Every little drawing or craft project that children take home warms their parents’ hearts. Their moms and dads often treasure these little keepsakes. Plus, by helping your students craft these special gifts, you’re strengthening the home-school connection. To celebrate Mother’s and Father’s Day with your students, and give them the chance to use what they’ve learned, try the following educational craft activities!
Parents will be delighted to receive a heartfelt letter, card, or poem that their child wrote themselves. This activity allows students to practise creative writing, learn new vocabulary words, and develop social skills like gratitude and empathy. You could also give your students this unfinished love poem. They’ll need to fill in the blanks with loving words. You can also ask them to create rhymes if you’ve covered this in class. Otherwise, they can read the poem for inspiration and then write their own.
Making origami art is a fun, creative activity with many educational benefits. Folding and manipulating paper helps develop a child’s fine motor skills, patience, spatial thinking, hand-eye coordination, ability to follow instructions, and more. It also draws on the children’s geometry skills. Finally, doing origami is a great opportunity to teach your class about Japanese history and culture. Another advantage of origami? It’s affordable! Your kids can even use scrap paper and decorate their creations at the very end. If you want to make origami hearts with your class, watch this quick tutorial (French only). If they want, your students can write a note to their parents inside the fold.
A mini book or zine (e.g., a short, self-published, handmade book) is an original gift that’s sure to surprise parents. Crafting a book is a great creative writing project for students. It can help them unleash their imagination, develop literary skills, practise their fine motor skills, and express their emotions.
Here are some ideas for personalizing a small book:
To create a simple mini book without glue or staples from an 8.5” x 11" sheet of paper, your students can follow these steps:
Looking for a parent-pleasing craft project that’s affordable, eco-friendly, and sustainable? Try rock painting! For this project, simply ask your students to bring a smooth, flat rock to class. If possible, you can also organize a class outing to collect rocks around the school. Then, your students can examine, compare, and classify their discoveries. When it comes to decorating the rocks, the possibilities are endless! Students can paint cute animals, landscapes, mandalas, fruit, flowers, monsters or other fantastic creatures, portraits, abstract designs, etc. Here are a few ways they can express their creativity:
No gift can replace the happy memories a child makes during a family activity. To encourage your students to spend quality time with their parents, why not ask them to make family-time coupons using our template? Students can fill out the coupons with exciting family activities. As a final touch, they can put their coupons in an embellished envelope, a box made of folded paper or recycled materials, or a decorated jar. You can also ask your students to work in small groups to brainstorm ideas and give each other feedback.
Writing : The Alloprof Teachers' team