The Best Gift for Mom is Handmade: 10 DIY Ideas to Make Unique Gifts for Mom (2018)

• Wood Piece of desired shape and size.
• Drill
• Sand paper
• Paint – One color for painting the wood and one for writing the message.
• Screws
• Brush
• Clear varnish

• Cut the wood into desired shape and size and smoothen the edges with sand paper. Now, start painting the wooden piece preferably with a darker color with the help of wide brush.
• Let it dry and then start writing your message through narrow pointed brush. Once completely dry, paint it again with vinyl to add some finish. Paint it over with clear varnish to add the shine.
• Drill the wall and hang it on the wall through the screws.

• Canvas
• Wood for framing
• Color palette
• Various brushes
• Hook for hanging

How to Make It

• Take a suitable sized canvas and start outlining your art work
• Draw it well and then start coating it with the paint through the brushes
• Once done, let it dry for at least a day
• Simply, frame it with the wood and hang it in your mom's bedroom.

• Multicolored yarn
• Scissors
• Huge golden hoop
• Hook for hanging
• Masking tape

• Take equal length of pieces from yarns of different colors. Now, take a single piece and fold it in half of its length and make a loop around the big golden hoop.
• Pass the other end of the yarn from this loop in a way that it gets secured in the giant golden hoop.
• Repeat the same step for the rest of the pieces and your wall hanging it ready. Hang it on the wall through a hook.

• Mason jars – 3
• Paint
• Paint brush
• Clear varnish
• Pointed tool for scrapping

• Take a mason jar and start painting it with the favorite color of your mom. Let it dry and then start scrapping it through a pointed tool.
• Write the initials of your mom or a happy word. Apply a layer of clear varnish to add some shine.
• Repeat the process of other jars and fill them with some fresh flowers.

• Colorful cloth for outer layer.
• Zipper
• Sewing machine
• Fabric for inner lining.

• The idea is pretty simple, just cut the two pieces from outer clothing fabric and two pieces from inner lining fabric of same size.
• Now, place the outer fabric facing outwards then 2 layer of inner fabric and then another outer layer fabric over it. Sew them together from three side leaving one open for zipper. Sew the zipper on it and you are done now.

• 2-1/2 cup milk
• 1 cup butter
• semisweet chocolate
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 2-2/3 cups all purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 tea spoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt


• For filling
• 6 tablespoons butter
• bittersweet chocolate
• 2-1/2 cup confectioner’s sugar
• ½ cup heavy whipping cream


• For ganache
• Semisweet chocolate
• 2/3 heavy whipping cream

• In a large bowl, cook the milk, chocolate and butter until everything gets mixed together and then let it cool. Set the oven on 325 degree for preheating and start beating eggs and vanilla in a large bowl.
• Now combine the chocolate mixture, flour, salt, baking soda and sugar in this mixture and mix well. Transfer this mixture equally in three greased tin and bake for 30 minutes.
• Prepare the filling by melting butter and chocolate in a small pan and now mix confectioner’s sugar and cream in it to make it smooth.
• Prepare the ganache by boiling cream in a pan and pour over chocolates in another pan and mix it well.
• Now, place one baked cake and layer it with filling and repeat for the other two. Finally, pour the ganache over it and cool it down in the fridge.

• Multi colored threads
• A hardboard
• Small nails
• Small hammer

• Take a hardboard and start hammering the nails on it in a heart shape.
• Now, place the rest of the nails randomly outside this heart shape.
• Tie a threat from one of the nail on the heart and start rotating it on the rest of the nails to secure the shape.
• Once done with the heart, rotate the threads on the nails outside the heart and you are done.
• You can hang this piece of heart in your mom’s bedroom.

• Small sized Canvas or hardboard
• Black paint
• Brush
• Hooks for hanging
• Wooden framing

• Simply paint the initials of your mom on a hardboard or canvas. Secure it with a wooden framing
• Place the frame through a hook in her bedroom.

• A while coffee mug
• Black paint
• Small brush for art
• Clear varnish

• Take the white coffee mug and use the black paint to draw some art on it.
• You can also use some other colors too to create whatever you want.
• Now, after completely drying, use clear varnish to secure the paint and you are done.

• Craft paper
• multicolored pens
• Stancil
• Her pictures

• It mostly depends upon your choice how you want to make it.
• You can take a craft paper and fold it by half of its length to give it a card shape.
• Now, stick some of her pictures in it and write down some notes with multicolored pen.
• Use the stencil for different cut-outs on the card.

• Refer to YouTube videos
  If you are finding it hard to make an item just by the given written steps then you should better up your game with the help of YouTube. There are plenty of amazing channels providing great DIY ideas for a lot of type of gifts. This is the best way you can make a gift with step by step process.


• Pinterest is a great place to look for ideas and inspiration
  Pinterest is no less than a wonderland for DIY and creativity lovers and this is why people keep on searching for the pins here. Simply, search for homemade gift ideas and you can find plenty of pins out there to select from. You can find complete step by step process later on by clicking on that pin.


• Seek help from friends
  The best way to prepare a gift for mom handmade is by putting together the best efforts possible. For this, you can rely on your friends as it becomes much simpler when we work in a group. You guys can also pitch in new ideas into it and your work will be done quite early than ever.