Hey moms! I am looking for a creative Mother's Day gift for my mother and my mother-in-law. My son is the only grandchild on my side, but my mother-in-law has another grandson 3 months younger than my son. I have done all the usual before, photo albums, scrapbooks, framed photos, handprints, but I am all out of ideas. I want the gifts to obviously geared as from my son, and not me and my husband. Can ya'll think of any creative things to do? Help!
I would suggest doing something from Heavenly Toes. It is mom-owned and they do such beautiful work. They are amazing. Good luck!
How about going to a paint your own pottery/ceramics place and creating something with footprints or handprints?
Last year we got one of those infinished wood treasure chests from the craft store (the box depending on size and the paint shouldn't cost you more than $20 for the whole project) and painted (using water based acrylic paints so my son could help and they would be wasahable) it a color to match my MIL decor in her home and then put my son's foot prints and hand prints on it. Then I put some keepsakes from his birth and throughout his life so far and everytime he grows out of clothes or paints a pretty picture I give them to her to add to her box.
Last mothers day I had all three of my kids paint a piece of construction paper. When they dried we framed them for my mom. I didn't write on the art work or change it in anyway...that way they were completely from them. My mother has them hanging over her bed still. :-)
A couple of years ago I got plain canvas tote bags from a craft store and fabric paint.
I wrote on the bags, "My Grandson Walks All Over Me" and I put my son's foot prints on it. My son (who at the time was about the same age as yours) thought it was SO fun.
You could also do it with a T-Shirt.
I'm not sure if you have the time to do this for each grandmother but a neat idea if you are good at sewing, is to buy some different fabrics or use old jeans and materials and cut them into squares, then sew little pockets on some of the squares and put pictures in the pockets, then sew the squares together in a pattern you like to make a cute blanket. Another way to do that is to buy a kit that will actually print photos from your computer to fabric or have that done at a gift store, then sew the squares together. After that let your son paint around the pictures with some fabric paint. Another option would be to make a calender for them. Get some construction paper or colorful poster board and cut 13 different pieces big enough for a calender. Draw your calender days just like on a normal calender but instead of having pictures of puppies or things that calenders usually have, take a different picture of your son to put on their for each month. For valentines you could have a picture of him with paper hearts laying around, for easter take a picture of him with some eggs....etc..... very cute and very easy to do!
Since you are wanting something for your mom and mother-in-law maybe it should be coming from you and your husband. You can always add a small gift from your son.
As a mother and a grandmother myself, I would like to get something from my daughters to show their feelings for me as their mother and maybe get a momento from my grandson on grandparents day.
I believe your husband should give you something from him and your son.
Try www.sharemykidsart.com. We got the granny a coffe mug and she loved it!
I don't think you have to send anything from your kids for Mother's Day. Your kids should be giving YOU something. And YOU should be giving your mom something. Your husband should worry about a gift for his mom, but there is no harm in you doing it for him as well. Grandparent's Day is the first Sunday after Labor Day. That is when you should send something from your kids.
Having said that, I always remember my grandmother for both Mother's Day and Grandparent's Day. I usually just send cards on Mother's Day and ask my daughter to "color" them for "GG" (that's what my daughter calls her). She always tells me I shouldn't because it's not Grandparent's Day. But at the same time, there aren't many people my age that still have a grandparent who is still living, so I feel very fortunate.
