Drawing picture-perfect mothers

As Draw Your Mum comes to an end, we ask two Fife primary school classes what taking part meant to

It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow – a special time to celebrate mums everywhere and let them know how loved they are.

Hundreds of youngsters in primaries three and four have jumped at the chance to show how much their mums mean to them by taking part in The Courier’s Draw Your Mum project.

All they had to do was draw a picture of their mum, along with a short message, and send it in to us.

Over the past few weeks, we have received a staggering 4,381 drawings from 106 schools across Courier Country and every single entry has been published in a series of special supplements ahead of Mother’s Day tomorrow.

When we popped in to Leuchars Primary School, the pupils of Mrs Meg Allan’s P4 class were brimming with excitement, waiting for their mums to open today’s Courier and find pictures of themselves.

So what kind of masterpieces can the mums expect? The pupils had loads of good advice for producing the perfect picture. Grace stressed it was important not to draw stick people. “Take your time,” was Callum’s sage advice, along with “Make your pictures nice,” from Sami.

The children were eager to make the drawings special for their mums, wanting to “make mum as nice as she already is,” and the messages with their drawings reflected the important roles mums play in every child’s life.

“Mums keep you safe,” said Riley, and Sophie added, “Mums keep you safe no matter what.” The list of ‘why are mums special?’ was endless.

Meanwhile, pupils at Newport Primary School were equally enthusiastic. Principal teacher Kathryn Allan said: “Everyone involved in the Draw Your Mum project really enjoyed the experience and teachers used it as a stimulus for teaching and learning in literacy – particularly adding description to personal writing pieces.”

Primary three pupil Joel said: “I liked thinking about lovely things about my mum and adding it to the picture – I can’t wait to see it in the newspaper.”

And P4 pupil Callum said: “It was fun. I liked that I could use my imagination to draw a lovely picture of my mum.”

Pictures: Steve MacDougall/Gareth Jennings. Above: the artistic pupils of Mrs Allan’s class and some of the pupils’ mothers. Right: Newport pupil Emily, 8, with mum Fiona Kerr.