Does Anyone NOT Do Mother's/Father's Day Gifts?

[My3cents]

Being a mother myself- I would love if my child made something or my daycare provider sent my child home with something esp for me on mothers day.

I do things because I want to do them and not to get a thank you or anything out of it.

Everyone participates and if they don't have a Mom, it is made for the parents they do have. If they don't believe in the holiday then it is something they made for the day. I don't try to sell my beliefs onto someone else but I am not going to stop my beliefs because of someone else I just try to tweak them to make everyone happy or at least try. If I don't....oh well.

[Meeko]

I have 16 daycare kids. So IF I do anything, I keep it VERY simple. I don't have the time to work on 16 fancy projects. If I only had 4 or 5 kids, I would probably do more.

For Mothers Day, we are baking some cookies together and putting them in pretty cellophane bags. That's it.

[sharlan]

I had things planned to do - I'm very good at that, just not good at actually doing it.

[Michelle]

Being a mother myself- I would love if my child made something or my daycare provider sent my child home with something esp for me on mothers day.

I do things because I want to do them and not to get a thank you or anything out of it.

Everyone participates and if they don't have a Mom, it is made for the parents they do have. If they don't believe in the holiday then it is something they made for the day. I don't try to sell my beliefs onto someone else but I am not going to stop my beliefs because of someone else I just try to tweak them to make everyone happy or at least try. If I don't....oh well.

I keep thinking about how disappointed some moms would be if they didn't get a single gift for Mothers Day..... some moms don't have a dh to go out with their kids to get something for mom and the gift/card from day care may be the only thing they get.
It doesn't have to be expensive or elaborate
I go a little crazy because this is my favorite holiday but to exclude everyone because one person may not believe in it is not fair to the rest of the group.
It's pretty easy to just let kids color a card and write" Happy Mother's Day" on top or " I Love My Mom"

[Jewels]

We actually made 2 gifts..
We made this last week

http://www.orientaltrading.com/diy-wood-flower-photo-holders-a2-48_3742.fltr?prodCatId=550710

and then I thought it wasn't nice enough to be the only gift, so we made the ceramic tile/hand prints because I have always done "over the top kind of stuff" I didn't want to just send home the first gift by itself.

I love oriental, thats where my mothers day stuff comes from, I did those flower pots a couple years ago, they all loved them, but I was a little sad, because my husband for some reason thought the ones my kids made were for grandma so she was here and he gave them to her! which is fine she has them, but I was pretty sad about that since they turned out really cute and I wanted them ones of my kids.

[Michelle]

I love oriental, thats where my mothers day stuff comes from, I did those flower pots a couple years ago, they all loved them, but I was a little sad, because my husband for some reason thought the ones my kids made were for grandma so she was here and he gave them to her! which is fine she has them, but I was pretty sad about that since they turned out really cute and I wanted them ones of my kids.

I love oriental t.c. too
especially for grad parties or baby showers etc.

[KnoxMom]

I typically do them, but I am not feeling it this year. I just don't feel like putting out the time, effort and extra (although minoe) expense, when they are very rarely acknowledged.

I am feeling guilty, so probably will throw something together.

Thoughts?

I plan on doing a standard project yearly. Muffins for Moms on Mother's Day and Donuts for Dad on Father's Day. I am a small in-home provider so I only have to buy or make half a dozen of each. For the project, the children make a muffin out of paper, we use cotton balls for frosting and glitter for sprinkles. They love it! For dad, it's a similar deal using different items. I tie it to the box with the actual muffin or donut inside and we write a message on the back. Kids are happy, parents are appreciative and I feel good knowing I made an effort because I would want the same. It really doesn't take any longer than our typical projects in the art studio. Maybe you'll get inspired later

[Jewels]

I do not expect thank you's for the stuff the kids make, I expect the parents to be super thankful to their child, the child after all is the one giving the gift, I know all my parents love the stuff their children make and truly show it to their child, and thats whats important how special the child feels when they give their parent the gift and the big smile and hug and the feeling the child gets from seeing someone so happy from receiving a gift from them, this is such a great feeling for them and so important in seeing how great it is to give something, not just receive something, just last night I went into walmart with my husband and my kids, my son is in kindergarten, and we passed the flowers and he immediately asked for his allowance early this week, I said why do you need it early, and he whispered to his dad " I want to buy mommy those flowers for mothers day with my own money only from me"
I had tears in my eyes I was soo proud of him and his pure want to make me happy, and he has been so excited all week to bring home his "masterpiece" at school he is making me for mothers day, and I honestly never would think to thank the teacher for whatever he is making me, as he is making it for me, but then again I don't see her everyday, however my son did make her a card this week and we gave her a caribou gift card for teacher appreciation, and I've emailed her thank you's throughout the year.......I don't think most dads are great about thinking to sit down and have their kids make something for mommy(some are but I think most aren't) and I think its kind of sad if a kid has nothing special made by them for mommy , as they are missing an extra learning opportunity.

[Jewels]

I love oriental t.c. too
especially for grad parties or baby showers etc.

Yes my daughters birthday is this weekend and her birthday party stuff all from there.

[MsMe]

I didn't want to to but pulled together a construction paper flower with reason they loved their Mom....I have large group and about halpf of the them are 4 and up so they really had a great time with it. It evolved into a laminated flower, tissue paper, and pack of flower seeds in a clay pot. We decorated white lunch bags to wrap them in and it looks really nice.

I feel like I should start working on Father's Day because I forget EVERY year! UGH

[momofsix]

We have done Mother's day gifts every year-usually something with handprints. The moms always love them and usually post pics on facebook of them This year It's been a crazy couple of weeks and I totally forgot it was Mother's day! OOPS! No gifts for moms this year. I have great families and they will all totally understand, but I still feel bad about it.

[MyAngels]

Oops, posted in the wrong thread.

[Jewels]

We have done Mother's day gifts every year-usually something with handprints. The moms always love them and usually post pics on facebook of them This year It's been a crazy couple of weeks and I totally forgot it was Mother's day! OOPS! No gifts for moms this year. I have great families and they will all totally understand, but I still feel bad about it.

This happened to me on fathers day last year!

[wahmof3]

Ugh. This is why I "didn't want to do a mother's day" craft:

I decided to "throw" something together. ONLY because I knew my DCP are expecting something.

Here is what I did:

Pipe cleaners
cheerios
ribbon
small note/tag

My group size today is 3 and is mainly 3 y/o. Of those 3: DCG- 1 and DCB- 2

Easy project- string cheerios on 3 pipe cleaners and I link them together in the shape of a heart.

Cute and easy.

Here is how it went:

not even half way through the first pipe cleaner-

"I'm tired"
"I'm sweaty"
"My arm hurts"
"Can I finish it later?"
"I'm tired"
"My arm really hurts"
"I'm sticky"

[lolaland]

Ugh. This is why I "didn't want to do a mother's day" craft:

I decided to "throw" something together. ONLY because I knew my DCP are expecting something.

Here is what I did:

Pipe cleaners
cheerios
ribbon
small note/tag

My group size today is 3 and is mainly 3 y/o. Of those 3: DCG- 1 and DCB- 2

Easy project- string cheerios on 3 pipe cleaners and I link them together in the shape of a heart.

Cute and easy.

Here is how it went:

not even half way through the first pipe cleaner-

"I'm tired"
"I'm sweaty"
"My arm hurts"
"Can I finish it later?"
"I'm tired"
"My arm really hurts"
"I'm sticky"

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Last year, I had the opposite experience of yours! Besides the card, we also made a present... unlike yours, my kids were extremely quite, an absolute silence!! Guess what was the present??!! We made chocolate truffles!!!! !!!!

...Mother's received in a pretty box the truffles that "survived"... ::::