I need quick, easy, and cheap Mother's Day crafts for a class of first graders. Any ideas?

I know what it's like to need a quick, inexpensive easy idea for Mother's Day. I felt I had to be original and different every year, especially since I also taught 1st grade for many years.

I am passing on one of my favorite crafts:Some really wonderful clothespins magnets so kids can display their art/work on their fridge at home!

Click on the link below for the instructions:

http://www.kinderart.com/crafts/clothespinmagnets....

Feel free to check out all of the other wonderful craft ideas they have- for all holidays, including many I never even heard of! This site was bookmarked on my classroom computer when I was in the classroom.

Enjoy!

Well this isn't so much a keepsake gift, but it is a cute and different idea of something to do for mothers day. It does require some purchasing, but generally it's less than $10.

My kids make teacup biscuit treats for mothers day. They each have a round biscuit for the saucer (we use 'tic toc'' biscuits). Then they use icing sugar to glue a marshmallow onto the biscuit and a chocolate freckle on top of the marshmallow. Then 1/2 a lifesaver on the side of the marshmallow for the handle. It's quick and easy and the kids love it.

frames made out of popsicle stick decorated with glitter glue and paint maybe? or perhaps a little flower drawn out coloured with a picture of the child in the middle of the flower? Hope those help. I would go to yahoo search engine as well for ideas

with the construction paper made a card, in the front you can paint the hands of the child, with glitter around . inside the card put a picture of the child with a very simple poem like : roses are red, violets are blue. sugar is sweet and so are you.

they could make their mother a cut out flower with construction paper, where they have to cut out the petals and put glitter on them and put them together to form a flower. All different colors and kinds

One of my most treasured gifts on mothers day was a sillhoiette of my son's profile, drawn from his shadow on a piece of contruction paper.

u can ask your student to do a mother's card by using newspaper or anything materials that can be recycled.

hi

have you ever used http://www.enchantedlearning.com/

great site but you have to give a donation i think if you use it.

or what about a lovely laminated place mat with their art work.