Unique Mother's Day Gift Baskets
Buy or Make Homemade Baskets for Mother’s Day Presents
Mar 27, 2008
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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