We’re looking ahead to Mother’s Day and how we can help our little ones show their love to their Mom or caretakers . Here are a few quick and simple ideas to get your little ones involved in the fun of planning Mother’s Day.
Keepsake Gifts
Finger painting crafts can be fun and sentimental, using red paint on your kiddo’s thumb to create little hearts all over a piece of construction paper folded in half. You also can paint the outline of your little one’s hand and use it as the top part of a flower. Adding on the stem and little leaves and even a flower pot at the bottom.
I loveeeee receiving a plant as a gift. As a kindergartener, I gave my own mom a spider plant as a gift, and she still has it in her living room 25 years later!
Your kiddo can paint a flower pot using their fingers, paint brushes, or paint markers. Even if the plant eventually grows too big for the pot, it can be reused with other plants in the future.
Another suggestion that I would love to receive is a painted picture frame with a photo of mom and kiddo or the whole family. These simple keepsakes are something to cherish for years and years to come.
How to Fill the Day
Mom works hard, and we all know it! A great way to decide what activities to do on Mother’s Day is to look at the mom in your life and what she does for fun or to relax. How about getting the kiddos involved in cooking up some breakfast and letting mom sleep in. Really little ones can do things like wash fruit in a colander. If you go for smoothies, they can help with throwing everything into the blender and pressing the buttons. What color straw would mom want?? They know the answer!
What other activities could be fun for mom and the kiddos on Mother’s Day? You could gather the supplies to make an herb garden. This can work whether or not you have a yard at your home. You can use larger terracotta pots. Then mom and kiddo can tend to the plants together and eventually use some of the herbs as ingredients for dinner.
Lessons from Plants
Helping kiddos learn how to plant and take care of flowers, herbs and other plants is a great life skill. It allows for children to practice patience, waiting for the flowers to bloom and getting more comfortable with delayed gratification.
It teaches kiddos the important task of caring for another living thing. It is also just another fun way to get the kiddos excited about getting outside and into the sun.
Get Ready to Dance
My last Mother’s Day activity suggestion is for personal motivation. A Mother’s Day dance! Ok hear me out, this could be as simple or as complex as you want to make it. But a dance party is never a BAD idea.
Grab a bluetooth speaker and put on the mom in your life’s favorite playlist.
If you want to go all out, you can get streamers and balloons to make it a real party.
Have a great Mother’s Day! You’ve got this!
Sophie Hamel is a freelance writer and works as a crisis responder. Her son is three years old.
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