DIY gift for a newborn

Gift for a newborn must impress his parents. After all, only they will be able to appreciate it at its true worth - they will enjoy a cute toy, beautiful and stylish clothes, and will be grateful for useful devices, gadgets, and furniture. There are many gift options. To give not only a practical, but also an original gift, you should put your hands on it.

Not everyone has the talent to sew or knit an exclusive set of clothes, or make a bed or toy. But anyone without any special skills can present ordinary things in an original way. Let's look at a few successful examples of gifts that were originally designed with your own hands.

Bouquet of clothes

Romper, vests, blouses — there are never too many of them, so when handing them over, the giver will definitely guess right. However, these items of clothing will get lost among other similar ones - a useful, but ordinary, unremarkable gift.But decorated in the form of a bouquet, it will evoke surprise, pleasant emotions, and a feeling of gratitude for your efforts. In addition to the things that will become “buds in a bouquet”, you will need:

• rubber bands, which are usually intended for money;
• paper used to decorate flower arrangements;
• long straws for juice or wooden sticks - these can be devices for cake pops and lollipops (20 cm) or for manicure;
  
• ribbon;
• paper flowers for additional decoration;
• basket.

From each item of clothing you need to build a small roll that resembles a bud and fasten it at the base with an elastic band. Further:

• put each “bud” on a stick - the latter can be wrapped with colored electrical tape to enhance the resemblance to the stem;
• tie the junction of the roll of clothing with tape;
• Having carried out similar manipulations with each of the purchased items, place them in the basket - for greater stability, you should get a piece of polystyrene foam, put it on the bottom and stick sticks into it;
• Additionally, decorate the basket with decorative paper and flowers.

An original gift from diapers

Diapers are a useful thing, but so trivial that they simply need some embellishment. You can use them to make a cake, basket, bicycle, ship, car or stroller. Let's focus on two fairly simple and rather original options - a ship for a boy and a stroller for a girl.

Ship

For the construction, in addition to the diapers themselves, you will need a rectangular plastic container, various useful things to fill it (hygiene products, clothing items), an elastic band, baby towels, cardboard, and tape. Double-sided tape and sushi chopsticks may come in handy.

The process of creating a ship from diapers looks like this:

• the container is filled with prepared useful items and the lid is tightly closed;
• pull a large rubber band over the container;
• rolls are made from diapers and inserted between the elastic band and the container;
• more diapers are placed at the front of the future ship to form its nose;
• using baby towels, cover the sides of the diapers;
• towels are secured with a wide satin ribbon;
• make a second tier, fixing it where required with double-sided tape so that the “ship” does not fall apart;
• tie the top tier with prepared ribbon;
• make a tube out of cardboard, wrap it in sliders or small towels;
• the structure is decorated with anchors and a steering wheel made of felt;
• for the top edge you can take sushi sticks - with the help of them, as well as string, you can create the illusion of a fence;
• the finished product is packaged.

Stroller

In addition to the main component - a large package of diapers - you will need tape, baby towels, cardboard, corrugated paper, glue or double-sided tape.

The process of making a gift for discharge from the maternity hospital with your own hands looks like this:

• a base is made from cardboard in the form of a rectangle with slightly rounded edges;
• the diapers are rolled up, secured with rubber bands for money, laid out on the base and fastened together with the same rubber bands;
• on one side, a kind of slide of five rolls is formed: in the first row - three, in the second - two;
• The top of the slide is covered with one straightened diaper;
• the structure is again fastened with rubber bands - this is the basis of the stroller and it is ready;
  
• four more rolls will serve as wheels, also fastened with rubber bands - they are wrapped in corrugated paper and fixed with tape or glue;
• the base of the stroller is covered with a beautiful wrapper - the frame is completely covered, only the ruffled waves remain on the edges;
• the diapers are covered with a towel on top - you can put a baby doll under this kind of “blanket”;
• the wheels are glued to the bottom of the stroller;
• A handle is made from cardboard decorated with ribbon;
• Using ribbons you can further decorate the stroller body.

Candy made from towels and care products

The simplest version of a homemade gift.

The towel contains various products necessary for caring for the baby - creams, oils, baby powders. It is rolled into a roll, which is secured with pins or rubber bands.

The product is then wrapped in transparent wrapping paper - like a candy cane. Small ribbons are tied along the edges. That's it - the gift is ready!

Towels are an ideal option to hide the main gift in them. It can be anything - items of clothing, various small toys, a feeding bottle, money. More complex options are also made from similar rolls - a cake, a chest and much more, based on the principle of using diapers.

The above options for DIY gifts do not require any special skills or large investments. But, thanks to the combination of usefulness and originality, the baby’s parents will definitely like them.