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DIY Mother’s Day Gift Baskets

By:

Britni Vigil

05/06/2025

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This Mother’s Day give mom what she really wants – a little time alone and some fun DIY Mother’s Day gift baskets to enjoy on her day off! Alone time and a bunch of treats she doesn’t have to share will be the perfect Mother’s Day gift for any mom in your life!

Mother's day baskets with Mother's Day tags on them

The Best DIY Gift Basket Ideas for Mom

Okay so I can’t take credit for this idea. My husband actually came up with this idea last year – probably after I’d hinted numerous times that what I really wanted for Mother’s Day was a day off from being mom.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my kids. I love being a mom. And I’m sure all of the other moms out there do too, but being a mom is also exhausting, especially the past year.

So while I love being with my kids every other day of the year, I personally loved that my husband set me up in our master bedroom with a TV, a big bubble bath, and bags full of treats and gifts to enjoy without the mom guilt that too often plagues us all.

Since I enjoyed it so much, I thought I’d recreate the idea with some free printables, ideas for Mother’s Day baskets to give with the day off, and even a gift letter explaining the gift to the mom in your life.

Pretty sure all moms I know would enjoy this one!

Mother's Day letter

How to make These mother’s day baskets

The best thing about this Mother’s Day gift is that it’s so easy to put together AND it’s super easy to personalize and customize for the mom in your life.

I’ve come up with eight different Mother’s Day baskets below and included free printables for each of them. Pick and choose the baskets that make the most sense for your mom and leave the others.

Or go all out and give her all eight. I’d take any of these eight!

Once you’ve picked out your baskets and done your shopping, it’s time to put together the baskets.

Print out these printables (or download them at the bottom of this post). Cut out the labels and the letter that you’ll need.

tags for Mother's Day baskets with scissors

Each basket label also comes with a little card that goes into the basket explaining the label a bit more. These are just six of the eight – all eight are shown below for you to choose from!

Tags for Mother's Day baskets

Once they’re cut out, simply tape the label to your bag or basket, place the explanation card inside, and fill up the bags!

I woke up to a letter from my husband last year explaining the gift, so that’s what I recommend. Let mom sleep in and leave the letter with gifts on the door or pillow, whatever she’ll see first. She’ll know what to do with them!

Mother's Day baskets with a label that says pizza and quiet

DIY Video

Want to see how easy it is to make these Mother’s Day baskets? Check out the video below!

DIY Mother’s Day Baskets

Okay now it’s time to talk about the different baskets I came up with.

I tried to cover all the basics for what mom could want on her day off, but if you have more ideas and want additional labels, email me and I’ll see what I can do!

Eats and Treats (Breakfast in Bed)

Mom has to eat and breakfast in bed is a Mother’s Day tradition so let’s start with that first. My husband had me text him when I was ready to eat, so I did the same.

You can get things you don’t have to cook like yogurt, granola, and fruit – or here are some of my favorite recipes that are easy to make!

  • Breakfast casserole with ham and cheese
  • Mini pancakes recipe
  • Blueberry yogurt muffins
  • Hash brown egg cups
  • Homemade strawberry danish

The card for this one says text BREAKFAST when you’re ready to eat just in case she wants to actually start her day off with a little chocolate from one of the other bags and wants to save breakfast for later.

Tray with a plate of breakfast on it

Guilty Pleasures Basket

We all have them – things we probably shouldn’t do but love to anyway. Eating edible cookie dough straight from the bowl, reading magazines or chick flicks, binge watching an entire series on TV.

This basket is all about giving mom the permission (not that she needs it…) to spend the day enjoying all of those pleasures without any guilt.

For this basket, I picked up some yummy treats from like edible cookie dough, a magazine, and some candy that my boys would normally steal in a heartbeat if they were around.

purple gift bag with a book and magazine aroun

Sip, Bath, and Relax

I have to give the credit to my husband for this one. I knew I wanted a bath basket and he immediately came up with the sip, bath, and relax idea.

There’s nothing more relaxing in my opinion than soaking in a hot bubble bath with a glass of sparkling cider (or a sparkling mojito mocktail) while watching your favorite show or reading a book.

I’m a huge fan of baths and if the other moms on my neighborhood are any indication, most moms out there are too.

Blue gift basket with sparkling cider and bath salts

Snacks to NOT Share

This bag is probably the easiest of all of them to fill up. Instead of giving mom three square meals – give her breakfast, dinner, and filling snacks to eat throughout the day.

While the guilty pleasures bag should be full of yummy treats, the snack bag can have more filling snacks like a charcuterie board or just her favorite snacks!

charcuterie board on a pink background

Shop Therapy

Have a mom who likes to shop? Pick up a couple of gift cards and encourage her to use the gift cards on herself with a little at home shopping.

Gift cards on a pink background

Ma’s Spa

Clean up time but this time instead of mom cleaning up messes, she’s cleaning up herself! Grab a couple of things you think mom will enjoy and fill this Mother’s Day basket with items to pamper herself.

Face masks, scrubs, exfoliating gloves, lotions, and more all go well in this bag.

If you’d rather you could also just put some of these things into the sip, bath, and relax basket since many of these things you can use before or after a long soak in the tub!

Pink gift bag with spa items all around

Slumber Party

Encourage mom to take a nap (if she wants of course) with this nap inspired bag. Comfy socks, ear plugs, sleeping mask, aromatherapy scents, and more can all make an uninterrupted nap even better!

Sleep mask and cozy socks

Pizza and Quiet

We talked about breakfast, now let’s talk about dinner.

The last thing mom is going to want to do at the end of the day is dishes. So for the dinner option, I made a pizza and quiet bag.

Order pizza, make homemade pizza dough with her favorite toppings, or any variation of pizza – pizza loaf is my personal favorite! And for dessert – sugar cookie fruit pizza of course!

Pizza box with a fruit pizza on top

There you go – the best Mother’s Day gift ever (a day off) plus some Mother’s Day baskets to make that day off even more enjoyable!

Download the Printable Mother’s Day Basket Gift Tags

Enter your name and email address below to download the printable files.

If you don’t see the form, you can click here to get to it.

The file will include:

  • One page PDF with the 8 different bag labels shown in this post
  • One page PDF that includes the gift letter to mom and the small explanation cards to put in the gifts!
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  1. Jane Doe
    05/05/2021

    These are great ideas….now to leave subtle hints for the family! 🙂
    Can you think of some father’s day things to do like this as well? Altho I don’t think he’d want to be holed up in a room all day 😛

    Reply
    1. Britni Vigil
      05/12/2021

      I’m on it – Father’s Day ideas here I come!

      Reply
  2. Vanessa
    05/05/2021

    This is SO SO good. I know my husband could not pull this off by Sunday morning, but I’ll bookmark it for next year. It sounds wonderful. Any chance you could make these labels with a Fathers Day twist? I would love to give my husband “the day off” too.,

    Reply
    1. Britni Vigil
      05/12/2021

      Father’s Day ideas coming right up!

      Reply

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