Most mothers crave thoughtful gestures rather than grand ones. As an empty nester, there’s nothing I like better than when my two kids come home to visit. Their time is the greatest gift they could ever give me and anything else they may want to offer is like chocolate syrup drizzled over chocolate layer cake, unnecessary but delightful. Following are 5 unique and personal Mother’s Day gifts for your mom or grandmother. You can put together all of these gifts using dollar store items.
Use the following ideas as a guide for gifting your mom something unique on Mother’s Day.
5 Unique and Personal Mother’s Day Ideas
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Items Used and Recommendations:
- small outdoor lantern
- gardening pouch
- gardening gloves
- patterned gardening tools
- small metal watering can
- spa gift
Gift Idea 1: A Pretty Lantern with Candles
This domed lantern is about 6-inches high and comes in bright summer colours as well as this creamy white. Team it up with a sleeve of eight scented tea lights in a pretty gift bag for a gift that is sure to delight a mom or grandmother.
Gift Idea 2: Summertime Gift Basket
How about making a leisure gift basket for the mom who enjoys relaxing in the backyard? Start with an interesting container like this small party bucket and add an assortment of the kinds of things you know your mom would enjoy. Here, we’ve included a pair of flip flops, sunglasses, two word puzzle books, an acrylic wine glass, and a small bottle of Perrier.
Then add a couple of decorative but useful items, such as a Terracotta wall clock and a small outdoor lantern.
You might also want to include some citronella tea lights to help keep Mom from being bugged while outdoors. Pack a container with some things you know your mom will love.
Gift Ideas 3 and 4: Gardening Gifts
If Mom or Grandmother enjoys nothing better than puttering about in her garden, this next idea could be just the thing to make her day. We filled this gardening pouch with a pair of gardening gloves, some garden stakes you can write on, a pair of flower scissors, which incidentally, are also good for crafts, a pretty floral-patterned garden trowel and three packets of flower seeds. Naturally, you will want to customize this gift to suit the needs or wants of the lady gardener it’s intended for.
For another gardening gift option, consider this option containing a pretty patterned trowel, three packets of flower seeds, a pair of gardening gloves and some hand cream. I packed all of these items into a small metal watering can.
Gift Idea 5: Home Spa Package
Hard-working mothers always welcome spa gifts. I started with a stone-look pot that can be reused for plants later, and filled it with an assortment of pampering gifts. Using two or more bath and body items by the same manufacturer helps to give your present a store-bought look.
This gift contains shower gel and body lotion, a four-sided pedicure paddle, a soap-shaped candle and a small massager. The pedicure paddle has a buffer brush and a pumice stone on one end and a metal file and smooth file on the other. The massager uses 3 AAA batteries that are not included but you can add those separately, if you wish. Everything is packed into a cement-look planter. I always look for containers that are both unique and useful to display a gift in. That way, the recipient has a permanent reminder of the original present.
Things change in dollar stores from one year to the next, but you can always find similar items to the ones mentioned here.
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