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Today I have my Christmas gift guide for babies and toddlers! I love buying presents for kids of this age; I think there are always so many different things available for the littlest ones. I’ve got lots of lovely ideas to share with you in this gift guide and I hope you will find some great inspiration for Christmas gifts here.
These ‘It’s Your Story’ personalised books are so lovely and make a wonderful gift that children can keep and hopefully cherish. Ava was given one for her first Christmas and she still loves reading it now. I’ve ordered a few of these hardback books now for my nephews and my niece — they are super sweet with their photo throughout the pages and they love seeing their photo and name in a book.
The illustrations in the book are lovely and the storyline is simple and engaging, capturing all the rituals of Christmas from building a snowman to leaving out a mince pie for Father Christmas, all whilst including the child themselves as the main character in the story. You can also add a personal message from you to the child at the front of the book which makes it a lovely keepsake.
Where to buy: It’s Your Story from £19.50
These gorgeous baby socks from Critically Endangered Socks make such a beautiful gift for a baby. The sustainable sock company have such a bright and fun range of socks that also help to protect some of the world’s most critically endangered animals.
The socks are beautiful quality and made from a blend of bamboo and cotton so they’re super soft for babies feet. Because of the way they are designed, with the animal’s mouth underneath, they also make fun hand puppets to entertain babies with too! The four pairs of socks feature a Giant Panda cub, a Tiger cub, a Rhino calf and a baby Orangutan and are designed for babies aged 6-12 months.
The socks come in a recycled cardboard box plus 10% of the sale price will go directly to WWF UK, to help protect some of the world’s most endangered baby animals so they make a lovely thoughtful and sustainable gift to give for Christmas.
Critically Endangered socks also make really lovely socks for adults featuring these beautiful animals that also do good, with 10% of each sale going to 5 different animal conservation charities that help protect turtles, dolphins, leopards, elephants and orangutans, and a pair make a great stocking filler.
Where to buy: Critically Endangered Socks RRP £15.00
This gorgeous baby muslin from Little Wolves is so incredibly soft as well as being really nice and large so it can be used in lots of different ways. It also gets softer every time you wash it too, thanks to the bamboo it’s made of, and it makes a gorgeous gift that is both practical and pretty.
Little Wolves is a new small business who sell fun, brightly coloured baby muslins, shoes and blankets. They want to help make parenting a bit easier and they aim to offer products that are durable but soft, practical and stylish, and this Geo Bear Print Muslin is all of those things. It can be used as a blanket or swaddle, for cleaning up your baby, or for use with breastfeeding due to its brilliant large size.
The muslins come in such gorgeous and fun designs, and they also have loads of other stuff that would make such lovely gifts for babies and toddlers and their parents – check out the insanely cute baby shoes they do!
Little Wolves have very kindly offered 10% off their lovely range of muslin cloths to my readers! Use the code BIRDS10 on this collection to get the offer: Little Wolves Muslin Cloths
Where to buy: Little Wolves £13.99
Toddlers will love this Tomy Toomies 2 in 1 Eggventure Train which cleverly has different ways to play with it. It combines a spinning Ferris wheel and a push-along train with colourful and cute characters and carriages and means that it will last them through different ages and stages and keep them entertained.
It’s brilliant for helping to develop their motor skills, as well as their logic and problem-solving skills, making it fun and educational. The egg characters and their shells are easy for little hands to pick up and fit together and they can colour match, and even shape sort with the classic Hide & Squeak Eggs that you can get separately. My daughter had these eggs when she was little and loved them, so it’s great that you can play with these together if you already have the eggs.
Suitable for ages 12-36 months.
Where to buy: Amazon, Smyths, Argos, or The Range RRP £19.99
This cool Super Wings World Aircraft playset is featured in the new season of Super Wings Super-Charge and is the home for Jett and his Super Wing friends!
The aircraft has light and sounds effects, and lifts at the back so kids can elevate the Transform-a-Bots figures to the take-off platform, then press the trigger on the handle and watch the runway unfold!
There are real working wheels to glide the playset on the ground and a handle to fly the aircraft through the skies. Plus the playset includes a 2” Jett Transform a Bot character and is also compatible with all Transform-a-Bots figures, which can then be stored away in the side compartments when not in use.
Fans of the show will love this fun playset and will have loads of fun this Christmas.
Where to buy: Smyths or Amazon RRP £29.99
The Super Wings Transform-a-Bots set features 4 fan-favourite characters: Flip, Todd, Agent Chase and Astra.
The 2-inch scale figures transform from vehicle to bot in 3 easy steps so are perfect for re-enacting favourite Super Wings missions from the hit TV show.
Suitable for ages 3 years and over.
Where to buy: Amazon £14.99
This is a lovely skincare bundle to give to someone this Christmas, helping them to settle into a bedtime routine and care for baby’s delicate skin with the Baby Daily Care Hair & Body Wash, followed by a relaxing mum and baby massage with the moisturising lotions. I love Aveeno products; they are so good and really do help keep skin moisturised over the winter months.
This AVEENO® Mum & Baby Giftset includes:
Where to buy: Boots or Ocado RRP £20
These cool Kidnoculars are designed specifically for kids and have a strong waterproof design with a wrap-around soft eye section which makes it really easy for little ones to look through the binoculars. They hold their face in the correct position and keep things steady, whilst blocking out the peripheral vision, and come with a neck strap with a special breakaway safety feature, which is great.
The Geosafari Jnr Kidnoculars make a great gift to encourage little ones to explore and interact with the world around them, whilst being nice and sturdy and comfortable and lightweight for them to hold. They have a nice clear 2x magnification and make the perfect first pair of binoculars.
Where to buy: BrightMinds RRP £11.99
We love Paint Sticks and have had some for a few years now. They twist up and down like a glue stick and allow you to paint without the mess and they’re so lovely to use. I much prefer using these to regular paint and a paintbrush and they’re both easier to use and way easier to clean up afterwards! I think they’re great for any age really, when you don’t fancy loads of mess but they still want to be creative and do something fun. The colours are always really bright, they work on a range of surfaces and they dry really quickly too.
This Paint Sticks Classic Art Station is brilliant. It has a fold-up, double-sided easel with a whiteboard on one side and a chalkboard on the other. It comes with 6 classic Paint Sticks, 6 Chalk Sticks, paper and a duster, and the storage cups are useful to hold them during use. It is really portable and easy to store and I’m sure most kids would love it!
Where to buy: Amazon or Smyths RRP £24.99
I love this toy so much. It is beautifully designed and brilliant quality and can be used as a game as well as a balancing toy (plus it looks so pretty just sat on your side as a decorative piece!).
Djeco Ze Balanceo has brightly painted wooden pieces and comes with dice to play the balance and tumble game, and it is lovely and tactile and great fun to play. As a toy for younger children it is a brilliant early manipulative toy which is great for shape matching too.
Where to buy: BrightMinds RRP £12.99
I hope these lovely products helped you find the perfect Christmas gift for any gorgeous babies and toddlers in your life!
Some of the products featured in this gift guide were sent to me for inclusion, but all words are my own. See my full disclosure policy here.
Welcome to Birds and Lilies! I'm Lou: mother, blogger and freelance writer. This is my lifestyle blog, where I talk about motherhood, infertility and IVF, beauty, my love for food and wine, as well as my thoughts about stuff, and our real-life and travel adventures.
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