The Boys Made Something Special For Mother’s Day
This year is Gavin’s first Mother’s Day, so I wanted to do something special for Chrissy involving our two boys. I looked around online for gift ideas that include your children, but I only found a number of options that wouldn’t work for toddlers and tiny babies (like building a photo frame out of popsicle sticks). The little ones have to participate without actually having to do anything.
The post-popsicle photo frame gave me an idea though. Chrissy had bought Crayola finger paints for Aiden to play with, so I thought that a hand-painted photo mat would be a good idea. I picked up some wooden photo frames with double-matting, and then had the boys paint their hand prints on the outer mats. Grandma, Katie and Cassie helped, since we had to work efficiently.
Painting the mats for two frames was easier than I had hoped. Originally, I wanted to have Aiden do one and Gavin do the second, but I didn’t have recent photos of them by themselves. So we had them both paint each frame. I then put a photo of the family into one and a photo of just the boys in the other. The framing looks professional (no sloppy glue and sticks here!), yet it’s personalized.
Chrissy loved the frames, wrapped and completed with a card from each of us. She might take one back to school with her to put on her desk in the Fall. The hard part will be topping this for next year! I’m usually good for one or two good ideas, tops. Hopefully by the time my brain wears out, the boys will be old enough to make popsicle stick art projects for Mother’s Day.
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