Make Gifts At Home

• Cut out pictures from old mother's day cards or magazines. You can also use old family photographs with your mom on it. Make sure they're pictures of thing you think your mom would like.
• Glue the pictures onto heavy construction paper leaving room in between to draw your own pictures or add in little sayings for special poems for mom.
• Write your name and the date at the bottom and mom will have a wonderful keepsake to remember this Mother's Day.
• Cover the placemat with clear contact paper.

• Take construction paper and make a card, then put your thumb prints on the front of the card.
• Make picture out of the thumbprints into flowers and bees, by using the thumbprint as the center of the flower and the body of the bees.
• You can add clouds in the sky and a tree or use your imagination.
• Then write on the inside thumb-body loves you.

• Make a Mother's Day Card by drawing a picture of your mother on the front of the card. At the top of the card, write: "My mommy's special because..." or "I Love Mom because..."
• Inside the card have them write all the reasons they can think of.
• Decorate the card using stickers, glitter, etc.

• Make mom a mother's day card by taking construction paper and folding it in half.
• Draw an outline of your hand on the front of the card and color the hand, or draw pictures in and around the hand. Be creative.
• Decorate with stickers.
• Punch holes in the side of the card and run a red ribbon through the holes.
• Mother's Day Gift Bags
• Depending on the size of the gift, decorate either a lunch bag or a grocery bag by coloring with crayons, felt markers, or paint.
• Add poems or funny sayings. Decorate with stickers.
• Put in the gift and stuff with colored tissue paper and tie a ribbon or bow on the top.