Unique Mother's Day Gift Baskets
Buy or Make Homemade Baskets for Mother’s Day Presents
The best Mother's Day gift basket ideas match Mom's hobby or passion with unique gift items. Save money and assemble your own basket or buy one online.
Moms can’t resist a beautifully crafted basket of presents designed just for her on Mother’s Day. Themed gift baskets are fun to create and let you choose a functional container that is tailored to the items inside.
Following are some suggestions for gift baskets for Mother’s Day as well as a listing of online retailers that will deliver pre-made baskets.
Gardening Gift Basket
For the avid gardener, the ideas for small gifts and containers are numerous. Start with a pretty flower pot or window box and add a variety of seed packets, a new set of gardening gloves, some peat pellets for seed starting, and a trowel or other small hand tool. If it’s in your budget, a bright pair of Croc-brand shoes or gardening clogs would make a useful addition. Or order the Gardener’s Gift Basket from the Appleton Basket Company (pictured below), which includes a kneepad, gloves, a book, gardener’s soap, and other goodies in a cute wheelbarrow basket. Price: $45 (with $2 donated to the Heifer Project International charity). Average shipping: $9 to $16 via UPS.
Chocolate Lover’s Gift Basket
This sweet gift basket is irresistible to nearly any mother. Find a pretty wicker basket and gather decadent chocolates such as filled truffles, chocolate covered coffee beans and nuts, and fancy hot cocoa powdered mixes tucked in a “Best Mom” mug. Resist sampling the goodies. Harry and David sells a Mom’s Sweet Inspiration Basket, see photo below, which contains chocolate grahams, Bing cherry chocolates, truffles, and other sweets for $49.95; shipping is $12.99.
Scrapbooking Gift Basket
Begin with a fabric photo storage box and add a variety of scrapbooking papers and stickers, markers and pens, rubber stamps, and paper punches. Take a photograph of Mom as she receives her present and as she celebrates throughout the day. Print out the photos that night, and Mom will have ample material for scrapbooking a page or two about her Mother’s Day festivities. Or get a ready-made Memories scrapbooking gift set from Pumpkin Patch Creations, which includes patterned papers, templates, die cuts, scissors and gel pens as well as cookies, popcorn, tea, and jelly beans. Price: $66.95, ground shipping is $5.
Cooking Gift Basket
A mixing bowl or even a new salad spinner serves as the base for a cook’s gift basket, filled with some spices, small kitchen tools such as a spatula, whisk, and cooking scissors. Take an inventory of the spice cabinet a few days before the big day and then fill the basket with jars of herbs and spices that are running low. A new apron or oven mitts add color and utility. For a purchased gourmet gift basket that supports a great cause, look to the Women’s Bean Project gift baskets, which contain salsa, chili, bean soup, and cornbread mixes as well as free trade coffee. Price: $35 for a small basket, shipping varies with UPS. The Women’s Bean Project is a Denver-based organization that helps women break the cycle of chronic unemployment or poverty.
Spa Gift Basket
Fill a chrome bathtub caddy (a rack that fits across a bathtub and holds soap, washcloths and other items) with shower and bath gels, handmade soaps, a loofah sponge, and body butter. SpaFinder sells a Green Tea Stress Free Spa Set, see photo below, which tucks bath gel, body lotion, bath salts, and other spa indulgences in a decorative bamboo canister. Price: $50, shipping via FedEx ground is $9.95.
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