Did you know that the rhododendron is our state flower? If not, gain a new appreciation for it at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden's Mother's Day weekend event.

Did you know that the rhododendron is our state flower? If not, gain a new appreciation for it at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Gardens Mothers Day weekend event.

Did you know that the rhododendron is our state flower? If not, gain a new appreciation for it at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden‘s Mother’s Day weekend event.

Your mama may be so short that she can hang-glide on a Dorito, but hey, you love her anyway, right? Here are 14 Mother’s Day events in Seattle to show her you care. Take her to a drag show. Make her look at some flowers. Feed her some sliced meat. Shove her in a glass pod and serve her some salmon while she floats through the sky. You know, stuff moms like.

SATURDAY, APRIL 30

Annual Mother’s Day Craft Fair
Bellevue’s Theatre33 is holding a craft day for Mother’s Day, which sounds kind of awesome after a bit of digging—the theater seems to have an East Slavic bent, with many productions performed in the Russian language and lots of Ukrainian names on the staff. They’ll have a mom-themed market with unique handcrafted gifts for sale, like candles, carved wooden artworks, soaps, crocheted items, plants, and books, as well as baked goods; the funds raised will help the theater buy costumes for upcoming youth productions. Here’s hoping someone’s selling rummy-hazelnutty Kyiv cake!
(Theatre33, Bellevue, free)

Meg van Huygen has been writing for The Stranger for half of her damn life, usually about food or local history. She was born on the Hill, grew up on Queen Anne, went to school in the CD, and presently...