25 DIY Gifts for Mother's Day (2024)

Be kinder to your face! There's no need to use chemical-laden wipes to clean the makeup off your face at the end of the day. Use these natural, soothing wipes made with lavender essential oil, sunflower oil, and cotton pads instead.

Use our recipe for an exfoliating face scrub that gives your skin a wonderful pick-me-up after a long week.

Give mom the gift of facial rejuvenation! This is like a spa treatment in a jar without the spa price tag. Made with baking soda, herbal tea, and lavender essential oil, you can feel good about the ingredients you're using.

Any busy mom needs dry shampoo in her arsenal. It really saves the day when washing your hair just cannot be squeezed into the schedule. This version for brunettes is made with cornstarch, cocoa, and baking soda. You probably have all that in your cupboard right now!

There's something so rejuvenating about the smell of coffee—but this recipe isn't for your morning cup. Caffeine offers excellent benefits for the skin, such as skin tightening and improving circulation. Any mom would appreciate that.

Lip scrubs are another fantastic way to use coffee grounds. This vanilla latte sugar lip scrub smells amazing and can keep lips smooth all year round.

Get those legs ready for pool season! In the summer, when you trade leggings for shorts and dresses, you want to put your best legs forward with silky smooth, moisturized skin. This scrub made with sugar, coconut oil, and lemon essential oil or citrus juice will help you do just that.

Speaking of smooth legs, you don't want to go to all that trouble exfoliating only to use harsh shaving creams (or worse—soap!) to shave your legs. This moisturizing DIY shaving cream makes shaving so much easier, and it's made with only two simple ingredients.

If salt scrubs are more your style, this 3-ingredient recipe is as simple as it gets. With coarse salt, coconut oil, and essential oils, you'll have a batch ready to go in no time flat.

You may have wanted to make your own bath bombs before only to find that you lack one crucial ingredient—citric acid. Lucky for you, there's no citric acid involved in this bath bomb recipe. You'll find all the ingredients in your kitchen or pantry. A nice, long bath with some amazing-smelling bath bombs is just what Mom needs on Mother's Day.

This is a super simple sewing project that kids can make for Mom. Fill the plushies with lavender and use it as a sachet for your wardrobe, or just make it a keepsake.

It's so hard to keep every piece of art that your kid makes, but this is such a fun way to keep something special. Give the kids some muslin or other material to draw a design on just for mom, and turn it into a simple pillow. This is a fantastic project for kids to sew since it can be hand-sewn, but moms or dads can help the little ones with that part.

Sewing napkins is such a terrific way to use scrap fabric. If you use different patterns that coordinate, even better! Eclectic moms will love a set of napkins that isn't so matchy-matchy.

You can never have too many potholders! It's incredibly simple to make your own, too. They make fantastic gifts for Mom, but make some for housewarming gifts, Christmas, etc. as well.

Here's another totally adorable potholder that anyone who loves the RV life will appreciate. It's another craft that allows you to use pieces from your scrap fabric stash.

This is such a sweet gift, particularly for moms of toddlers or preschoolers who may be missing their kids in those baby years. The pillow accents are made from baby clothes, which is a fun way to remember those snuggly baby years.

This is a gift that everyone can join in on, and Mom will treasure it forever. Get everyone's handprints in the same place at the same time to remember this season in life. It's especially meaningful now when we're all spending more time together.

Pair Mom's favorite chocolate bar with this superhero craft to show Mom just how amazing you think she is. Moms really are superheroes, aren't they?

Natural scents are indeed the best. This kid-made herbal perfume made with fresh herbs and flowers, essential oils, and water is such a thoughtful gift. It will only last a few days, but if you'd like it to last longer, use dried herbs and flowers in the mixture instead.

Along the same lines is this salt dough handprint dish that's perfect for keeping your keys when you come inside or holding jewelry at the end of the day.

Science meets art with these hyper-colorful coffee filter flowers. Any caffeine-loving mom probably has some coffee filters on hand. You only need markers, pipe cleaners, and water to finish the project.

Bring new life to old terra cotta pots. Any mom who appreciates recycling and upcycling will love the plant pot makeover, and it's easy enough for little kids to do with a bit of help from Dad.

The sweetest moms deserve the sweetest gifts. This pop-up cupcake Mother's Day card complete with a picture of your kiddos is so delightful. It will bring a smile to any face.

Tea drinkers will love this teacup card with a bag of their favorite herbal tea inside! This is a cute choice to present to Mom, along with breakfast in bed.

Handprint crafts make such beautiful keepsakes. Instead of real flowers, which fade with time, give Mom a bouquet of the family's handprints to tuck away in the scrapbook or memory box once Mother's Day is finished.