MOTHER’S Day gifts don’t have to be extravagant or expensive, especially given the cost of living. A hand-made gift is often the perfect present for your mum or the mother figure in your life. Here are some ideas that don’t cost a bomb:
Brownie/Cookie Jar
Fill a nice mason jar layer by layer with the dry ingredients for a brownie or cookie, write the recipe on a piece of paper and use twine to tie it to the neck of the jar. Mum will just have to add oil and eggs, and adding on a cute new wooden spoon to the gift is even better, you can never have too many.
Guided bushwalk
Taking mum on a nice bushwalk is a lovely and free gift idea. Use Google maps to find a route local to you and even look up some bird varieties and information about native plants so you can give mum some background information as you walk.
Handprints on canvas/tote bag
While lovely hand drawn pictures are always welcome, one sweet way to capture a moment in time is by simply getting everyone in your family to put a handprint on canvas so you can all look back and marvel at how little everyone’s hands were. Simply get everyone to dip their hand palm side down into a different colour of paint, press onto canvas, or a tote bag with fabric paint, leave to dry and voila!
Bookmark
DIY bookmarks are super easy to make. Cut a length of cardboard and then a piece of paper to stick on top the same size or slightly smaller so the cardboard creates a border. Decorate as you wish, a few lovely family photos cut out and stuck on will be very much appreciated, make sure of course they are photos that it’s okay to cut up first, printing them onto printer paper is even better as it ensures they will be easier to stick.
