20+ Touching Mother’s Day Gift Ideas Sure to Tug at Her Heartstrings

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Inside: Bring a tear to mom's eye this year with 20+ Touching Mother's Day Gift Ideas Sure to Tug at Her Heartstrings. Shower her with handprints, footprints, drawings, and all the reasons you love her.

This collection of Mother's Day Gift Ideas includes a mix of DIY Mother's crafts as well as super sweet Mother's Day Gifts to buy. Affiliate links are used in this post.

In our house, we like to focus on laughter so I tend to look for Funny Mother's Day Gifts. However, every year our kids' teachers send home the sweetest, most sentimental handmade Mother's Day Crafts that just make my heart melt.

They are so touching that I want to shlep them out of my memories box every year and show them off, reliving the sweet moments they handed them to me, over and over again.

Below is a fun collection of ideas that are sure to make any mom misty-eyed.

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Touching Mother's Day Gift Ideas

Some of these are DIY Mother's Day Gifts and some are ones you can buy. Click through for tutorials or to make a purchase.

1. MOM LEGO Picture Frame – Let your builder make mom this cool memento.

2. Make her a Love Book – No one could make it through without getting teary eyed!

3. Gorgeous Heart Hands Picture Frame – A classic way to remember just how little their sweet hands were.

4. Handmade “I Love You More Than…” Keepsake – This is so adorable, and it is funny to read their answers.

5. Salt Dough Handprint Picture Frame – A photo gift AND a handprint gift, what more can you ask for?

6. Handprint Ring Dish – It will be fun to look back on this one every year.

7. DIY Printable Mother's Day Keepsake Journal – So cute!

8. Reasons We Love Mom Sign (This craft is geared towards teachers, but would work PERFECTLY for an inexpensive, easy Mother's Day Surprise!)

9. Handprint Memories Box – It is nice to find something outside the normal gift ideas, and this is one of them.

10. DIY I Love You Pillowcase – Another super unique, super useful idea for a Mother's Day Gift!!

11. Family Portrait Embroidery Hoop – I mean! Does it get any cuter??

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12. Clay Footprint Heart-shaped Bowl – How cute would this be to do every year! Ha!

13. Hand-drawn Shrinky Dinks Keyring – Modern craft twist on a classic.

14. Fingerprint Heart Key Chain – So sweet and simple.

15. Polymer Clay Stylish Handprint Ring Dish – This is a similar gift to one above, but you can customize it with mom's favorite colors, or to match any decor.

16. Framed Mother's Day Poem – When you are looking for some words to express what she means.

17. Any of these Awesome Mom & Me Journals would be cool because they combine almost all of the Love Languages. You've got Gifts, Acts of Service, Quality Time and Words of Affirmation all in one thoughtful Mother's Day Gift!

18. Mommy & Me Coloring Books – Similar to the journals, a nice way to spend time together.

19. Easy Fingerprint Heart Magnets – A really cute DIY Craft that you can make in batches for all the moms in your life.

20. Love Grows Here Fingerprint Plate – A sweet message on a useful gift.

21. Your Love Makes Me Grow Planter Insert – I don't know why but this one makes me giggle, such a cute idea!

22. Cratebox Subscription in her Favorite Theme – Use Promo Code THANKU22 to Gift a 3+ month subscription by Mother's Day (May 8, 2022) and get $10 off orders of $50 or more in June! 

 

 

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