Homemade gifts from toddlers - Page 2

[gardenmom]

Originally Posted by Nik's Mommy

Last year, we made tea towels for the grandparents and Godparents. I bought plain, beige teatowels, and fabric paint. Nik put his handprints on the towels, and I painted Max's feet and made foot prints (since he was only a couple of months old). Those were a big hit!

This sounds nice--I actually have 4 vintage flour sack-type towels that are just plain white. I've been wondering what I could do with them. This is a great idea! Great Grandma will like this a lot!

Thanks! Add fabric paint to my list of Christmas craft needs!!

[TortelliniMama]

Daddy's Christmas gift is going to be a bulletin board (2'x3' or so) spongepainted by ds (with some help from me so that our carpet doesn't match it ). It's for his office, so he has a place to hang pictures of ds and papers with his drawings.

Lisa

[hjohnson]

The boys are making footprints in clay for their 3 sets of grandparents and 1 set of Great-grandparents. The boys provide the footprints, I am going to do the baking, and then my 2 year old is going to paint them with washable paint.

[Penticton mama]

-You could do stars out of cinnamon sticks and add some little things to glue on. You just glue the sticks with a glue gun and the kid and decorate it.
-Bird feeders are always nice. The pine cone covered with peanut butter and rolled in the bird seed. Then you can gift wrap it in nice see through paper.
-The foam ball with the fabric squares poked into in. You cut little suares of fabric and use a pointed thing to push them into the ball. You push the center of the fabric so it folds inward. Do a bunch all around the ball so you can't see the ball anymore. This is hard to explain but really easy to do. I hope you get the picture.

I love the idea about the hand prints and the little saying
These little hands will never grow,
They will always stay just so.
When I am grown and far away,
These little hands with you will stay

I'm going to use that one! Too cute!

Good Luck
Erin

[Aaudreysmom]

2 1/2 yo dd and I decorated regular christmas bulbs with glitter. We strung a pretty christmas ribbion on to hang them with and I wrote her initals and year on the bottom. This was a lot of fun for us both.

[Persephone]

You could also make ornaments out of cinnamon dough.

You just buy ground cinnamon in bulk, and add enough applesauce to it to make a dough, and cut out shapes, or do anything with it that you can do with playdough, and the smell stays with it for a long time.

[Thursday Girl]

reindeer handprints


make a brown handprint of your child's. Flip it upside down. The fingers are the legs and the thumb is the head. Draw on horns, mouth, eye and a little red nose.

I tried this on heat trnasfer paper but the paper doesn't work with paint. so if you want it on fabric, scan the reindeer into a computer or use fabric paint.

For words just write mirror style or on most paint programs on the computer you can simply flip them.


courtney