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.
Provide a printable Mother's Day bouquet craft with fill-in flower-petal messages for children to assemble and give to mom.
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).
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.
A Mother's Day creative-writing flipbook keepsake where students practice descriptive writing techniques (adjectives, similes, metaphors, limericks) while writing about their mom.
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.
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.
A creative-writing flipbook where students practice descriptive writing techniques (adjectives, similes, metaphors, limericks) while writing about a mother figure in their life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ___'.
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.
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.