🌸 Love Mother Handprint Bouquet Craft

Craft Idea Mothers Day 2026© 

Here are directions for your “Love Mother” soup‑can craft, Susan — designed to match your uploaded example and classroom display theme.

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🌸 Love Mother Handprint Bouquet Craft

✂️ Materials

• 1 empty Progresso soup can (cleaned and dried)
• Decorative paper or scrapbook paper (pink polka‑dot or floral)
• Ribbon and small bow
• Construction paper in 7 colors (purple, yellow, blue, orange, green, red, and yellow again)
• Markers or pens
• Glue or tape
• Green tissue paper or shredded paper for filler
• Optional: small paper hearts and flowers for decoration

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🪄 Steps

1. Prepare the can:

   • Remove the label and clean the can.
   • Wrap it with decorative paper and secure with glue or tape.
   • Tie a ribbon around the middle and add a bow.

2. Create the handprints:

   • Trace a child’s hand on each colored paper and cut them out.
   • Write one loving action on each hand:
     💜 Help Her 💛 Hug Her 💙 Pray for Her 🧡 Listen to Her 💚 Respect Her ❤️ Give to Her 💛 Be Kind

3. Assemble the bouquet:

   • Tape or glue each handprint to a craft stick or straw.
   • Fill the can with green tissue paper.
   • Insert the handprints so they fan out like a bouquet.

4. Decorate:

   • Add small paper hearts and flowers around the base.
   • Write “LOVE MOM” on a heart label and glue it to the front of the can.

5. Display:

   • Place the craft on a classroom table or bulletin board.
   • Pair it with your “Love Mother By What…” or “Love Mother Young and Old” poem for a complete Mother’s Day lesson set.

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Susan Y Barker 2026© MBGeorPastorKBPBANNABENNMRMPM #1012f

Susan Y Barker 2026© MBGeorPastorKBPBANNABENNMRMPM #1012f

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Was Joseph Alone? Devotion 2026

                     

 Was Joseph Alone?

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🔥 1. IT SEEMED LIKE JOSEPH WAS ALONE IN THE PIT — BUT GOD WAS WITH HIM

His brothers stripped him.
They threw him down.
They walked away.

But heaven did not walk away.

Genesis 39:2 — “And the LORD was with Joseph.”

The pit was not empty.
God was in it.

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🔥 2. IT SEEMED LIKE JOSEPH WAS ALONE ON THE ROAD TO EGYPT — BUT GOD WAS WITH HIM

The caravan carried him far from home.
No father.
No mother.
No brother.
No friend.

But the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
rode with him through the desert.

Joseph was carried by Ishmaelites,
but he was held by God.

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🔥 3. IT SEEMED LIKE JOSEPH WAS ALONE IN POTIPHAR’S HOUSE — BUT GOD WAS WITH HIM

He was a slave.
He was a foreigner.
He was falsely accused.

But Scripture repeats the same truth:

Genesis 39:3 — “His master saw that the LORD was with him.”

Even unbelievers could see God’s presence on Joseph’s life.

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🔥 4. IT SEEMED LIKE JOSEPH WAS ALONE IN PRISON — BUT GOD WAS WITH HIM

Prison is the loneliest place in the world.

But not for Joseph.

Genesis 39:21 — “But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed him mercy.”

God didn’t just visit Joseph.
God favored Joseph.
God promoted Joseph.
God comforted Joseph.

The prison became a place of purpose.

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🔥 5. IT SEEMED LIKE JOSEPH WAS FORGOTTEN — BUT GOD REMEMBERED HIM

The butler forgot him.
The world forgot him.
His family forgot him.

But God never forgot him.

God was writing a story
that required Joseph to be in the right place
at the right time
with the right heart
to save the world.

Joseph was not forgotten.
He was being positioned.

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🔥 6. IT SEEMED LIKE JOSEPH WAS ALONE IN HIS SUFFERING — BUT GOD WAS PREPARING HIS DESTINY

Every tear had purpose.
Every betrayal had meaning.
Every injustice was shaping him.
Every lonely night was molding him.

Joseph was never alone
because God was never absent.

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🔥 7. GOD WAS WITH JOSEPH SO HE COULD ONE DAY BE WITH HIS BROTHERS

Joseph’s loneliness became their salvation.

He suffered alone
so they could be restored together.

He wept alone
so they could weep together.

He walked alone
so they could walk as a family again.

He forgave them
because God had walked with him
through every valley.

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✨ A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO SAY IT

Joseph was alone in the eyes of men,
but never alone in the eyes of God.

People left him.
God stayed.

People betrayed him.
God upheld him.

People forgot him.
God remembered him.

People pushed him down.
God lifted him up.

Joseph was never alone
because God was always writing a greater story.

Susan Barker Nikitenko 2026©MBNMRMPBKBPMGEOPASTOR #2026c

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