The Mommy's Day Project

Mother's Day 2013 and it is time for one crafty grandma to come up with a project for the grand-daughters to make something special for their Mommy. One grand-daughter is only 6 months old, so she'll have to participate in an age-appropriate way; the other is a three year old who LOVES any project with art supplies! Bring on the paint!

Luckily, I was at JoAnn's and found these cardboard-type letters. 

Paint (freebie from a magazine tear-out coupon from Valspar) was rounded up with four color choices.

Miss E chose berry pink (surprise, surprise - that girl loves pink) for herself and a chartreuse color for her baby sister.  Fun stickers in dimensional felt were also purchased at JoAnn's to apply to the letters once painted and dried.

Time to get to work!  As the girls came to our place for their first sleepover together, we had a nice, early start.  (Insert yawn here.)

 The letters have been painted and now it's time to make the gift wrap and cards. Calling all bare feet!

Miss M was so chillin' as Wes held her and I placed her footprints

on the brown butcher paper in heart-shaped "units."

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Color-coded wrapping paper: chartreuse for Miss M and berry pink for Miss E.

Miss M looks on as Miss E goes to work on the cards.  Don't worry...Miss M is being held in this sitting position on the edge of the table by her Papa.

I wrote down just what she said.  Interesting how the train trip made an impact.  And she wrote her name herself! 

Once the cards had been properly written and stickered, they were ready to be tied on top of the packages.

All set - wrapped and ready to give to Mommy.

Looks like Mommy likes the gift!


We will actually celebrate together later as a family as one of the "fold" is presently out of town.

I hope that you enjoyed your day!