Top 100 mother's day gift ideas 2019
Eighth list of Top 100 mother's day gift ideas 2019 :-

The History of Mother’s Day

The first known observance of Mother's Day in America occurred in Albion, Michigan on the second Sunday in May, 1877. It was the actions of
an Albion Pioneer woman, Juliet Calhoun Blakeley that set Mother's Day in motion. Two days before her 59th birthday on May 11th, 1877, three young
men, all sons of staunch temperance advocates, were found drunk on the streets of Albion's business district. They had been the victims of anti-temperance shenanigans.

One of the young men was the son of the pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal Church. On Sunday (Mrs. Blakeley's birthday) the pastor was so distraught that he had to leave the pulpit before the services were concluded. Mrs Blakeley, sitting near the front, stepped to the pulpit to take over the remainder of the service and called other mothers to join her.

Mrs. Blakeley's sons, Charles C. and Moses A. were traveling salesmen. They were so moved by her gesture that they vowed to return to Albion
every year to mark their mother's birthday anniversary and to pay tribute to her. In addition, the two brothers made it a practice to urge business associates and those they met on the road to honor their mothers accordingly on the second Sunday of May. Because of the brothers urgings, the Methodist Episcopal Church in Albion set aside the second Sunday of each May to pay special recognition to mothers, and especially to Juliet Calhoun Blakeley "The Original Mother of Mother's Day", early in the 1880's.

But it is Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia who is credited with bringing about the official observance of Mother's Day. Her campaign to establish such a
holiday began as a remembrance of her mother, who died in 1905 and who had, in the late 19th century, tried to establish "Mother's Friendship  Days" as a way to heal the scars of the Civil War.
Today, most of us celebrate Mother's Day with little awareness of how it began. But we can identify with the respect, love and honor that Anna Jarvis displayed nearly a century ago. Women, especially mothers, face new challenges in society today, but motherhood remains a lasting influence on us as individuals and as a nation.

Mother’s Day Activities

This year, Mother’s Day falls on May 11th. To help your class get ready for this special time, here are some of the best ideas that have been
submitted over the last few weeks.

Submitted By Jeanette
This year for Mother's Day we are buying small wreaths and having the children paste dried flowers on them as presents.

Submitted By Marilyn
Bath crystals!
-Container of Epsom Salts (from 99 cent store, or drugs store)
-Small zip-lock bags
-Food coloring
-Any perfume
-Dropper

Give each child a zip-lock bag.

Have them measure out 1/2 to 1 cup Epsom Salts (depending how much you have) Pour in bags. Add one drop of food coloring into the bag. NOTE. One drop to one half cup will make it a pastel color. Zip bag tightly and shake, shake, shake. When they have the color they desire, open the bag and add a drop or two to fragrance. Close again and shake. Give the children a piece of masking tape, put it on the table and let them decorate it and transfer it to the bag.

I find that the small 4 ounce plastic water bottles are very nice, but you will need a funnel. The kids can make nice labels and tie ribbon around the   neck of the bottles.

Submitted By Sandy
For an inexpensive Mother's Day corsage, I placed about 9 tissue paper squares (5x5")on a table. I traced the child's hand and then cut them out. I folded the palm of the hand into points and added floral tape to make the base of the flower. I fluffed out the "petals" and voila instant corsage. The mothers loved them.

Submitted By Paige
We are fortunate to be within walking distance of a greenhouse. We walk to the greenhouse and each child purchases the flower of their choice for their mother. We "plant" them in the tops saved from Tide Free. They are a lovely spring green..add a bow and we're done. The children are so proud to present them at our Mother's Day Lunch.

Submitted By Victoria
Cut a 3x5 opening in the center a 5x7 piece of heavy cardboard. This will be your picture frame. Paint jigsaw puzzle pieces (primary colors look great) and glue them to the perimeter when dry (tacky glue works best). Add a 4x6 picture of your student to the back using a glue gun (laminate if possible for durability). Attach a small inscription "I love you to pieces" This activity is sensitive to the fact that not every child may have a mother present to share a Mother's day gift with.

Submitted By Audrey
Materials needed: potholders, fabric paint, permanent marker  Simply dip child's hand in paint and press onto potholder. Have child write name on the bottom. On the other side, print in marker: mother's special helper and the year. My children gave one to my mother three years ago, and it's still hanging up! Easy, lovely!

Check out more Mother’s Day ideas

Projects for tea cups:

* Fill with potpourri or dried flowers.

* Someone has already mentioned making a candle by adding wax and a wick. You could also use the cups as candle holders by filling them with water and adding a floating candle, or by filling them with colored sand, pebbles, or bath salts, and then inserting a votive candle.

* I have a decorating book that has a charming project for hanging candles made from teacups and saucers. Since you're right here in Bakersfield, write to me off list if you'd like to borrow the book...
I keep meaning to come visit your classroom, and am home for several days this week as well as most of next week.

Projects for coffee mugs:

* Glue mug to saucer and have children decorate, if appropriate (adding art with permanent markers or paints, decorating the saucer with fingerprint art, or gluing on shells, dried or silk flowers, etc.). Mug can be used to hold pencils, scissors, wooden spoons, etc., as long as the base is heavy enough to avoid tipping.

* A pretty decorated mug and saucer would also make a nice desktop vase for fresh or dried flowers. If you know how to make the roses from Hershey Kisses wrapped in red cellophane, you could place a piece of styrofoam in the bottom of each mug to hold a small bouquet of chocolate roses in place. You could also make a bouquet of diecut flowers, with a photo of a child's face in the center of one of the flowers.

*If the mugs are plain/solid colored, the kids could decorate them in many different ways: paint, markers, glued on string/yarn, tissue paper glued on to look like stained glass, decoupage magazine pictures, etc.

One thing I am doing with both my 2nd graders and the K's (with help!) is making 'flower pens' and memo pads. What I do is get some silk/plastic flowers and some florist tape, and one ball point pen  for each child. Cut the flower so there is just a stem and maybe a leaf up by the blossom, and wrap the florist tape around it and the pen, till the pen is covered in green, up to the point. These are
cute enough but I go one step further and have the kids create memo pad paper. I just have them fold a sheet of copy paper into 4ths and design a border around each quadrant. Then copy 10 or so for each kid on pastel colored copy paper. Cut them apart and tie with a bow along with the pretty flower pen. Last year the parents loved these! They can put things on the note paper like "Just a Note" or draw a picture of a telephone along the border, or whatever. I can't remember all I did but I got ideas from real notepads and they came
out really cute!


I have had wonderful results in both a grade 3 class and a kindergarten class with making a booklet "I Know My Mother Well". On each page I
program a sentence starter and the children fill in the rest. Examples:

a)My mother's favourite food is
b)My mother likes to relax by
c)My mother's favourite colour is
d)My mother REALLY likes to
e)You can tell when my mother is mad when
f)I love my mother because

You get the idea. You can write any sentences that seem appropriate. The answers are often hilarious. With kinders, I used "Microsoft Publisher" template for the sentence starters and then called each child one at a time to the computer to orally give me their answers as I typed. Grade threes could write their own responses. Each page was illustrated to match the sentence. I have the children complete the booklet over a longish period of time so that the work is not tooonerous, and the results are their best work.

I have had many mothers show great appreciation for this booklet. It's
a "keeper".

Mother's Day Cookbooks

Each year I do a cookbook for mother. I ask each child "What does your mother cook that you like best?" It takes some time to get them started. I ask lots of questions "How long does she cook it",

"How hot does she cook it". "What does she put in it, how much". You get the idea. It is time consuming and has to be done individually. I type
each recipe on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet and have the child draw their mother with pencil.

I then assemble into a cookbook which is given to each mother. My mother did this years ago and sent the recipes to Johnny Carson who read them over T.V. It is harder now with the languages, but unless the child has no English whatsoever, they can do it. I am including a couple for you to read:+
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Macaroni and Cheese
3 drinks of water 30 macaronis
Mix it up, then while it cooks on the baker for 3 min at as hot as it's supposed to be, you wait. Then you eat it when it's done. Don't put cheese on it cause I'll throw up. I like this because it's so good. Tina (I always ask them why they like it)+
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Foster Farms Chicken
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Get 4 naked chickens from the store, some bones and meat. I don' know where their heads went. I wouldn't eat them anyhow. Put on 1 gallon of flour, 4 inches of salt and 3 inches of pepper. Shake it all over. Cook it on the stove for 6 minutes at 1`5 hots. It tastes like a bird. (always ask them
how it tastes) + Scott + Meat and Corn +

Use 2 pounds of cow meat from the waist part of the cow. Put it in the oven at 1 degree for 1 minute. Come back to check it it is ready. Go to the corn man and get 12 pieces of corn. Pull off the hair and cook it 2 degrees for 1 hour. Put it on the dinner table when dad comes home.

Sometimes he yells if it is not ready.+Brian+ Turkey and Vegetables +2 cups gravy 2 big bones of turkey+5 carrots 12 beets 2 strings of corn + Mix it so it gets wet. Cook it on the stove. We go bowling and when we come back it is done.

The big people eat the turkey and me and Richard eat peanut butter cause we don't like turkey. It takes too long to chew. We only like to chew gum. Put the turkey on the plate with the painted turkeys.

Put 2 cherries on each side. Daddy sometime swears when he cuts it up.+ Jimmy + You have to pull these recipes out of some kids and other open up and I can't type fast enough.

Give it a try. mother's love them!

Hi all,
I went to my room today and got out the book I use for Mother's day (Well one of them). It is called Celebrating Mother's Day--mother's Memory Box.

Just type the words to the book in poem format and small font to roll up and put in the small box with the items in the poem. The box we cut out from our materials center from an Ellison die cut in about 2 1/2 inches square with a top which forms a heart when closed.

I cut them out of a pastel color(s) so when the kids water color them they look great. As I said before, a few days before Mother's Day Tea, the kids and I enjoy the book and drop the items in their boxes one at a time. (Paint the boxes a couple of days before).