By Mashum Mollah
Mother’s Day is supposed to be all about moms and their kids. So, if your partner is a mother, and you’ve found yourself carrying the bulk of Mother’s Day duties over the last few years, it doesn’t have to be that way.
Additionally, if you help your favorite mother’s child get involved, they can probably make Mother’s Day more special for her. Furthermore, you can create memories when giving a gift to your child.
So, you don’t have to rush to purchase a store-bought gift from you at the last minute. Additionally, if you’re a father, partner, grandparent, or even sibling to a toddler, help them become a big part of the Mother’s Day planning.
Not only will their mother love her special day, but she will also appreciate their personal touch–even if imperfect.
Furthermore, if you wish to learn ideas on getting your toddler involved in Mother’s Day Gift planning, read on.
Flowers For Mom
No Mother’s Day is really complete without Mother’s Day Flowers. To get a toddler involved, take them with you to your local florist and let them design the bouquet.
Additionally, you can pick it up later or let your toddler hand-deliver the gift to their mom. Furthermore, you help your toddler write the note for delivery day. This will make the flowers more special with the little one’s help.
Use this as an opportunity to help them learn their colors. Additionally, even if you shop online with a Google search like ‘flower delivery for Mother’s Day,’ you can let them pick and choose the flowers they want to include in the bouquet.
Furthermore, you can guide them if they can’t pick flowers by telling them their mother’s favorite flowers or colors. You can ask them to pick flowers in every color of the rainbow. The story behind the mixed bouquet will make it one she can never forget.
Homemade Gifts And Breakfast In Bed
After your budding florist has picked the perfect bouquet for Mom, pull out the finger paints or other age-appropriate painting and coloring items. My favorite is letting kids paint raw pasta and stringing colored noodles on bracelets or necklaces.
Additionally, use your imagination, or, better, let the toddler use theirs. Furthermore, you will be surprised at what they’ve picked up in daycare. Before you know it, they could be teaching you a new craft.
If you’re stuck on how to craft the perfect gift, think of handprints. Dipping your toddler’s hands or feet in paint and smudging them up on nearly anything will make the gift one she’ll keep forever.
Picture frames, planters, and even paperweights made from rocks you find on a walk with the toddler will work, too. The idea isn’t to spend money; it helps your toddler create something with her in mind.
On Mother’s Day, have your toddler present their unique gift with breakfast in bed, snuggles, and kisses.
Time With Mom
Another great gift for Mother’s Day could be a gift certificate to a place that’s a little different from the norm. You can think of taking your toddler to zoos, child museums, or even the park.
Too often, mothers are so busy juggling kids and work that they don’t get those days off to enjoy their children in fun activities. Gifts that encourage stress-free time together for creating memories are always appreciated. Let the toddler or older siblings pick the place If you’re brave enough.
A Play Ful Art Activity
You can arrange for a playful art activity with your kids. This will allow you to spend some time with your toddler as you create a Mother’s Day gift. You can make a keychain or an art using recycled items.
Hand And Fringer Prints
First, make a card with your toddlers. Take a card with handprints of your children and you and whatever they wish to write or draw inside the car. You can make other designs on the card, like a fingerprint heart consisting of your and your kid’s finger heart art on the card.
Paper Flower Bouquet
Another idea is creating a paper flower bouquet using paper straws and leftover cardboard from delivery boxes. You can ask your child to draw flowers and leaves on the cardboard and paint the flowers of their choice.
Then, you cut these flowers and stick them to paper straws. Additionally, you and your child can color the flower stem and stick the leaves on them. Furthermore, you can tie these flowers together when the paint dries to create a bouquet.
Paper Bag Flowers
Next, you can make paper flower bags to involve your toddlers in creating paper buckets for flowers. You can use leftover cardboard boxes, magazines, colored paper, and glue to make the box.
Additionally, you can go with your toddlers to pick some beautiful flowers and see what they pick for you.
Suppose you have a garden in your home; that’s even better because your kids can pick their flowers. Then, once your flower basket is ready, dig some mud and put it in it. Your kids will love digging mud and placing it in paper bags.
Next, add the flowers to the bag and try to make them stand so they look like a bouquet. Furthermore, you can ask your kids to design paper bags of flowers with colorful dots or prints.
Rock Painting
You can plan an outing and art activity in nature with your toddler. Time flies in the blink of an eye with a toddler. So, you can enjoy Mother’s Day with an outdoor outing in nature and collect some beautiful stones with your toddler.
Then, paint these stones with your toddler to create different art or animals like ladybugs or grasshoppers. This art becomes a gift and memento of the times spent with your little one.
Wrapping Up
It can be tempting to want to take charge of Mother’s Day yourself. Allowing the toddler in your life to participate in planning a special day and gift for their mom, you’ll make the whole occasion much more sentimental.
The best part is you might even have a little fun. Something about hanging out with a toddler and asking for their ideas can make a person feel young—happy Mother’s Day planning to you and your little one.
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