•    In China the names very frequently start with the sign having the meaning of mother. In such a way the Chinese may worship their mothers long past.

•    In ancient Greece people organized the Mother’s day celebrations in spring as almost all the countries do. They worshipped the mother of all the gods Rhea bringing cakes, flowers and tasty beverages.

•    Hindu sculpture honors the Great Mother under the name of Kali Ma. The people believed it was she who gave the start t the alphabet’s invention.

•    George Washington once said, “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

•    Native American Indian women for a long time were called “Life of the Nation” for their present of motherhood to the tribes.

•    Today this festive occasion is marked almost in every country throughout the globe. The people from these countries pay tributes to their mothers, treating their moms in a royal manner

•    81% of women with the age 40 - 44 are mothers.

•    Buddha worshipped  mothers by saying, “As a mother, even at the risk of her own life, loves and protects her child, so let a man cultivate love without measure toward the whole world.”

When the tradition began

The custom of presenting carnations on Mother’s day got is start on the first official Mother’s Day service. This event dates to May 10, 1908. Anna Jarvis was the first who sent 500 white carnations to the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, in Grafton, West Virginia. She wanted the carnations to be given the mothers coming to church. Those who visited the prayer service were also asked to wear flowers. Mrs. Ann M. Jarvis, Anna’s mother, adored white carnations. These flowers were their favorite ones. Look at how Anna Jarvis explained the reason for her selection a carnation as a flower that should be gifted on Mother’s Day:

“The white carnation is preferred because it may be thought to typify some of the virtues of motherhood; … whiteness stands for purity; its lasting qualities, faithfulness; its fragrance, love; its wide field of growth, charity; its form, beauty…”

Miss Anna Jarvis annually sent carnations to the Andrews Church on each Mothers Day. The overall number of the flowers sent is about 10,000 carnations. Nowadays people all over the world present and wear carnations on Mother’s Day. This lovely flower is recognized as a symbol of purity, strength and endurance of motherhood.   If red carnations are worn to tribute living mothers the white ones - for the mothers who have died.

It may seem that the word ‘carnation’ is derived from coronation. Did you notice that the leaves of the flower in some way look like a crown. The majority of people consider carnation to be divine flower.

What are you waiting for?? Pamper your mom with a beautifully designed nosegay of carnations. You may choose among red, pink, or reddish pink, etc.

Likely in any other country Mexicans celebrate this festive with a great joy and enthusiasm. It is a tradition in Mexico when children on their own make gifts for their mother. They make presents on the 9th of May, the Mother’s Day Eve. Thus, with homemade crafts and presents sons and daughters tribute their mother who devote her children her whole life.

On the 10th of May, the day dedicated to all mothers, churches hold special mass. The orchestra playing “las mañanitas and giving of ‘tamales’ and ‘atole’ is the main thing of this event.’Tamales’ and ‘atole’  is the traditional early-morning meal that is distributed  to all local mothers.

As in many other countries which celebrate this special day, In Mexico it is commonly used to give mothers flowers, cards and presents. A beautiful fresh flower bouquet along with an original gift is a special token of love, gratitude and thankfulness to dear mother.

Along with special attitude and care given to Mexican moms on Mother’s Day, the whole family tries to honor mother and make her happy. In some schools special performances are organized. As a gift little children sing and dance, present many skits.

Thus, children demonstrate their infinite love towards mother. Every mother enjoys this performance and is pleased with such a special gift made by her little one. There is nothing better for mother to see her child singing and dancing in order to honor his lovely dear mother.

Mother’s Day - Time to think and tribute
Likely as in the West people living in India take this festive as a great opportunity to acknowledge how important is mother in their life. They use this opportunity to ponder about all the sufferings their mother felt while they were sick. They try to imagine the difficulties she manage to overcome in bringing them up and everything she has done for them in order to give  a better life. Mother’s Day is the very day when everybody immensely thanks his mom for all this and for being such a loving parent in the course of our lives.

To say a great thanks you to mother, people in India give their moms cards and let mother to have a rest from the housework. The main point of this festival’s celebration is to make mother feel special and happy being specially treated by children.

Mothers Day - Celebrations in Metropolitan and Big Cities
In comparison with small cities awareness about Mothers Day is seen more in metropolitans and big cities. The reason of this is the booming card market. In fact, it does not allow people to forget about the date of Mother’s Day and reminds how this special holiday should be celebrated.

In the capital city of Delhi, Mothers Day is celebrated in a great way. It has been immensely commercialized. Big companies offer tons of different women oriented products on the day. Cafes and restaurants attract people using cute colorful advertisements.

taking into consideration such a fast wide spreading of Mother’s Day it seems that soon this special holiday will be noted in India as the national one.

Mother’s Day Celebrations
It is very interesting to know how Mother’s day is celebrated. Prayer services are held in many churches to honor mothers. Traditionally children begin give presents from the early morning by taking breakfast to their moms to bed. Children wake up earlier than their mothers and special festive meals. If they are little one, they prepare this surprise with the help of fathers. As a special festive touch to mother’s breakfast, children place a single flower or nosegays in a tray along with food. As a present little ones make gifts on their own. As for adults, they tend to prefer purchasing some original and unique presents.

On the occasion of mother holiday they prepare various cookies, pies, cakes and lots of mom’s favorites. Some families prefer to celebrate this day by dining at home. The others prefer to have diner out of home. Husbands and sons, brothers and daughters invite their lovely dear mothers at favorite restaurants.

People in many countries go out for a picnic and have a great rest in the family circle. Mother’s day is celebrated by children at schools as well. Mothers are invited to festive party, were they are entertained with funny songs, plays and dances. Thus, kids try to tribute their dear mothers.

Children’s special care for their mothers, day of family reunion
As Mother’s day is dedicated for mothers, children try to provide mothers with a special care and love. They embrace moms, kiss them and thank for all time spent with them. They display their appreciation and gratitude for mother’s love, help and support. To ease this day for mothers children provide them with a day of rest. They try to make all work about the house, cook, clean and wash on their own. Elder children book a parlor for their mothers to have manicure, face and body massage. Thus they give mothers the opportunity to relax and make care for themselves.

People living far away from their mothers, strive to come and spend this special day with their parents. Thus, Mother’s Day may be called as a family reunion holiday.

Here are some ideas on Mothers day crafts that may be made by elder children.

•    Potholder for Mothers Day

You will need white pot holders, permanent markers, colors and colored stick ons.

How to make potholder?
•    The key thing is to think over a lovely design for the potholder.
•    Once you decided how to design it draw the picture on a piece of paper to see how it will look.
•     If you are satisfied with the design copy it onto the potholder.
•    Draw the picture on the potholder with permanent markers. To make it showier you can use colors.
•    To personalize your gift you can put down in the middle of the potholder “You Are The best Mom on the Earth! or ‘Mom I Love You’.
•    In order to keep in memory such a wonderful day put down the date on the back of potholder.

•    Flower Ribbon Pin Craft

You will need pin back, ribbon that is one and a half inches wide, florist wire, fun foam, buttons, Green chenille stems.

How to make flower ribbon pin craft?

•    With the florist wire make a hole in the ribbon on one side.
•    Weave the wire in and out down one side of the ribbon bunching up the ribbon as you go. When you have enough ribbon on the wire to make a flower, you can cut the ribbon and put the ribbon’s ends together.
•    Wind the ends of the wire around each other and cut the unnecessary wire.
•    Attach a button and pompom at the center of the flower.
•    Take  a green chenille stem to create a stem and leaves of the flower
•    Stick the stem to the back of the flower.
•    Attach a pin back at the flower back.
•    Handmade Bouquet

You will need colors, glue, scissors, light-colored construction and skin colored construction papers.

How to make handmade bouquet?

•    Cut up the skin-colored paper in shape of hand.
•    To the lower left part of another piece of paper glue the palm of the hand.
•    With colors draw the flower stems.  You have to begin each stem on the hand and have it go in the direction of the center of the paper.
•    In order the flowers to be look as if they are shown in the hand you need to stick the fingertips of the paper onto the palm and the stems of the flowers.
•    Draw flowers and leaves on the stems.
•    In addition you can stick flowers made from colorful construction paper.
Now you can present your original gift to your lovely dear mom!

** Ideas on Using Roses on Mother’s Day
If your mother likes roses you should definitely present her these flowers. There are the other ideas on how to present this beautiful flower.
•    You can use the rose as a gift topper and fix it on the top of your gift with the help of ribbon
•    You can present your bouquet with a beautifully made Mother’s day card
•    Fill the bath with rose petals and invite your mother to take a bath
•    If you wish to get lovely bouquet you can add peonies to pink roses.
•    You can group orange roses with some green fillers. Thus you will get a lovely flower arrangement
•    Give you mom a single red rose tied up with a white band.
•    Make your mom a lovely corsage using one single red rose. Enhance it with some greenery, baby’s breath and tape.
•    To make this corsage more unusual you can make it from spray roses or bi-colored ones. Try to use less greenery.

** Ideas on Using Lilies on Mother’s Day
•    Put a bloom of this flower in a clear glass vase.  Put the vase at the dinner table and place lit candles around the vase.
•    You can decorate the house using lilies and some other flowers in different colors
•    Place stargazer lilies with some green fillers in a vase. Put the vase with flowers next to your mom’s bed so she could see them once she wakes up
•    To get a unique color of your lily bouquet you can spray the flowers.
•    Gather tons of lily blooms, put then into a clear glass vase. Place the vase by the window to achieve live, cheerful look.

** Ideas on Using Gerberas on Mother’s Day
•    Using these flowers you can create a pretty flower arrangement. All you need is to add some green and yellow fillers to gerberas and place them into a china vase.
•    Having seven- nine gerberas you can make a lovely multi- colored or single-colored nosegay for your mom.
•    You can fresh up your mother’s room by placing in many miniature vase or glass jars per one flower.
•    You can make your mother’s breakfast more unforgettable if bring a single gerbera on the tray with meals for your mom.

** Ideas on Using Carnations on Mother’s Day
•    Get a clear glass jug and fill it half with water. Then mix pink carnations along with pink roses, and add several ivy stems. Place the nosegay received onto the jug in your mom’s room
•    Make a lovely flower arrangement by mixing colorful roses, any fresh spring blooms and white carnations.
•    You can decorate your mother’s room and the whole house with a small clear glass vases or glass jars that are filled with 1-3 flowers.
•    Fill in a china teapot with white carnations and any tiny pink blossoms.
•    You can make a lovely corsage for you mom. You will need white carnations enhanced with some fresh greenery.

To make for your mother a special dinner for Mothers day is a great gift that will be please any mom. If you decide to do so but doubt about your cooking abilities, do not be afraid. On reading this article you will easily manage to make a surprise for your dear mother even having little experience in cooking.

First of all you need to set a table in a special way to please your mom. Use a clean lovely tablecloth, crockery, china or pretty earthenware. Try to decorate the table in an unusual way in order this dinner could differ from the everyday ones. Place beautiful napkins as well and do not forget to put attractive fresh flowers. If you have got many tall flowers, place them on the centre of the table. If you have small ones, you can put them at your mom’s place. This day pamper your dear mother with her favorite music. Probably like the majority of mothers she has probably tolerated your favorite music during lots of years.

Now, let us speak about the dinner menu. Every mother has her favorite snacks. Your task is to watch, observe and make a list of your mother’s favorites beforehand. She may like special cheese or crackers, fruits and the like. All you need to obtain your mother’s favorite and arrange in a special festive way.

Show your mom how much you love and appreciate her. Do this for your mom; she really deserves a great dinner on the Mothers Day. Actually she deserves hundreds, thousands dinners but she will immensely pleased and surprised by this one, made by you.

The first thing that always occurs to our mind on a holiday is to send a greeting card if we can not go personally. But allow your kids to create their own Mothers Day card for their grandmother. Do not take the traditional one from the shop. Buy some construction paper from the craft shop and let the kid to create his own design. You can help him and you will be really amazed how wonderful card he can make. If the kid is not sure what exactly to draw, you can give him some ideas. If he has more then one grandmother, let him create different card for them. Together choose what to write inside of the card, so he can express how he really feels about her.
 
Another very interesting idea is together to create her gift. Rock painting is easy and inexpensive craft. Buy from the shop some acrylic paints and allow the kids to draw whatever he wants. A happy summer design or a vase with flowers, are great ideas. Then let it dry completely and together you can wrap it in nice paper. Or if you want create and a personal gift bag. His grandmother will be really amazed and happy to see that her grand child had created her gift with his own hands. In the same time the kid will be happy that he had the chance to play and create something beautiful and personal.

Favorite among the kids is to cut out colorful strips. If you have some pieces of colorful construction paper, ask him to cut out nicely shaped forms which after that he can stick to a nice box. A simple box can be transformed for few hours into a beautiful jewelry box for his grandmothers.

So with these simple ideas, the kids can make their grandmother feel special and loved on Mothers Day.