How to Plan a Mother's Day Brunch With Your Troop

May not only brings Spring flowers but is also the month we celebrate our Mothers, on Mother’s Day. If you have girls in your troop without a mother present, they can celebrate an aunt, grandma, etc. There are so many ways your troop can celebrate their mothers. Over the years as a troop, we have done tea parties, and our spring bridging ceremonies honoring our mothers, but today I want to share the idea of having a brunch to celebrate.

On a personal note: I spent years celebrating Mother’s Day honoring my mother, grandma, and aunt. Now years later Mother’s Day holds even more meaning to me.  I am a mother of two beautiful kids. While writing this post it brought back years of activities I did with my troop to honor my mother. I never truly knew how much she appreciated a simple homemade card, or breakfast in bed till now. So to all you Mothers out there enjoy your day you deserve it. 

Of course, if you're the mom and the leader that is planning the brunch and do all the hard work be sure to sit back and enjoy watching all your girls and their moms celebrating Mother’s Day as a group!

Why a brunch? A brunch is a great way to celebrate Mother’s Day. It can get the girls involved in planning what food will be served and also helping with preparing it. It can be your basic eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, waffles, cinnamon rolls, etc. They could serve a breakfast casserole. You could make it more of a pancake breakfast. It all depends on the age of your girls and what they want to do for their mothers. Of course the day of the brunch you would be enjoying each other’s company, but previously to the brunch you have to do some planning.

Maybe a brunch won't work for your troop? If the brunch with your moms does not work there are so many other ideas I have shared you could adjust to fit your troop's needs. 

• Ice Cream Social – Change it to an ice cream social with moms
• Teddy Bear Party – Add some tea into the event and you have a tea party with moms
• Tea Party – Go straight to a tea party event with moms

A lot of this could be planned and completed at the meetings previous to the brunch.

Decide on the breakfast food. 

• My troop has done a pancake brunch where the main course was the pancakes then added something simple to go with it such as eggs, biscuits, or sausages. 
• You can also do some type of breakfast casserole and offer coffee and juices. Below is a great casserole recipe you can try.

 BREAKFAST CASSEROLE

Ingredients that will serve 6 people so just double this for 12 people etc.

• 6 Large Eggs, whisked
• ⅔ Cup Milk
• 1 Cup Shredded Cheese
• ½ Tsp. Salt
• 5 Slices of Wheat Bread cut into cubes
• 4 Pieces of Bacon, cooked and crumbled into bite size pieces
• Optional: Cooked vegetable such as chopped broccoli, peppers, onions, etc.

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
2. In a bowl, whisk eggs, milk, cheese, and salt and thoroughly combine. (Don’t over-mix the bread or it will break apart.
3. Soak the cubed bread in egg mixture and stir until just combined.
4. Fold in the remaining ingredients.
5. Pour the mixture into an 8×8” greased pan and bake for 45-50 minutes or until the top is golden.

Previous to the event your troop can decide if they want to do some type of program before or after the meal that could include:

• The girls each write a poem and read it to their mothers
• Girls create a skit to share with mothers.
• Play some games with the moms and girls.
• A program where they present gifts to their moms (scroll down for ideas of gifts)
• Your girls could decorate a flower pot at a previous meeting with a poem for their moms. Then have them plant a flower in the pot. They could present the flowers at the brunch during the program they put together.

After eating you could have the girls and moms work together making a wind chime to put out on their porch at home.

TWO OPTIONS: Key wind chime will need paint or sea shell wind chime less messy with no paint.

What you need for each wind chime:

• 12”-14”” stick it could be stick from tree or dowel rod
• Yarn or fishing line
• 8 keys or lots of sea shells (must have holes in them for crafting)
• Acrylic paint with a variety of colors (key wind chime only)
• Paint brush for the girl and mom (key wind chime only)
• Cup with water to clean brushes (key wind chime only)
• Paper plate to put paints onto (key wind chime only)
• Clear coat craft spray (key wind chime only)

How to make key wind chime: 

1. Tie a 14” piece of yarn to the stick on each end to make a hanger.
2. Paint each key on both sides. The paint colors are up to the girls. They can be all the same color or different colors.
3. While keys are drying cut 8 pieces of yarn into 12” pieces. One for each key.
4. Tie one end of yarn to the branch and the other to the key.
5. Spray keys with clear coat spray.
6. All done, let the chiming begin.

Optional idea: You can gather old keys yourself or ask the moms/girls to bring in old keys that mean something to them or are no good anymore. The original idea for this craft came from the Teaching Mama blog

One thing that would be great to do at a previous meeting before your brunch with all your moms, grandmas and aunts is to have your girls make something for their loved ones. 

Below is a complication of some great Etsy Mother’s Day resources that are all printed at home and taken to your meetings so last-minute planning is possible with any of these resources.

Have a wonderful Mother’s Day!

Enjoy every minute being a leader and continue to inspire your girls!