10 Fun and Creative Ways to Celebrate Mom This Year
1. Offer yard and garden services.
If you’re local to your Mom, give her a “gift certificate” for your family’s yard and garden services. Help her by laying down mulch. Put the “certificate” in a flower pot.
2. Decorate your mom’s door or give flowers!
If you’re nearby, you can have fun decorating your mom’s front door with streamers, special signs, a wreath, and flowers! If you have kids, get them involved! Mom or grandma will love the surprise.
3. Cook for Mom or set up a brunch date.
Breakfast in bed is always a classic and appreciated! Something simple is fine for this, such as toast or a croissant with jam or fruit and a cup of coffee or tea. Or, if she’s not fond of eating in bed, how about preparing a sit-down brunch? Here are 15 delicious brunch ideas.
4.Give your mom a long phone call or put on a virtual talent show!
Talk to her (or video chat) and make her laugh. Perhaps throw in some good “mom jokes.” Put on a talent show! It can be simple. Sing a song, show off some gymnastics, play an instrument.
5. Watch a movie or show together, side by side.
If you’re all at home in one place, have a movie that night, complete with theater treats. If you’re in separate locations, watch the same movie on your computers at the same time. Or, start a marathon of your favorite TV series while indulging in a glass of wine or cup of tea.
6. Get creative: Make Mom a video or a piece of art!
Record a video from all of the children. They can each say “Happy Mother’s Day” and why they appreciate her. You can always use iMovie to splice videos together on your phone. How about a special work of art for Mom? For example, paint the outside of a terra-cotta flower pot and fill it with garden seeds and a card. Or, make a beautiful photo frame with your family photo inside. You can find many ideas on Pinterest and elsewhere on the Web.
7. Get outside! Go for a stroll in the park or how about packing mom a picnic?
Fresh air always lifts the spirit. Spring is a wonderful time to visit a park and look for all those lovely spring flowers. How about packing a simple picnic? If mom’s living nearby, drop off a picnic basket on her porch! If you’re living together, pack a cooler for a beautiful drive through the countryside.
8. Make a homemade gift!
You don’t need to go out to a store and buy a gift. Mothers love gifts from the heart. Here are some fun craft projects—including gifts from the kitchen as well as DIY beauty products for a home spa basket!
- Make your own herbal vinegar
- Make your own fruit facial or scrub
- Make your own soap
- Make a lavender sachet
- Make rose potpourri
- Make strawberry jam
- Make blueberry-rhubarb Jam
- Make a pretty gift jar
9. Travel virtually to a museum or garden!
Even if you’re not together, the wonders of technology make so much possible today. More and more museums are opening up their “walls” to offer virtual tours!
Set up a Mother’s Day date for you and your mom to visit the Louvre in Paris! Or how about the Vatican in Rome? Or, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City?
10.Make your own card.
Potting your plants in creative and beautiful plant vases will add a touch of décor to your plants. If you have an indoor garden on your balcony, then you must have vases that look good.
