Craft Time: 5 Easy Hobbies Moms and Girls Can Do Together

The time spent bonding between a mother and a daughter becomes memories and eternal lessons that she will carry through her lifetime.

Engaging in a mutual hobby is one way that you can ensure that these memories and lessons are wholesome and constructive. Below, you will find five hobbies that you and your daughter or son can enjoy together.

Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking has become a very popular hobby for people of all ages and genders. It is a fantastically visual way to display memories, pictures, and events. Scrapbooking allows you and your daughter to disconnect from technology and distractions so that you can mutually bond over memories and pictures while adding your personal touch to the display of such cherished items. Shopping for scrapbook accessories is also a fun and creative adventure itself.

Embroidery

Considered a long-lost art form, embroidery is a time-tested hobby that can provide hours of bonding time between a mother and a daughter. Although embroideries can be purchased premade from many arts & crafts stores online such as EmbroideryDesigns.com or in person, there’s no replacement for the unique personalization you can achieve from creating your own embroideries. Not only can creating your own embroideries foster a strong bond between mother and daughter, it can also teach your daughter invaluable hand-eye coordination which is a skill she’ll need for many things later in life.

Creative Journaling

Known by many other names, creative journaling is the hobby of taking a plain journal and using pens, markers, or stickers to create your own unique journal pages that serve some function or purpose. Many people find the act of creative journaling to be a satisfying creative outlet as well as a way to save money. Creative journaling can allow you and your daughter to create her own personal student planner, personal calendar, or a collection of lists and reminders that she’ll need as she matures.

Making Jewelry

An honored tradition among many ancient tribes and cultures throughout history, the crafting of jewelry can be both a creative outlet and a surprisingly lucrative hobby. While becoming a professional jewelry maker doesn’t have to be your daughter’s goal, this hobby can serve more as a way for her to create her own jewelry that will match her outfits and her personality.

Gardening

Gardening is a hobby that is usually enjoyed by women later in their lives, but your young daughter could benefit greatly from taking up gardening. It can teach her important life lessons including nurturing, planning ahead, the importance of responsibility, and about the cycles of life and death.

While many of these hobbies are safe and pose little to no risk, gardening is a hobby that requires your daughter to handle gardening tools and hazardous gardening materials. Be sure to instruct your daughter on how to use proper protection during gardening and the proper use of both the tools and the materials.

By Meghan Belnap

Meghan is a freelance writer who enjoys spending time with her family. She loves being in the outdoors and exploring new opportunities whenever they arise. Meghan finds happiness in researching new topics that help to expand her horizons. You can often find her buried in a good book or out looking for an adventure. You can connect with her on Facebook right here and Twitter right here.