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mother's day
By Julie

I have my first graders make a project called "Joy Jars". Each child is asked to either bring in a clean, label-free glass jar, or I buy 8 oz. Ball jars and collect the money from each child. We decorate the outside with
jewels or sequins or I've helped them to sponge paint them. We then write things we love about our moms on strips of brightly colored paper, cut them out with fancy scissors, roll them around a pencil and then put them inside the jars. We tie a ribbon around them and puffy paint Joy Jar on the front of the jar. (I write on the jars with permanent marker and the kids can then trace over

it with the paint.) We make a card to go with each one so that when our moms are sad they can take one of the strips out, read it, and hopefully remember how special they are! I've had a couple moms cry!