TAKE-HOME MOTHERS DAY GIFT, HOMESCHOOL HANDPRINT CRAFT, COLORING CARD
Make a Mother’s Day handprint keepsake with the printable coloring-card design.
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Make a Mother’s Day handprint keepsake with the printable coloring-card design.
Trace/solve each of 15 mazes to connect a character or object (e.g. a baby, a flower, a heart, a gift, a duckling) to 'Mommy'/'Mom'; each maze has a corresponding solution page.
Includes: 15 maze pages (e.g. 'Help the baby find Mommy!', 'Help the flower reach Mommy!', 'Match Mommy with her breakfast!') · 15 corresponding solution pages
Provide a printable Mother's Day bouquet craft with fill-in flower-petal messages for children to assemble and give to mom.
Includes: color and black & white bouquet/flower templates · petal pieces with short fill-in phrases (e.g., 'She makes...', 'She bakes with me', 'I love Mom because...') · a page noting an editable Google Slides version accessible via a link
Color the crown template, cut along outlines, apply glue at indicated edges, and assemble the pieces into a wearable crown; some pieces have space to paste/draw a picture of a family member (Mom, Nana, Grandma, Aunt).
Includes: step-by-step crown-making instructions (color, cut, glue, assemble) · labeled crown band pieces for Mom, Nana, Grandma, Aunt with phrases such as 'I love you to the moon and back', 'BEST MOM', 'Happy Mothers Day' · a page with space to paste or draw a picture
Create a Mother’s Day flower card with handprint artwork.
Provide a Mother's Day emergent-reader mini-book for young children to practice reading simple sentences that express appreciation for mom.
Includes: cover/title page · 9 additional mini-book pages with one simple sentence each about mom, ending with a closing 'Happy Mother's Day' page
A Mother's Day creative-writing flipbook keepsake where students practice descriptive writing techniques (adjectives, similes, metaphors, limericks) while writing about their mom.
Includes: identical color version of the same 7 sections · cut-and-fold flipbook assembly instructions ('cut along edge to allow tabs to show')
Color the bee, beehive, heart, and message elements, then assemble one of 3 card variations ('You are sweet', 'Queen bee', 'Bee with you') into a finished Mother's Day card.
Includes: 3 card design variations ('You are sweet', 'Queen bee', 'Bee with you') · coloring elements (bee, beehive, heart, message text)
Add fingerprint artwork and a personal drawing to a Mother’s Day poem keepsake.
Look at a cartoon picture, use all 5 given words (breakfast, tray, mom, juice, love), and write a short story about what is happening in the picture.
Includes: 1 student writing-prompt page (cartoon image + 5 required words) · 1 solution/sample-story page
A creative-writing flipbook where students practice descriptive writing techniques (adjectives, similes, metaphors, limericks) while writing about a mother figure in their life.
Includes: Adjectives page (4 adjectives + synonyms with thesaurus prompt) · Story page (3-paragraph narrative using 10+ adjectives) · Similes page (modeled examples + 3 fill-in-the-blank similes + write-your-own)
Brainstorm chores and invention ideas as a class; write a short description/illustration of the invention on a card; color, cut, and assemble a 3-D paper robot using provided nets; give the finished card as an IOU to their mom.
Includes: lesson plan/overview page · materials list · example card text
Color and personalize a printable Mother’s Day card as a take-home gift.
Color, cut, and assemble a paper crown craft.
Schedule and conduct an interview with a chosen important person using provided jot-note question sheets; select at least 15 questions (7 mandatory) to answer in the final piece; research background details related to the person's answers; draft, revise, and submit a paragraph; self-check against a criteria checklist before submission.
Includes: interview project instructions (interview steps + writing steps) · criteria checklist · jot-notes interview question sheets (Very Important Woman/Mom version)
Choose from several bookmark/card template variations ('Happy Mother's Day', 'Dear Mom, Love,' both dated 2016 and dateless versions), personalize with writing, then cut out, fold, punch a hole, and add a ribbon.
Includes: multiple bookmark/card templates with 'Happy Mother's Day' and 'Dear Mom, Love,' fill-in fields · dated (2016) and dateless template variations for reuse in future years
Create a Mother’s Day card with handprint artwork.
A Mother's Day craft/writing activity where students build a paper flower bouquet, with each flower petal/piece carrying a sentence-completion prompt about their mom.
Includes: example/model page with prompts filled in (e.g. 'listening kindly', '"I love you."', 'spaghetti') · blank prompt pieces to cut and glue: 'I know you love me when...', 'I like it when you cook...', 'You make me smile when...', 'My favorite thing to do with… · 'Happy Mother's Day' bouquet assembly/title piece
Cut out cover, coupon, and message pages along dotted lines; assemble/bind the book; choose or create coupons (e.g. from 20 premade options plus a blank template) and colour/decorate them; write a personal message on the final page.
Includes: one blank coupon template page
Fill in blanks describing mom (name, eye color, hair, favorite food, favorite thing to do, job, what they love most) and glue in a photo of mom; on the flap-craft page, color pictures, trace the word 'hug' below each, and cut/stack the flaps ('smile', 'love', 'care', 'read', 'hug') to make a lift-the-flap page reading 'My mother can ___'.
Includes: 'This is my mom' fill-in-the-blank page with photo-glue space · flap craft: 'My mother can ___' with tracing words (hug, smile, love, care, read) and cut/stack assembly instructions
Color and personalize a printable Mother’s Day card as a take-home gift.
Ask a parent/special person 10 interview questions (e.g. 'What was I like as a baby?', 'What is your favorite thing to do with me?') and write down their answers on the printable, then sign it.
Includes: 10-question interview worksheet with answer lines
Students love the opportunity to make something for their parents. This is a fun Mother's Day activity where students get to list all of their mom's favorites. It is two pages that students can color and make their own. The first page is a heart where students can draw a picture of their mom. . On the second page students list their…
Students review figurative language vocabulary, brainstorm answers about their mom/special person, select answers to turn into figurative language, and write sentences/phrases using metaphors, similes, idioms, alliteration, or onomatopoeia onto a flower template.
Includes: English-language PDF (10 pages): teacher tips, vocabulary, brainstorm worksheet, figurative language flower activity · Spanish-language PDF (10 pages): parallel Spanish version of the same activity