Baby’s First Christmas | Gifts & Tradition Ideas

To keep your baby’s little face and tiny toes cosy, how about a personalised bathrobe? Wrap them up in something warm and fleecy after bathtime!

The best part about this gift is that you can add their name to it! It’s literally the cutest thing ever and it’ll last them for a while, as they grow into it. Because these bathrobes can be brought for kids up to 7 years old!

If this isn’t the most fitting time for this gift, then I don’t know what is!

Whether you spend Christmas dinner with the larger family or stay at home, this is bound to set off the ‘aww’s‘! It’s adorable, perfect for your baby’s first Christmas or is the perfect gift idea to get someone you know who had a baby! A brilliant bib for family mealtimes this festive season.

Since it says ‘1st dinner’ on the soft red bib, it will become a sentimental gift in the future, filled with fond memories for baby!

You can personalise it with any text for an extra £3.00 and can purchase a matching babygrow!

The perfect addition to the bib is an Elf bamboo plate! With a matching Elf spoon, your baby’s first Christmas dinner can be enjoyed and eaten in a true festive style.

What’s not to love?

If you’d like a Christmas gift that will be used for years to come – this is it! A Santa sack personalised with their name and the year it was your baby 1st Christmas! You can choose to fill it with gifts for babies, including baby toys, baby essentials like clothes and stuffed teddies, like a Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit!

It’s a cute addition to a Christmas tree decoration, as you keep it under there. It might keep them distracted from the shiny ornaments!

Now, this is something truly special…and one that will cement itself in the memories of a lifetime!

A personalised book about your baby’s 1st Christmas and you can even change the skin colour, which makes it even more heart-warming.

Featuring your child’s name throughout, with beautiful illustrations and a sweet story. This is perfect for babies who loved to be read too and one they can cherish later in life – maybe even pass it on to their children!

If you’d like to commemorate your baby’s 1st year, how about a photo frame where you can add a photo from each month since they’ve been born? For December, you can stage a holiday photoshoot and add a cute photo to the frame!

With lots of photos included, your child as they grow older and are able to understand will appreciate the memories of each month being remembered.

There’s even space to add their hand or footprints to make it extra extra sentimental.

The first thing is to make your Christmas decorations baby friendly, so there are little or no accidents and you can still make your house look magical!

Whether you only buy baby-friendly decorations to hang on their tree this year or organise your tree decorations! If you like flashy baubles or glass baubles you can still add them, just place them high up on the tree and out of the way of little fingers!

We all know babies love bright things or things that move. And baubles tend to sway a bit…so how about adding plush Christmas tree decorations near the bottom, so they’re soft and baby-friendly!

For those families that really love sentimental memories, this is perfect for you. Adding your baby’s first Christmas ornament! Some families try to do this every year, so their tree is full of creative ornaments made by the children. There are a few design ideas you can use! Whether you DIY or purchase one.

DIY –

• Using clay, make a round plate and using a small pick or even a pencil, carve whatever words you want. Whether it’s (name, First Christmas) or (‘My First Christmas). Make sure to poke a hole at the top of the clay piece (so you can thread a ribbon through). Once it’s dried, apply some baby-friendly paint to your baby’s hand and print it on the clay ornament. Loop the ribbon through the hole and hang up on the tree!
• Buy a clear plastic bauble that you can fill. Add anything you want that reminds you of your baby. Whether it’s a baby sock, a small baby photo that you can slip in or something small that you’d like to keep forever. Using a sharpie, add whatever message you wish on the outside and hang it up!

Buy –

• For a stress-free Christmas, you can snap up a baby’s first Christmas ornament instead. We found the perfect one. A personalised baby building blocks Christmas bauble. Filled with a wintery backdrop, with fake snow and a tiny Christmas tree, you’ll find building blocks. How are these personal, I hear you say? Well, you can add the name, date of birth and weight of your baby. So, it truly is personalised. You can hang up this beautiful bauble every year and pass it on when the time comes!

If you like to send Christmas cards out to your friends and family, this is the one for you. Maybe you’d like to just keep the photo to yourself or add it to your house decor! Whichever it is, if you can take some time during the holidays for family bonding – because this is a fantastic way to achieve that! You can choose a professional photographer in a studio, or simply do it at home! Every phone has a timer, if you don’t have a digital camera.

Whether you all wear Santa hats, or Christmas jumpers or stage a picture-perfect winter wonderland, your baby can always be included. Place baby reindeer ears on their head, and dress them in festive baby grows or costumes. If you’re warming up to the idea of a winter wonderland, dress them up as a little penguin!

There are so many themes for a Christmas photo shoot, that the possibilities are truly endless. Afterwards, keep the photos, add them to an album and repeat the next year! Soon enough you’ll have your own collection of cute Christmas photos as your family grows.

We know Christmas is exciting and everyone wants to rush downstairs to open their gifts under the tree. But if you wanted to slow things down and take it all in, you could make a yummy Christmas breakfast – and include your baby too (depending on how old they are).

A great festive breakfast to munch on is pancakes in the shape of Santa!

You’ll need is:

• Ready-made pancakes (or you can make your own)
• A punnet of strawberries or raspberries
• Bananas
• A handful of grapes
• Whipped cream
• Yoghurt

1. If you’re using strawberries, cut them in half lengthways and cut one widthways. Then slice your bananas into circles and halve your grapes widthways. If you’re using raspberries there’s no need to cut them.

2. Place your pancake on the plate and dollop a small tablespoon of yoghurt next to each to make the eyes.

3. Add your halved grapes (one of each) to the yoghurt dollops. Add the width-cut strawberry under the eyes – that’ll make the nose!

4. Add the halved strawberries to the top of the pancake in the shape of a Santa hat.

5. Then place the banana circles on the bottom of the pancake as Santa’s beard!

6. Finally, squirt some whipped cream at the base of the hat and the tip of it too. Voila, you have your Christmas breakfast! For babies make the pancake small and don’t add too much fruit or whipped cream.

We’ll finish off with a simple, cute and sweet family tradition. Add some mistletoe to a doorway and bring your baby under it. Then place the biggest kiss on their face! It can make the perfect shot for a Christmas photo and it’ll invoke heart-warming memories.

It may not be a big tradition to some, but to others, it makes their day!