Homemade present from a 1 year old??

saving123

This year as finances are quite tight me and my husband have decided instead of buying each other a gift from our 1 year old we can both spend time with her and make something. Does anyone have any ideas of things I could make with her to give her daddy? Thanks in advance

mcspanna

I'm not a parent and therefore may be a bit off the mark with a one year old's capabilities but what about some sort of calendar with either pictures drawn by your little one or maybe even photos that she can stick on. Or home made biscuits/sweets etc that she can decorate with hundred and thousands etc?

Have fun!

dealwithdebtdot

handprint/feetprint (poster paint) picture in a frame?

greenpixey

My kids are a bit older (3-4 at the time) but they have been painting stones for MIL to use as paperweights. They painted bees and Ladybirds and she uses them in her office

savingholmes

dealwithdebtdot wrote: »

handprint/feetprint (poster paint) picture in a frame?

Could be done as a calendar? There is poem somewhere about one day the sticky fingers will be gone so here's a permanent record of what they used to look like...

Parents also generally like any kind of you are the best parent in the world picture frame with them and the child.

You could join a cash back site - then a photosite where you practically get the money you spend back as cash back and that way get an almost free gift....

My home and bargain is selling photo snow globe/dome things for £1, Asda have then in for £3 - that is another pressie most parents would treasure...

Saab

Does he use hankies?

Get some pale pink pretty lippy and put just a little on your little one's lips, get her/him to kiss the hankie.

Later you can use a fabric pen to gently make the 'kiss' indelible and maybe write 'a kiss for daddy' under it.

Every time he uses the hankie, he gets a kiss.

sarahs999

I'd definitely go for the handprint option. I did some on a canvas I bought from one of those cheap art/book remainder shops. It still sits on our wall and looks lovely.

phunkles

Saab wrote: »

Does he use hankies?

Get some pale pink pretty lippy and put just a little on your little one's lips, get her/him to kiss the hankie.

Later you can use a fabric pen to gently make the 'kiss' indelible and maybe write 'a kiss for daddy' under it.

Every time he uses the hankie, he gets a kiss.

I love that idea!!!
*steals for future use*

foxxymynx

A mug with your LO's handprint on?

You can get them in woolies for £1, or morrisons for £1.50, the paint your own mug kits

Cheap and will be very sentimental. You could put the handprint on one side, permanent markers also work on the paint your own mug sets, as well as the paint so the other side, if you used a thin permanent marker, you could write the handprints poem?

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]My Handprints

Sometimes I might upset you
Because I am so small
And always leave my fingerprints
on furniture and walls.

But everyday I grow a bit
And soon I'll be so tall
That all those little fingerprints
Will be so hard to recall.

So here's a special handprint
Just so that you can say
This is how my fingers looked
When I placed them here today[/FONT]

saving123

thanks for all the replies!

Hush-Puppy

If you get a large sheet of paper and let the wee one loose with poster paints, sponges and bushes ... you can then cut the paper into small 'art works' and put them in those dead cheap 5X7 Ikea frames.

You could also cut some decoration type shapes from it, put onto card, add string and present to Daddy as either tree or rear-view-mirror decorations.

ELC sell a dead cheap (£6 or so) moulding kit in a presentation tin which makes a nice hand/foot print keepsake. It also comes with a little pot of blue paint and one pink. The 'stuff' is great because if you mess it up you can roll it out again for a re-try.

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