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Mother’s Day Cards- My Biggest Fan

April 17, 2015 By Deirdre

Earlier this week I shared a Mothers Day card idea that children in the primary grades or preschool could make for their moms for Mothers Day and today I have a card for older children to make. This card requires that children have mastered cutting and precise gluing. While some younger children could do both of those things, there may be some that would be frustrated while this “Biggest Fan” card. That is why I have made two Mothers Day cards that you could create.

I went ahead a made you a printable fan card you can print out to save you some time. You may decide you want to have your children write out the card’s cover message in their own writing. They could also compose the text and choose the font of a computer.

Hint:
If you choose to have your children create their own text on card stock or white paper, make sure that there is enough room in the center of the card for the fan. I had to change the margins and text placement several times to get it the place wide enough for the fan.

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Once you have text on the card, it is time to create the fan. You can use a decorative cupcake liner or baking Cups like we did or a liner that is a single color. You may want to put out a bunch of them and have your children decide what type of liner that they want to use.

Supplies Needed for Creating This Card

Cupcake liners
File folder
White card stock or paper
Glue stick
Scissors

Steps for Creating the Fan

Fold the cupcake liner in half to create a fold.
Cut the cupcake liner in half by cutting the line you created when you folded it.
Cut in along the creased arc created by the divide between the liner’s base and ruffled sides.
Cut six narrow strips out of a manila file folder. They will be the fan’s ribs or sticks.
Glue the ribs in place on the back of the fan.
Turn the fan over and trim the ribs so that they are all the same length or close to it. We had one rib that was shorter than the others by a little bit.

Once the fan has dried, you can glue it to the front of the card.

Mothers Day Cards Messages

You may decide to have your children write a letter or a short note on the inside of the card sharing why they think their mom is their biggest fan. They could also draw a picture of their mom being their biggest fan or maybe even a cartoon conversation.

The craft fan on the outside of the card will be standard on everyone’s cards. It is the message they place in each of their Mothers Day cards that will make it truly unique and special.

Other Mothers Day Cards and Gifts You Can Make

Homemade Mothers Day Cards That are Heart Felt

How to Make a Mother’s Day Paper Flower Bouquet

My Fingerprints Poem and Craft

Mother’s Day Breakfast Sundae

You will find more Mother’s Day ideas on my Mother’s Day Pinterest board. I hope you will stop by and check them out.

Stories for Kids and Moms for Mother’s Day

May 7, 2014 By Deirdre

There is something wonderful about curling up and reading stories for kids and moms with your own child or grandchild! There are dozens of stories that feature kids and their moms. While they can be read all year long, I think reading one of these stories for kids and mom on Mother’s Day makes Mother’s Day extra special.

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That’s How Much I Love You by Lisa Tawn Bergen shares the tale of a mother dog and her pup. They spend all day trying to so how much more they love each. They love each other more than the snowflakes in a blizzard and the bubble in a bubble bath. The illustrations in this book are gorgeous!

The Night Before Mother’s Day and all through the house the children are preparing special things to show their mom that she is special. Children and their moms will love reading this book by Natasha Wing. It may give some children ideas of what to do for Mother’s Day for their mom.

Anne Rockwell’s Mother’s Day looks at various ways students in a class share Mother’s Day with their moms. It includes are fun craft that the class makes and that you can make too.

Have you ever been given a bucket of worms for Mother’s Day? The children in What NOT to Give Your Mom on Mother’s Day by Martha Simpson have given worms and other very interesting gifts consideration. This is a book that will make you laugh.

The mice in The Mother’s Day Mice Gift Edition (Holiday Classics) end up skittering and scattering to find the perfect Mother’s Day gift. This fun book is written by Eve Bunting. It is filled with fun text and super cute pictures.

Sometimes it is the simple gifts that moms like the best. The snake in the book Mother’s Day Surpriseby Stephen Krensky finds that creating a Mother’s Day gift is a challenge without hands. Snake ends up having to use what they have to give mom a simply wonderful gift.

Mama Do You Love Me?: (Children’s Storytime Book, Arctic and Wild Animal Picture Book, Native American Books for Toddlers) (Mama, MAMA) by Barbara M. Joosse shares a mother’s unconditional love for her very busy daughter. The story is set in Alaska and shares activities that are a part of the Intuit culture. The title of this book is question children around the world have asked their moms.

Another wonderful Barbara M. Joose book is called I Love You the Purplest: (I Love Baby Books, Mother’s Love Book, Baby Books about Loving Life).This story is about a mother and her two sons each wants to know who mom loves the most. The words and pictures in this book share how the mom finds ways that each boy is special. You will love finding out just what the title of this book means.

Deborah Guarino’s Is Your Mama a Llama?is a fun book filled with rhymes and wonderful illustrations by Steven Kellogg. While a llama is searching for their mama they come across a variety of animals that share facts about their mamas. This is such a fun book to read.

No Matter What (Send A Story)by DebiGliori is a book I have given as a baby shower gift for years. I even have a copy of it in JDaniel’s room to read at bedtime. It is a wonderful tale of small and how his mother Large reassures him that he is loved no matter what. Be warned this book has been known to make me cry.

What are your favorite stories for kids and moms to read together?

Mother’s Day Pictures for Homemade Cards

May 2, 2014 By Deirdre

During JDaniel’s swimming lessons he has to sit on the steps of the pool and wait for his turn. He fills the time not by watching the others swim, but by doing things like making hearts with his hands and looking my direction. It is the sweetest thing! I just love receiving his hand signs of love. For Mother’s Day I decided to capture his expression of love in a series of Mother’s Day pictures and use them on Mother’s Day gifts for his grandmothers. Oh and for me too!

The hardest part of the project was deciding whether to have the Mother’s Day pictures include just the hand heart sign or some of him it. I finally decided to focus on his hands. The second hardest part was deciding whether to use color picture or one that is black and white. I printed out on of each.

We took out paint and JDaniel painted several pieces of construction paper that would be made into the Mother’s Day gift cards. I went ahead and cut the sheets of construction paper in half so, we would get two cards per sheet.

I suggested the cards be covered with polka dots, but that they didn’t have to be. I thought that polka dots would make a great frame for the card. As you can see some of the cards ended up with different patterns or no pattern at all.

After letting the paint dry, we glued the picture of the heart hand sign Mother’s Day craft. We used a glue stick, but I think you could have used liquid glue or maybe tape instead.

Rather than have JDaniel write the name each cards recipient inside the card along with a message and his name he wrote it on the back. I confess that I had him write the message on handwriting paper first. By having him do that I hoped to eliminate the need to erase any misspelling from the card.

We will purchase something for each of JDaniel’s grandmothers to go along with the cards, but I think they may love these cards just as much or more. Capturing his six year old hand in a sign of love is something really special to give as a Mother’s Day gift or any time of year really.

I am so please with how these cards turned out!

Do you like to give homemade or store bought cards for Mother’s Day?

{Dig Into Gardening} M.O.M. Herb Container Garden and Link Up

May 7, 2013 By Deirdre

When I head that the theme for summer reading was going to be Dig Into Reading, I was thrilled. There are so many wonderful concepts and activities that children dig into. The first concept or theme that came to mind was gardening. My family loves to work on our yard and to garden. I also noticed that a large number of members of the Kid Blogger Network seem to like gardening too!

Why not give you a place to see and explore the wonderful posts that I was discovering I thought? Five amazing Kid Blogger Network bloggers agreed to join me in sharing not only their gardening themed posts, but those created by others.

You will find that some of the posts are actually about gardening projects while others are activities, crafts, food creations and more that have a garden theme. If you have posts with a gardening theme for children I hope you will link them up below and add the Dig Into Gardening badge.

Mother’s Day Plant Idea – M.O.M. Herb Container Garden

I looked through a variety of gardening books for children to find ideas for a Mother’s Day project to do with JDaniel. In the book I found a garden that featured plants that matched a child’s initials. This is a great idea, but didn’t fit a Mother’s Day theme. Why not look for herbs or flowers that matched the letters in mom I thought. JDaniel and I headed to our local garden center to look over herbs or flowers that started with the letters in the word Mom.

We didn’t need to look for very long before we found the area to dig into. The herb section actually had five or six kinds of mint sitting right next to a pot of oregano that was right next to some marjoram. It was like they were placed right there just for us.

It was hard to decide which variety of mint to select. We ended up having to decide between an orange mint and a chocolate mint.We ended heading home with a pot of marjoram, a pot of oregano and a pot of chocolate mint. The car smelled wonderful.

Digging Into Gardening- Mom Herb Garden for Mother's Day

Unfortunately it rained all weekend. We ended up having to transplant our herbs in the garage. I am so glad we had the space in the garage to work on this project.

Thankfully the sun came out yesterday! I quickly added our plant markers made from stakes our lawn maintenance service leaves behind and signs displaying what each plant is. Some pretty ribbon left over from making our plastic jug jellyfish was also added to made the planter a little bit dressier. Then I rushed our container out into the sun to take pictures. Digging Into Gardening- Mom Herb Garden for Mother's Day

Here are the hosts of this Link Up:

JDaniel4’s Mom Royal Baloo The Usual Mayhem Growing Book by BookFrogs,Snails & Puppy Dog Tails Edventures with Kids

{Mother’s Day Craft} -His Fingerprints Are Everywhere

May 8, 2012 By Deirdre

His fingerprints are everywhere. When you look at the television screen or computer monitor, you will find JDaniel’s fingerprints. They were all over the walls until they were painted last week. I try to keep up with them, but as soon as I wash them away they return.

I can track his fingerprints around the house. They leave tell tale signs of his travels during the day. His hands are out touching everything as he walks along the hall and climbs the stairs.

There are fingerprint smudges on inside the passenger side window in the back of the car. They have been left behind after pointing out something exciting he has seen that he needed to put his finger on while he was telling me about it.

Despite putting down newspaper before doing a craft there are fingerprints made of glue, paint or glitter are left when his project is done all over the kitchen table.

For some reason there are yogurt and other food smudges that appear on the kitchen table too. Could it be that he still tries to eat with his fingers?

I know that I can’t leave these fingerprints where they are. As I mentioned above they are quickly replaced with new ones as soon as I clean them. Without cleaning them up and wiping them away they would quickly cover every surface of our house. The walls would no longer be antique white. Table would have mountains of crafting materials and food developing in the places that JDaniel sits beside. The doors crusted with finger carried substances and the windows would become opaque.

There is a small part of me that realizes that down the line there will be no small fingerprints left behind. . He will reach a stage where is eats more neatly and crafts more carefully. (Maybe?) I hope he will still have things he want to point out from windows, but he may stop pointing his finger at them through the window.

JDaniel decorated the mat in the frame below with his fingerprints. The mat surrounds a wonderful poem about fingerprints. This Mother’s Day themed poem was a wonderful reminder to me to pause to enjoy the messy fingerprints I keep finding around the house while I can.

These four year old fingerprints are a reminder of the joy he finds in eating, creating, touching his environment and pointing out wonderful things he sees.

What does the poem say?

My dirty little fingerprint I’ve left on every wall

And on the drawers and tabletops, I’ve really marked them all

But here are some that won’t rub off, I’m giving them to you

Because I’m thankful to have a nana that just likes you!

What has been your favorite Mother’s Day gift to give or receive?

Do You Buy Your Own Gift for Mother’s Day? What is on Your Wish List?

May 4, 2011 By Deirdre

I won an iPad a few months ago. I love, love, love it, but I haven’t mastered the keyboard. I end up hunting and pecking like a crazed woodpecker and making tons of spelling errors.

I have mentioned to my husband that what I would really like for Mother’s Day isn’t a beautiful bouqet of roses, but an iPad keyboard.

He has so much going on at work that I think I am going to be making the purchase myself using Ebates . They will give me a 1% cash back when purchasing the keyboard through the Apple store.

Do you buy your own gifts or give your husband a list of what you want?

What do you want for Mother’s Day?

Whatever you’re buying this Mother’s Day, start at Ebates and get up to 20% cash back! To celebrate moms everywhere, Ebates is giving away a $1,000 shopping spree from any of their 1,200 retail partners!

How to Enter: Visit Ebates.com and find something you or your favorite mom would love. Reply below with a description of what you found! A random winner will be announced Monday, May 10, 2011.(You must be registered with Ebates to win.)

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Ebates. The opinions and text are all mine. Contest goes from Monday, May 2nd to Monday, May 9th 2011.