It is Mothering Sunday, increasingly referred to as Mother's Day, on the 3rd of April in the UK. Which is roughly just over three weeks away. So you've got plenty of time to get prepared. But if you're wanting to snap up any bargain gifts, now is the time to go shopping.

Here I've drawn on the collective expertise of the PlayPennies' parents to gather together some fabulous ideas for Mother's Day gifts, priced at a fiver or less.

1 Card And Gift

This is really cute. I love it. The Mother's Day Ask Your Dad Door Hanger Card is a Mother's Day card and a gift all in one. And a gift you can use all year round. On the outside it tells the kids to go find Dad (I am paraphrasing just a tad) and on the inside it says 'have a relaxing day'.

The Ask your dad door hanger card is sold by Marks & Spencer and can be bought for the princely sum of £2.25.

Over at the PaperChase, they have the perfect get-out-of-buying-a-present-altogether card. It's the No Gift Card. But it is better than it sounds. The card actually says 'No Gift To My Mother Can Equal The Gift She Gave Me'. Awww how sweet is that?

2 Chocolate

Thornton's chocolates. Delicious. This little package of I Love Mum Cups simply says I Love Mum. They're milk chocolate truffle cups. The pack contains five chocolates. It costs £2.99.

Something simple, sweet and unfussy. Try this chocolate bar from John Lewis. It is the Ambassadors of London 'Happy Mother's Day' Chocolate bar for £4.

Or you could add that personal touch. At Not On The High Street they're selling personalised Best Mum chocolate bars. You can choose from milk or dark chocolate, and add a message to the back of the bar. The site also sells Yummy Mummy chocolate bars (£4.45) and Thanks So Much bars (£4.95).

3 Smellies

In my book it is hard to go wrong with something that smells lovely. Bubbles, salts, soaps. Anything for the bath is good. One of my favourite brands, Lush, sells this lovely A Ring Of Roses soap, which sells for £3.45 per 100g.

According to the website "A Ring of Roses smells of sweet oranges and lemons, as well as genuine Turkish rose absolute. This skin softening, soothing body soap has the same fragrance as Amandopondo, but surrounded in an infusion of larkspur, honeysuckle, marigold and cornflowers, it smells completely different. Use it when you need calm for your skin and your mind."

When I looked on The Body Shop website, I was surprised not to find any specific Mother's Day items. Maybe it is too early? But regardless, there's this little gift set, which is cheaper and more practical than buying actual roses. The Moroccan Rose Small Gift Box (£5) contains a Moroccan Rose Bath & Shower Gel (60 ml), a Moroccan Rose Body Butter (50 ml) and a Bath Lily.

Here's something a little more unusual. Whittard, the tea people, sell Fleur Bathtub Tea (£3.50). This is not actually tea you drink though. It is a soothing and calming infusion for your bath, which you soak in.

According to the Whittard website "four jumbo teabags filled with a calming blend of herbal teas and blossoms, scented with lemon balm and lavender. Sit back and relax with the calming scent of lavender."

4 Practical But Different

You really have to know your recipient before buying something like this. But I think it would be PERFECT for my mother in law. She's the type of person who can pull a mini-screwdriver set out of her handbag at a moment's notice.

I think she'd love this. Actually, so would I. It is really gorgeous. The Kirstie Allsop, she of Location Location Location fame, Mini Measuring Tape, available at Marks & Spencer, is £4. It has a floral design, or vintage chic as it says on the website. The Kirstie Allsop Mini Measuring Tape has a button to hold and release the tape. The site doesn't say how long the tape measure is, which is a bit of an oversight I think. But one of the reviewers on the website said it was quite long. Another said that it was really handy for measuring about the house.

5. Photo Gifts

There's two advantages of photo gifts over other types of presents for mum. First, they're personal. You can make them about you and the family, and that's always a good thing. Second, you can get creative and make the gifts together.

At Snapfish, photo posters start from £3.99. We published a half price and free delivery promotional code for posters from Snapfish as well. To use this click here.

The Kodak Gallery has 20% off all photo books at the moment, but sadly that doesn't put any of them at the sub £5 mark. And at Photobox you get £5 off when you spend £20. Which, although it involves a fiver doesn't technically fit the specfications of this feature.

Photobox do photo fridge magnets for £4.10. I'm not sure exactly what you get for that price though. On the website it says that you can "go for a 6”x4” print presented in a magnetic photo frame, or two mini frames each holding a 3”x2” photo of the same image." But to look into it further you have to upload photos and so forth, so I didn't investigate. Would be well worth checking out though. You could do a fridge magnet for each member of the family.

Use this Snapfish promotional code to get 50% off posters and free delivery when you order online.

Click here to use your Snapfish promotional code

• Discount: 50% and free delivery
• Applies to: posters
• Promotional code: 50POSTER11
• Expires: 8th March 2011

To use this code, create your poster. As you go through checkout, when you get to the Bill and Delivery page, enter the code in the Voucher Code box. You will need to also enter your payment details in order to see if the code works. But your payment won't be confirmed until you get to the next page.

Here you'll see your order laid out, with half the price of the poster deducted (this was in green type on my page) and the £1.99 delivery charge also deducted.

I tested this Snapfish promotional code out on a 30 inch by 20 inch poster priced at £14.99. The code deducted ££7.50 from the price, and the delivery charge. So instead of paying £16.98, my order came to £7.49.

Thanks to cadmus at HUKD!

Use this code to create your own Snapfish photo calendars for half the usual price. These are available in three sizes, with prices starting from £7.50 when you use the code.

Click here to get 50% off Snapfish photo calendars

• Discount: 50%
• Coupon code: NOVECAL10
• Expires: 14th November 2010

To use this code, enter it in the Coupon Code box when you get through checkout. First though you'll need to make your calendar.

This is the code I have been waiting for! Every year I make a grandkids calendar for my mother-in-law. This year it has been discretely suggested by other family members that they too might really like it if they found that their present was also a photo calendar! Using this code I'll be able to stretch my Christmas spending budget that little bit further.

I already use Snapfish a lot to print my photos. Other items I've ordered from them in the past include a photo mug and a photo keyring. So far, fingers crossed, I've no cause for complaint about the quality of their products or their customer service!

There's also a poster code you can use, NOVPOSTER10. This will get posters reduced to £1.99 each for a 10x15 poster and £9.99 for a 30x40 XL poster.

Thanks to emmablob at HUKD!

I've got a 25% discount code for canvas prints from Snapfish for you.

• Discount: 25%
• Discount Code: 25CANVAS10
• Applies to: Canvas prints
• Expires: 7 November 2010

Click HERE to go on over to Snapfish

There’s nothing quite like seeing your favourite photographs taking pride of place on your walls.

One of my most favourite canvasses that hangs in my house is of my dog, it’s at the top of the stairs and he rather likes  sleeping underneath it.

Of course you don’t have to just use photographs – well you do, but what I mean is you could take a high resolution photo of a pitcure your child has drawn, or painty prints of their hands and feet, send it off to Snapfish and have them enlarge it and print it on a BIG canvas.

Canvasses are available in five sizes:

• 10 x 8 - £24.99
• 12 x 12 - £29.99
• 16 x 12 - £34.99
• 20 x 16 - £49.99
• 24 x 20 - £79.99
• Collage photo canvasses start at £24.99

Snapfish are part of Hewlett Packard and you need to register with them before you can get going, but after that it's very straightforward.

Standard delivery is £6.99 for one canvas and £4.99 for each additional one, if you were buying more than one.

The only problem you might have is deciding which photos to turn into pieces of wall art!

The coupon code from Snapfish will get you 50% off your personalised Christmas cards until  October 31^st.

• Click here to use this 50% off coupon code for Snapfish

Discount: 20%

Coupon Code: 50SFCARDS

Minimum Spend: £0.00

Personalised festive cards are such a nice touch, and are normally the only cards I keep at the end of the festive season. I know I'm a bit of a sap, but stick a reindeer hat on your defenceless baby and I'll admit I go a bit weak at the knees. I blame it on the hormones.

Christmas greeting cards by Snapfish, or Truprint as you may know them, can be photo paper cards, stationery photo cards, folded photo greeting cards, photo note cards, or photo postcards and there's a limited amount of creative freedom. From full picture cards or a twelve-photo collage, to Disney, traditional and religious designs, there are at least 33 holiday options to choose from.

There's also the option to add a personalised message and the more you buy, the cheaper each individual card will be (one card is £1.99 and 100+ would be .75p before the coupon code).

The coupon code goes on the last page, after you've added your card details and before you pay, which can be done by debit or credit card, or through Paypal.

The code is valid until October 31^st, so you still have some time to design and order your Christmas cards, and with delivery taking 4 – 8 working days, there'll be no reason to have any last minute rush on your holiday greetings this year.

Snapfish photo calendars can be yours for half price with this 50% discount voucher code.

Click here for 50% off Snapfish Photo Calendars

• Discount: 50%
• Minimum Spend: £0.00
• Voucher Code: EARLYCAL10
• Expires: 4th October 2010

That's the grandparents sorted then! Presents from the grandkids - calendars with their lovely grandchildren smiling out from each month. To be honest, trying to find something for the grandparents at Christmas time and on birthdays is really quite difficult. At that age, well, you've pretty much got everything! So something with a photo of the grandkids on it is always good, although even better, is something that the grandkids made themselves.

What I've done in the past is to get my step children to write something special for each month too, just a thought or memory of something special. It adds that little something extra to the page. And makes for quite a fun way to spend a rainy afternoon too.

The Classic Wall Calendar is £14.99. The calendar I've made before is the Glossy Wall Calendar (£19.99), which I really liked as the photos are glossy giving them that little bit of a nicer finish. The date pages, however, are not glossy so they're easy to write on. It would be really tempting to get another one of these, at a price reduction of £9.99!

Thanks to edi at HUKD!