Updated May 2021! Mother’s Day is a special time when children can express their appreciation to mom for all that she is and does. Following are some free online resources for parents, teachers and anyone else who is looking for Mother’s Day stories and activities for kids of all ages! Enjoy! Mother's Day Stories NEW! Girls and Women in the Bible - Includes the stories of Bible mothers such as Eve, Sarah, Jochebed, Hannah, Ruth, Mary, Lois, and Eunice. Also available in ebook format (epub and Kindle) or as a coloring book. Dear Mom - A bilingual English and Spanish book for children that is ideal for Mother's Day Honor your Parents – A short PowerPoint on the topic of loving and respecting mom (and dad) not just on Mother’s Day but throughout the year. Includes activity ideas at the end.
God's Splendid Mothers – Stories about famous mothers in the Bible for children.
What is a Mother? – Entertaining story for Little kids about what a mother does and why she is special. Includes cute photos of animal mothers with babies. Mother's Day (ppt) - This PowerPoint is ideal for older children and explains how Mother’s Day originated and what the true meaning behind the day is meant to be. Lesson Plan Appreciate Your Parents - Lesson plan from My Wonder Studio that includes reading, discussion ideas and fun activities. Activities Mother's Day Coloring Pages for older children. Mother's Day photo vase craft - a cool DIY Mother's day activity for older kids. Pray a Way Poster and Coloring Page: Grandparents - Poster and coloring page with short prayer for grandma. Mother's Day Cutouts - Two pages of colorful cut-outs that are ideal for Mother's Day cards and other activities. Bible Mothers Coloring Pages - Six coloring pages featuring well known Bible mothers from the Old and New Testaments. Each page includes a brief overview of the mother depicted. “Active Appreciation Activities” – Entertaining activities from My Wonder Studio that can be easily adapted to show special appreciation to mom on Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day Cards – printable Mother’s Day card templates, available in black and white and color. Mother’s Day Crafts, Activities, and Worksheets – An assortment of Mother’s Day arts and crafts activities for kids of all ages, courtesy of Enchanted Learning Mother’s Day Treats – Breakfast in bed and special treat ideas and recipes that many older kids could do with just a little bit of help and supervision from a parent, grandparent or babysitter. Even younger kids will enjoy helping make at least one of these treats for Mom, although they may need a bit of extra help and assistance.
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By Michelle Charisse It’s Mother’s Day. I take my place on stage, test the microphone, and scan the hotel restaurant where some friends and I are about to perform. Most of the 200 people who came for the Sunday brunch are mothers and daughters—young mothers with little girls, elderly mothers with adult daughters, short round mothers with tall slender daughters, and some who look like they could be sisters. There are a few sons and husbands, but they are greatly outnumbered by the women, who are all radiant. The reception desk is heaped with individually wrapped pink roses, the hotel’s gift to the mothers on their special day. As the opening chords of our first number fill the room, I feel my mother’s presence. The lyrics remind me of her. “Surround me with the little people…” Mom brought eight little people into this world, each of us her favorite in some inexplicable way. “I want to be held in the everlasting arms of eternity…” Those arms hold her now. It’s been seven years since she died of cancer. My dad held her in his arms till she took her last breath. We kids still hug her goodnight as we say our prayers. Now she’s in Jesus’ arms for eternity. I blink away the tears. “Laughing and singing, what a way to live…” Now I think about my stepmom, who I love just as dearly and can only think of as “Mom,” whose voice I heard on the phone just days ago. As usual, she was full of laughter. If there is one person who knows what it means to live, it’s her. “Life ain’t worth living, if it’s not to give…” I can see her now, giving tirelessly as she cares for my dad and their eleven children who are still at home. (Three of us are grown and living abroad.) Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, giving. A young mother gets up from her table and dances through the restaurant with her baby girl in her arms. The baby laughs. She is secure. She is loved. Then I realize why I can smile and laugh and come halfway around the world to show other people God’s love. It is because I have been blessed with the love of not one, but two mothers—one who had to leave me but is ever near in spirit, and one who came when I needed a mother the most. What am I doing, fighting back the tears? I am secure. I am loved. God has blessed me in double measure. Text courtesy of Activated magazine. Photo by Kathleen Zarubin via Flickr.
Slideshow for Mother's Day, courtesy of Tommy's Window. Note: The downloadable version of this Mother's Day slideshow (which can be viewed with Microsoft PowerPoint) is timed to go with a song by the same name. 
Poems about Mothers from various authors In the heavens above The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, amid their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of “mother.” —Edgar Allan Poe * God could not be in every place With loving hands to help erase The teardrops from each baby’s face, And so He thought of mother. He could not send us here alone And leave us to a fate unknown Without providing for His own The outstretched arms of mother. —George W. Wiseman * The world has no such flower in any land, And no such pearl in any gulf in the sea, As any babe on any mother’s knee. —Algernon Swinburne * Your mother is always with you… She’s the whisper of the leaves as you walk down the street. She’s the smell of bleach in your freshly laundered socks. She’s the cool hand on your brow when you’re not well. Your mother lives inside your laughter. She’s crystallized in every teardrop. She’s the place you came from, your first home… She’s the map you follow with every step that you take. She’s your first love and your first heartbreak… and nothing on earth can separate you. Not time, not space… Not even death… will ever separate you from your mother… You carry her inside of you… —Author unknown * You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be-- I had a mother who read to me. —Strickland Gillian * If I were hung on highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know that your love would follow still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drown’d in deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know that your tears would come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were lost of body and soul, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know that your prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! —Rudyard Kipling * The sweetest flower that ever grew Is mother love, so kind, so true; Conceived in God’s infinite mind, Placed in the breast of womankind. Its buds in morning rich and rare, At noonday blooms divinely fair; When evening skies are red and gold Its true magnificence doth unfold. Its fragrance fills the earth and skies, It may be crushed, but never dies; The sweetest flower that ever grew Is mother love, so kind, so true. —Author unknown * Who ran to help me, when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother. —Ann Taylor * Blessed be all mothers Who have come into our lives Whose kindness, care and loving Remain with us to guide. —Susan Kramer * My prayer for you, mother Heavenly Father, Hold my precious mother close to Your heart as I hold her close to mine. Let her know today and every day how much I love her. Lord, comfort her mind and reassure her that her motherly care was everything I needed and wanted, and that I love her dearly. Lord, comfort her body as she ages and grant her health and vitality as she goes through her days here on earth. Bring all good things to my mother, dear God, and bless her every day, in every way. In the name of Jesus I pray, amen. —Author unknown Excerpted from “The Wonder of Mothers” © Aurora Productions. Used with permission.
By Shirley Ceasar My young son came into the kitchen this evening while I was preparing dinner, and he handed me a piece of paper he’d been writing on. So, after wiping my hands on my apron, I read it, and this is what it said:
Well, I looked at him standing there expectantly, and a thousand memories flashed through my mind. So, I picked up the paper, and turning it over, this is what I wrote:
When he finished reading, he had great big tears in his eyes. He looked up at me and said, “Mama, I sure do love you.” Then he took the pen and in great big letters he wrote, PAID IN FULL. Photo credit: via photopin. Article courtesy of Motivated magazine.
Poem dedicated to all mothers for Mother's Day! Feel free to download the presentation and pass it on - just right click the file icon (under the slideshow) and then select "save" or "save file as"...
 Her children rise up and call her blessed. —Proverbs 31:28 Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. —Kate Douglas Wiggin But one thing on earth is better than the wife, and that is the mother. —L. Schafer Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. She is their earth. She is the one they can count on for the things that matter most of all. She is their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and their health and their shelter; she is the one they want to be near when they cry. She is the only person in the whole world in a whole lifetime who can be these things to her children. There is no substitute for her. Somehow even her clothes feel different to her children’s hands from anybody else’s clothes. Only to touch her skirt or her sleeve makes a troubled child feel better. —Katharine Butler Hathaway To a child’s ear, “mother” is magic in any language. —Arlene Benedict Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. —William Makepeace Thackeray In the heavens above The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, amid their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of “mother.” —Edgar Allan Poe Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. —George Eliot God could not be in every place With loving hands to help erase The teardrops from each baby’s face, And so He thought of mother. He could not send us here alone And leave us to a fate unknown Without providing for His own The outstretched arms of mother. —George W. Wiseman Old-fashioned motherhood never goes out of style, because it’s all about love. I made people to need love, and I intended for them to first experience that love through their mothers. Mothers are the embodiment of love and care and tenderness—love that even the tiniest baby can feel and respond to. Love is the best thing in life! It’s the most important lesson anyone can ever learn and the greatest gift anyone can ever receive—and mothers teach it and give it like no one else. Life would go on fine without many things, but not without mothers. Old-fashioned motherhood is here to stay! —Jesus Excerpted from the book "The Wonder of Mothers", by Aurora Productions. Click here to purchase this Mother's Day gift book online. Image copyright (c) 123RF Stock Photos 
By Bonita Hele Dear Jesus, bless the mothers who sat up again last night, soothing their crying, colicky babies. Bless the mothers who read the same favorite bedtime story night after night, even though they could recite it in their sleep. Bless the mothers who keep a treasured collection of their children’s artwork, from the first scribble to the latest masterpiece. Bless the mothers who help support their families, even when it means going to work with spit-up on their blouses, diapers in their purses, and teething rings on their key chains. Bless the mothers who cheer the child who scored the winning goal, and bless the mothers who cheer on the child who has never scored a goal. Bless the mothers who care for their sick children, treasuring the extra time together rather than begrudging the extra work. Bless the mothers who daily teach their children the ways of love, peace, forgiveness, tolerance, and humility by their example. Bless the mothers who teach their children to fold their hands in prayer, even before they can say a word. Bless the mothers who acknowledge their mistakes and ask You to make up for their lacks. Bless the mothers who never tire of praying for their children. Bless the mothers who aren’t a picture of perfection but a personification of love. Thank You, Lord, for mothers—old pro, rookie, or soon-to-be, single or married, rich or poor, mothers of their own children or mothers to the motherless—because without them we would not know that most beautiful thing, a mother’s love. A touching slideshow presentation for mothers and mothers-to-be. (To download the file, right click on the file icon under the presentation and select "save" or "save as"...
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