What are some things you have done to help your students celebrate the mothers in their lives?

Mother's Day and Father's Day can be tough for some kids. As a social worker, I typically have at least one or two kids that need support.

This is a great question! I have helped some students think of ideas or make cards for their mothers before. It seems that elementary teachers do more of these types of things, but I like to supply my students with the materials to at least make and write nice cards for Mother's Day if they want to. :)

We make cards for our mommies, we write short letters and attached them to the cards. We create acrostic poems with the letters: Mom or Mother. I buy tea bags and we design paper tea pots to staple the tea bags into, and create Mommy coupons for the day or week. The ideas are endless!!!

Since I taught at the middle level, (recently retired) I incorporated it into our poetry unit. I had students pick the type of poetry I taught that they wanted to use(except acrostic) and make it about mom or a special woman in their lives. (I’ve had many students who have lost mom to breast cancer, accidents, etc.) After they write, type, and print it, they put it in a card format and illustrate it, or paste photos/designs on it. They then make an envelope and are ready to present it to mom or their special woman. Many moms, aunts, or guardians have commented how nice it was to get this card.

Our first grade has a Mother’s Day spa where the mothers/mother figures come in and get manicures and pedicures and a massage by their little ones. They also make a sugar scrub, spa certificates, and a letter for their moms. It’s really cute!

We made a bouquet of flowers out of tissue paper and pipe cleaners. They glued tissue paper on 4 precut circles and when dry chose the color pipe cleaner to be taped on. I then took ribbon to wrap around the bundle