Here we go again.. xmas pressies for a one year old boy?

FBaby

What about something with his name so it is his and his only. As he grows during that year, he can learn that this is his name and be proud of it.

barbiedoll

FBaby wrote: »

What about something with his name so it is his and his only. As he grows during that year, he can learn that this is his name and be proud of it.

Yes, I like this idea, especially if he has an older brother and is facing a lifetime of playing with big brother's toys etc. What about one of those storybooks which can be "personalised" with his name running through the story?

pleasedelete

Claire_Wind wrote: »

I always buy my nephew and niece books as they are educational - and as another poster said - they tend to enjoy the unwrapping more than the gift itself!

That may be because the gift isn't that great!

Presents should be fun, something that you will love and use. No need to be educational . Depending on the child may only cost a few pence upwards but personal and chosen because you just know that they will love it.

double_mummy

big box full of shredded paper and bubble wrap wrapped in about 100 layers

sooty&sweep

Hi
From what you're saying they don't really need anything so what about putting the money towards say an annual pass to the local zoo or similar ? Something you can do as a family.
Then just get a few bits & pieces for them to open.
Jen

Startingagainagain

An easel? An outdoor toy for summer (house / sand pit - I know, not ideal when they can't play with it straight away!). My LO (was 11 months for first Christmas) was given various little ride on toys which are played with pretty much daily - he loves his scuttlebug which also goes outside in the summer and folds up so you can take it places.


I did get him a Christmas story book with his name in it which will be getting whipped out again this year! Something Christmassy from the 'that's not my...' range (we got Snowman last year!) Ikea do fab wooden toys all around £10 which have been played with to death, also that rug with the roads on which I'm going to pick up for him this year.


He also plays with his Toot Toot cars all the time (I'm going to pick a few more bits up this year) - he has the 'emergency vehicles' which play fairly annoying songs but he loves them!


Actually, thinking about it, one of the things that brought him the most delight was some of those bath toys that light up when they hit the water that a friend of mine bought him! Definitely cost under £10.


LO's birthday is in January and I've also started picking bits up but also trying to think of ideas for family when they all ask what he wants.

Counting_Pennies_2

Go through both children's toys. Take away 3 or 4 of the really good toys. Then pop them in a box and store them in the loft.


They will have completely forgotten them by Christmas at this age.


Wrap them up individually. No money spent. Guaranteed fun because they have played with them successfully in the past. So fun and surprises all round.


With the money saved, put it towards a holiday or day trip

getcarter

Counting_Pennies wrote: »

Go through both children's toys. Take away 3 or 4 of the really good toys. Then pop them in a box and store them in the loft.


They will have completely forgotten them by Christmas at this age.


Wrap them up individually. No money spent. Guaranteed fun because they have played with them successfully in the past. So fun and surprises all round.


With the money saved, put it towards a holiday or day trip

This...........

dizziblonde

We have the same kind of issue here with that small age gap - last year I think we got our then-not-quite 1 year old a few things targetted at both of them to play with - things like the Happyland London bus springs to mind - so while she started out chewing on all the figured and occasionally bashing one of the noise buttons - she moved on to putting people in and out of the bus, where her sister plays with it more imaginatively.

This year (at 1 1/2 and 2 1/2) the eldest's getting a lot of play kitchen and dressy up stuff which they'll both play with anyway, and the youngest is getting a wooden train set (different people buying different bits of it) that again, they'll both play with anyway - but I like them to both have "their" present pile on the morning and not just be treated as one single entity because of their similar ages.

Then we have their birthdays very close in time together as well (1 month between 'em) - but that's getting toward spring time so the eldest I think is getting a balance bike then and the younger one is getting a sit on scooter probably - things like that I do then for the garden and nicer weather.

Scuttlebugs are fab though - ours is starting to be outgrown but my kids are very very tall so I don't get as much mileage out of ride on toys as lots of people do.

katiechoc_2

I second the idea of an annual pass or membership card type thing. My LO was 17months ish last Christmas so admittedly a bit bigger than yours but bless him he got so overwhelmed with it all it took days to open all his presents. Halfway through present opening on xmas day he just buried his face in my shoulder and wouldn't look at anyone/thing else.

I get the PP's point about not everything has to be educational but books will ALWAYS go down well with young kids - on the day maybe the bigger, noisier, snazzier presents get more attention but I'll pretty much guarantee you that those toys will be discarded long before they tire of a good set of books. Dr Seuss, Mr Men, Thomas the Tank etc, my lad is forever getting books out of his book box and bringing them to me to read with him. Yes its educational, but that doesn't mean its not also fun.