Mother's Day/ May Day gift

• Colored paper
• twisty ties, sticks, skewers, anything you can find to be the stems of the flowers that is easily taped to paper.
• tape
• stapler

Flowers

1. Take a sheet of paper and folded it into 1/4ths. Rip or cut the paper along the fold lines.
2. Crumple up each section of the paper separately.
3. tape one stem to the paper and you have an easy flower.

Flower Basket

1. Take a sheet of paper and fold it in half. Rip or cut along fold line.
2. Measure each piece to be a square and rip or cut off the extra paper. (Save the extra)
3. hold to corners and cross them like you are making a frosting tube. Staple it in place. If there is a flap of paper feel free to tape it down.
4. Take the scrap and fold it in half the long way. Use it for the handle by stapling it onto each point of the top of the basket.

I did this today with the sunbeams, they loved it and it was something that they were very capable of doing themselves! I loved that the supplies were cheep and easy to bring to church.

Apple tear project

I got this idea from one of my favorite Montessori blogs The Wonder Years. She has great ideas for art, counting, and alphabet. Check her out sometime!!

What you need:

*strips of red constructions paper
*a brown stem (I was shocked to find out that I had no brown in all my stacks and stack of paper...)
*a green leaf
*paper plate
*glue



The kids then rip the red strips into pieces and then glue them onto the paper plate. (My boys found it easier to put the glue straight onto the plate and then stick the paper on.) When they are done with the red paper, glue on the stem and the leaf!