Christmas Gifts for Mum

The best Christmas gifts for Mum are a Family Tree canvas with everyone's names on its branches, a Reasons We Love Mum cushion or a photo blanket from Printerpix. Mum will say she wants nothing, and she means nothing from a shop. Reasons We Love Mum turns your list into numbered lines round her photo.

Mother and daughter gifts suit a picture that has you both in it: a jigsaw of that rainy caravan holiday, or a mug of you both squinting on the sea wall. A Christmas gift for Mum from her son can say what the family rarely says out loud, as a photo book with a line beside each picture, from school to last summer. She will show it to the neighbours.

A good Christmas present for a mother-in-law (MIL) is a canvas of the whole table at Sunday lunch, or a photo calendar with the grandchildren through the year, so she belongs in the family photos, not beside them. A step-mum deserves the same thought: pick a photo with her and the family in one shot, so nobody has to make a speech.

An unusual Christmas gift for a mum who has everything is Photo Letters, which spells MUM in tall letters, each holding a photo of a different child or grandchild, on a Printerpix blanket or jigsaw. Things We Love About Mum is all writing and no pictures, printed as a canvas for the wall. Neither one is likely to be duplicated by a sibling.

A good Christmas gift for a new mum is the First Christmas design, which names the baby and the year on a blanket or mug, for Mummy's first Christmas. Those weeks pass in a blur, so a photo book of the sleepy early days, from the newborn to Mum, will live on her shelf. A mum-to-be would love the scan photo on a cushion.

A good joint Christmas present for Mum and Dad is Our Year in Pictures on a Printerpix canvas, the family's year to look at over breakfast. A jigsaw of the house they first lived in gives them something to argue over on Boxing Day. Sign it from everyone and share the cost between siblings. For Dad on his own, see Christmas gifts for Dad.

The best photos for a Christmas gift for Mum show her with the family, so ask a sister or an aunt what is on their phones, since Mum is often behind the camera. If there is still nothing, use the pictures she took herself. More ideas sit on our personalised gifts for Mum page, and the Christmas gifts page covers the whole family.