Need Gift Ideas. - Winter Springs,FL

handprints can be difficult with little ones.....instead you might try fingerprints - grouped into a "bunch of flowers". Just do several fingerprints for the flower centers....& then draw on the petals, stems, & leaves. Draw the stems so that the flowers form a gathered bouquet, draw a loopy bow around it.....& write "I picked these flowers just for you, Mom!" .....!

Supplies needed: **simple piece of construction paper (or cardstock which doesn't wrinkle when the fingerprint dries).
**Permanent marker for drawing the details & writing the phrase.
**& for the actual fingerprints....you can use: ink pad, acrylic paint - thinned down, & even food dye - but that will be harder to remove from little fingers.

Oh, & as a heads-up, I use fingerprints in many applications. You can make them into fish, animals (makes great bunnies, mice, dogs, etc), & many other things!

I haven't read the other resp[onses ,but, a homemade plague with her hand and/or footprints and the date and her name would be a great gift. Youjh can recipes for the plaster on line and just set her little hands/feet in it after it has started to set. you can add a paper clip to the back for hanging. I always got one as my children started school and I cherished them ! You surely won't find her prints in a store, you can paint it ,etc.

Have fun, it's really thoughtful of you ! C. S.

Paper and sweet hand and footprints along with a sweet verse. Every Mom would cherish such a gift! It's priceless!!!

Buy an inexpensive picture frame and a mat. Make her daughters handprints on the mat and frame a picture of her daughter.

I like the handprint idea. Do you have a dollar you can spare if so go to the dollar store & get a frame & put it in it.

Grab a canvas for 5 bucks, suit up and let her go to town! We did this for my husband and my daughter made an amazing painting, it was the best gift ever!

Get a nice heavy paper and use finger paint to paint her hand prints Then write happy mothers day here is a poem that my kids came home from school with one year on a paper with their hand prints

"This is to remind you
When I have grown so tall,
That once I was quite little
And my hands were very small."

Another suggestion-if you have taken pictures of her little girl while babysitting simply download them to a CD labelled "Your first year as a Mommy".
I also love when my children give me coupon booklet that they made. Some ideas they had were free night of cuddling,night of emptying the fishwasher,rubbing my back.etc. You could present her with coupons from you-free day or evening of babysitting,a home made meal,housecleaning... All the things that don't cost money yet moms would love to have done for them.

I just got a beautiful "bouquet" of handprint flowers from my daughter that she made a preschool. She is older, but I think you could still do them; they would just be smaller. The teacher traced her handprint and then cut it out and made more handprints in various colors. They rolled each up so all the fingers stuck up like a tulip and taped them to green pipe cleaners and made a bouquet wrapped in tissue paper. So sweet!

When my daughters' Nanny had my girls give me handprints in clay with their names on there, that was one of the best Mothers Day gifts I've ever received!

Her handprints in paint along with the poem that starts, "Sometimes You Get Discouraged Because I am So Small......" Add a photo of the baby with it.