Pinterest in the classroom: success and failure

My coworkers and I are all about the Pinterest swing and using the many ideas we love in the classroom. So we found this totally cute idea for Mother's Day where you decoupage a photo to a ceramic tile to make a pretty plaque or coaster. It was fool-proof, we thought. So Miss Amanda lined all the little munchkins up in assembly line fashion, handed them each a little chalkboard to hold with "Mom" written on it (awwww!), and started snapping away.

  A day or so later we had the pictures in hand. Our staff loved the photos. They were each adorable and we just knew our moms would love these hand-made tiles bearing their children's adorable smiles. We began the process of cutting the photos out, using Mod Podge to adhere them and seal them onto the tiles, and then topping that with an extra coat of spray-on Mod Podge sealer. Voila! We were so excited and so proud to present these.

What we didn't give any thought to was how the children's shirts looked in the photos. We had lots of children with slogans on their shirts. So we get this little gem done and although the child in the photo is precious ( and hopefully his Mom has a sense of humor), our Pinterest idea had failed miserably on this one gift:

(a close-up of the slogan with our Mom sign-sorry for the poor pic quality)

Yeah, so now he's grandpa's MOM. Oh boy, that is bad. Funny, but not necessarily something to hang on the family room wall. Well, we live and we learn. Next time we do this you can be sure we will stand back and assess the photo shoot before we actually make the shot. lol

Blessings!