Mother's Day with the Mums | University

08/03/18

As Mother's Day was the Sunday after our meeting this fornight, we decided to invite the Mum's to come along and do some activites with their daughters. We asked the girls a previous week what their Mums liked doing and what they would like to do with them in this meeting. After having convinced the girls that even though their Mums did all the cleaning at home, they probably wouldn't want to do any more (!) we settled on gardening and hand scrubs.

The meeting place was nice and lively at the start of them meeting with twice as many people as normal and we decided to start off by playing Splat with the parents joining in too. A couple of the Mums got a bit competitive but then realised they were in the last few and backed off a bit so a Brownie could win!

We then got out lots of tables and handed out a plastic plant pot, wooden lollipop stick, and some pens to each person. They wrote their name on the wooden stick and decorated it while one of the leaders bought round compost to fill their pot and some sunflower seed to plant in it. The idea is that the girl and the Mum look after their own seeds and see whose grows the tallest.

Once everyone had finished, we called the girls over to another table and gave them the ingredients for a hand scrub. They had a small pot filled with sugar and they added a sqeeze of lemon juice and some squirts of coconut oil which they then mixed together. They then took the pot back to their Mum and gave her a hand massage. Once they were done, they could go and wash off the compost and the hand scrub, leaving them with clean smooth hands! The Mums really seemed to enjoy this part, even if some of them seemed a bit apprehensive to start with about putting the scrub on their hands.

While they were having their hands massaged, we took orders for tea and coffee and then bought it all out along with some cakes for the girls and Mums to enjoy.

Once the Mums had finished their drinks and cakes, I led a game of Honeypot while the other leaders cleaned up the mess on the tables. It was quite an intense game with some of the girls employing some interesting tactics including stomping around and shaking the keys violently to try and put the person in the middle off the scent!

All in all, I think this was a fairly successful evening and the Mums definitely appreciated having some time to spend with her daughter and also time to chat with the other Mums.