5 Mother's Day gifts mom will enjoy sharing with the kids

Mother's Day gifts are a special way to celebrate mom, but they can also provide fun opportunities for mom to spend time with the kids.

If you have a mom in your life who will want to celebrate the holiday by spending time with her kids, here are five kid-friendly gift ideas.

For a mom who likes to be active and out of the house, one of the best gifts you can get her is tickets to an event — maybe even for the whole family!

• Consider scouring the local newspaper for upcoming concerts or plays, fun runs, carnivals or circuses.
• By purchasing the whole family tickets to an event, mom can enjoy herself along with the little ones, too. Plus, there are often family discounts.

For a real treat for Mom, consider cooking her dinner on Mother's Day.

• Get a list of her favourite foods, then prepare and serve them to her at home.
• Have a sit-down dinner with the whole family so everyone can enjoy the foods of your labour!

Mother's Day is about celebrating being a mom, so a great gift for mothers is a picture and memento scrapbook documenting her journey as a mother.

• Include pictures and small tokens from the time she was pregnant with each child up to the present day.
• Scrapbooks will be fun for mothers and children to look through and reminisce together, and they'll be a great way for children to learn a little more about their families.

To create something that kids will enjoy doing and moms will enjoy receiving, have the children sit down and write their mom a story or letter.

• Tell them to be creative and make their piece about how great their mother is.
• Children will get to exercise their creative muscles and moms can enjoy the finished product.

Is the mom in your life a chef or gardener?

• The kids can start a garden for her that she can tend as the year progresses.
• Buy seeds at a local garden store and have the children plant, fertilize and water them.
• Then, throughout the year, mom and kids can tend to the garden together and enjoy the flowers, fruits and vegetables that they helped to grow!