Mom’s Gift: Classroom DIY Students Will Love to Make
Do you need a Mom’s gift DIY your classroom will love making for Mother’s Day? Most grades can make this easy and elegant botanical room fragrance spray!
Mother’s Day is less than a month away.
Teachers, are you panicking?
I get that.
Always coming up with ideas for every occasion is stressful
and do you really need to do all that besides teaching and training those mother’s kids?
No.
Actually, you don’t.
But if we give you some ideas,
it might turn into a fun thing
instead of just one more thing to add to your unending list.
Mom’s Gift Classroom DIY: Botanical Room Spray
What you need for the Room Spray:
- Dried Lavender (or make it a botanical science project and collect fresh flowers and herbs)
- Essential oil
- Purified water
- Clear spray bottle, glass or plastic
- small funnel
How to assemble:
- Tuck the flowers, petals, leaves or any botanical elements you’ve chosen into the bottles. We used bougainvillea blossoms, because that’s what we have on our yard. They’re so light weight they kind of clump together, but the color is beautiful. Note: We just made this spray, and haven’t tested how long these blossoms will look nice in the scented oil/water.
- Add up to 8 drops of essential oil such as lavender. (Lavender is calming.) You may wish to start with fewer drops, then add more as you experiment with the finished spray. Another note: The type of blossom you pick doesn’t have to match with the scent you use. Which sort of goes without saying, because ours obviously doesn’t.
- Using the small funnel, fill the bottles with water.
- Add a gift tag. (See ideas below.)
- Shake before spraying.
Mom’s Handmade Gift Tag
What you need:
- Card stock
- large flower or circle punch
- 18″ baker’s twine or ribbon
- markers, hole punch
How to make it:
- Punch the design out of card stock.
- Each child writes a Mother’s Day sentiment on their card.
- Punch a small hole in the card shape, string ribbon or twine through the hole, then tie around the neck of the closed spray bottle.
Note: We used a torn strip of muslin for our bow. Then we stuck our printed label on the bottle. We printed it on regular paper and cut out the oval with scissors. Then we covered the oval with wide packing tape, and trimmed around the label leaving 1/4″ so it can stick to the bottle.
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More Info About the Mom’s Gift Craft
Instead of making the gift tags, you could purchase these for a more organic look.
These are the products we used. Click the picture to find them on Amazon. These are affiliate links.
