Mothering Sunday 2027: Gifts for Mum That Aren't Flowers

In the UK, Mothering Sunday 2027 is on Sunday 7 March. It moves every year because it's tied to Easter: it's always three Sundays before Easter Sunday, which is 28 March in 2027. (In the US, Mother's Day is Sunday 9 May.)

Flowers are lovely, but they're in the bin by the following weekend. Here are four ideas for something she'll keep, all built from her own story.

1. The night she became a mum

A star map shows the real night sky over a place at a date and time you choose. Use the night you were born, and put "The night you became Mum" underneath. If you were born in the daytime, the stars were still there, just hidden by daylight. It's a good one to do as brothers and sisters: one map each, or the eldest's birthday on one.

2. Her places on one poster

Where she grew up, where she got married, where she lives now. A story map puts two or three places on one print, each with its own line of words. It's the kind of thing that starts a conversation every time someone visits.

3. The family home

If there's a house that everyone thinks of as home, a house portrait is made from your own photo of it and restyled with AI. Take the photo on a bright, overcast day, standing straight on, with the whole front in the frame. You see the finished picture before you pay.

4. The street she grew up on, as it was

An old map of her home uses the Ordnance Survey's first six-inch map of Great Britain, surveyed between the 1840s and the 1880s, with the house circled. If her street was built later, today's roads are drawn over the old map in red, so you can see what was there before: fields, orchards, a brickworks.

A first Mother's Day

For a new mum, a baby print or a star map of the night the baby arrived is hard to beat. Add the weight and time in the small line.

When to order

Posters usually arrive in 3–6 working days and framed prints in 4–7, with free UK delivery. We'll put the last order date for Mothering Sunday on our Mother's Day gifts page in February.

See all our ideas for her on the Mother's Day gifts page.