Mother's Day Success!

Thanks to everyone for their great suggestions for my Mother's Day idea! After a fabulous trip to the dollar store, I settled on pot holders.  Then, I decided to stamp their little hand prints (thanks to a smart reader who suggested doing that on aprons!). :) It was adorable! The kids LOVED doing this and got really creative with their cooking ideas!

All in all, the project was a HUGE success - and I couldn't be happier  What made it even better was that it was fairly low-maintenance -- and after three straight days of state testing, that's exactly what we all needed.

So here's what you do: 

Print my freebie recipe card here. {Graphics by Scrappin' Doodles!} I printed them in color because I think they look cuter that way! Then, we brainstormed cooking words and words to describe our moms/things we like our moms to do.

DISCLAIMER: And just so you know, one of my team mates was absent today... and NO sub! So I had five extra kiddos in my room today which translates to: scribbled charts! (Don't judge! I exhausted all of my cutesy energy on the actual project!)

Once I brainstormed these words, the kids got to work writing the ingredients section of their "recipe".  By the way, I had them write a rough draft/sloppy copy so the actual recipe card was neat. :)

After they wrote their ingredients, I gathered them again to review cooking action words.  We made another *beautiful* chart, brainstorming words for the directions side of the card.

We started to run out of time (as you likely can see from my scribbled box!). I literally said, "When you write the directions, you number them. You'll write, number one: blah blah blah.  Number two: blah blah blah." Quality teaching there, let me tell ya.  At least they cracked up.

I DID have a REAL sample card (made by me) that I read to them though so they did get the idea.




I had stamped their hands in the morning while they were doing The Daily Five , so the recipe was the final step.  They wrote their final drafts on the recipe cards, cut them out, glued them to construction paper, and I assembled them as they finished.

Here's what you need:

*Square pot holders (1 per student)
*1 large bottle of fabric paint per 20 students, not the puffy paint kind (My team mate and I bought 8 bottles.  We overestimated just a little bit.)
*One 10 yard roll of ribbon per 20 students
*4.5 X 6 construction paper for mounting
*REALLY pretty and neatly-made brainstorm charts like the ones shown in this post. ;) Well, I guess those are optional...

Here are some cute final products!

BACK (DIRECTIONS)

FRONT (INGREDIENTS)

Final product, corner hole-punched and tied with ribbon.

I am so pleased with how these turned out.  I know I said I was a horrible crafty person before, but... could it be? Could I have actually pulled this off?

I think I did! 

Even if it was just a *smidge* crafty! ;)

Happy Mother's Day everyone!!