Muffins for Moms

We love our Mommies and at our school, we host a Muffins for Mom morning each year.  We do ours around Valentine's Day each year.  I spend a couple of months before the big day racking my brain for the perfect centerpieces and table decorations for my three tables for my class.  Each teacher decorates her own tables in the way she wants to.  The children make placemats for their Mommy's seat and then we make a bunch of special gifts and treats.  This year, we made two keepsake gifts... tea towels with a poem and their handprints printed on transfer paper and then ironed on and also we did the picture frames with 3 different pics - one with the child holding M, then O and then M again to spell out MOM in three different pics.  I love getting prepared for Muffins for Mom and the kids get so excited to make gifts for their mommies!

My table decorations were my most time consuming to prepare than any other year.  I am a very crafty person so I thought I would go to the extreme on my centerpieces...Sweetheart topiaries!  They turned out great but wow, the time I spent on them - 2 hours per topiary and I made three of them.  I also made 24 small ones for place cards for the children and their moms.  Thank goodness for Dollar Store sweethearts because I used many bags!

The placemats the children made were precious.  I saw the idea on Pinterest - what a shock!  I always do something with handprints (I am a handprint crazy woman!)  The children made a flower with their hands from red and pink paint, we added green stems and grass and a few additional heart flowers from their thumbprints.  I cut the words Mommy, Love and 2013 on my Cricut from vinyl and added it to the placemat.  We are a church preschool, so what better way to show Love than by a beautiful Bible verse about Love.

We made a few other cute little things for our Mommies including a card, a bouquet of flowers and a portrait of each Mommy with questions about her answered by each child.

Of course, we have our gifts.  Somehow, I messed up and wrapped the frames before I took the pictures so I do not have that to share.  Here is our towels...

And lastly... a pic of me and my sweet girl sitting with her class at Muffins for Mom.