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    25 Classroom Tested Mother’s Day Ideas

    25 ideas for mothers day and father's day

    This will be my 25th year searching for cute new Mother’s and Father’s Day ideas! Because I often have siblings of my students from previous years, I don’t want to repeat those ideas too often.

    I’ve collected a big list of ideas, most of which I’ve tried in my classroom to see how well they work out in real life!

    The first one is super simple: a bouquet of paper flowers with a twist! Each flower stem has a coupon that mom’s can cash in for a favor such as a free hug, a clean bedroom, clean dishes, etc! See the step-by-step directions below:

    Mothers Day flower coupons

    Step 1: Cut green stems and write a promise on each one. Glue to flowers.

    Step 2: Fold a purple paper as shown above. Glue on a white oval that says “I love you Mom!”

    Keep reading for more ideas!

    The links to the original posts are included so you can find more information.

    Circle Flowers

    25 Classroom Tested Mother's Day and Father's Day Ideas

    We tried it and they were so cute! Below is our version, which made a lovely bulletin board display and would be beautiful any time of year.

    Mother's Day craft 3D card with flowers


    Heart Tree

    I had this one originally in my Valentine’s Day collection, but I think it works well as a Mother’s Day card too! It’s perfect for younger students, especially with the tree and writing already printed out for them.

    25 Free and Simple Mother's Day Gift Ideas


    Curly Hearts

    Students love to curl the paper around pencils – this is easier than it looks!

    Click the pictures to see the source.

    Cute and simple Mother's Day craft


    Butterfly Hands

    Super cute and simple idea. We something very similar with Kindergarten students many years ago and it was just right in terms of difficulty and prep. Look at the sweet little poem that goes along with it.

    25 Mother's Day card ideas


    POP-UP CARDS

    Do your students like Pop-Up cards? Have you tried making them?

    We did – and it was a huge hit!

    Here is a free download of the Mother’s Day cards we made. It was simple – just two folds and a small cut on the dotted line. My students thought it was MAGIC.


    More sweet ideas…

    25 Mother's Day FREE ideas


    Newspaper Headlines

    Looks like Mom made the front page of the newspaper! Kids love filling this out for Mom.

    Mother's Day ideas from Martha Stewart


    Love You *This* Much

    When we tried this one a few years ago, it was lovely, but definitely didn’t look this perfect!

    Students traced their hands, cut them out themselves, and did all their own printing. I’m pretty sure some of them were missing fingers! But it was cute, and the parents didn’t seem to mind.

    Screen Shot 2016-04-30 at 1.05.17 PM


    All About Mom

    If you’ve got a good sense of humor, these are really funny. The parents from my class got a huge kick out of the answers the students came up with.  These templates are a free download HERE.

    25 Mother's Day Ideas


    Handful of Flowers

    We used paper for the stems and made our own flowers, so it didn’t look quite so fancy! But the idea was so cute, and moms loved it.

    25 FREE Mother's Day Ideas that are FREE


    Love You To Pieces

    25 FREE Mother's Day Ideas that have been tested in the classroom


    Student Bookmarks

    When we made this kind of bookmark, we didn’t cut out the shape of the bodies, but left it on a rectangular paper. This allowed students to do some writing on the back to make them more involved in making the present. Either way, parents love it and it’s nice to give them something so practical too! So adorable!

    25 Classroom tested Mother's Day Ideas that are free


    Fingerprint Flowers

    So cute and simple! Love the little poem at the bottom.

    25 Mother's Day ideas that are FREE


    Wax Resist

    Love this one! Just draw with white crayon and paint over top. Use thick paper or watercolor paper if you have it. This is a nice one for older students.

    25 Classroom testes mother's day card ideas


    Two Peas

    25 classroom tested mother's day card ideas


    Mom’s Necklace

    What about a simple necklace for Mom? I’ve done this one many times, and I’ve spent a little extra for some pretty glass beads (or even charms) from Michael’s craft store. I’ve also used Borax to grow crystals over a pipe cleaner, which is then attached to a chain.

    With younger students, we make it a bracelet using stretchy string, and even invite our big buddies (grade 5) to help us make them. It’s nice to see Moms wearing them the next day!

    25 FREE classroom tested mother's day ideas


    Watercolor Hearts

    This one is a favorite of mine to do with students Grade 2 and higher. It’s just ordinary watercolor paints, but students need to have to control to work with watery brushes.

    It’s so simple in that they just keep painting hearts, but I think it would make a stunning framed picture. I would highly recommend thick paper, or even watercolor paper for this one.

    25 Classroom Tested Mother's Day Ideas that are FREE


     MOM is WOW

    We’ve done similar cards to this, and every time students flip up the card to see that MOM upside down spells WOW – it kinda blows their minds. I like to let them discover this fact on their own and the news of this discovery spreads through the classroom with much excitement!  I did this project with younger students and we decided not to cut out the middle of the “O”, but just color it in since that cutting was tricky.

    25 Classroom tested mother's day ideas for free


    Flower Bookmarks

    These cute flower bookmarks are adorable, and although I have not tested these ones, it reminded me of a similar project my class did one year.

    Rather than attaching the flowers to a popsicle stick, we attached them to a pen. I got the idea from our school secretary who has several “flower pens” in a mason jar by her desk. This is because people kept walking off with her pens, and this way she would know right away if the pen was hers!

    25 classroom tested free mother's day ideas


    Ladybug Love

    Here’s a simple ladybug project with a cute poem to match.

    25 classroom tested mother's day ideas that are free


    For Dad, But Mom would like it, too!

    And here’s are a few more ideas to tuck away for DAD…. although I think MOM can be a super-hero as well!

    Superhero Dad from Crafty Morning blog

    I bet Dad’s would get a chuckle out of this Google search! And moms too…

    25 free classroom tested Mother's Day Ideas


    MOTHER’S DAY BROCHURE

    Try this fun and FREE download! Click the link below.

    free mother's day brochure

    Mother's Day Brochure


    DIRECTED DRAWING AND WRITING

    This is a directed drawing project for Mother’s Day AND Father’s Day  – both FREE – with a bunch of differentiated writing prompts to use as well!

    Here are the results from our class. Our moms just LOVED them! So many of them commented to me that they’ll treasure the pictures forever. We glued the writing on the back and laminated them.

    Directed Drawing for Mom

    FREE Mother's Day Directed Drawing with differentiated writing pages to write a sweet letter to Mom

    FREE A sweet letter to mom on Mother's Day along with directed drawing templates

    Click below to try it with your class!

    FREE Mother's Day directed drawing and writing prompts


    What are your favorite Mother’s Day crafts?

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    Free Mother's Day directed drawing lesson that students can complete independently. Also included are several different writing templates for mom (lots of cute ideas and several free downloads in this post!)

    Here's a big list of 25 classroom tested mother's day crafts, printables and directed drawing templates. Lots of pictures and direct links to the original source for detailed directions (free downloads)

    MORE MOTHERS DAY RESOURCES: SEASONAL POETRY

    Poem of the Week for school holidays! Part of the full year poem of the week literacy bundle.

    MORE SEASONAL ART RESOURCES

    If you need more seasonal art ideas, take a peek at this set that has 8 art projects for each month! It includes step-by-step photo tutorials.

    Your crafts for each month of the year are DONE with this huge set of 70+ easy craft projects - all with step by step picture directions, a simple supply list and seasonal writing prompts!
    Your crafts for each month of the year are DONE with this huge set of 70+ easy craft projects – all with step by step picture directions, a simple supply list and seasonal writing prompts!

    Your crafts for each month of the year are DONE with this huge set of 70+ easy craft projects - all with step by step picture directions, a simple supply list and seasonal writing prompts!

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    2 Comments

    1. Karen Lise Kaspersen

      May 5, 2021 at 2:41 am

      Hi
      I made the flowers with promises and sweet word on the steems. The second graders loved it. We used 90 minutes. Thank you for the idea.
      Greetings fra Denmark -Europe
      Karen Lise

      • Whimsy Workshop Teaching

        May 10, 2021 at 6:42 pm

        That sounds lovely! Thank you for sharing! 🙂

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