Happy Mother's Day Memory Plates

It sure is hard to create a special surprise for you moms! Especially when you're in the classroom but we know our magic spell worked and no duty parents caught a whiff of our awesome Mother's Day Plates (did you??).

The children were so excited to give their moms their special Mother's Day Plates - we hope you enjoyed your special surprise on Mother's Day.

We had fun encouraging the kids to create a special picture for mom on their plates. Most of our classroom friends actually did a very good job of keeping the markers mostly on the plates instead of themselves.

Thanks to the moms for your kind comments you shared on our Facebook wall about the plates - it's so wonderful to know they were a success!

"Thank you for making another special occasion that much more special - just like my Christmas present from the Santa Store! Loved it." Amy

 "Awesome idea! I'll treasure it always." Jen

"Yup Katie was excited!! She said one of the happy faces is me, whereas the other one was Daddy and she had to scribble over it!" Liz

"Loved it!! Remy said 'oh no mommy. I forgot to draw your socks!' Haha" Alyssa

This is a great craft to do at home for other special occasions. Maybe we shouldn't tell you how simple it was in case it takes some of the amazement away??

All you need is:

• Ceramic plate (or mug would be fun too)

• An array of colourful permanent Sharpie markers

• Oven – set at 350 degrees

Wash and dry the plate, remove any stickers or labels from it.  Then, get decorating and designing the plate.
Once dry and complete, pop into the oven for 20-30 minutes to ‘set’ the ink so they can be washed. One note, the oven zaps some of the vibrancy out of the colour so make sure you really colour in your plate beforehand.

Once cool, your plate is done. We loaded with homemade goodies and delivered as gifts!

Great example of a holiday plate here.