The best Mother’s Day gift you can give your mom this year

Mother’s Day has a long history in the UK. Originally, the holiday was a Christian celebration that emerged in the 16th century. Called Mothering Sunday, it was celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, and saw Christians all over Great Britain and some other parts of Europe travelling to their “mother church” to worship with family members.

Over time, the holiday became a way for fathers and children to celebrate the moms in their families by spending quality time together and giving flowers and gifts.

What’s one of the best gifts you can give mom? Spending some loving, quality time together comes in first, of course, but after that, we think photographs of your special memories comes in a close second.

Make your photo gifts unique to make them special

There’s nothing wrong with giving mom a simply framed image as a gift, but if you really want to wow her, why not try something a little different?

Collage frames that allow you to include multiple pictures in nicely presented configurations make very thoughtful gifts. Other options are some of the more modern display ideas:

• Get a canvas print of one of your favourite photos
• Making a hanging display of photo prints using string or wire and clothespins or metal clips
• Creating a display that incorporates decorative objects, like wooden initials, small plants, etc. along with photographs
• Make a photo book with special images of the family

Framed pictures are classic and timeless, but with all the options out there now for dressing up your photos, you may find yourself tempted to get a little more creative.

Go digital to make your photo gift more versatile

Digital pictures offer so much potential in terms of gifts. By themselves, they’re not that exciting – no one wants to get a flash drive for a gift! – but you can create slideshows or digital albums to look through on Mother’s Day, preferably while your mom eats the breakfast you made her.

Gifting a digital photo frame

If you’re gifting Mom a Nixplay digital photo frame, you can preload it with a special gift album that will show your photos straight out of the box. 

The Nixplay 10" HD touchscreen matted, is a WI-FI digital frame which makes it simple for you to remotely upload your latest photos onto the frame for mom to enjoy as it sits on a shelf in her house.

A few album ideas you can send to mom's frame:

• An album of photos of children or grandchildren with mom or grandmom
• A chronological album of mom’s life – you can include graduation photos, wedding photos, anniversary photos, and more
• Chronological albums of photos of your children
• Soothing albums filled with images of beautiful places or vacations (just make sure you purchase photos you pull from the web or use copyright-free ones)
• Aspirational albums – places mom wants to travel to one day, for example

Moms deserve nothing less than the very best on Mother’s Day. A gift of lovingly chosen photographs, whether that means framed prints, or a digital gift album on a Nixplay frame, will let mom know how much she means to you.

For more on how Nixplay is helping moms and families stay in touch, read these Nixplay Stories.