Moms

I was a week late with this one – we read books about mothers the week after Mother’s Day, but it was still special for the moms who attended.

BOOKS:

Just Like Mama by Leslea Newman and Mother, Mother, I Want Another by Maria Polushkin Robbins.

Mother, Mother… is great.  All of my toddlers helped me to figure out what sounds all the different mothers made and they giggled whenever Baby Mouse said he wanted another.  Just Like Mama is pretty.  Julia Gorton illustrated it and the pictures are unique and interested to look at.  The story, however, has too many adjectives and not enough narrative to capture my toddlers’ attention.  So I would attempt to find another book if I did this theme again.

SONG:

We listened to John Lithgow’s No One Loves You Any Better Than Your M-O-Double-M-Y and everyone got a shaker to shake during the song.  There’s a short instrumental break in the middle and we danced it out during that section.  I am always amazed how excited kids get when they get a shaker.

CRAFT:

We made flowers for our moms!

While this craft looks adorable and simple, I can tell you it was a mother trucking nightmare.  Pipe cleaners are impossible to glue on using glue sticks and we only had really old congealed school glue for a substitute.  Even once we used the school glue, the pipe cleaners still fell off.  Gluing the fingers down was also nearly impossible.  You had to hold each fingertip down for a long time and sometimes even apply more glue.  UGH.  I was covered in glue and had two falling apart crafts at the end of the second storytime.  NEVER AGAIN.