Mother's Day Activities to Share
Simple and Fun Things for Moms and Tween Daughters to Do Together
Mar 29, 2008
There are many different ways to form or strengthen your bond with your tween daughter. Following are eight ideas for how the two of you can strengthen your relationship with activities you can do together, both for Mother’s Day and for any other day throughout the year.
Read a Book Together
Choose a new book to read that includes a mother-daughter relationship. Read it separately, then discuss it together, comparing and contrasting your own personalities and your relationship against that of the characters in the book. How are you and your daughter alike? How are you different? What would you like to change about yourself?
Cook or Bake Together
Whether it’s a batch of chocolate chip cookies or a spaghetti dinner, the time you spend in the kitchen together can be a great chance to bond. The resulting food will be a wonderful reward; that you cooked or baked it together will make it even more enjoyable.
Shop Together
Don’t limit yourselves to necessities like school supplies or clothes -- try visiting an antiques store, consignment shop or a garage sale. Limit your budget to $2 and see what treasures you can find!
Have a Coffee Talk
Meet over coffee or hot cocoa, whether in your own kitchen or the local coffee shop, and have a girl talk with each other. Talk about your days, what you plan to do, anything!
Plant a Garden Together
Springtime is the perfect time to get outdoors and plant. In most areas, all danger of frost has passed and plants are abundant at most garden and home improvement stores. A garden will provide many future opportunities to bond together as well – whether it’s sowing, watering, weeding or watching the plants grow. Then bake or cook and serve your harvest together.
Get Crafty
Sew, knit, quilt or scrapbook together. Draw pictures on greeting cards, or get ahead and create your holiday cards. Many craft stores now offer classes on various techniques – sign up for one to hone your skills or to develop a new crafting skill with your daughter.
Take Photos
Be a tourist in your own town and take photos of each other in front of Town Hall, the lake, a museum or gallery, or any other tourist sites in town. Then develop or print out your photos and make photo albums or scrapbooks together.
Volunteer
Whether it’s at the local animal shelter or retirement home, the time you and your daughter spend together doing something good will be rewarding. In addition, it teaches your daughter the value of helping other people.
