Anniversary Gift Ideas for Parents ? Young and Old

Anniversaries are great occasions to express appreciation for our parents. We look at anniversary gift ideas for parents ? whether you?re a youngster yourself wishing to show appreciation for your parents or whether you are a parent yourself, wanting to do something to make your parents? special day a little more so.

Anniversary gift ideas for younger parents

One of the anniversary gift ideas for parents that really work is anything handmade. A child who takes the time and makes the effort to make something ? a card, a craft item, a display piece is sure to be appreciated. Older kids can bake a cake or cook a meal to make their parents feel special on their special day.

Saving up pocket money to buy flowers or a memento can also be a touching gesture that parents are sure to appreciate.

Kids can offer gifts in kind as well ? offer to do chores around the home for a duration. Offer to do the laundry for a month or rake the leaves for a couple of months and so on.

Another one of the anniversary gift ideas for parents can be to create an album, scrapbook or a keepsake for mommy and daddy. Gather photos the family over the years: special occasions, trips out of town, really old photos, photos of special people and pets and so on and make this into a project that parents will value.

If you are an old enough and techno-savvy enough child, you can also take old movies and home videos and digitize them; making CDs out of them.

Anniversary gift ideas for parents who are older

For older parents you obviously have to take a different tack: older couples may have different preferences and needs.

Think of any hobbies that your parents may have. If one or both parents enjoy golf, you can think in terms of a new set of golf clubs, or a membership to a golf club and so on. If parents enjoy cooking, you could think in terms of a set of pots and pans or healthy cookbooks or a subscription to a cookery channel etc.

For older couples with health issues you could think of practical gifting ideas such as a voucher for a health checkup. Other practical anniversary gift ideas for parents could include a blood pressure measuring machine, a device to measure blood sugar and so on. Heating pads, massage machines and pain relieving devices could be other practical gifts that may be valued for their thoughtfulness.

A weekend getaway, a holiday or a spa gift voucher can be another great anniversary gift. If your parents are also grandparents they may really appreciate spending time with their grandkids or a family get-together ? if so think in terms of sending tickets for them to come on over for a visit to spend some quality time with their grand children.

Another really practical but highly useful of our anniversary gift ideas for parents, could be a health insurance policy with some of the premiums prepaid.

Source: http://www.theparentszone.com/parental-relationships/anniversary-gift-ideas-for-parents/

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