Mother's Day Books

 

My coworker makes these cute books every year after reading The Important Book. We used the sentence starter: The important thing about my mom is that... The last sentence was: But the most important thing about my mom is that... and they repeat the first sentence they wrote like in the book. We used six pages in all with the last page being about the author. This is the first year we've made them and I just loved them, they turned out so cute and their writing was amazing. The students only got one copy and had to try their best the first time. They all did such a great great job sounding out words and using their best handwriting.

I taped the magnets I made from their art to the inside cover.

 

 

Mother's Day Magnets

 I took a picture of the flower art the student's painted with their traced hand. I made the picture wallet size and then printed it on photo paper. I put the picture on a magnetic sheet and cut it out.

The magnetic sheets were $2 at Walmart and made 8 magnets.

 

These are the printed pictures before I cut them out.

 

I had some leftover magnetic sheets so I also made magnets with the self portraits they drew for our end of the year program.

Here is the photo paper I used.

Here are the magnetic sheets I used.

Mother's Day Gifts

This is our Mother's Day Box/Poem/Card. The students thumb print is in a flower shape on the outside of a box they made (I painted the green part). The students drew a picture of their mom to glue on the inside. They were given 5 minutes to write words that describe their mother and then used five of those words to write a list poem on the inside of the box. It's so nice because it can be closed up and stored or stand up and be displayed.

Click HERE to see more box pictures and learn how the students can make a box.

Silhouette Charms

This is our Mother's Day present this year...Silhouette Charms. It was so easy to do and I think they turned out GREAT! They were pretty inexpensive as well, it only took about 2 sheets of shrinky dink paper to make the whole class. I took a picture of each student, cut it out and then taped it to a black shrinky dink and cut it out on the same lines. I hole punched them at the top and then baked them at 325 for 3 minutes. It says 250 on the package but that didn't seem to work so me. The students drew and colored a heart shrinky dink on white to go with it and put it on an add a pendant wire necklace from Joanns. A bracelet or key chain would be cute also.

You can click HERE for a great tutorial from Plucky Momo.

Mother's Day

For a Mother's Day present I painted the students hands and feet and printed them on an apron. The students wore them to serve their Mothers tea. They were very cute. Sam's Club has white aprons in bulk for a good price.

Mother's Day Card: On the inside we wrote a letter to our mom

about our favorite thing to do with them.

Mother's Day Songs:

We Love Mothers

(Sung to the tune of “Frere Jacques”)

We love mothers.

We love mothers.

Yes we do; yes we do.

Mothers are for hugging (hug self)

Mothers are for kissing (blow a kiss)

We love you; yes, we do.

Thank you mothers.

Thank you mothers.

For your love; for your love.

Mothers are for hugging,

Mothers are for kissing.

We love you; yes, we do.

Very Special Friend

(sung to the tune of “BINGO”)

Do in sign language.

I have a very special friend,

And mommy is her name-o,

M-O-M-M-Y

M-O-M-M-Y

M-O-M-M-Y

And mommy is her name-o.

Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
I'm so Lucky
To have a Mother like YOU!

We read this fun book:

 We hung these out in the hall for the Moms to look at:

Outside Pattern

Inside Pattern