Mother’s Day Printables for Kids to Fill Out

I always love seeing posts on social media from moms with little kids who fill out Mother’s Day questionnaires with hilarious answers. They almost read like Mad Libs sometimes, and I think that’s an ever better keepsake when the answers are off the wall than when they make sense. (The ones my daughter did when she was that age were mostly sweet and accurate.)

Doing Mother’s Day printables is a fun activity for a classroom (as long as everyone in the room has a mom in their life) or to do with your own kids for mom or grandma.

The Incremental Mama has printables for both mom and grandma that include space for a drawing and a few simple questions. Kids can fill them out themselves or with help from an adult for little ones.

Coupons Are Great has a similar printable questionnaire for Mother’s Day with a bigger space for drawing.

This I Love You Mom coloring page from Views from a Stepstool includes a section kids can fill out with things that make mom special. The printable pack has a bunch of different options for what you might call mom or grandma (including mommy, mum, gran, etc.) so you can use the term you like best or that your kiddo uses.

Mindy Makes has a simple all about mom printable in color and black and white so kids can color it in themselves if they want to. These questions should get some really sweet answers.

Use the printable by itself for a quick Mother’s Day project, or do like Happy Home Fairy did and combine the printable with a handprint flower and photo (or some other art made by the child) to make it even more special.

Use these printables as they are or read the questions and make up your own questionnaire with your favorites. Either way you’re sure to learn something new about your kiddo and what they think about you!

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Summer Reading Printables and Tips for Parents

The celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is important throughout Mexico and other parts of the world. Her feast day is Dec. 12, and the celebrations honoring her appearance to Juan Diego in 1531 begin a few days before that.

Whether you celebrate yourself or just want to share about the celebration at home or in your classroom, Las Mañanitas: The Beautiful Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a good place to start. The book, by Ernesto Joel Vega Rosales and Jeanette Gonzalez Seneviratne, with illustrations by Dana Sanmar, tells the story of a family’s celebration of the feast day in both English and Spanish.

They prepare with a novena, which is nine days of prayers and preparations. The children, Lucia and Pablo, are given special outfits made by their grandmother that look like what Juan Diego might have worn when he saw Our Lady. The book describes the prayers that are made each day, such as a prayer for respect for life, for families and for the indigenous people of the Americas, to name a few.

As told in the book, Juan Diego was a native Mexican born near modern day Mexico City. His given name was Cuaauhtlatoatzin, which means “He who speaks like an eagle.” When he converted to Christianity his name was changed to Juan Diego, and as he walked to church he passed a hill called Tepeyac. One day he heard the birds singing especially beautifully and a voice called him to go to the top of the hill.

There he saw Our Lady of Guadalupe, who asked him to tell the bishop she wanted a chapel built in her name at the foot of the hill. The bishop asked for a sign that Juan Diego really saw her, and later she had him collect flowers that she blessed and take them to the bishop. When Juan Diego dropped the flowers, an image of Our Lady could be seen on his cloak, which is still on display in her basilica to this day.

The feast day is celebrated as mañanitas, which includes singing, indigenous music and dancing, and children presenting flowers to Our Lady. Juan Diego is remembered today as being humble, brave and faithful, and was the first indigenous American made a saint.

The book is colorful and tells the story in a clear way, and it’s fun to have it both in English and Spanish if you teach Spanish or speak Spanish at home or in the classroom. It’s a great way to learn the basics of the celebration and the story of Juan Diego and why he is still remembered today.

About the book: 40 pages, paperback, published 2024 by Loyola Press. Suggested retail price $14.99.

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