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There are a ton of great parent and in-law gifts out there, but the sentimental and personalized ones always mean the most.
Sentimental gifts for parents, grandparents, and in-laws are always a hit. There’s nothing that gives them the warm and fuzzies like a personalized, special gift.
Sentimental Gifts for Parents, In-Laws, and Grandparents:
- MLB Stadium Blueprint
- If your parents, in-laws, or grandparents are sports buffs, this artwork blueprint for various MLB stadiums would be the perfect gift to display in a home office or study.
- Art Easel Calendar
- Custom print a sleek family calendar that can be displayed on a desk or countertop. This has a little bit of a more minimal look than a collage-style wall calendar.
- Custom Song Wall Art
- Is there a song that’s really special to your family? You can turn the soundwave from that song into a custom wooden art display. This would be gorgeously displayed somewhere in the family home!
- Snowflake Name Tree Topper
- This gorgeous tree topper is a wooden snowflake, but upon closer inspection is the family name woven into a gorgeous pattern.
- Memento Keepsake Dish
- Customize these gorgeous keepsake dishes (great for keys, cufflinks, jewelry, etc.) with old family photos. This would be great for a parent who’s recently had their parent or another loved one pass.
- Custom Family Connect 4 Game
- This is such a fun idea – it’s the same concept as Connect 4 but you can customize the slots with different family favorites – paw prints of pets, locations of favorite trips, important numbers, letters and more.
- Custom Pet Print
- When all the kids are out of the house, parents tend to treat their pets like their own children. This custom pet portrait is cute, simple and a fun piece to have for their fur baby.
- Give them a custom puzzle!
- This is such a fun and easy gift for parents or grandparents who love doing puzzles. Minted makes it super easy – just upload the picture you want and they make it. Use code MERRICKGIFTS for 20% off anything at Minted.
- Have their wedding picture restored and reframed.
- Your parents probably don’t have an enlarged copy of their wedding photo because people just didn’t do that as much back then. So enlarging and re-framing would be really special.
- Give an “In Honor Of” gift
- Donate to a non-profit organization that reminds you of them! This is perfect for the parent who has everything.
- Ancestry DNA kit.
- This is such a cool and thoughtful gift to help your parents or in-laws learn more about their heritage!
- Photobook with pictures of the grandkids.
- I love Mixbook books, and these will be a treasure for grandparents.
- Framed Picture of your family or grandkids.
- Mixbook has great options for printed canvases or even printed pictures that come pre-framed!
- Give a Christmas ornament that represents an adventure or experience you had with your parents during the year.
- For example: if your daughter went to a ballet performance with grandma, get a ballerina ornament. If you went on a trip to the beach together, get a starfish or seashell ornament.
- Make a personalized family Guess Who game.
- This would be a great game to play with the grandkids when they visit! There are simple instructions RIGHT HERE.
- Family Picture Calendar.
- This is the gift we have given to my in-laws every year for the past 8 or 9 years. We put photos each month that represent the season (Christmas/snowy pictures in December, fourth of July pictures in July, etc). It’s so special to see the new pictures of the grandkids every month! You could do a wall calendar or a desk calendar. Mixbook is my go-to for these kinds of printed items — their quality is amazing!
- This is the gift we have given to my in-laws every year for the past 8 or 9 years. We put photos each month that represent the season (Christmas/snowy pictures in December, fourth of July pictures in July, etc). It’s so special to see the new pictures of the grandkids every month! You could do a wall calendar or a desk calendar. Mixbook is my go-to for these kinds of printed items — their quality is amazing!
- 100 Childhood Memories.
- Have each of your siblings write up memories from your childhood and compile them in a book, or type it up and put it in a frame! We did this for my dad for his 60th birthday and it was such a special night when we went around and read them aloud to him. So many laughs and tears.
- I Chart You genealogy chart
- These are gorgeous family trees that are unlike anything I’ve seen. They’re works of art and so beautiful!
- Photo coasters with pictures of grandkids or family
- You could hand make them with this tutorial, or there are some gorgeous personalized options HERE!
- Commission a painting of the home your family grew up in
- I did this for my parents one year and it’s so special! You can easily find artists on Etsy – here are a bunch! Just make sure you get started early so there’s time to finish the painting.
- Paint a picture of a tree and have everyone stamp their thumbprints on it to make the leaves.
- Frame it, and continue to add more leaves as more grandchildren come. This is such a fun idea for larger families!
- An engraved necklace with someone special’s handwriting engraved on it.
- The reader who submitted this idea used the signature from an old card from her mother-in-law’s deceased mother, so her MIL had a little piece of her mom around her neck. SO sweet, right? You can buy them RIGHT HERE.
- A handwritten “Proclamation to the World.”
- “The Family Proclamation“is a special statement in my church and is all about families. It would be a really special gift to give your parents, especially with the personalized touch. This one is a really beautiful option.
