Brighten up your mom’s Christmas With These Gorgeous DIY Gifts

There’s still some time left for Christmas, so we have looked up some DIY Christmas presents for mom as they make precious gifts which you will never forget. We have included inspirational ideas which will keep reminding her about you when you are somewhere far. These gift ideas are also great if you are somewhat broke right now or can’t decide on what to get for your mother as a Christmas gift. She is going to approve of these highly-creative gifts. 

Best DIY Christmas Gifts for Mothers

Mothers love to receive presents for Christmas as it is the holiday season. Giving and receiving gifts is a part of the Christmas spirit and also helps you know about each other. This season, surprise her with DIY gifts.

The ‘Open when…’ envelopes have become quite a popular gift idea. You can send this to your mom if you stay somewhere far from her. Even if you both live in the same house, she can open these cards to cheer herself up when you are at work and she misses you. Make 8-10 notes by writing on paper with markers to put in envelopes. You must already have them at home. 

We have found some colourful envelopes which you can personalize by writing when she should open each envelope. This is going to be a gift which your mom is going to treasure her whole life and will keep opening now and then to read the sweet messages. Just think about the dominant moods and emotions of mom and get to making these envelopes. These mini envelopes will make cute DIY Christmas gifts for mom.

Key Features:

• 3 pages of DIY stickers
• Blank covers for showing creativity
• 120 multi-coloured envelopes

You will love this genius idea. Order these blank canvas bags. Then get hold of some fabric paint or markers. Think of what you want to draw on the bag. You can gift two bags to your mom. So one can focus on this being a gift for your mom. So something like ‘I Love You Mom’ is good enough and on the other may be something Christmassy. 

You can even make funny drawings or write something witty to make your mother laugh. Don’t forget to iron the bags before gifting them to mom. She will love these sturdy tote bags and she will be able to use them for various purposes. These are reusable and eco-friendly bags as they are made with cotton. Just ensure that you use fade-resistant ink or colours that won’t wash away and these will be as good as printed bags.

Key Features:

• Zippers to keep things safe
• Tips are given on how to personalise
• Thick but soft material

This create your own globe is one of the sweetest gifts you can give to your mom. She will absolutely love it. This create-a-globe is made out of durable plastic, not glass so it’s kid friendly! It holds two 2×3 photos, one on each side and includes 4 pre-printed inserts for the snow globe base or you can create your own. One can make their own snow globe by customizing the base with a photo, drawing, embroidery, monogram, or anything else you can think of!

Key Features:

• Rectangle in shape 
• Plastic shape
• For DIY lovers

If you want to create a memorable keepsake, then get this Hands Casting Kit. You will have a good Christmas activity to do with your mom which will also turn into a gift for her. The project can be done easily if you follow the instructions step-by-step. To make sure you come out with a great memento, watch some online videos before you get started. If you are careful during the moulding process, you will get accurate results. The plaster hands will look almost exact to you and your mom’s hand. And don’t worry even if it turns out a little imperfect, as a gift it is a reflection of the strong bond that you both share and is also a reminder for your mom that you are always going to hold her hand strongly, in all situations.

Key Features:

• Easy to make
• The superior quality moulding powder
• Chip-resistant plaster

This is a cool idea. You will be using one frame twice for taking pictures and then presenting that photo frame to your mom. It sounds a little confusing. So, here’s an explanation. You need to invest in a little planning before doing this DIY project. Think of a place which will serve as a good background for photos of both your mom and you. It’s best to have a muted background, or since it’s going to be a Christmas gift, a Christmas decoration would look best. E.g.: a Christmas tree. 

The photos would look great if you dress in colour coordinating with your mom. First, get your photo clicked and printed. Then insert the printed photo inside the frame we’ve listed. Next, tell your mom to hold that frame and exactly stand at the same position. Remember to tell her to dress in the same colour that you’re wearing in the pic. Once she stands holding your framed photo, click her photo and get it printed. Now take out your solo pic, insert the new one and you have a unique photo of both of you. Gift this frame to her as a special Christmas gift.

Key Features:

• Can be wall mounted
• Can be kept on the table
• Big frame

If you need DIY Christmas gift ideas for mom which are also money-saving, then a homemade bar of soap is one of them. It is also a practical gift that she will enjoy using. Make the soap smell great by using her favourite fragrance and watch her smile with disbelief when you tell her that you made it yourself. She will be reminded of you every time she washes her hands! 

To help you carry out this idea, we’ve found you a soap base that you will need at the base step of making your soap. You can craft clear soaps with this base and then essential oils to it. But first, you have to melt and pour this base into a mould. The pH level of the raw material makes it suitable for most skin types. Handmade soaps are pure and free from any sulphate or parabens. Put a mood-uplifting essence like lavender or jasmine and prepare an ultra-special gift for your mom.

Key Features:

• Makes transparent soap
• Vegetable-based
• Melts easily

You can make a home-decor item with these pinecones. Take a vase or a bowl and fill it up with small pinecones. It will make a lovely centrepiece decoration for any table. The cones are light and will not make the gift vase heavy when filled up. The ones you are getting here are real and thus are unscented and brown. To make them Christmas-themed, dip them in red and green paint. Stick artificial snow and spray some glitter to make it an apt festive and fun gift. You can turn it into a potpourri item by adding some fragrance. Put in a string of rice lights and you will get a gift that’s hard to find even in stores! Your mom would be able to give a holiday makeover to any table.

Key Features:

• Organic and untreated
• Great DIY activity 
• Good for DIY holiday decor pieces

Why don’t you DIY a set of kitchen tools? Get this 5-piece of a bamboo spatula, spoon and turner set and put her initials on them. You can engrave or paint ‘Mom’s a Top Chef’ on them. You can also make different Christmas patterns on each of them like snowflakes, reindeer, snowmen, Christmas tree, gift box or just write Merry Christmas. You have been the biggest fan of mom’s cooking since childhood. She was the one who made Christmas feasts at home that can leave you drooling just thinking about it. You wonder how she loves to spend so much time in the kitchen, now that you live separately and run your kitchen. You love to visit her for a break from your cooking. This gift idea that we are going to discuss now is going to make her even more excited to cook up a meal for you whenever you visit her after sending this gift to her that has can be carved to to make customization. 

Key Features:

• Organic Bamboo spoons
• Best gift for home-chefs
• Won’t scratch or damage utensils

The best DIY Christmas gifts for mom if she struggles to remember all the keys that she has to handle are these writable key tags. If your mom lives alone or she is just a stressed person, she might forget details about keys at times. Hey, even we struggle to remember which key is for which drawer if they look similar. Get this set of 24 keychains for her. Wondering about the DIY part? You have to open the key tag and write on the labels for identification. Then again insert the labels and close the tags. The key tags are translucent and your mom can read them easily. You can write on both sides. So help her by writing which keychain she should use for which keys. She can then attach them accordingly and never get confused.

Key Features:

• Value for money set
• No mixing up of kits
• Easiest & useful DIY Christmas gift

You are perhaps thinking of making a crochet Christmas basket for a loved one and filling it up with goodies. This little ebook here will show you how to make this delightful Christmas gift using crochet. The attractive design of the basket will draw a lot of compliments and be assured that you will get at least one request to make another basket for someone else. You don’t necessarily fill the basket with any more gifts, it is a great gift by itself. The recipient will have a lovely new decor item to display at home during Christmas. It can be used to store different kinds of knick-knacks like dry fruits, chocolates, etc. Red, white and green cotton yarn has been suggested here to make it apt as a Christmas gift. But the only thing is, you have to have some basic beginner’s level skills already to make it. Do not attempt it if this is your first project!

Key Features:

• Use of different stitches and techniques
• Intermediate difficulty level
• Practical gift idea

If your mother is someone who makes wine at home or loves to end the day by sipping on a glass of wine or a mug of beer after a hard day’s work, a set of wine stoppers would be a great gift for her. They can serve as a replacement for a bottle cap after it has been opened. You can get hold of these 150 pcs of tapered wooden bottle stoppers and customize them. DIY projects can be done on these wooden corks. The size of these corks is suitable for most wine, whiskey and beer bottles. The elasticity of the corks doesn’t let any drink spill out or let the flavoured fizz out because it stops oxygen from flowing in the bottles. These are safe and high-quality corks. So get some plain ones and make designs like a wine glass, cherry or holly leaves on them. You can also scribble funny things like ‘tonight’s dose’ on them to make them funny.

Key Features:

• Good shape
• Does not mould quickly
• Excellent sealing

Don’t think that your mom is unaware that there are quite a few bottles at your home waiting to be discarded. You are an adult now and we are sure that she knows that on weekends you like to enjoy having a few glasses of wine. So don’t be embarrassed while going ahead with our next DIY gift idea because it is one of the simplest ones to make a great Christmas gift. 

Take one of the empty wine bottles lying around. Transparent ones are best for any DIY project but since it’s Christmas, the green bottle would suit the occasion. Clean the bottle so that there’s no alcohol, we don’t want any flames. It would be great if you could remove all the labels and turn them into a plain bottle. Dry it out, because we don’t want any electric shocks either! Next is the most important step, get a string of fairy lights and put them in the bottle. Voila, there’s a gift that will fill your mom’s room with a cosy, warm light.

Key Features:

• Warm white light
• Fit for Christmas party decoration
• Along-lasting copper wire LED lights

Remind your mom subtly to bake and cook more goodies for you this Christmas by giving her a pair of oven mitts. It can be a struggle to choose a pair online as there are multitudes of them. You also have to choose the one which goes best with the existing look of the kitchen. You can cut down on that struggle by opting for these cute DIY Christmas gifts for mom. The task of making custom oven mitts will become much simpler if you know how to sew. We would suggest you do not wait till the last moment for making this gift. Having enough time at hand means you will be able to sew whatever pattern you want. Hurrying can also lead to pricking yourself with a needle. So you can sew a big Christmas tree or small stars of different colours on them. You can also sew Christmas bells or write ‘HO, HO, HO!’ on them.

Key Features:

• Make stylish oven mitts with these
• Silicone oven mitts
• Protects hands from heat

It is a well-known fact that mothers like a simple classic gift like a picture frame. And nothing better when the pic has your photo or a photo of both of you. You can make a heartwarming gift for your mother when you add a personal touch to the frame. So, quickly get the frame that we think will be best for it and start decorating it. 

There are various ways in which one can decorate a photo frame. You can simply cover the edges with fabric or you can draw and/or paint on them. It is best to get an inexpensive frame with wide borders where you can scribble a short message, a greeting or doodle a nice design. Print out the best photo of you and your mom’s photo or a stunning solo pic and insert it into the frame. This homemade, special Christmas gift will be appreciated by your mom and she will immediately hang it on a wall or keep it on a table.

Key Features:

• Fitted with glass
• Foil-wrapped MDF used
• Wide borders

We don’t think there is any mom who would not like to receive a set of coasters with her child’s photo on them. Resin photo coasters are good DIY Christmas gifts for moms. This one is a beautiful gift idea which can be made with very few materials. You can also customize the coasters using your drawings. Scan and print the photos on glossy good quality paper to make great quality coasters. You’ll need resin, photos, a brush, glue stick, craft felt and blank wooden squares to turn them into coasters with your perfect crafting skill. If all these sound complicated to you, simply write or paint on them. Wooden finish ones are always favoured by parents. Your mom will quickly get obsessed with these fancy coasters made by none other than you!

Key Features:

• 25 blank coasters
• Perfectly shaped by laser cutting

You can make good DIY Christmas gifts for mom by using unfinished wooden boxes. A decorated box is another of the traditional gifts that moms generally like. You can put a label on a box to help her figure out what she can keep in it. She can best use it for storing her semi-precious or fashion jewellery pieces. She can then keep it on the dressing table so that everyone who enters the room can have a peek at her artistic skill. You can make more than one box for her if your head is swarming with creative ideas. Put your best creative self out there and decorate boxes for your mother. She’ll undoubtedly have a lot of knick-knacks for using each one of the boxes.

Key Features:

• 2 Wooden boxes with locks
• Rustic brown colour
• Multiple uses

Holiday goody bags are not just for kids. You can make cute goody bags at home for your mom by using regular brown paper bags. Put Christmas tags, stickers and felt on goody bags and embellish them. Again, if you are not a very creative person or good with craftwork, simple designs like a big Christmas tree or snowflake shapes are enough to make a plain bag look nice. Just do it neatly and use bright colours. Put a ‘Happy Holiday’ tag on the bag, fill it up with goodies or small gifts like a bookmark, pen, candies etc. and present it to your mom. You will be delighted to see her child-like excitement.

Key Features:

• Thick paper suitable for painting
• Microwave-friendly
• No smell

Use one pack of the stack of paper napkins that you have lying around in the kitchen. We have for you a DIY Christmas gift idea that even a toddler can make. Buy the set of Holiday stamps that we have found for you. They come at an amazingly cheap price for a set of 24. Stamp a different design on separate tissue paper. You can make them look cuter by adding ribbons of the same colour as the print. E.g.: A green ribbon on the napkin having the green reindeer.

Key Features:

• 2 dozen stampers
• Durable plastic
• Cheerful holiday designs

If you have been into knitting for a while and someone is impressed with your crochet work, why don’t you encourage them to try out this new hobby by themselves? This book is great for beginners and is helpful for non-beginners too. There are a good 144 pages in the book that teaches how to crochet and knit squares and block patterns. That too 50 of them! One will be able to learn 50 stitches and techniques from this book. The skill level or difficulty level progresses gradually with every square pattern so that beginners will be able to follow, learn and skill up with each one. There are also some project ideas given at the last that will help the crocheters to put what they learnt to good use.

Key Features:

• Creative gift
• Tutorial and charts
• Each square teaches a new stitch

We were searching for DIY Christmas gifts for mom from daughter when we found this fill-in-the-blank journal. You have to fill up this little book before giving it to your mother. Only then will it be able to express your love and affection for her and become a memorable gift. There is just one line on each page that you have to fill up and your mom can spend her lifetime looking at those pages repeatedly. You don’t have to be a good writer to turn the book into an impressive one. Just be honest with your feelings and heartwarming lines will automatically flow out. You can also make a few pages funny by putting a sweet smile on mom’s face. You can show more creativity by doodling and scribbling inside. Maybe put some cute stickers? Ultimately, it’s a small personal gift which your mother would love.

Key Features:

• 50 pages to fill up
• Cute size
• Thoughtful gift

You must have figured out which one you would like to make for mommy dearest as your Christmas gift to her. Whichever gift idea you choose from the above, she will adore it. It is going to be a memorable gift for her. It is going to be a keepsake gift for her that will keep on providing her with happiness for a long, long time.