I know that Mother’s Day was last weekend, but I had to share the gifts I got this year for Mother’s Day.  You might able to use some of these ideas for next year.

My mom helped Hailey make this adorable Mother’s Day gift for me.  In case you can’t read the poem, it says:

My Handprint Flower
A piece of me
I give to you,
I used my thumb
and fingers too.
It doesn’t smell,
it doesn’t grow,
I made it because I love
you so.

Then Hailey made this cute butterfly handprint at preschool for me.  The poem says:

My dirty little fingerprints
I’ve left on every wall,
and on the drawers and table tops,
I’ve really marked them all.
But here is one that won’t rub off,
I’m giving it to you,
because I’m thankful for a Mother just like you!

One of the other classes at Hailey’s preschool made these cute Mother’s Day gifts and I liked them, so I had Hailey make these for her grandmothers.  The ladybug prints on the sandal are made with Hailey’s fingerprint.

After every 4 letters that we do I have a review week with Hailey.  One of the activities we do for review is to put together our Alphabet book.  This time we added these pages:

E is for Elephant Puzzle

F is for Fish

G is for Gingerbread

H is for House

I cut out the letters that Hailey decorated when we learned each letter and she glued them on to a piece of paper.

Then we put the pages into a binder that is Hailey’s alphabet book.

Hailey loves reading her alphabet book!

Another thing we do to review the letters is to make a little book for each letter.

Hailey colors several different pictures of words that start with E.

Then she cuts out the pictures.

And then glues them onto an index card.  When it’s dry I turn it into a book- she will eventually have one for every letter of the alphabet.

We also played Alphabet Bingo using the letters that she has learned so far.  This game has been a bit hit!!

Now that I’m working and Hailey is going to preschool it’s really hard to find time to do the crafts and activities that we used to do.  But I miss doing it with Hailey, so I am going to really try to get back into doing more activities with her.

Hailey used a bow to paint the letter H.

For our project that will go into Hailey’s ABC book, Hailey made a House.

She glued various shapes onto her paper and made a house.

The finished H is for House.

It took my forever to get all of the issues sorted out with my categories after Rich moved me to a new host.  I went from having over 50 pages of categories (in the admin area) down to 2 pages.  I had to delete each category one at a time otherwise I would get an error message.  So, I should be back up and running and posting new crafts.  The only problem right now is that some of my links in my posts will no longer work since the categories were so messed up.  I’ll work on getting that fixed sometime soon.  Please let me know if you are having any problems with any part of my blog.