Want to make mom feel extra- special and loved this Mother’s Day?  While there are many simple and beautiful green gifts for moms, this list of the top 10 green and eco-friendly Mother’s Day gifts showcases the very best gift ideas for an eco-friendly Mother’s Day.

1. Plantable Paper Stationery is a Great Green Gift

While seed favors are popular as eco wedding favors, you can use seed stationery for Mother’s Day too. Botanical Paperworks offers some great plantable journals and card sets as well as a gift certificate. Made of tree-free, post-consumer paper and with wildflower seeds sewn into each sheet, this is an eco-friendly gift that really gives back to the planet.

2. Flowers { of a Different Kind}

We’re not talking bunches of flowers that wilt and die, but flowers and blooms in bulbs, seeds or even pots to brighten up your mom’s garden every day of the year. Harris Seeds has a collection of Mother’s Day flowers that you can choose from. Or you can just head over to your local nursery and pick up a potted version of your mom’s favorite flower. Easy and eco!

3. Organic Soaps,  Bath Oils and Spa Sets

A basket filled with organic soaps and bath oils can be blissfully green for moms on Mother’s Day. Pristine Planet, a green comparison shopping site, showcases some of the best names in organic and eco-friendly soaps, spa sets and bath oils for you to choose from.

4. Indulge Mom with Organic Chocolate

Chocolate just sweetens any celebration and when its organic, it just gets sweeter! Cocoaloco in the UK have the yummiest, most delightful range of organic chocolate treats and they also have some great gift boxes and jars for you to choose from. And if you’re looking for something chocolatey, organic and natural in the US, Green and Blacks it is.

5. A Reusable Shopping Tote is an Eco and Practical Gift

Moms shop, all the time. Help her and the planet out by gifting her a chic, reusable shopping tote. Ecobags and Reuseit have a range of smart and snazzy reusable shopping bags that will make grocery shopping an eco-friendly experience. Fill up the tote with organic produce and snacks and you have a winner!

6. Organic Cotton or Bamboo Clothes

Organic cotton or bamboo clothes are great gifts for Mother’s Day. Hasslibre and Jonano offer an amazing range of stylish and smart organic clothes that would green your mom’s wardrobe this Mother’s Day.

7. Handmade and Homemade Mother’s Day Gifts are Green and Personalized

Sometimes the best and the greenest gifts are the ones that come from home. Homemade gifts are not only personal and unique but are also green and eco-friendly. Depending upon your talent and skill, you can make hand-knitted sweaters and scarves, hand-sewn dresses, a basket of homemade cakes and cookies or even, a collage of photographs of kids or grandkids.

8. Gift an Experience Instead of Another Object

Being eco-friendly means reducing our consumption and if you give your mom an experience instead of yet another object, both she and the planet will be happy. Some ideas are a pampering session at an eco-friendly spa, tickets to a concert, play or sports event, or even a much-needed vacation.

9. Celebrate a Green Mother’s Day with the Gift of Time

If you are a busy, busy son or daughter, probably the one gift that would mean the most to your mom which is also 100% eco-friendly is the gift of time. Take a day off and spend it with your mother, eating lunch together, sharing snippets of your life and basically, re-connecting with her.

10. A Gift of Conflict-Free, Eco-friendly Fine Jewelry Makes the Perfect Green Mother’s Day Gift

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend and when they’re eco-friendly and conflict-free, they become the Earth’s best friend too. Brilliant Earth has a range of conflict-free, high quality gemstones and precious metal jewellery. Not just that, the precious metals are 100% recycled and re-refined.  Green and gorgeous, too!

So, go ahead and take your pick from this list of some of the best green and eco-friendly presents for moms this Mother’s Day!

Photo Credit: Claudia Assad