Mother's Day Celebration with Toddlers

Each year, the week before Mother’s Day, we put together a special celebration with our toddlers. We call the event “Muffins for Mommy”. We make muffins and a special gift. The mommies join us during the last 15 minutes of our class and we celebrate by opening the gifts, eating the muffins, and singing songs together.

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Making the Muffins

This particular year we used a recipe very similar to this one, except we added blueberries. Have you ever cooked or baked with toddlers? They love to help! I make sure to have everything ready to go ahead of time. Once we start the process, they all want to be part of it!

Place liners in the muffin tin:

I realize this takes great patience from the adult who is supervising, especially when the liners might a bit topsy turvy. I just remind myself what a wonderful one-to-one correspondence activity this is!
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Prep the food:

Young children love to be part of every process! The blueberries needed to be washed, after all.

Add the dry ingredients:

With younger children, I have everything pre-measured and ready to go. They love to pour the ingredients into the bowl.

Each and every step is special to them!

The batter is then poured into the muffin tins and baked.

Then it’s ready for our Mother’s Day celebration!

We place our gifts on the table, place our muffins in baskets, and invite our mamas into the room. After opening the gifts, we all gather informally and sing favorite songs. Simple and special!