Free Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
Mother’s Day is one of my favorite days in the year. When I became a mom my life changed forever! Hearing my grown children say the word Mom is the most beautiful sound. What do I really want for Mother’s Day? I love receiving the gifts that cost nothing. Here are some wonderful and free things that you can do for your mom.
- Clean her house
- Cook her a meal
- Weed her flower bed
- Help her in the garden
- Call her on the phone or Face-time
- Teach her to cook a new dish
- Make her a video
- Make her a card, just like you did when you were a child
- Send her pictures of yourself doing what makes you happy
- Bring the grandchildren for a visit
- Have grandchildren make her a picture or craft
- Make her a mask with fabric you have (or she has)
- Help her with any technical chores (cellphone, DVD, or computer) that she has trouble with
- Play a board game that she loves
- Bring over one of your favorite puzzles and work on it with her
- Help her with a chore, like a dripping faucet
- Just spend time with her
Many of these ideas are easier for older children. But, maybe these ideas will get you to thinking about ways that you could bring a big smile to your mother’s face. Moms don’t necessarily want more things. Mom-life changes in each decade, but Moms just want to be loved. Young moms may appreciate time alone and older moms may be lonely.
Fresh flowers, candy, and jewelry are all classic gifts for mom, but those gifts of time are the best. Gifts of time are free but they produce lasting memories and joy. Don’t miss your chance to please mom. It would also be fun to make some of these ideas into a little coupon book to present to her. This will give her a fun way to cash in on these special times.
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What ideas do you have for your mom? Use your imagination, and come up with a special way to remember your mom. She’ll be pleased.
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Lisa has been blogging since 2013, and loves sharing resources and ideas for living a simple life. To get free printables, bonus words, and more - sign up for the newsletter.
Thanks for the great ideas!
These are all fantastic Mother’s Day gift ideas that don’t cost anything! Sometimes the best things in life are free and I know that most moms would love these gifts. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Monica!
These are all things i would love to get from my kids
Thank you for these awesome ideas!! My mom is hard to get gifts for!!
These are great gifts! Thanks for sharing these with us.
Thanks, Monique 🙂
this is neat and great for mothers day and birthdays too
Thanks! I hope you had a blessed Mother’s Day!
great ideas for mother’s day
Yes, we love our moms 🙂
You’re welcome, Tracy! I hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day 🙂
Great ideals! Thank you for sharing.
I totally agree! Moms are the best!ðŸ˜ðŸ’š
You are a very blessed mom! I’m so happy that they do this for you 🙂
For several years in a row when asked what I wanted for Mother’s day I always said a clean house and my husband usually pitched in with the boys to make it happen.
Moms everywhere will love that 🙂
So true! It would work with all the teens and college kids still at home, or over facetime. We need to be creative in these days. I hope I can Facetime with my kids and mom tomorrow 🙂
You can’t really go over and play a board game if you’re in quarantine, but you could play a game over Facetime! If you both have the game you could each keep one in front of you and move for the other person. But you could definitely play even if there’s only one board. I like a lot of these ideas. You could easily go weed her garden, for example, without getting to close.
Mother’s Day is a great time to show Mom how much you care by lightening her load! Thanks for sharing!