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Toddlers can be a finicky bunch, so when it comes to choosing a birthday gift for them, it can really get your creative juices flowing. Ideas can range from gifts you can buy in a store to those you make with your own two hands. Use these ideas as inspiration for creating a happy toddler at his or her next birthday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
If your budget is a bit tight and you want to put a little more thought and creativity into a toddler gift, make your own. Toddlers are just learning to use their imaginations, and you can foster their creativity with a variety of homemade toddler birthday gifts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Decorate a cardboard box or plastic bin with brightly colored wrapping paper or contact paper. Visit your local dollar store and look for items that could be used to play make believe and\/or dress up. Fill the box with\u00a0inexpensive leis, hats, jewelry,\u00a0play shoes,\u00a0boas, scarves, wands,\u00a0swords, and masks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Inspire the toddler in your life to love growing things. Purchase an\u00a0inexpensive pot\u00a0and paint it with colorful acrylic paints. Include a small packet of soil, packets of seeds, and even a small spade or shovel. Toddlers love watching seeds that they’ve planted grow!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Cut a piece of flat plywood into a square. Sand and varnish it. Attach items to the board with screws for the toddler to play with and amuse herself using nails, super glue, or another form of adhesive, depending on the activity. Ideas to include are:<\/p>\n
Suggest parents hang the piece of plywood on a wall at the child’s height so they can reach it and play with it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Take a large box and pull three of the four flaps off one side and all four off the opposite end, so hands are hidden below the flap and kids can reach into the puppet box from the back. Leave the bottom flap attached and pull up, taping the sides so it stays. Cover it with colorful fabric using a hot glue gun. Include\u00a0sock puppets\u00a0or finger puppets that you’ve made yourself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Turn your sewing or quilting skills into making a cloth book.\u00a0Andrea Dekker\u00a0offers some page layouts for a cloth book. You can make the pages simple or more complicated, depending on your sewing skills. A\u00a0no-sew quiet book\u00a0from Powerful Mothering works if you have no sewing skills at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Create a set of fish using card stock, cotton balls, yarn, and a hole puncher.<\/p>\n
Attach magnetic strips that you can buy at any local craft store to the back of wooden puzzle pieces or toys. Viola, you have toy magnets kids can play with for hours. Include a large cookie sheet for them to put the puzzle and toys pieces on that will function as their magnetic board.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Find round, flat, and smooth rocks – 26 in total. Clean them and paint them in solid colors of your choice. Then paint each letter of the alphabet onto each stone. If desired, gather enough rocks to include the numbers 0 through 9 as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
You don’t have to spend a bundle to create a wonderful gift basket full of great toddler birthday gifts. Check out the following ideas:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Find a brightly colored plastic bin and fill it halfway up with\u00a0play sand. Add a pint-sized shovel, sand sieve, rake, and sand molds. Be sure the bin has a secure lid. Add a large bow, and you’ve created a mobile sandbox for some lucky little boy or girl!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Toddlers love finger paints, brushes,\u00a0chalk, colored pencils, art paper, and crayons. Toddlers also like playing with\u00a0modeling clay, so allow them to create art sculptures by including several packages in the basket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Make bath time a fun time for a toddler by filling a bucket with\u00a0bath crayons, bubbles, sponge toys, bubble bath, and\u00a0bath squirters. Also include a fun\u00a0hooded animal towel\u00a0to make getting out of the bath just as fun as staying in it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Fill a grocery basket that is filled with play dishes and utensils,\u00a0play food,\u00a0pots, pans, and other cooking accessories. If you want, you could also pick up a\u00a0toy grocery cart\u00a0and fill it with similar items for a larger gift.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Toddlers love\u00a0puzzles, so you can’t go wrong if you purchase a colorful bin that could house several stacked puzzles. Look for puzzles that are age appropriate and feature various shapes, pictures, colors, and\/or numbers. Puzzles that make noise, like\u00a0farm sounds, are a bonus!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Find a small travel\u00a0suitcase\u00a0for kids. Look for one with their favorite character or animal. Fill the suitcase with kiddie travel items. Coloring books, crayons, books, their favorite movie, a blanket, and some snacks are good ideas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
You’ll have to leave out the ice cream itself, but you can include all the other fixings. Place ice cream cones stacked together inside of a cellophane wrap and tie off with a festive ribbon. Add a packet of sprinkles, a packet of chocolate chips, a packet of mini M&Ms, and some gummy worms or bears. Add a small tub of chocolate fudge and caramel sauce. Place inside of a nicely wrapped gift box and tie together the bottom and lid of the box with a brightly colored bow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
If you need a few more ideas before you begin shopping, check out the following list of additional ideas:<\/p>\n
For toddlers, it is more about the gift than the thought itself. If you put yourself in the shoes of toddlers for just a few moments, you can come up with some great gifts ideas that they’re sure to enjoy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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