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Additional Learning Resources for our Mother’s Day Art & Baking Unit Study

Children’s Book List:

I Love Mum with the Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

Five Minutes Peace by Jill Murphy

The Best Mother by C. M. Surrisi and Diane Goode

How To Raise a Mom by Jean Reagan

Happy Mother's Day by Mercer Mayer

Just Me and My Mom by Mercer Mayer

Mama's Kisses by Kate McMullan

Mom and Me, Me and Mom by Miguel Tanco

Where's my Mommy? by Beverly Donofrio and Barbara McClintock

A Gift for Mama by Linda Ravin Lodding

Just Like a Mama by Alice Faye Duncan - A story about a child who is unable to live her with parents, and lives with another caregiver who cares for her just like a mama.

Welcome Flower Child by Brigette Barrager - Find out which flower represents your birth month! Celebrate your birth, while celebrating your momma, and learn more about all the years flowers!

Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Redd - A lovely books about a family caring for their hair, while getting ready for bed. Features mommy and daughter, and is one of my favorite books!

Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard - this book is lovely and shows a Native American family making their fry bread together. Mama is in the center of it all.

Art Project:

Enjoy a selection of Art Appreciation of moms with their children from around the world and create your own masterpiece using watercolor paints, and our included framed page, and note-booking page to share your stories and memories.

Mother's Day Gift Ideas:

Create your own memory book of you and your mom, printable included

Cookie Mix in a Jar, recipe and gift tag included

Salt Dough Spring Masterpieces for Mom

Math Activity:

Count with our mothers day flowers & butterflies - printable's included.

Pair these counters with our Masterpiece Numbers Pack and our Swallowtail Butterfly Unit Study. (coming soon!)

Recipes Included:

Flower Bouquet Cookies

Fluffy Pancakes for Mother's Day

Blueberry Lemon Streusel Muffins

Spring Focaccia Bread Art for Mother's Day Lunch


Pair this unit with:

The Masterpiece Numbers - Counting 1 to 30
$9.99

Count from 1 to 30 with an Artsy Twist with The Masterpiece Numbers! Created for kids ages 3 and up who are learning to count to 30, read, write and more. This is a companion for parents to use alongside The Masterpiece Alphabet and The Build Your Masterpiece Class Adventures for added math and art connections. Enjoy coloring numbers 1 to 30, your own set of flashcards with numbers and number words to use daily, tracing, counting watercolor dots with a ten frame, 100’s chart and a children’s book list for reading all about counting, and so much more with our 80-page digital download that’s perfect for families with multiple ages, learning together.

What’s included:

  • Coloring Number Pages 1-30

  • Flashcards 1 - 30

  • NEW: Addition, Subtraction, Times and Equals Flashcards

  • Number Line 1 to 30

  • Coloring + Counting 100’s Chart

  • Watercolor Counting Dots

  • Watercolor Ten Frame

  • Ten Frame Counting Cards

  • Addition Cards 1 to 10

  • Book Lists, and Lesson Plans for Numbers 1 to 10, and Numbers 10+

  • I am a Counting Artist! Sticker Chart (A fun way to give rewards and practice counting to 30) in 7 color options

  • My Masterpiece Number Book Cover Page

  • Bonus Idea* Use the Coloring Pages as a pattern to create your own felt numbers, just like we recommend doing in The Masterpiece Alphabet!

This digital product is for personal use only. Books and props not included.

Vegetable Garden Learning Pack + Tea Time Guides + Herbs in the Garden
$6.00

Learn all about the vegetables, fruit and herbs in your garden with your kids using our Vegetable Garden Learning Pack and Summer Garden Tea Time Guides, that go along perfectly with our other Adventures and life cycle unit studies. Great for kids ages 3 to 13. Enjoy reading children’s books about the garden and all types of vegetables with our many book title recommendations, as well as our cursive and manuscript Montessori-Inspired 3 parts cards, matching worksheets, and count the vegetables in your garden such as carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, with our easy to print, laminate and cut counters to add a fun sensory play aspect to your learning at home! We like to put our veggies in a tray of beans, salt, or rice! What will you use?

What’s Included:

  • 54 page -PDF Digital Download

  • Book Lists, Garden Inspired Learning Games, and Educational Books for Parents + Educators

  • 4 Summer Garden Tea Time Guides for the Carrot, Strawberry, Pumpkin and Potato

  • 15 - 3 Part Cards, in both Cursive + Manuscript of: Carrot, Tomato, Cucumber, Strawberry, Blackberry, Turnip, Potato, Radish, Pumpkin, Peas, Green Beans, Asparagus, Onion, Butternut Squash, Eggplant

  • Matching Vocabulary Description Cards

  • Vegetable Name Matching Worksheet (Cursive + Manuscript)

  • Vegetable Counters for Sensory Play (3 pages)

  • Parts of a Strawbery Plant Poster (Cursive + Manuscript)

  • Parts of a Blackberry Plant Poster (Cursive + Manuscript)

  • Strawberry Plant Card (Cursive + Manuscript)

  • Blackberry Plant Card (Cursive + Manuscript)

  • My Blackberry Plant Coloring Page (Cursive + Manuscript)

  • Bonus: Herbs in the Garden: Basil, Chives, Thyme, Parsley, Rosemary, Oregano with Cursive + Manuscript cards, Name Matching Worksheet, and counters.

*This digital product is for personal use only. Books and props not included. We have photographed our Number Flashcards from The Masterpiece Numbers learning pack 1-30.

Fairies in the Garden Learning Pack and Tea Time Guide
$8.50

Continue your read, paint, cook journey with fairies in the garden and the Build Your Masterpiece Class!

This printable has been created for you to use in your home or classroom, to learn about fairies through books, art, hands-on projects, crafts, scavenger hunts and baking throughout all seasons. Mix and match it with our other creative curriculum, such as our Crab Apple Adventure, Autumn and Halloween Learning Pack, Bears in the Mountains Learning Pack, Masterpiece Essentials ABC + 123, The Masterpiece Adventures in England, and France which are soon to be released, as well as our Ireland and Italy Adventure Series.

What's Included:

  • 52 Paged PDF Digital Download

  • Fairies in the Garden Search and Find with Check List

  • Seasonal Nature Scavenger Hunts

  • Seasonal Tracing, and Matching plus book list

  • Fairy Tea Time Guide, Banner Craft and Invitations Fairy Art Appreciation

  • Fairy Coloring and Counting Poem Worksheet

  • Fairy Illustrations, coloring pages, etc

  • Creative Writing Project: My Fairy and It's Life Cycle Fairy Counting + Cards 1-12

  • F is for Fairy Color/Tracing Page

  • Fairy Lore Search and Find Game Cards

More details about the Art Appreciation Included:

  • "Wood Nymph” by Charles M. Russell

  • ”The Captive Robin” by John Anster Fitzgerald "Dancing Fairies" by August Malmström

  • "The Faery Forest " Poem by Sara Teasdale 1884-1933

Please tag us on Instagram @build_your_masterpiece_class to be featured! I cannot wait to see your fairy masterpieces! Enjoy building them. ~Alexandra

Adventures in England - 2 Week Unit Study - Great Britain Series
$14.00

Our Adventures in England Read, Paint, Cook Unit Study is here!

It’s part of our Great Britain Series and includes 2 weeks filled with fun adventures in the city and the country with poetry, and artist spotlights from the city and the country, as well as the past and current! Shakespeare, Rossetti, Burne-Jones and Morris are but a few of the classics you can learn more about, plus art appreciation from a range of art movements! Created for kids 3 to 13 and beyond, with something for everyone to enjoy!

The lessons have been written to pair alongside our Wind in the Willows Art + Baking Novel Study Guide, which includes 12 amazing recipes, art projects, language arts connections, coloring pages, additional book lists and more! This study is being released one week after our Adventures in England, so come back to the shop to check it out. At that time, the units will also be available for purchase as a bundle of the two!

Dive into this creatively inspiring Great Britain Series that will be continuing to be released this Spring, 2021. Scotland and Wales are next, with history lessons on the flags, geography, art appreciation, landscape artists spotlights, animal spotlights, traditional recipes, books, and so much more, plus a second Novel Study Guide that pairs with our Scotland Adventure.

My hope is that our World Adventures spark a desire to learn about your own family history, the world, art movements and bring a love for travel in our hearts, all from the comfort of your homeschool.

~Alexandra

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