Ok, ok! I know Mother’s Day is long gone, but oh well. I’m still playing catch up and I want to celebrate my mom. As I said in the letter X blog, my mom is pretty fantastic! I know I already posted a picture of her, but here’s another one just in case you missed it! And this time, my sister, Erika, make her blog debut!
As you know, we have completed our
alphabet crafts for the year, so I am going to continue this week with theme
crafts. Below is the craft my two and three year olds made for their mothers.
Mother's Day is a tad bit hard to
celebrate at the library because most of the kids come with their mothers. I
always try to add a surprise element, though. This year, I had the kids and
their guardians cut out their hand and then give it to me. I had already
prepared the poem, so it was easy to step out of the room for a couple of
minutes and glue the hand down. I then gave the kids their hands back and asked
them to give it to their mothers. So, there was a little surprise in it and the
mothers' loved the cute little poem attached.
Cut flowers out of pretty paper and punch a hole in the middle. Have child put a "bendy" straw through the hole for the stem. |
Cut a "vase" out of cardstock and have the kids decorate it. Tape the vase to a toilet paper tube. It is important to tape the bottom of the toilet paper tube so that the flowers do not fall through. |
Place the flowers into the vase and VOILA! A beautiful vase of flowers that will NEVER DIE! |
Lastly, I found a really great song on
iTunes about Mother’s Day. It’s very
cute with a good beat. Here’s a quick little video I made. Can you find my mom and sister in it?