Mother’s Day is right around the corner and we’ve got some fun new teaching resources for your Sunday School Lessons. Mother’s Day is a fantastic time to teach young children that God calls us to honor and respect our Moms. We’ve designed two different Scripture Verse Charts and corresponding Bible Coloring Pages you can use to present these ideas:
Both of these new Mother’s Day Bible Verse Cards can be printed from our sister site: ChristianPreschoolPrintables
Mother’s Day is right around the corner and I’ve whipped up some cute bookmarks children can decorate for Mom this Sunday.
There are quite a few little areas to color on this set so provide children with colored pencils, skinny markers or even glitter gel pens to decorate.
There are four different designs in this set:
Mom You’re Sweet (with Cupcake)
#1 Mom (with Butterfly)
MOM (with Heart)
I Love You (with Heart)
Print Mother’s Day Bookmarks Here
Find More Mother’s Day Bible Printables Here
Find More Mother’s Day Preschool Printables Here
Mother’s Day is just around the corner and we have some great resources you can print up for your children.
Mother’s Day Fingerprint Keepsake Card
Mother’s Day Printable Minibook
 Mother’s Day Bible Verse Coloring Page
Mother’s Day Preschool Printables
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Our Poetry Pack was such a huge hit,
(especially the concrete poetry templates)
that I thought I’d whip up some Mother’s Day themed templates for you.
Mother’s Day Poetry Template 1
Mother’s Day Poetry Template 2
There is absolutely NO SHAME in printing these up yourself,
and leaving them on the breakfast table with a set of markers.
You can even leave our instructions for concrete poetry so the kiddos know what to do with them!
These are sure to be adorable keepsakes once the children have filled them in.
Have you used any of our Poetry Printables yet?
What do your kiddos think?
Especially, when you wait until a week before Christmas to get started.
Ahem.
Anyway, if you have a child who is interested in making gifts for family members,
next week is a great time to put the Christmas break to good use.
Especially when they can create something like this:
My nine year old made these.
Trust me, they are simple!
And Cheap!
This would be a great project for young tweeny boppers too!
So here’s the deal:
Materials:
Wood
Stain
Paint
Sandpaper
And here’s how to do all that on the cheap:
1. Visit Home Depot and head to the back of the lumber aisle. They should have a discount bin, where you can snag a board like this for practically free. Actually 51 cents, but if your kids flash a pearly grin, and ask adorable questions like, “What kind of wood is this?,” and “Do I need to sand with the grain?” then you might just score them for free.
NOTE: I have only seen the discount bin empty one time. You may not score the same size board as we did but there is usually always something to work with. Try to take the STRAIGHTEST board with no SPLITS.
2. Cut your board. HD will do this for FREE! or if you have a saw at home, that works too. We cut our boards at about 14 inches. We got FIVE signs out of one board! SCORE!
3. Paint your background color on your board. Use a lighter color paint, as we will darken it up a bit a little later. (Sissy’s signs were painted white and light blue to begin with.) TIP: While you’re at Home Depot, check their paint department for the “Mess Ups” rack. I often find a small tub of paint for 50 cents!
4. Choose your word. Pick a font that is crisp and easy to paint. Print it at a size that will fit your board.
5. Follow this chalk tutorial for transfering your word to your board. Or use graphite paper, we’re cheap and there are ALWAYS little chunks of sidewalk chalk around our house.
6. Paint your word. This is the longest part, go slow, don’t fret over mistakes, we can sand them off…and we want it to look shabby anyway right? We have a basic paint brush set from Wally World that included a slanted tip paint brush….this helps quite a bit.
7. Shabby your board up a bit. Use sandpaper to rough up your word. Hammer in some dents. Rough up the edges…ect.
Don’t be afraid to take out some big gouges!
Where ever there is bare wood showing, the stain will soak in.
8. Use a wood stain over the paint. This is the most expensive part of the project. Wood stain is about $8 at Home Depot, but it will last you a lifetime! You literally use a dab of this stain for each board. I love Minwax Jacobean for most projects.
To stain your board: Wear gloves, dab an old rag into the can, and then wipe it over the whole project, let it set for a few moments, then wipe it off. Throw away your rags. (I read somewhere that staining rags can self ignite…and that is not good right? So toss them!)
Mom or Dad can do this part too, if you’re nervous about the kiddos handling such a noxious product.
9. Let it dry. We move ours indoors because it sets quicker. Afterwords you can spray a poly coat on if you like, this is just an extra step to protect the sign if say you needed to clean it for some reason. Not necessary, but if you have the spray anyway, give it a quick shot.
10. If you want to be fancy, hammer a hook or a picture holder into the back.
All Done!
Total Cost
$.51 wood
$8 stain
_________
$8.50
On Hand:
Sandpaper
Paint
$8.50 makes about 5 signs….so that’s about $1.70 per gift!
Not bad.
Maybe Mom can make a few too?
Now that I think of it,
This would be a great project for the entire family,
you could easily make words like JOY and Peace…
or maybe Welcome!
This sign literally cost me about $1.00 in materials.
(board, stain, paint)
Stay tuned for some more shabby projects,
my camera is full of photos to share!
Today I was SUPER-Inspired to get crafty after I read this post over at Dollar Store Crafts. In fact I’m often inspired after visiting that site, and it gives me all sorts of excuses to make another trip to the Dollar Store! I never should have subscribed to their RSS Feed, I’m getting absolutely no work done.
Well today the blog featured a Crinkly Baby Blanket, and I just couldn’t resist, I just had to make one for Monkey:
However instead of making the blanket Crinkly, I added in little bugs to the corners that are crinkly instead. I don’t know what possessed me to do it this way, but I think it turned out really cute.
In case you want to make one to, I’m sharing photos of the whole process.
Step 1: Pick Your Fabric and cut it into a square shape. You’ll need a front and a back I chose some buggy fabric that I picked up LAST Summer and some Fleece from Last Winter. Yeah, real quick turn-around at my house!
Step 2: Cut out the Shapes you’ll be using for your corner pulls. I cut out 4 bugs, one for each corner, but I only ended up using two.
Step 3: Cut out a backing for the bugs from the backing of the blanket fabric. You want to cut about 3/4 of an inch around them for your seam allowance.
Step 4: Cut up an old Baby Wipes wrapper to fit inside your shape.
Step 5: Pin a loop of ribbon to the right side of your fabric. (see photo) Place right sides of front and back of fabric together and sew around, leaving a small hole for turning.
Step 6: Turn your shape right side in, and stuff with the crinkly baby wipe wrapper.
Step 7: Sew all the way around the edge of the shape, taking care to fold the fabric around the hole so that it blends in with the rest.
Step 8: Pick out some fun ribbons that will match the theme of your blanket.
Step 9: Cut the ribbons into strips. Form them into loops and pin them to the right side of the fabric (see photo) They are facing inward now, but when you turn it right side it, they will face out.
Step 10: Pin your shapes in the corner just like the ribbons. I folded the dragonfly and pinned him because I didn’t want to accidentally sew him up when I go around the edges!
Step 11: Place your fabrics with right sides together and sew all the way around the edges, leaving a small hole for turning.
Step 12: When you turn your blanket right side out, the shapes will now hang from the corners.
Step 13: Sew around the edges of the blanket, taking care to sew up the hole by folding the fabric inward to blend in.
Step 14: Wave Blanket in front of baby till he’s good and scared of the big red beetles then swoop in with a big smile and a sweet voice and rescue him from dose’ mean scare-wee bugs’
Just a quick little tutorial on how to make these cute little button flowers. Kids can make these themselves and give to Mom for mother’s day!
And don’t feel sheepish showing your children how to make them, believe me, they are more then proud to hand a bouquet of these handcrafted beauties right back to you. Just show them how, give them the strips of paper and leave them at the table a while so they can “Surprise” you.
Trust me, They love it!
Click Here for the Photo Tutorial
(These are really easy!)