My Mum truly is one in a million, and goes way beyond her motherly duties for all of us. My children have a very special relationship with her and she deserves to be treated by all of us on Mother’s Day.
My older two now prefer to go to the shops and select a special gift for her; but the younger ones still love to do something homemade which I alway feel is more heartfelt.
With paints at the ready we got out some coloured card and placed blobs of three different coloured paints on three paper plates. Number 4 then covered his hand in the paint and placed it on the card to form a bunch of flowers. He then took some green paint and painted three green lines to create the flower stems.
We did ours as a picture but this could easily be turned into a card with wording added.
The plan was to then for number 5 to make a card with an owl on the front using his cute little feet. Once taking off his socks I began to immerse his feet in the bright purple paint which I had visions of him loving. How wrong could I be! He took a massively high pitched scream, kicked away the plate and covered me and the kitchen in the paint!
With number three back from drama we set about making the fingerprint necklace. I chose DAS air drying clay on a recommendation from a friend as it is softer than most clays and will show up the fingerprint the best. We took about half an iches worth of clay and rolled it into a ball. We then used a pen to flatten it into an oval shape and then gently press her finger into the clay to create the impression. Just above the fingerprint we made a hole with a toothpick to pull the thread thought once it was dry. It took about three hours for ours to become dry enough to tread. We pulled the length of thread so that the ends were together, they were then put through the hole from the front to the back and bought back through the loop to complete the necklace.
With everything completed and kids all tucked up in bed they can’t wait until tomorrow to give the special lady in their life the lovingly prepared gifts.
How will you all be spending Mother’s Day?