Bizarre Mother's Day Gifts..

[lindajo]

What's the most unusual/bizarre mother's day gift you have received?

DS6's teacher asked him to bring one of his old shoes to school a few weeks ago. Yesterday, it returned home in the form of a gold painted planter with a petunia growing out of it. They certainly are creative, those teachers! I absolutely love it, and hope that it grows for a long time...So funny.....

 

[vald1977]

Well, that was certainly a unique idea . My ds isn't old enough for school so I haven't gotten anything strange ... yet .

 

[goofy4tink]

Well, this one wasn't for me but for dd's dad. One year we took a nice size rock and heated it in the oven for about 1/2 hr. Then we took old pieces of crayon and just 'drew' all over the rock. The crayons melted, giving the rock a terrific colorful wax finish. Dad uses it for a paperweight. Kinda unusual I thought.
Then there was the plastic light up goose my dh bought me one year!!

 

[Celluloidgal]

Teachers have to be creative or we'd all end up with mac noodle portraits and the handprint (in plaster or paint)...While I love these "treasured" items, it is nice it see something unusual.

I love the shoe idea. Very cute.

My DD(7) brought home a "recipe" book that her class put together. It was a hoot. The recipes were written by the kids.
Here is a sample:

MANICOTTI: Big long noodles, tomato sauce,chicken: Put the chicken into the noodles and then you put the noodles in a pan. Then spread the tomato sauce on top of the noodles. Put the pan in the oven for 1 hour. The oven should be 5 degrees.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Originally posted by Celluloidgal
Teachers have to be creative or we'd all end up with mac noodle portraits and the handprint (in plaster or paint)...While I love these "treasured" items, it is nice it see something unusual.

I love the shoe idea. Very cute.

My DD(7) brought home a "recipe" book that her class put together. It was a hoot. The recipes were written by the kids.
Here is a sample:

MANICOTTI: Big long noodles, tomato sauce,chicken: Put the chicken into the noodles and then you put the noodles in a pan. Then spread the tomato sauce on top of the noodles. Put the pan in the oven for 1 hour. The oven should be 5 degrees.

Very cute, love the 5 degrees. lol

 

[stinkerbelle]

every year my brother gets my mom a corsage to "slap on her" when we bring her out to lunch.

these corsages are roughly the size of a dinner plate. - yeah, honkin' huge!

this year's corsage talked. heheheh

he had a Shark vaccumm box that had this mechanism in it that, upon pushing a button, went through this whole spiel.

he mailed it to the florist and they actually built the corsage AROUND this thing.

too funny...my mom had to play it for everyone in the restaurant yesterday.

yes...we're an odd family

 

[lindajo]

Originally posted by Celluloidgal
Teachers have to be creative or we'd all end up with mac noodle portraits and the handprint (in plaster or paint)...While I love these "treasured" items, it is nice it see something unusual.

I love the shoe idea. Very cute.

My DD(7) brought home a "recipe" book that her class put together. It was a hoot. The recipes were written by the kids.
Here is a sample:

MANICOTTI: Big long noodles, tomato sauce,chicken: Put the chicken into the noodles and then you put the noodles in a pan. Then spread the tomato sauce on top of the noodles. Put the pan in the oven for 1 hour. The oven should be 5 degrees.

That "recipe" book idea must be making the rounds this year, as DS4 brought home the same thing. I don't know if yours included the original recipe, but a couple of weeks ago his teacher asked for my recipe for his favorite food, which was a PB&J, cut into a circle. Then the teacher wrote the kid's version underneath the original recipe. DS4's went like this, "First you need a sandwich. Do the jelly and butter. Make it into a circle. You eat it...

My favorite was Dayton's (4 yrs.) version of Mac & Cheese (from a box mix) "You put milk, some cheese, butter in it. Put water-I don't know. Look on the side of the box and it will tell you."

Or Elizabeth's spagetti sauce. (Mom's version is the real thing!) "Some milk and bread. Some water. My mom fixes spagetti and I watch TV."

They are all sooo cute and funny, it reminds me of Art Linkletter's "Kids Say the Darnedest Things."

 

[Celluloidgal]

 

[Stepharoonie!]

I once made my Mom a "pine come scultpture" for Mother's Day...it was a big pine cone with sequins, yarn, cake icing, and pine cleaners on it. I really have no idea what I was thinking when I made it, actually.

My Mom was a little disturbed that I gave it to her for Mother's Day last year.

 

[Celluloidgal]

 

[welovedisneyx4]

I got a large box of Gummi Bears this year!!! I love it!!

I won a Mother's Day drawing on a local radio station w/ some really good prizes, so I told my family they were off the hook for Mother's Day gifts.

They did get me cards and we went out to supper, but I really do love the Gummi Bears!! It made me happy b/c I knew they thought about it. That isn't something you normally get, but they knew they were my favorite!!

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

This is the first year that I couldn't read my Mother's Day card.

My DD7 attends a Spanish Immersion school so her card was completely written in Spanish. She had to translate it for me. I love it when she says "MaMa" with a sweet accent!

Lori