For your students' Mother's Day cards, let each child choose a color for her handprint flower. Paint each student's hand with your paintbrush using her chosen paint color. Then help your student press her open hand firmly onto the front of the folded card to make their flower. With a green crayon let your child draw a stem and leaves for their flower. When the flower is dry, let the child copy a Mother's Day greeting that you have written on the whiteboard and write her name.
To make the "Welcome Spring" card, have each child choose two colors for his handprint butterfly. With your paintbrush, paint both hands for each student, using one color to make a circle in the palm of each hand and the other color to paint the rest of each hand. Then with his fingers open and tips of his thumbs touching, help your student firmly press both hands onto the front of the folded card to make his butterfly. When the butterfly is dry, let the students use blue, white and yellow crayons to draw the sky, clouds and the sun. Write a Spring poem on the board for your children to copy on the inside of the card then have them write their names.
For the Thanksgiving turkey, you will need brown paint and four other assorted colors to make the turkey's head, body and feathers. Paint each student's thumb and palm brown up to the beginning of the fingers. Then paint each finger a different color and help your student press her hand onto the outside of the folded card to make her turkey. Let the paint dry and have your students draw the turkey's beak and feet using an orange crayon, and the wattle under the neck and the wattle hanging from the neck red. Then let your child copy a Thanksgiving poem written on the board onto the inside of her card.
Let your student have the fun of helping make his Birthday card. Draw an outline of a cake half way up the front of the "It's my Birthday" card. Let the Birthday child choose a color for his handprint for the card. Paint the fingers of the student's hand with your paintbrush, using his favorite paint color. (If he will be six years old, paint 1 extra finger from their other hand.) Then help your student press his painted fingers firmly onto the front of the folded card to make the candles for his cake.
When the card is dry let your child color the Birthday cake decorating it with crayons. Also let the child tape a photo of himself inside one side of the card with double-sided tape and write his name. Then you can write a Birthday greeting on the other side of the card. (The child can also decorate his card with his favorite stickers.)