Mother's Day Lesson Plans for Elementary Teachers

Easy to make items are listed below for your students to take home to their special mother.

How To Make a Mother's Day Bonnet

What you will need:

Paper plates (one for each student)

Different types of pretty ribbon

A lot of different types of artificial silk flowers

Scotch tape

Staples

Wire cutters

Scissors

Hole Puncher

Give each child a white paper plate. Have students choose the ribbon they'd like to use. The ribbon will be what holds the bonnet on their mother's head. Most likely the student's mother will choose to hang the bonnet on the wall at home.

Make one hole on the left and right side of the paper plate for the ribbon. Cut two pieces of ribbon about 8 inches. Insert ribbon and tie a knot to hold the ribbon in place.

Poke holes around the paper plate with an adults help. It may be helpful to poke holes ahead of time if you do not have any adult aides to help you. Or if elementary students are age appropriate they can carefully poke holes in their own paper plates if using scissors.

Let students chose artificial flowers. Insert flowers in holes of paper plate. Have teacher use wire cutters to snip flower stem. (Pre-trim stems would make it easier to make the project with an entire class.) Bend the piece of stem left and either use Scotch tape or a stapler to secure flower.

Fill paper plate with flowers.

The end result will be a pretty bonnet handmade by their child just for them on Mother's Day.

Students (& Mother's) Bake Cookies at School Together

Another Mother's Day Lesson is to schedule a time in the Home Economics Room at school and have the students bake chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin, or peanut butter cookies.

For an extra special treat you could send home a letter a month in advance asking mothers if they were available to come and share some special time with their child baking cookies.

What You Will Need:

Cookie ingredients chosen to bake

Cookie sheets

Paper plates

Cling Wrap

Let the mothers and students bake a few extra and when all cooking and clean-up is complete, have everyone sit at a large table and try each other's cookies.

Wrap up a plate of cookies and let the mother's take them home and indulge.

Portrait of Student Handing Mom a Flower That Pops Out

A third Mother's Day Lesson Plan for student's to make have each student draw a portrait of themselves including their body.

When drawing themselves have them have one hand held up as if handing an item to someone.

When the drawing is complete, the student may choose to paint, use colored pencils or markers to color their special portrait.

Take tissue paper and cut it ten by ten inches. Fold the tissue paper like a fan back and forth. Staple bottom of "fan." Take "fanned flower" and poke it through the hand of the portrait so it looks like the child is handing mom a 3D flower. Student may make more than one flower to make handed flower into a bouquet.

Mother's Day Bookmark

What You Will Need:

Construction Paper

Markers

Ribbon

Hole Puncher

Have students cut an eight by two inch piece of construction paper out. Next have students draw mom's favorite things she likes on the bookmark. Use markers to color in items drawn.

Punch one hole at the top of the bookmark. Tie a piece of ribbon for an added special touch.

To go with the bookmark add a favorite memory book that the child has drawn and written.

Mother's Day Memory Book

What You Will Need:

Lined paper

Pencil

Markers

Staples

Have child write a short story on a few pages of paper of a favorite memory with mom. Child can draw a picture on each page describing the memory. Use markers to color pictures drawn. Write title in marker of memory to name the book. Draw a book cover. Staple papers together to form a book.