Children’s Books for Mother’s Day

We love you Mom!  Here are seven favorite children’s books to read to young children about moms and Mother’s Day. Reading several books about Mother’s Day will give kids some ideas about special things they can do and say to express how much they love their mom.

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Kid’s Flower Crafts

January 3 is Drinking Straw Day. This January holiday is celebrated in honor of the day Marvin C. Stone received the patent for the drinking straw.

Drinking straws can be used to make several cool kids’ crafts. Here’s a lesson plan for a cool kid’s craft that is easy to do and reuses that tissue paper that is still floating around after Christmas.

While these lesson plans are for Drinking Straw Day crafts, you could also make these flowers in a variety of colors for Christmas, Mother Day or Easter.

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