Below are some ideas to celebrate Mother’s Day in French, either in March (UK date) or at the end of May/beginning of June (date in France). Please note that if the children do not have a mother to celebrate, they can dedicate the day to anyone they love – the resources allow that.
- Click here for a video of how to make a cardboard flower (as inspired by other links below); click here for the pdf/vocabulary to go with it: vocabulary to go with the mothers day flower
- Lisa Kaler from www.petite-etoile.co.uk has kindly made this template to go with the craft and given me permission to share it: click here for Mothers Day card template Lisa Kaler
- Click here if what you are looking for is a picture book in French – you will see my recommendations, with suggestions on how you may exploit them
- Click here for a poem in French to learn, adapt, including a video and pdf for activities to go with it.
- Lisa Kaler from www.petite-etoile.co.uk has also shared with me a lovely song called “Bonne fête maman” – Click here for it Mothers Day song and words Lisa Kaler
- Click here for a video of another poem, on the Primary Languages Network YouTube channel.
- Click here for ideas from the “tête à modeler” website, including some templates for cards
- Click here for a great idea of a card that can be easily adapted to French, encouraging the use of adjectives to describe that special person (as suggested by Ceridwen Davies in LiPS)
- Click here for more fab ideas from Le blog de Madame Birtwistle
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Merci !
Nathalie