that taking one of my daughter’s cute drawings and turning it into a dish towel would be a sweet and meaningful keepsake gift to give a Mom or Grandma for Mother’s Day. Even teachers would love to receive one of these hand embroidered dish towels.

My daughter loves drawing people and went through a phase where she was drawing all sorts of fairies. I took one of her Tinkerbell drawings and made it into a dish towel. So fun!

Make a Mother's Day dish towel craft by turning a child's drawing into an embroidered dish towel! Perfect for a Mother's Day gift or teacher gift!

Materials Needed For Mother’s Day Dish Towel Craft

You will need:

  • Child’s Drawing
  • Flour Sack Dish Towel (I used a flour sack towel from Target)
  • Red Potent Copying pencil
  • Embroidery Thread
  • Embroidery Needle
  • Embroidery Hoop
Make a Mother's Day dish towel craft by turning a child's drawing into an embroidered dish towel! Perfect for a Mother's Day gift or teacher gift!

Directions For How To Make Mother’s Day Dish Towel Craft

Make a Mother's Day dish towel craft by turning a child's drawing into an embroidered dish towel! Perfect for a Mother's Day gift or teacher gift!

Step One: Trace over every line of your drawing, pressing down pretty hard.

Make a Mother's Day dish towel craft by turning a child's drawing into an embroidered dish towel! Perfect for a Mother's Day gift or teacher gift!

Step Two: Then, you are going to put the drawing face DOWN (so that the lines you just traced are touching the dish cloth) and then iron it with a hot iron.

I put another piece of paper in between the iron and the drawing just to prevent scorching.  You can keep lifting the paper to peek to see if the drawing is transferring.

Make a Mother's Day dish towel craft by turning a child's drawing into an embroidered dish towel! Perfect for a Mother's Day gift or teacher gift!

Step Four: Once it’s transferred, you are ready to embroider!

Step Five: Put it in an embroidery hoop and use a simple stitch.

If you have never done embroidery, you can just Google it and find out simple stitches. It’s easy.

And you are done! Isn’t it so cute?

Make a Mother's Day dish towel craft by turning a child's drawing into an embroidered dish towel! Perfect for a Mother's Day gift or teacher gift!

You could also leave the dish towel in the embroidery hoop and hang it on the wall, or turn it into a pillow.

Make a Mother's Day dish towel craft by turning a child's drawing into an embroidered dish towel! Perfect for a Mother's Day gift or teacher gift!
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