Hand made Christmas presents for 2.5 year old.

xxvickixx

If I ever get round to it I am going to make a road play mat out of a green fleece and a grey one, plan to applique ponds, bushes etc on it. I love this thread, I'm hoping to make most of DS's presents this year.

At the moment I am making a "Tidmouth Sheds" from Thomas the Tank Engine out of a brown cardboard box, I've covered in a watery PVA and kitchen roll sheets layered up, to reinforce and add texture, papermached on some mouldings which is almost finished. Just need to paint it and possibly varnish to protect, he's been playing with it already so can't wrap it up but I will make some tunnels and bridges to match as presents.

qwiksave

chasingsunshine wrote: »

Sorry to snip Mary - the felt book sounds fantastic! Shame there is little hope of finding it in the threads but gives me something to think about.

You are always full of wonderful ideas! Christmas at your house must be lovely

I found it! In the Crafting for Christmas 2008 thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=16498279&postcount=2627

mary-op

qwiksave - thanks for finding that. I was looking and couldn't see it. I'd saved some of the pictures to give me an idea.

Bit stuck on little grandson -3 yr old - he's got one of these Wii games and I start to get the feeling that anything I 'concoct' might get slung up the corner and not bothered with so might end up buying something.

Still, one the girls we used to look after has a young son and he loved the christmas eve box I did for him last year

mumlady1

I love some of the ideas for homemade Christmas presents for little uns but the best present of all in our house was the cardboard box! I actually got these from work but my kids used to love playing with and in them. They started life as quite basic cars or houses but eventually we had a house with a library, a porch, an extension and a garden fence lol! My kids even slept in it.
Ahh, I miss those days of much cheapness lol.

StoneWilson

how about a knit hat? My nephew really likes this kind of stuff.