Thursday, April 21, 2011

Mother's Day

With Mother's Day approaching, I figured I would share what I did last year and plan on doing again this year. I had my students make coasters for their mom (or grandma) using bathroom tile. Only 17 cents each at Home Depot! The kids decorated using permanent marker then I sprayed it with acrylic spray to seal it. On the back I hot glued felt so that it doesn't scratch the surface. I had many moms go out of their way to tell me it was a wonderful project! 



I am also going to try something new this year. It's called breakfast in a bag. I'm going to pick up white lunch bags for the kids to decorate and glue this poem to the outside of the bag. Inside the bag will be a package of oatmeal, a tea bag, granola bar, and a banana. Also included in the bag will be a Mother's Day card and the above coaster. Another cute idea would be to put the breakfast items in a mug, but that would be a pricey project. 




30 comments:

  1. So great! Someone donated a bunch of tiles to our school so I'll be using them for a mother's day gift too. I love the breakfast in bed. I am so doing this!Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Wow! I'm so glad you posted this! I was just thinking to myself that I needed to figure out something cute for the kiddos to make for Mother's Day! Thank you so much for sharing it =)

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  3. I love the tile idea! So fun and cheap!

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  4. These are such great ideas!! Thanks for sharing!
    ~ Mrs. Mc
    Little Literacy Learners

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  5. Yours look nice, but do you have apic from the kids? I normally don't let the kids touch my sharpies is that what you had them use?

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  6. I don't have pics from the kids, BUT I taught kindergarten last year and they came out sooo cute. I had this project be a "center" so I had 4 kids at a time come work with me. I had no issues with the Sharpies.

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  7. Thanks for sharing a great idea-I've already bought the permanent markers and the acrylic spray! :-)

    One question: did you use tiles that already had glaze on them? I was wondering if there was any smearing, but then the non-glazed ones would probably bleed too much, huh?

    Thanks for any information!

    Cindy

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  8. They were the glossy ones and the kids didn't seem to have any problems.

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  9. Thanks a bunch-going to give it a try!

    Cindy

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  10. Oh thank you so much...my darling hubby is off to Home Depot for me....hugs for both of you!!
    cc

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  11. Wow...I did a sample of this project to show my kiddos and can I just say, easiest project EVER! Thanks SO much for the inspiration! I bought my tiles at Home Depot for 14 cents each. Spent $7 to get enough for 2 classrooms. Felt was cheap and the other materials will last forever; not just for this project.

    SUPER wonderful idea-thanks again so much for sharing!

    Cindy

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  12. The tile idea is SO cute! I've been stressing over which activity to do for Mother's Day and this just made the decision for me. Thanks for sharing!!!

    Dana
    http://3rdgradegridiron.blogspot.com/

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  13. Great idea! However, I went to AC Moore and bought clear acrylic sealer and my markers ink smeared! Can you share the acrylic sealer you used!?!

    Thanks so much :)

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  14. It's called Folk Art acrylic spray. I got it at Michaels and I didn't have any problems with smearing.

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  16. Cute Mother's Day ideas. How do you put a google doc in your post? I can't figure that out!

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  17. This is really cute! I picked up my tiles this weekend! Would you be able to update the poem? without the year, so it can be used from year to year?

    Thanks!

    Ali
    alischepis(at)gmail.com

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