Want to give your mother something amazing this year for Christmas or her birthday? I love making things for my Mom more than just about anyone, because she appreciates little handmade gifts more than anything I could ever buy. Cheaper than purchasing something, and far, far nicer, these creative DIY gift ideas for Mom should be at the top of everyone’s holiday “making” list. Forget shopping lists and get to work creating a couple of these awesome homemade presents for your mother.
DIY Gift for Mom
1. Sip back And Relax Wine Glasses
Here’s another cool mother’s day gift idea from Happy Go Lucky Blog! Sip Back and Relax Wine Glasses that you could give your mom this coming mother’s day so that she could drink her fancy wine with a customizes glass that you made for her! Check out the step-by-step tutorial now! All you need are cricut explore air 2, yellow and pink vinyl or your moms favorite color, wine glass and a transfer tape!
2. Gilded Edge Faux Agate Coasters
These are the ones people pick up and turn over, because they read as sliced geode until you get close. The marbling runs in rings of blue, teal and white, and the gold painted edge is the detail that finishes the illusion. No two come out alike, which is exactly why a set of four looks collected instead of manufactured. They land well on a coffee table or a bar cart, and four of them tied with a ribbon looks like something from a boutique rather than something made at a kitchen table. Jen Woodhouse has the full tutorial on her site.
3. DIY Hoop Tassel Earrings
I love how these hoop tassel earrings dress up a plain gold hoop without needing any real jewelry making experience. You wrap embroidery floss around a piece of cardboard about thirty times, tie off one end tightly, then cut the loops free to make your tassel. From there Lia Griffith glues the tied end into a small metal cap with E6000 and adds a looped head pin so the tassel hangs right from the hoop. The tutorial walks through both a red set and a blue set using the exact same steps, so you can match the floss to whatever you’re making these for. She’s got the whole process laid out in step by step photos, and once you’ve made one pair you’ll probably want a few more colors going.
4. Mom Mini Album
This mother’s day, instead of going out of your way to buy your mother expensive gifts, why not give her something more special that would touch her heart like all the memories you guys shared together since you were little! Check out this really cute idea from Clear Colours and create your own Mom Mini Album and fill it with every photo you and your mom took together!
5. Fingerprint Heart
What better way to express your love but through your heart right? So this mother’s day why not give your mother a heart necklace with your finger print on it! Check out this step-by-step video tutorial from DIY Joy now and create your own Fingerprint Heart Necklace and give it to your mother to remind her of how much you love her!
6. DIY Ring Holder
Women love jewelry and I bet you have a lot yourself! But you know who has a lot more jewelry than you? Your mother! So if you’re planning to give her a jewelry or specifically a ring, give it to her with this really cool DIY Ring Holder so that she could put all her other rings there too. So check out the step-by-step tutorial from The Merry Thought now and make your mom that ring holder now!
7. DIY Succulent Book Planter
If you are looking for something cute and inexpensive to gift your mom this mother’s day, you have come to the right place! If you are on a tight budget and can’t find anything to give your mom this mother’s day, why not give her something cute that you created with your own bare hands. Check out this easy to create DIY Succulent Book Planter and follow the step-by-step tutorial from My Fair Olinda!
8. Picture Frame Memory Wreath
Get your mom something really memorable and sentimental this mother’s day! Make your mom his really beautiful Picture Frame Memory Wreath and fill it with photos of you and your family. Check out the full step-by-step tutorial from Infarrantly Creative! So your mom could hang it on her living room and always be reminded of all the memories you guys had together!
9. DIY Metallic Rope Throw Basket
Check out this step-by-step tutorial from Lydi Out Loud on how to create your own Metallic Rope Throw Basket that you can definitely give your mom as a gift this coming mother’s day. Her laundry would never look so dull anymore and she would probably be excited to do her laundry with that cute throw basket!
10. DIY Geometric Wood Trivets
If your mom loves to cook, here is a really cool, really cute DIY gift idea that you can give her this mother’s day! DIY Geometric Wood Trivets! Check this step-by-step tutorial from A Beautiful Mess on how to create your own Geometrical Wood Trivets and give it to your mom as a give so she would have something hip and cute to put her hotpots on.
13. DIY Kitchen Menu Board
This is the gift that quietly solves a problem, which is usually the kind worth making. The week goes up on the board once and then nobody in the house has to ask what is for dinner again. The frame is doing real work here, because it turns what could easily look like a chore chart into something that can hang in a kitchen or an entryway without apologizing for itself. Anyone who does the meal planning in their house will use it constantly. Kenarry walks through the whole build over on her site.
17. DIY Pom Tassel Storage Basket
This one turns a plain basket into something you’d actually want sitting out, just by tying on a row of yarn pom poms and mini tassels. Alice and Lois made their poms with a pom pom maker, going with wool blend yarn since it gave the best looking poms of anything they tried. Assembly is just hand sewing: thread embroidery floss through a felt ball then a pom pom, knot it, dab on craft glue, and tie the tassel to the loop on the basket’s lid. They dressed up a plain nesting basket set from Ikea that ran about six dollars, proof you don’t need an expensive basket to start with. It’s an easy one for a craft night with friends or a kids’ afternoon project, and Alice and Lois has the full steps and supply list.
19. Mason Jar Salt And Pepper Shakers
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24. Custom Printed Family Recipe Book
The reason this one lands is not the layout, it is that the recipes finally stop living on index cards and grease stained scraps and end up somewhere that will survive. Printed as a proper hardcover, with photographs of the finished dishes next to the original handwriting, it becomes a keepsake rather than just a cookbook. It is also a good project to split between siblings when a big birthday is coming, and the only real warning is to start collecting the recipes earlier than you think you need to. Club Crafted has the how-to.
28. Marbled Nail Polish Mugs
This is the one that looks hardest and is genuinely among the easiest, because the marbling comes off nail polish swirled on the surface of water. Every mug comes out differently, which is the appeal, and plain white mugs are cheap enough that ruining the first one costs you nothing. The only real decision is the two colors, so pick ones that already live in her kitchen and it will look deliberate. It works just as well as a teacher or hostess gift, especially filled with chocolates. DIY Candy has the full tutorial.
30. DIY Family Word Art
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32. Sewn Sofa Arm Caddy
The remotes stop vanishing into the cushions, which is the entire argument for this one. It drapes over the arm of a chair or a couch and stays put under its own weight, with three pockets across the front sized for remotes and a phone. Everything about it is flat and straight seamed, so it is a sensible project for someone still getting comfortable at a machine. Choose the fabric to suit the room it is going to live in and it reads as intentional rather than improvised. Sew4Home has the full instructions and the measurements.
33. Air Dry Clay Trinket Dishes
These are the kind of handmade gift that survives the drive home, which is more than you can say for most of them. Air dry clay gets rolled flat, cut into a cloud or a heart or a scalloped circle, curved up slightly at the edges and left to dry, then finished with a clear glaze that takes it glossy. Press a word or a little rainbow into the surface before it dries and it stops being a dish and starts being a keepsake. They cost pennies each and a batch of five takes one afternoon plus drying time. Well Crafted Studio has the full tutorial and the shaping tips that keep the edges from cracking.
35. Wire Wrapped Crystal Pendants
This is the gift to make when you want something that looks bought. A polished stone gets caged in fine silver wire and hung on a simple cord, and because you pick the stone you can match it to her instead of guessing at a chain she may not wear. A moon, a raw point, a little star. There is no soldering and no jewelry making background needed, just wire, a pair of pliers and a stone you like. One Little Project has the full step by step and photos of the wrap from every angle.
40. Personalized Photo Wall Clock
The reason a photo clock outlasts most personalized gifts is that it stays useful, and people read it every day without thinking about it. A favorite photograph sits behind the hands inside a heavy gold frame, with a few hand lettered words dropped into the empty part of the picture so nothing competes with the face. That is the one thing worth planning: pick a photo with real open space in it, because a busy image turns into visual noise the moment the hands go on. It’s Always Autumn has the how-to.
