Mother's Day

Featured Mother's Day

Flower Pens For Mom! - To make Flower pens in painted terra cotta pot, start by painting the flower pot. Have the child be creative! Then pop the silk flowers off of their stems. Put a dab of glue on the end of a bic pen, and push the flower on the end, so that the glue will hold it on. Use floral tape to go over the seam ...

Homemade Bath Salts - Combine Epsom salts with food coloring and perfume in a large bowl. Mix well so color is even. Put into smaller jars and let stand 4-6 weeks before using. This causes the odor to blend with the salts. This bath salt is very soothing and makes for a very relaxed bath.

Cupcake Spring Flowers 2 - Slightly flatten out cupcake liners (3 fit nicely on an 8 X 10 sheet of construction paper), and glue onto construction paper. Put glue on inside bottom of cupcake liner and put candy sprinkles on or tissue paper confetti. Then decorate with crayons or markers. Draw stems, grass, mud, sun, Aprilshowers ...

Garden In A Jar - The Garden in a Jar may be made from any size of jar you wish. I found baby food jars to work well. Clean the jar and remove the label. In the lid glue the florist foam, just takes a very small amount. Have children stick in silk flowers of their choice. I was able to have the silk flowers we used donated. ...

Baby-food Jar Tea-Light Holder - Water down some glue and paint onto the babyfood jars. Apply cut-up pieces (about 1cm x 1cm) of tissue paper onto the glue and then paint another coat of glue over the tissue paper. Pop in a tealight candle and you're done!! This is an easy project that kids can do by themselves that also turns out ...

Paper Dot Mosaics - Have the children make several paper dots using the hole punch. Keep the colors seperate. Then, have them make a mosaic picture by gluing the dots onto white paper. They can make their names, a scene, animal, or just place them at random!