Personalized nursery-rhyme keepsakes
From a Grandparent, to a Grandchild
Grandparents give the gifts that get kept. A personalized nursery rhyme written for your grandchild's name — and signed in yours — is the one that is still on their wall when they are old enough to ask who wrote it.
Reading the rhyme is free · keepsake posters from $14.99 · see what that includes
The gift only a grandparent thinks to give
Parents buy what the child needs this month. Grandparents, freed from that, tend to buy what the child will have in thirty years — which is why so many families still have a christening spoon, a first book with an inscription, or a photograph in a frame that has moved house four times.
A verse written around your grandchild’s own name belongs to that same category, and it does something the spoon cannot: it can be read aloud. It works as a bedtime ritual now and as an heirloom later, which is a rare combination in a gift under twenty dollars.
When you live a long way away
Distance is the hard part of being a grandparent. You hear the news by phone, you see the photographs on a screen, and the shops near you sell the same things as the shops near them. Posting a parcel across a continent to arrive three weeks late is not the gesture you had in mind.
A keepsake delivered as a file solves that specific problem. You can have the rhyme written, signed “with love from Grandma and Grandpa”, and in the parents’ inbox the same afternoon they call — early enough to be framed and hung before the baby comes home. If you would rather send something physical, print it at your own local shop and post the framed print yourself.
How it works
Enter their name
Your grandchild’s name, spelled the way the family spells it.
Read the verse
A gentle rhyme written for that name, free to read on screen.
Sign it from you
Add “from Grandma and Grandpa”, choose a background, download the poster.
What you give
- A one-of-a-kind nursery rhyme written for your grandchild’s name
- Your own signed line — “with love from Grandma and Grandpa”
- A print-ready 8×10 poster file at 300dpi, delivered to your inbox
- Ready the same day, wherever in the world the family is
Keepsake posters start at $14.99, and every order is backed by our 30-day happiness guarantee — if it isn't something you're proud to give, we'll make it right.
Grandparent gift FAQ
What is a good gift from grandparents to a new grandchild?
Something the child keeps rather than uses up. Grandparents are usually the ones who give the lasting gift — the inscribed book, the framed piece for the wall — and a nursery rhyme written for the grandchild’s own name fits that role while still being warm enough to read aloud at bedtime.
Can it be signed from both grandparents?
Yes. You can add a short personal line in your own words, so the keepsake carries both your names alongside your grandchild’s. Many grandparents also add the date, or where the family was living when the child was born.
We live overseas — how do we get it to them?
The keepsake is delivered to your inbox as a print-ready file, so there is no shipping and no customs. Email it to the parents to print, or print and frame it locally and post the framed print yourself. Posters start at $14.99.
Can we do one for each grandchild?
Yes — and most grandparents eventually do. Each rhyme is written around one name, so siblings and cousins each get their own verse rather than a shared one with the names swapped.