Top 100 Mother's Day Gift Ideas 2019

First list in Top 100 Mother's Day gift ideas :-
Mother's Day will soon be here and it's time to start planning what our student will be making for Mother's Day Gifts. The ideas that follow came
from the wonderful women on my yahoo email lists childcareland 2 and Shelley Lovett sec printables. Thank you to all of you that contributed!!

One of the things we do is make a handprint flower pot and put tulips in them. I buy clay pots at Menards or wall-mart and spray them with acrylic
sealer. Older children can paint the pots (using a light color works best) ... smaller children will need help. Children should also wear a smock to cover
their clothes as acrylic paint is recommended. Let the clay pots dry and then paint child's hand with a darker color paint like blue or purple and
press the hands down around the pot. Let dry and spray again with acrylic sealer. I have used both tulip bulbs and tulips that have already sprouted to
put in the pots. You can also plant flower seed but you will need to do this well in advance of mother's day.

Another thing we make is handprint wreaths. Cut the center out of a paper plate ... trace around the child's hand on various colors of construction paper ... cut handprints out and glue around the paper plate. Apply gold glitter glue drops for an extra sparkle... let dry. Punch a hole at the top and attach yarn or ribbon.
A coupon book is also an excellent gift. I love using children's handprints ... how fun is it looking back on a child's handprint and remembering when they were so small. For this idea, I just trace around the child's hand on various colors of construction paper... I cut the handprints out and write down various things such as "This coupon can be redeemed for one book that we read together"... "This coupon can be redeemed for help setting the table" etc... I then laminate the handprints and punch a hole and attach the handprints together with a book ring.
Shelley Lovett

MOTHER'S DAYLILIES
Materials needed:
construction paper (different spring colors)
pencil (for tracing child's hand)
scissors
pencils (one for each lily ~ preferably new)
tape (to tape lilies to pencils)
Instructions:
Trace the child's hand on different colors of the construction paper (approx. 5
Lilies ~ can do more).
Cut them out and roll them (one at a time) around the eraser end of a
pencil.
Tape, palm side onto the pencil end allowing the fingers to extend above
the pencil end.
Shape the fingers by either curling them around your finger or another
pencil to represent the lily's petals.
Repeat this until you have all lilies made.
Adaptation:
Placing the pencils in a small terracotta pot with some green floral sponge in the bottom to hold the pencils is a nice way to present the Mother's Day
Lilies.
You can have the children decorate the terracotta pots as well.

I LOVE YOU THIS MUCH (card)
(can be used for a Father's Day card as well)
Materials:
Red or Pink construction paper (for the hands of the card)
White or an alternate color (for the arms of the card ~ pastels work
nicely)
Scissors
Tape or Glue
Marker or crayons (to decorate)
Instructions:
Trace the child's hands onto Red or Pink construction paper, set aside.
Cut an arm's length of construction paper in a strip 2" in height for the
arms of the card.
This should be one piece ~ Tape together if needed.
Measure from wrist to wrist for each child for length.
Tape or glue the hands to each end of the 2" strip of paper.
With the thumbs up lay the card flat and write on the strip "I Love You
This Much!".
Put the hands together by interlocking the fingers together (Thumbs
should still be up and the writing now inside).
Fold the Strip behind the interlocked hands with only about a 1" of arm
(strip of 2" paper) extending from each side of the hands in the front of
the card.
Adaptation:
Have the children decorate hands with glitter or sequins for a more
"sparkly" look.

JELLYBEAN TOPIARY
(This is generally used best for older preschool children because of the
pins ~ Supervise well)
Materials needed:
Jellybeans (enough to cover a 3" Styrofoam ball ~ can use bigger or
smaller)
3" Styrofoam ball
1/4" dowel
small terracotta pot
floral foam
moss
glue (tacky)
straight pins (one for each jellybean)
foam board (or a cardboard box/ shoe box ~ for displaying the pinned
jellybeans)
Instructions:
Ahead of time prepare the jellybeans by pinning them individually with the
straight pins.
Poke into foam board (or cardboard box) and set aside.
Glue floral foam into the terracotta pot and the dowel into the floral foam.
Have children poke the pinned jellybeans into the Styrofoam ball being
sure to cover all empty spaces.
Save one space for the dowel to be glued into the Styrofoam ball.
Finish by gluing the moss onto the exposed floral foam in the terracotta
pot.
Adaptations:
Have the children decorate the terracotta pot a day ahead by painting
them.

Deyn G.

One thing we have tried before is to take garden gloves and fill them with
batting and make the I LOVE YOU sign out of the fingers. We then hot
glue it together and then mount it on a wooden base and write I LOVE YOU
MOMMY on the front.
Becki Smith
I do a mothers day spoon and poem:
plastic spoon
Hershey kisses two per child
bridal netting comes in circles
ribbon
poem:
a spoonful of love and a couple of wishes hope you enjoy your mothers day
kisses wrap kisses in a spoon and attach the poem
Becky
Two gifts that we have done in our head start classroom are
1: we took dictation on a favorite recipe from the children and put it into a
book.
2; we used crumbled paper(all different types) to paint with and make
flowers on a large sheet of paper and laminate it. We used their handprints
as the leaves.
Cathy

I was thinking of making the child's handprint in clay. I have a recipe for hardening clay (which is much easier to use than plaster of Paris). I would
have it made and rolled out into circles for the children to place their hand in the middle. The children will make the impression of their hand, and then make 2 small holes at the top of the circle to put a piece of fabric to hang it with. I will then let them dry for a day or two. When they are dry, the
children can take paint, and paint around their hand, to make it colorful. On the bottom, it will have their name and the date on it, so mom can always see her little one's handprint. I did this in Kinder, and my mom still has it hanging up!
Cindy Hodgins

One project that I do for Spring but could work for Mom's Day as well as a flower vase. During the year I save the plastic bottles that yogurt drinks
come in (the adult size, not the Danimals for kids)...most of them have a cute hourglass shape to them. Then at the beginning of Spring the kids
tear and stick colored masking tape to the bottles (I usually do the mouth of the bottle to ensure it's covered). The result is a mosaic type vase that
I then fill with two or three tulips for them to present to mom when they get picked up...the moms are always thrilled. Older children can tear the tape themselves after a quick demo of how to do so (harder than tearing paper). For younger ones, I have preterm tape shapes stuck to the edge of the table or tray so that they just have to peel and stick. You can write the child's name and year on the bottom with a permanent marker.

Kelly

We plant flowers and decorate flower vases.
Crystal Bowman We are asking the parents to bring an old shoe that no longer fits there
a child, so we can make shoe planters. I take the shoes outside and paint them we are using gold but you can use any color. You can add beads or
plastic flowers to the outside for decorations if you want to. Then you can have the children grow flowers or you can buy flowers and have the children replant them in a small round or square pot. We put fabric around the pot for more color tie it with a ribbon. When you are done you put the pot inside the shoe and make a card to put on it. The MOM"S love it.

Cindy NY

One thing my moms always love is a cookbook. I work with the kids on compiling some of their favorite "recipes". I take the dictation just as they
say it. I type them up and have the kids each illustrate their own cover showing them cooking with their mom. I staple or bind them together. Then we have "Muffins with Mom" and present them their gifts. The moms love it!

Amy/VA

We use baby food jars, we use thin paper, then the kids put stickers on the paper, we print out " I Love You" and the kids cut out the I love you. We take the ribbon and wrap around the jar, and attach a saying " whenever you are feeling lonely or blue, just take out an I love you, and the child signs

their names.

Last year I did handprint mugs for Father's Day (could be used for Mother's Day). I used plain white mugs bought for $1.00 at the local Dollar Store. You would need to buy paint appropriate for whatever the mug type is, I used a ceramic paint because the mugs were glossy, but was able to
purchase several colors in small containers for not very much. I painted the child's hand, pressed it on the mug, and then added a short verse on the other side in permanent marker. Oh, and you need to put a sealer over the top to seal the paint. I had the kids put their handprints on, let them dry and sprayed with sealer at night.

We have also done- T-Shirts, I ask the other parent to purchase a plain white shirt in the
appropriate size. You can do handprints, footprints, or child's artwork.

- twig vases for older children -- use an empty frozen juice can, cut twigs
that are fairly straight to fit the length and secure around the can with elastics. Use colored yarn and wrap around the elastics to hide them. I had
some little stick on bugs and dragon flies and butterflies that we used to decorate the can with. You can add flowers you pick or make.

- picture frames with "I Love (only love is the heart that holds the picture)
Mom" I think there is a pattern at DLTK kids crafts.

Debbie Estabrooks