40 Meaningful Gifts for Mom on Mother’s Day
You’re probably here because you have literally bought your mom everything over the years and are stuck on what to give this Mother’s Day.
So, what do you get a mom who has everything?
To help you out, I’ve spent some time compiling a list of meaningful gifts for mom.
Here’s what you can expect in this Mother’s Day gift guide:
- Journals and notebooks for mom
- Jewellery gifts for mom
- Cute mugs for mom
- Best subscription boxes for mom
- Gifts for moms who love gardening
- Gifts for the mom who needs help
- Crafty and creative gifts for mom
- Gifts for Grandmother’s
Perfect for so many types of moms 🙂
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Journals and Notebooks for Mom
1. Self Love Guided Journal
This is the perfect gift to give a mom who needs some alone time to contemplate the good things in life. Mom can write in her self-love journal with her morning coffee or nighttime tea 🙂
Love Yourself First Daily Guided Journal
A 30-day guided journal to focus on self-love and remind you of the beautiful things life has to offer.
Help mom see how special she is and to experience new ways to feel good through self-reflection.
Includes 30 self-love writing prompts, weekly reflection prompts, inspirational quotes, colouring pages, affirmations, self-care ideas and more!
Check out the journal HERE.
2. Record the Journey of Motherhood, Notebook
This Mother’s Journal is a place to record memories and special moments. Moms can capture funny things their kids say, fun family activities and milestones.
Ideal for new moms or any mom who wants to journal her motherhood journey.
A Mother’s Journal: The Days Are Long, But The Years Are Short
Affordable Jewellery Gifts for Mom
Giving a little something that’s affordable and pretty is a wonderful way to treat mom. The below are some dainty, delicate necklaces that I would love and I know your mom would love too!
4. Mother Daughter Necklace
Such a thoughtful gift to share with mom, this sterling silver necklace is a meaningful keepsake you can both wear.
5. Chakra Necklace
6 different stones to choose from each chakra necklace has a different stone and represents a unique quality – creativity, truth, heart, joy, strength and energy.
6. Custom Letter (or initials) necklace
Select the length, colour and letters to make your own unique customized necklace for mom. A lovely idea is to have 1 letter for each child.
7. Essential Oil Diffuser Bracelet
Drop your favorite essential oil onto the lava stone beads to carry the scent with you all day long.
Amazonite & Rose Gold Diffuser Bracelet Set (3 bracelets)
Cute Mug Gifts for Mom
As a self-proclaimed mug lover, I honestly think you can never have enough cool/fun/thoughtful mugs!
9. Best Mom Ever Mug
What mom wouldn’t love this cute coffee mug that tells her how wonderful she is?!
10. Mommy Needs Coffee Mug
Fun Mommy Needs Coffee mug is perfect for those hectic mornings where mama really does need more coffee!
There are also other says like ‘Tired as a Mother’ and ‘#Momlife’.
11. Yeti Tumblr
This Yeti mug comes in a load of different colours and is great for moms who like to get outside – camping, hiking, parks, picnicking.
12. Yeti Wine Tumblr
For the mama’s who’d rather have wine than coffee when they’re enjoying the outdoors 🙂 This stainless steel wine tumbler also comes in a variety of colours and
Subscription Box Gifts for Mom this Mother’s Day
If you’re really stuck on what to give mom, a subscription box is a lovely idea and a gift that keeps on giving.
There are so many subscription boxes available these days due to their huge popularity.
13. Essential Oil Subscription Box from Simply Earth
Includes 4 essential oils every month + ingredients to make different essential oil recipes (candles, blends, lotions, sprays, soaps and so much more)!
They have a new theme every month, which makes it extra fun.
👉 When you purchase your first subscription box you get a FREE Big Bonus Box from Simply Earth.
14. Spa Gift Box
Perfect for bath lovers, this spa gift box includes 9 items, including bath salts, body scrub a scented candle and more. 7 different scents to choose from.
Gifts for Moms Who Love Gardening
Mother’s Day is the perfect time to give gardening gifts with spring in full bloom.
Below are some of my favourite gardening gifts for moms, but of course you can’t go wrong with a trip to the garden centre to pick up a beautiful plant.
I love giving hydrangeas for Mother’s Day as they are in season where I live, but any perennial is also a thoughtful gift so your mom can enjoy, as it blooms every year.
15. Hummingbird Solar Lantern
This hummingbird solar lantern is gorgeous and perfect for moms who love to spend time in their garden.
16. A Gardener’s Journal
The perfect garden lovers journal and logbook to plan out the garden and keep a record of all things gardening – soil, planting, weather, fertilizing, pests and more.
17. Crazy Plant Lady T-Shirt
I have already ordered this one! This super cute gardeners t-shirt comes in 5 colours and is super soft.
18. Hand-Blown Glass Watering Globes
These unique watering glass globes are for indoor plants and outdoor gardens. This is the perfect gift for gardeners of all levels and most likely something your mom won’t have!
Simply fill the globes and the water slowly releases over time. Great for those who forget to water their plants!
19. Plant Terrarium with Wooden Stand
This is plant terrarium is perfect for gardeners and they can take cuttings from the garden (flowers or herbs) and grow in these individual terrariums.
20. Word of Flowers Coloring Book
Johanna Basford has the most beautiful coloring books, so I know your mom will love the World of Flowers: A Coloring Book and Floral Adventure.
Packed full of stunning coloring pages, perfect for some relaxing time.
Gifts for the Mom Who Needs Help!
(Yep, that would be all moms!)
21. An Instant Pot
An Instant Pot is a perfect gift for a mom who needs to make mealtime easier. (I know a lot of moms are raising their hands on this one)!
Tip: Give this to your mom and also make dinner for her in the Instant Pot and she’ll be even happier 🙂
23. Be Your Mom for a Day
Visit your mom and take care of all the chores she would typically do in a day… laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc.
This will most likely be one of the best gifts you can ever give her!
Crafty & Creative Gifts for Mom
24. Cricut Portable – Make labels, personalized mugs/t-shirts & more.
This Cricut Joy machine is perfect for moms who love to DIY. The Cricut is an amazing little cutting, writing and label-making machine that can be used to make everything from customized cards, stickers, labels.
You can literally take any image (uploaded from your smartphone) and the Cricut gets to work!
Check out the video on the Amazon page to see it in action!
25. Colouring Book for Mom
This Secret Garden Coloring Book is my personal favourite. The quality of the designs are a big step above most of what you see out there.
The colouring pages are really detailed and perfect for moms who love flowers, gardening and anything in the garden!
26. Momlife: A Snarky Adult Coloring Book
A fun colouring book for moms with cheeky sayings that will make mom chuckle! My favourite is ‘Bra Off. Hair Up. Sweats On!’
This Mom Life Coloring book will be a winner, I promise!
27. Oil-Based Colored Pencils
Super high-quality colored pencils that draw like a dream – and great to add to your coloring book gift.
28. Lettering and Modern Calligraphy: Beginner’s Guide
Mom can learn hand and brush lettering and create beautiful designs in this modern calligrapher’s workbook.
15 lettering projects are also included in this book to get even more creative.
29. Tom Bow Dual Brush Art Markers
These dual brush art markers can create fine, medium and bold strokes and even have a colourless blender pen that creates a watercolour effect.
The perfect gift for Mom to use in her new modern calligraphy workbook above.
I personally have this set and the quality is top-notch. (Also available in pastel colours).
Gifts for Moms Who Are Also Grandmothers
30. Grandma’s Garden
I fell in love with this thoughtful grandmother gift. Customize the flowers and names for each grandchild.
31. Customizable Grandma’s/Nana’s/Mom’s Garden Print
This meaningful flower print allows you to choose the birth flowers for each family member to create a personalized gift for Mom or Grandma.
More Meaningful Gifts For Mom
32. Why I’m Grateful For You Fill-In Book
This thoughtful book includes guided writing prompts so you can tell you’re mom just how grateful you are for her.
33. Exotic Loose Leaf Tea Sampler
If your mom loves tea, this is the only brand you should buy! The quality is better than any other loose-leaf teas I’ve tried and I gift their selection of teas to so many people.
This is their exotic loose leaf tea sampler, perfect for mom to try a variety of teas.
Check out the Vahdam store for a ton of other beautiful tea gift selections.
34. Foot Massager
I personally LOVE mine – this is the one I use, which can also be doubled as a back massager!
35. Personalized, engraved family recipe cutting board
What a beautiful gift to share with your mom – and yes, a few tears will be shed with this thoughtful family recipe cutting board. A keepsake your mom will hold close to her heart.
36. To My Beautiful Mom, Sculpted Hand-Painted Figurine
This beautiful hand-painted figurine for mom is such a thoughtful gift to share with your mom and something she can keep close.
37. Mom, I Want To Hear Your Story
A guided journal for mom to share her life story, memories and lessons. A true keepsake you can share together.
38. Ceramic Ring Dish for Mom
This beautiful ceramic ring dish for mom is so special (I would love to receive this). There are also thoughtful options for bonus mom and step mom.
39. Audible Subscription
Perfect as a last-minute gift for mom, an Audible membership is perfect for moms who love to read, but don’t always have the time.
40. A Self Care Basket
Make your Mom a self-care package with some thoughtful ways to help your mom and fun and relax. Grab some ideas HERE.
Don’t Forget The Most Important Gift for Mom
These are all fun, thoughtful gift ideas for mom, but don’t forget… most moms just want to feel loved and appreciated on Mother’s Day.
They give so much of themselves to everyone and rarely prioritize themselves. So whatever you do, make mom feel special this Mother’s Day.
👉 Your next read: Celebrating Mother’s Day for All Types of Moms
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What is the Best Gift to Give a Mother?
Apart from giving your mom a physical gift, what’s important is that you make your mom feel special on Mother’s Day.
Spending time with your mom, doing something you both love is the best gift you can give.
Here are a few ways you can show your love to mom without spending money:
- Plant flowers in her garden
- Make dinner for mom
- Play a board game
- Drop by for a socially distanced visit
- Make your mom brunch
- Call her and have a nice long chat
Hey Moms! Tell Me: What’s the Best Gift You’ve ever received for Mother’s Day?!
Share in the comments below…
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Great unique ideas!! 🙂
Thank you for this! A lot of great ideas and very helpful during this pandemic.
Thanks for so many ideas, I do get stuck when it comes to buying for my mom, so this is helpful! My favourite is the customized letter necklace and those pretty water globes-so unique!
The crazy plant t-shirt! Awesome. Among all of the other hats I wear, I want to wear that one too.