Sweet Baby Gifts

I want to buy her a wooden doll house since she loves her wooden dolls so much.She is now 20 months.This would be a gift for her birthday.
I want a simple one.Any suggestions?Or one you have that your toddler likes?Thanks:)

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i am looking for some neat suggestions as to what does one get a toddler boy for christmas.. i am on really low low budget ..i am not working …thank you so kindly everyone..Happy holidays to all !!especially this year ..

My nephew loves anything, that is from the movie "Cars." He will play with it until he falls asleep, Literally! Try going to Wal-mart and loading up a bag full of dollar toys like little race cars and such and then put in a few pieces of candy. Maybe include some play-dough and cookie cutters. Wrap it up all pretty and put it under the tree!

Is there a rule that you should give him yours at a different time so he gives proper attention to the gifts from family? I’m giving him a bike and more which may overshadow their stuff.

when my son turned 2, my husband and i got him his first hot wheels john deer tractor, my husband put it all together, charged it all up and hid it in the garage, after the party was over but we still had grandparents and a few others here we all walked down to the garage and we surprised him with his tractor. he went nuts, his face was priceless and he jumped right on and took off and even ran a few people over in the process!
we wanted to wait so he would enjoy his party and family and friends, i know how he would be if we gave him his tractor first or with the other presents. sometimes even though we have a party for one of the kids on a weekend we almost always give the kids their presents on their birthday, we will go out for a special dinner and just have a family party out somewhere, then the weekend we will have great party with everyone. for us that works.

My daughter is graduating to the next room at her daycare center because she’s turned two. I want to give a gift of appreciation to the four teachers who cared for her over the last year in the infant room. Any thoughts? I’d considered $25 giftcards to some place (don’t know where yet) but feel that isn’t very personal and I am so thankful to these ladies. Every once in awhile I see postings from preschool teachers on this site. I’m hoping you can shed some light on what would be an appreciated gift.

Thanks!

I was a preschool teacher for 6 years. Although I always loved personal gifts (candles, picture frames etc…) because of the thought behind it, I preferred gift cards. As a preschool teacher, you usually don’t get paid too much, so when I got a gift card, that meant my husband and I could go out on a date, or I could go out with a girlfriend to a coffee shop.

Personal gifts are hard because you don’t necessarily know the tastes of the teacher. Can’t go wrong with a gift card! And all the other teachers there were always more excited about gift cards.

How long should a toddler’s afternoon party last, generally speaking?

Some of these kids’ parties seem way too long with the cooking of food and then eating then gifts then cake. I mean we’re stretching into 3.5 hours and so on.

How long is too long and what is a good length? Asking for my 4 year old son’s party.

I had my son’s 6th birthday recently and I set aside an hour and a half, completely ran out of time. I’d planned only 3 games and we only managed to get 2 games done. The treasure hunt taking the longest. I found that when the kids are all together away from a school environmentt they were content to play together for at least an hour as well as eating and drinking. I found I also had to give half an hour in the beginning for all the kids to arrive. I would say two to two and a half is plenty of time.

I am trying to figure out what will be good gifts from my son to the people in his life around Christmas. I know there is still time left, but if I have to make something I would like the head-start.

It would be to the following people:

Grandma
Aunt
Grandma
Grandpa
Aunt
Uncle

These are the people that are a big part of his life. Any ideas.

Thanks!

Maybe you could take him to get his picture taken and then he can choose out frames for them and they could all get a framed picture of him.
If you wanted to make something with him you can go to orientaltrading.com and they have a bunch of things to choose from where it sends you the kit to make things and most of them make enough for 6 or more, they have so super cute things, like magnetic gingerbread men that you would put a pic of his face as the face for it. Or frames that he could decorate and they are really cheap for example the "gingerbread photo frame magnet craft kit" makes 12 and is only $6.99

EDIT also I was thinking that you could seach the internet for places in your area that you could take him to paint one of those little clay molds (we did a plate for father’s day for my husband, we painted their hands and feet and made the prints on the plate and then they put that in the kiln, it turned out great.
Hope that helps (",)

I just got a new refrigerator and as luck would have it, my attractive neighbour’s little girl is celebrating her fourth birthday tomorrow and I’m going to give her the box.

So you’re giving a box the daughter to get inside the box of the mother? That sounds ok to me.

I would like to do something like this for my 2 1/2 year old daughter who is soon to have a new baby brother and sister. I am looking for some creative ideas. When / how did you present the gift(s)?

I was thinking of having a few gifts from brother and sister pop up at different times -
We have a long car trip coming up - something new at that time would help ease the boredom of the trip. There’s also an upcoming baby shower. I’m sure my daughter would appreciate having something special from Mom since everything else will be ‘for the babies.’ There’s also the special time when she meets the babies.. and the times when she’s feeling left out perhaps after they come home.

Does that sound reasonable or am I going overboard? I believe she will be excited to be a big sister and happy to be my ‘helper.’ But, I am also feeling a lot of turmoil at ‘our special time’ (so to speak) coming to an end and not being able to give her as much 1:1 attention. I know some new toys don’t make up for that….

BQ: How did your 2ish toddler adjust to having a new brother/sister?

I think the gift idea is great and I don’t believe you are going overboard. I think it would be good for her to associate something positive, like new gifts, with the birth of her siblings. That way there probably won’t be any resentment of the new babies. I didn’t do it but it is a very good idea.

I have a two year old and he has a 6 week old baby sister and he loves her to death. He loves babies. He loves to hold her, feed her, give her the pacifier when she is fussy. He is also very protective of her.

I understand you are a little upset about having to lose that 1:1 time and I did too, but I found that letting Tyler help me with the baby actually made up for that time.

I am sure she will be a very loving and very wonderful big sister.

What are other mom’s and dad’s getting their toddler’s for Easter? I know Easter is still a while away, but i’m kind of at a loss as to what I am going to get my 15 month old daughter. She will be 17 months at Easter time and I know that I am going to do an Easter basket filled with her favorite things, but its tradition (in our family) to get one big toy for Easter. I really want to get her something fun that can be played with outside. My parents (her grandparents) are getting her a sand box for Easter, which is what I originally wanted to get her, but they asked if it were ok, so I agreed that it was fine. I was looking at those water activity tables, but i’m just not sure what to get her. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Note: She has plenty of ride on toys and battery powered toys, so I would really like to stay away from those seeing how she already has a dozen.

A water/activity table would be a great gift. My kids have used ours for 3 years. A tent with tunnels, a bubble blower, a picnic table with an umbrella.

I think you have a great idea, she will get alot of use out of the activity table, get one with an umbrella if you dont have alot of shade.

I am thinking about buying a small gift from the baby, to our son…and giving it to our son when he meets the baby. I haven’t decided yet what to buy, but it will be a toy of books of some sort.
Did you do this with your toddlers? Did they enjoy this?

No, I didn’t. But I did get a couple of small things to put away in a basket so if anyone came to visit to bring a gift for the baby, I would give them one of those to give to my toddler so they wouldn’t feel left out or less important than the baby.