It isn’t easy to create gifts that help heal hurting hearts, but that’s what comfort gifts baskets can be designed to achieve -- when the gifts are lovingly and thoughtfully prepared. Selecting appropriate gifts can be the toughest part of the assignment, and that’s one of the tasks you’ll learn to do in these sensitive and creative gifts. Footprints Sympathy Basket

-Comfort for the Loss of a Child

Making a gift basket designed to comfort a parent who has lost a child seems like an impossible task. What can you possibly create that could be helpful in this devasting loss? While few things can comfort, the gifts in this gift basket are sensitive, caring, and, best of all, provide a way for friends and family to offer hope for future healing. Learn what kind of gifts are best to include in a sympathy basket, and how to bring them all together to create a comforting gift masterpiece.

Serenity Prayer Gift Basket

Using a Wreath to Anchor Components in a Gift Basket

Permanent floral wreaths are lovely gifts to include in a comfort/sympathy/bereavement gift basket. When the wreath is used as the main gift, and also as a way to stabilize all the gifts in the basket, the cost becomes more contained. See how it is done in this practical approach to gift arrangements.

- Streams in the Desert

Bereavement Basket for Men

What do you give a man who is experiencing the loss of a loved one? See what the experts advise, plus learn how to make the most of a book to absorb space in a gift basket.

- Rainbow Bridges

Bereavement/Comfort Basket on the Loss of a Pet

Pets are members of the family, too, and losing a beloved one can be the cause of deep sorrow. Get an inside view on what kinds of gifts can be appropriate to include in a gift basket designed to help heal the hurt. Plus, see how to take one gift (a book kit) and stretch it into a gift that has better perceived value.