Practical Baby Gifts For The Future
Traditional presents for new babies can be a little useless and sit on a shelf
. However, with a little ingenuity it's not as hard as it may at first seem to find baby gifts that stand the test of time and are practical in the long run. For example, money boxes make great gifts for babies because they can be a keepsake when the child is very young and become a functional place to store pocket money as the child develops. They can also be incredibly personal because you can add an engraved message to silver plated ones or a painted message to ceramic ones.
Another popular gift for a new baby is a memory book. Almost any attractive hard back book will do but there are special books made in blue for a boy and pink for a girl available very affordably. They provide a great place to store mementos, congratulation cards, locks of baby hair, photographs and other items from the child's progression through early childhood. That way, when they are older, they can fondly remember growing up and adding details and images to their book.
Personalised Presents
Some of the best functional and practical baby gifts are personalised gifts. You don't need to spend a lot of money on presents for new-borns in order to get baby gifts that are of outstanding quality either. If you want to get something that the child will use throughout their early childhood personalised plate sets are perfect.
You can have the child's name and sometimes their date of birth added to plate sets so that when they eat their breakfast or dinner they are exposed to the letters in their name (which often helps them learn to write their name earlier!). Some of the personalised plates and cup sets you can buy online have cute animals and other characters incorporated in to the designs so they quickly trigger young imaginations. As with personalised plates, personalised cutlery which is just the right size for tiny hands is another pretty, yet practical gift that can come in handy for a child at meal times right up until they are ready to take hold of adult sized cutlery.
If you love the idea of helping the new-born baby learn as they grow up a personalised Encyclopaedia might be the answer to your indecision. From a very early age a baby soaks up their environment. They learn about the world they inhabit at an astonishingly fast rate and they develop social skills, attitudes, affection and other skills and talents such as speaking, walking, mimicry and eventually drawing, reading and writing. A personalised Encyclopaedia is carefully printed with the child's name. Within the pages of the book, their name has various letters highlighted and items and animals which correspond to those letters are featured in the book as pictures and as each written word to help the young child learn about the alphabet and objects and creatures in the world around them.
Brilliant Baby Gifts
Planning ahead and getting gifts that will get years of use rather than end up on a dusty shelf, is definitely the way to go if you want to really impress the baby's parents with the baby gifts that you choose! Embroidered bibs which say which date the baby was born or christened make great functional presents (that really get dirty every meal time!) and any present that teaches lessons or sparks the child's imagination is a good investment.
You don't have to get the baby presents which are boring for them to be functional and there are still some traditional presents which you could buy for a baby that are fun and stand the test of time. Browse online and come up with a few ideas before settling on the one which best suits your friend's new born.
If in doubt there is one classic gift which is practical because it can usually keep a baby from crying and fretting, however, it's a gift that has been a traditional item given to children for over a hundred years. A traditional teddy! Cute and scruffy teddy bears with embroidered personalised sweaters that have thoughtful messages on them might, on the face of it seem less practical than they are but they can be used as a comforter, similar to a comfort blanket, played with as a toy whilst the kid slowly grows up and even cherished as a keepsake in to adulthood, so even humble teddy bears make good, long lasting baby gifts!
by: John Smith
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