an interactive doodle on its home page
to mark the occassion.
The doodle essentially celebrates the
day reminding everyone of handmade
cards they made for their mothers,
and features a card-making machine
that lets you create hand-made cards
by choosing between different
templates.
Explaining the concept in a blog post,
doodle designer, Mike Dutton, explains
that he wanted users to be able to
create craft on their homepage and
that he wanted actual photos/scans of
crafting supplies but had to settle for
graphics to keep the file-size of the
doodle low.
The doodle allows users to create 27
different pieces of art, with a choice of
3 borders and even allows them to
take a print out of a high-resolution
version of the artwork to present it to
their moms.
The machine guides users with a
number of choices, including if they'd
like to draw their Mom, flowers, or
create some kind of gift or gesture,
whether they'd prefer a stick-figure,a
mama bird or a mama bear, and the
kind of design and border they'd like
for their art-work.
Mother's Day is celebrated around the
globe to honour mothers and to
celebrate the contribution of maternal
figures to society.
The origin of Mother's Day as the
world knows it today can be traced
back to the United States. In 1908
Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her
mother in the US. She then began a
campaign to make "Mother's Day" a
recognised holiday in the United
States. Her attempts bore fruit in
1914, and since then the day is
celebrated every year.
In most countries Mother's Day is
celebrated on the second Sunday of
May, while others observe it on
different days, with 8th March and
21st March the other popular dates,
across the world. The countries that
recognise the second Sunday of May
as Mother's Day includes Canada,
Australia, most parts of Europe, India
& other parts of Asia, Brazil and other
parts of South America, as well as
many countries in Africa.
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