Toddler Birthday Gift

From LoveToKnow Baby

You can find the perfect toddler birthday gift in a local department store or online. You can even create a gift that any toddler will love. Keep reading for some great gift ideas, and as always, let us know your thoughts and ideas on this topic!

Toddlers are easy to please, so it doesn't take a lot to find the perfect toddler birthday gift.

Homemade Gifts

Is your budget a bit tight? Do you want to put a little more thought and creativity into a toddler birthday gift? Toddlers are easy to please, and it doesn't take a lot to make a toddler happy. Toddlers are just learning to use their imaginations, and you can foster their creativity with a variety of homemade toddler birthday gifts. For example:

Make believe box: Decorate a cardboard box or plastic bin with brightly colored wrapping paper or contact paper. Visit your local dollar store and look for items that could be used to play make believe and/or dress up. Fill the box with inexpensive leis, hats, jewelry, play shoes, boas, scarves, wands, swords, and masks. If you plan ahead, you can often find some great Halloween items and accessories that are marked as much as 75% to 90% off the original price, especially at stores such as Target and Kmart. You can also find some great, inexpensive gifts at Oriental Trading Company.
Painted pots: Inspire the toddler in your life to love growing things. Purchase an inexpensive pot, and paint it with colorful acrylic paints. Include a small packet of soil, packets of seeds, and even a small spade or shovel. Toddlers love watching seeds that they've planted grow!
Puppet shows: Take a large box, and cover it with colorful fabric, using a hot glue gun. Be sure that one end is open halfway up, and the other end is completely open, so that there is room to conduct a puppet show. Include sock puppets or finger puppets that you've made yourself.

Gift Basket Ideas

What do toddlers love best about their birthday parties? Unwrapping the presents of course! You don't have to spend a bundle to create a wonderful gift basket full of great toddler birthday gifts. Check out the following ideas:

Sand fun: Find a brightly colored plastic bin, and fill it halfway up with sand. Add a pint-sized shovel, sand sieve, rake, and sand molds. Be sure the bin has a secure lid. Add a large bow, and you've created a mobile sand box for some lucky little boy or girl!
Art basket: Looking for a toddler birthday gift that encourages creativity? Why not purchase a basket, bucket, or bin to fill with all sorts of art supplies? Toddlers love finger paints, brushes, chalk, colored pencils, art paper, and crayons.
Clay collection: Every toddler loves playing with clay, such as Play-Doh. Fill a basket with a variety of clay, along with lots of accessories that will provide hours of fun for little hands.
Bubble bath bucket: Make bath time a fun time for a toddler by filling a bucket with bath crayons, bubbles, sponge toys, bubble bath, and other bath items.
Cooking basket: Another great toddler birthday gift basket idea is a cooking basket that is filled with play dishes and utensils, play food, pots, pans, and other cooking accessories.
Puzzle bin: Toddlers love puzzles, so you can't go wrong if you purchase a colorful bin that could house several stacked puzzles. Look for puzzles that are age appropriate and feature various shapes, pictures, colors, and/or numbers.