Mother's Day ideas - Recipes for Joy, Love cake

I love to have lots of creative ideas to pick from, so just in case I didn't ignite your creative juices with my first Mother's Day tradition ideas post here , I thought I would share a few more for my crafty, or cooking kind of girl friends.

Mother's Day tradition ideas (click here)- All the ideas listed below are located in a printable gift for you.

Through the Generations – Create a ‘Through the Generations’ beautiful keepsake that honors the women in your family by displaying their photos side-by-side in an accordion style booklet. This is a touching gift to give someone you love for Mother’s Day. You may want to prepare one for every woman in your family and save them all for unexpected gifts.
I offer a silk Mother's Day album that you may purchase at my discount if you desire or click here for how - to directions as well as a picture of the finished project.

Another adorable option for the accordion style album.






Recipes for Joy – This is the perfect keepsake to prepare at the time of the year when Mother’s Day is close at hand. Women always seem to have certain wisdom about life and a distinct sense about what makes life joyful. Ask any woman and she’ll have no problem sharing her secret for happiness with you. That’s exactly what you are going to do this month. Ask every woman in your family to write down her “Recipe for Joy” and collect them in a recipe box or a recipe book.

Love Cake – The Love Cake is a great way to celebrate love on Mother’s Day. Have every family member write down a message of love and paste their photo onto a heart shaped ‘locket’ cut from red or pink construction paper. Things like “I love you, ma, because you always make my favorite cookies,” or “Mom, I love how you always make my friends feel welcome.” Display the heart lockets around a Love Cake and take turns reading them as you enjoy dessert. Everyone, especially the children, will enjoy reading their sweet messages to the person they love. Be sure to take a photo of your Love Cake to place in a Mothers Day frame and glue the hearts around the photo.

(see a photo example of the 'What Mom Means to Me Cake' in my Mother's Day file.)

If your hubby needs some ideas, send him to my last post...there's a download with ideas all done for him. All he needs to do is have the kids fill them out. :)