Mother’s Day, celebrated in Ireland on the fourth Sunday of Lent, is a great opportunity for students to express gratitude and appreciation for their mothers or mother figures.
Why not try one of these ideas:
Handmade Cards with Personal Messages
Encourage students to create thoughtful Mother’s Day cards that show appreciation.
- Activity: Provide card-making materials like coloured paper, markers, and stickers. Have students write personalised messages inside, reflecting on what they love or appreciate most about their mothers or caregivers.
- Extension: Introduce a short writing activity where students compose a poem or a few heartfelt sentences about why their mother or caregiver is special.
Mother’s Day Acrostic Poem
Help students develop their literacy skills by creating acrostic poems using the word “MOTHER.”
- Activity: Have students write “MOTHER” vertically down a page and come up with a word, phrase, or sentence that starts with each letter to describe their mother (e.g., “M is for the meals she makes, O is for her open arms”).
- Display: Collect the poems and create a classroom display to celebrate all the different ways mothers are appreciated.
Mother’s Day Gift: Flower Pots or Seedlings
Let students create a small gift that their mothers can keep and nurture.
- Activity: Provide small pots and seeds (e.g., flowers or herbs) that students can plant and decorate with paints, stickers, or markers. This hands-on activity combines creativity with a lesson on how plants grow.
- Extension: Link this activity to science lessons by teaching students how to care for their plants, encouraging responsibility and connection to nature.
Class Gratitude Tree
Create a collective classroom project that showcases gratitude for all the special women in students’ lives.
- Activity: Set up a large paper tree on the wall, and give students leaf-shaped paper cutouts. On each leaf, they can write something they appreciate about their mother or caregiver and then stick it to the tree.
- Classroom Display: The Gratitude Tree can serve as a lovely reminder of the importance of kindness and appreciation.
