Mother's Day is to honor a day to thank mothers, grandmothers, and just as a parent-women-in your circle of family and friends for everything they do in raising children. People for centuries shown a different appreciation for the mothers in both. The ancient Greeks held festivals in honor of the gods Rhea, mother, and the early Christians gave a tribute to Mary, the mother of Christ. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimedthe May 2 as a national holiday in honor of mothers.
This Mother's Day breakfast treat Mom to bed. Serve muffins, fresh fruit, coffee and juice on a tray with flowers and small gifts. Or have a tea party. Invite family and friends who are close to your mother. Cover the table with a tablecloth and napkins party with our ladybug rings and ornate wooden stick in a vase of flowers. Fill kettle with an elegant serving iced tea sandwiches and tea(See recipe below to make a simple but tasty sandwich) and biscuits. For the occasion even more fun to dress a dress-up with the old party dresses, hats filled with jewels and costume or dress up in your "Sunday-go-to-town" clothes.
Cucumber Tea Sandwiches
Thinly slice a cucumber without seeds. Apply a thin layer of soft butter or cream cheese on one side, two slices of white bread. Lay cucumber slices on the buttered side of bread. Sprinkle lightlyCover with salt, with alfalfa sprouts and top with other slice of bread, butter the bottom. Carefully remove the crusts from each sandwich and cut sandwiches in half diagonally and then cut in half, or cut into decorative shapes with a cookie cutter heart.
Holidays with Mama Do
With children, make a list of things to cook with their mothers or other special women in their lives (to do collecting shells on the beach, planting a plant can not or do notflower garden, play a board game, dance, music, reading a favorite book, a funny movie, sing silly songs to him than any other, take a walk around the block or in the park, cuddling together, make a memory album , etc.).
Who is the mother? Flannel board game
Collect pictures of animals and child. For durability, cover each image with transparent paper or laminate contact. Apply a strip of Velcro ® on the back of each photo. Let the childreneligible animals on board the mother animal baby out with the towel.
Mother's Day Concentration Game
With the same images in the activity over the place mother and baby animal pictures face down on a table or floor. They are 2-4 children take turns matching the mothers of their children. If a child is part of a pair, he / she takes pictures. If the game is incorrect, images are turned face down. ChildrenContinue until all the mothers and children are paired. The winner is the person with the most matches.
I love you so much
Trace children's hands to cut a piece of paper. Fix the two hands with a long piece of yarn or string (about the length of the child's arm) and an envelope with a note that says "Mom (or Grandma, etc.), I love you so much!"
Small hand / Big Hand
Help to show children the difference between smalland large. They place their children handprint on a sheet of paper. Then their mothers have put their signature next to them. Finally, children draw the other small and big things on paper. Children can give this gift to their mothers as a small Mother's Day.
Mother says
Point your child to play, "says the mother" (instead of "Simon Says"). Start by giving directions to your child to follow the "Mothersays wave your hands. His mother said, touching his nose. His mother said, jumping on one leg. "Explain that when we say, give a direction without first" Mother says: it should not be the child of action. "He / she does, then if he / she change places with you and start giving you direction. Continue playing as long as you want.
