Gifts for baby first christmas: Baby’s First Christmas Gifts That Are Actually Cute
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Make this magical time of year extra special for your family with these fun, festive gift ideas for baby’s first Christmas.
From cute outfits to personalised gifts, nothing quite tops the list like baby’s first Christmas. But remember, this time of year is all about creating memories, so focus on keepsakes and fun crafts that you can enjoy together to ensure your Christmas is one to remember.
Here are some adorable gift, decoration and outfit ideas to make your baby’s first Christmas extra magical.
Decoration & Gift Ideas for Baby’s First Christmas
My 1st Years Personalised Pink Bunny Christmas Stocking, £19.80
Don’t miss your chance to get creative with baby’s first stocking with this adorable option for baby’s first Christmas featuring a glittering gold edge, loop for easy hanging and the option to personalise with baby’s name.
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Fortnum & Mason Baby’s First Christmas 2022 Stork Decoration, £22
Signify baby’s first Christmas with this stylish Fortnum & Mason stork tree decoration – something you can hold on to for years to come.
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My 1st Years Personalised Wooden Children’s Nativity Set, £40
A nativity set is a classic first Christmas gift for your baby or an expecting new mum and something you and your child can enjoy putting up together in the years to come. We love this personalised option from My 1st Years option for an extra-special gift.
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LULLY The Musical Teddy Bear, £59.95
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The perfect gift for baby’s first Christmas, LULLY is the only teddy bear to sing 23 live-recorded lullabies, providing an uninterrupted hour of calming music for quiet time, bedtime and relaxation.
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My 1st Years Personalised Reindeer Hooded Towel, now £15.50
How adorable is this hooded reindeer dressing gown rom My 1st Years? We’re obsessed with the little ears. Plus, with the option for personalisation, this super cute dressing gown will be a cherished keepsake for you to remember just how tiny your little one was for their first Christmas.
It’s also an excellent gift for a new Christmas baby.
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Cath Kidston Christmas Large Snow Globe, £35
Why not start a new family tradition with a new snow globe each year, starting with baby’s first Christmas? We love this stylish option from Cath Kidston.
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Bespoke Letter from Father Christmas, £19.99
Father Christmas loves introducing himself to new little girls and boys on their first Christmas. In this personalised letter he will explain who he is and what the magic of Christmas is really about. Each letter is uniquely personal to the recipient with a high level of personalisation including the big man’s comments on the baby’s first year. A very special keepsake for baby’s first Christmas!
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John Lewis Penguin Rattle & Soothing Blanket Gift Set, £18
A rattle is a lovely and traditional gift for a new baby and we’re big fans of this festive penguin rattle from John Lewis with matching blanket.
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Not On The High Street Personalised Letter And Star Decoration From Santa, £19
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Another great keepsake to show your baby when they’re older (and start to doubt Father Christmas’ existence), this Not On The High Street personalised letter comes complete with a magic hanging star decoration.
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Baby Blooms Baby’s First Christmas Keepsake Journal & Personalised Bear, £54
This wonderfully illustrated Christmas Keepsake Journal is a lovely way to record all those fun festive memories and the Berkeley Bear is a traditional style seated teddy bear wearing a knitted white jumper embroidered with the name of your choice.
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Decoration Ideas for Baby’s First Christmas
Not On The High Street Night Before Santa Footprint Stencil, £12
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Party Pieces Metallic Nutcracker Paper Plates, £5 for eight
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Baby’s First Christmas Ceramic Bauble, £14
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Oli & Zo Personalised Little Forest Friends Christmas Eve Box, £48
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Sarah Raven Medium Lit Wooden Star, £29.
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Amara Christmas Finley Frosted Wreath, now £21
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Baby’s Christmas Teddy Bib Cracker, £10
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Christmas Outfits for Baby’s First Christmas
First Christmas or not, you’ll want your little one to look adorable for all the family photos. These outfits and festive clothes will have your baby looking as cute as a Christmas pudding.
JoJo Maman Bébé Navy Check Party Dress, £34
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This traditional navy and green check dress is an adorable choice for baby’s first Christmas, with sizes available from six months upwards – just add tights for a cute festive look.
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Paisley of London Girls’ Occasion Shoes, now £10
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These festive Paisley of London wine-coloured shoes are the perfect addition to your daughter’s Christmas outfit, with a Velcro strap for easy dressing and adorable knotted bow in matching velvet.:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/Palmettowoodshop-2c36b298a4bb4244b3954724f07778b5.jpg)
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M&S Cotton Rich Reindeer Print Leggings, £5
Keep your baby cosy and comfy come Christmas Day with these handy and great-value cotton festive reindeer leggings from M&S.
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Cath Kidston Christmas Sky Velvet Baby Tie Back Dress (0-24 Months), £36
Every little one needs a special dress for the festive season. This adorable velvet dress in Cath Kidston’s Christmas print has a gentle scoop neckline, pretty little buttons at the back, cap sleeves and pleated skirt finished with a bow.
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Childrensalon Kissy Kissy White Christmas Babysuit Set, £67
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This Christmas babygrow set makes for the perfect gift for you or a loved one, made of super soft and stretchy 100% Pima cotton jersey with a matching bib and hat, adorable ‘Baby’s First Christmas’ embroidery and popper fastening for easy changing.
The perfect Christmas cosy knit, this unisex, classic Fair Isle robin cardigan from JoJo Maman Bébé features cashmere, perfect to keep your little one warm and cosy this festive season.
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Mamas & Papas Elf All-In-One And Hat, £21.75
Your little one will look like they’ve just arrived from the North Pole in this super-cute Elf all-in-one, with enclosed feet for extra cosiness, plus a matching hat.
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Gift Ideas For Baby’s First Christmas
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Christmas is always special, but never more so than when kids are involved, especially a newbaby! Baby’s very first Christmas is definitely one for the books.
It’s a lovely time to buy somethingspecial for baby, whether it’s your little one, your niece, nephew, or grandchild, and it’s also anopportunity to gift something for the parents who have probably had the most exhausting year oftheir lives so far!
So what are some amazing gifts for baby’s first Christmas? Read ahead for some suggestions,from our Giftbox Boutique selection of gift boxes, to other gifts we’ve found and loved for our own babies (we’re not just gift box experts here, we’re baby experts too!).
Bunny Blankie Comforter
— It’s cute, it’s soft, it’s our extremely sought-after Bunny Blankie Comforter! Every baby needs the perfect little companion, and this cutie can be purchased by itself, or added to any other gift box. Baby will love and adore this new bestie!
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The Neutral Nature Baby
— It’s cute, it’s soft, it’s our extremely sought-after Bunny Blankie Comforter! Every baby needs the perfect little companion, and this cutie can be purchased by itself, or added to any other gift box.
Baby will love and adore this new bestie!
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A keepsake Christmas book
— We love gifting books for babies, especially really beautiful keepsake books that can be enjoyed for years, and even handed down one day. Some Christmas books we adore are ’Twas The Night Before Christmas’, ‘The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories’, and ‘The Nutcracker’. Not only are they amazing gifts for new babes, they often become family favourites, and can even inspire a new Christmas tradition — You can’t beat a family story on Christmas Eve, before tucking the kids in for Santa’s arrival!
The New Arrival
— Filled with treats for the new parents (cookies & chocolate — parenthood essentials!), plus a Nature baby soap and a Babu cotton bodysuit for baby, this is a mix of practical, cute, and delicious!
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Baby’s first Christmas ornament
— This is a special Christmas tradition to start! Gift a Christmas ornament each year so they build up a fabulous festive collection, with lovely memories attached! You could even label them each year, so they know who gifted it and when.
The For Mum & Bub
— This is the perfect combined Mum & baby gift… For baby we have a Babu cotton bodysuit & wrap, a Bunny Blankie Comforter, and some Nature Baby soap. For Mum we have an Ecoya Hand & Body Lotion, chocolate pretzels, Ferrero Rochers, and shortbread! This will put a smile on both their faces.
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A beautiful wooden toy
— It can be something big like a rocking horse, or something small like a rattle or car, but what we love most about wooden toys is that they last forever, and become a special keepsake that can be handed on for generations, making it really special!
Christmas time with babies and kids involved is so much fun, but the very first Christmas with your newest family member is a really memorable & special one, and those first Christmas gifts are so fun to give! Remember to snap some photos by the Christmas tree, and spoil them with lots of cuddles. And each year, it only gets more fun from here! Merry Christmas!
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Children are like children, but their gifts are different: small the American will get an expensive toy, and the Mexican will get a papier-mâché piñata to beat with a bat.
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USA
In the US, it is customary to give expensive gifts, as family gatherings are rare. Christmas is the most important occasion for Americans to gather in one place and give each other something valuable and practical.
Every gift in the US is accompanied by a purchase receipt, but not to brag about the value, but so that the gift can be exchanged or returned to the store — suddenly it won’t work. Such a tradition differs from the Russian one — in our country it is considered bad form to show the price. If you have ever washed the glue from the price tag or painted over it with a black marker, you definitely understand what it is about.
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England
It’s the other way around here: the British are not used to spending large sums on Christmas gifts — instead they buy inexpensive souvenirs.
In some families, gifts are distributed by lot right at the celebration. At the same time, it is not so much the price of the gift that is important, but the attention to the person. Therefore, children mainly receive key rings, figurines, tea cups, toys and all kinds of accessories for Christmas.
Mexico
In Mexico they love the New Year as much as in Russia: for nine days everyone forgets about work and school and organizes folk festivals. The most common gift given to children here is piñata , a large Mexican papier-mâché toy that resembles an animal, a star, or an ordinary geometric figure. Inside the gift is a surprise in the form of sweets, cookies or crackers. The child is blindfolded and blindly hits a piñata suspended above the floor with a bat. This toy symbolizes the sins that can be got rid of only by breaking it.
India
Despite the absence of snow and other usual Christmas and New Year attributes, Indians are happy to celebrate the New Year in their own way: with lush and long garlands of flowers, paper lanterns in houses and on the streets, generous distribution of sweets to friends and unfamiliar, presenting small homemade gifts: talismans of the year, postcards, caskets and other pleasant little things.
Georgia
«Akhali Tseli» — Georgian New Year — an incredible variety of national traditions. This is the Georgian Santa Claus — Tovlis Babua, the Georgian New Year tree — chichilaki, as well as a symbolic step through the threshold of your Mekvle house — a person who promises you happiness in the new year, and, of course, a rich Georgian New Year’s table. The holiday is not complete without dancing and wine, which flows like a river and is drunk from a wide variety of glasses, horns and earthenware vessels. But the most sacred thing is the singing on New Year’s Eve «Mravalzhamier» — a traditional Georgian drinking song, which is performed in polyphony.
Tovlis Babua (“Snow Grandfather”) brings gifts to children in a large bag decorated with bells, which is always full of churchkhela, gozinaki, sweets and various dried fruits. The Georgian Santa Claus does not have a granddaughter.
Traditional Christmas tree — chichilaki — a small snow-white tree made of hazel branches, decorated with sweets and berries.
After the holidays, the tree is burned and the ashes are scattered to the wind to get rid of the troubles and hardships of the past year.
Australia
At midnight, church bells and chiming clocks announce the arrival of the New Year. Celebrations on the streets start as early as 9 pm, so that even the youngest children can enjoy the fireworks and the atmosphere of magic before their parents send them to bed.
In Australia, there is a Santa who appears in a very original way: on a surfboard, dressed in a bathing suit, but with a beard and in a cap familiar to everyone. He has a colleague named Sveg Men — a funny little man who moves in a chariot, accompanied by a Dingo dog. It is customary for both to leave sweets and milk for the night.
Australians give their loved ones whatever they want, and a receipt is usually attached to the gift so that the person can return the gift to the store if they don’t like it.
Children are usually given sweets and toys. There is also a wonderful tradition here — to send paper postcards to friends, colleagues and relatives.
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The festival has already collected five thousand gifts for residents of new regions and participants of the NWO.
More than five thousand New Year’s gifts have already been collected as part of the «Moscow Helps» campaign at the «Journey to Christmas» festival. Natalya Sergunina, Deputy Mayor of Moscow, spoke about this. Citizens and tourists bring sweet treats and toys for children from new regions of Russia, as well as warm clothes for participants in a special military operation (SVO).
The festival opened in the capital on December 23rd. There are 25 gift acceptance points on its sites, for example, they are on Tverskaya Square, Novy Arbat, on the territory between Revolution Square and Manezhnaya Square, on Matveevskaya, Mitinskaya and Veshnyakovskaya streets, on Koptevsky Boulevard and in the square near Golyanovskiy Pond.
“During the first days, festival visitors brought more than five thousand gifts. Children are most often given toys, books and sweet souvenirs, while servicemen receive gloves, thermal underwear, hats and scarves. Thanks to the residents, hundreds of kilograms of sweets, chocolate and cookies, board games and New Year decorations have been collected,” said Natalia Sergunina.
In addition to the festival venues, Moscow Helps points operate every day in parks, on Vorobyovy Gory, the Northern River Station and VDNKh. Gift-giving chalets will remain open until January 8, 2023.
The Moscow Helps New Year campaign has been held since December 1. It brought together more than a thousand volunteers and tens of thousands of residents and guests of the capital — young people, families with children, older people. As Natalya Sergunina clarified, 70,000 gifts have already been collected in less than a month. At the end of last week, the first part of them was sent to new regions.
From Muscovites with love: heartfelt gifts
Muscovite Maria Bogoslovskaya, together with her husband, gave gifts three times to the point opened in Tagansky Park. She combines her career with good deeds and helping her beloved city and people. The girl is the founder of women’s media, a blogger, marketer and teacher.
“It is very convenient that the gift collection point is in the center of the city, next to the skating rink in the park, where we constantly walk.
It’s great that you can do a good deed close to our home. It seems to me that collection points in parks are very convenient: you go for a walk and you can immediately bring gifts, ”said Maria Bogoslovskaya. For children, she and her husband choose domestic sweets. And the couple is going to hand over sets of thermal underwear, thermal socks and gloves to the defenders in the near future.
“We pack all sets in a New Year’s gift bag and give postcards to each defender. I signed each card myself. The text is different everywhere — from the heart, with wishes and congratulations. And it turns out a real gift, very personal. It warms the soul that one of our heroes will open it and get at least a drop of New Year’s mood. I really want to support and warm you with warmth, to convey to each of our defenders that we are with them, we are waiting for home with a victory! It comes from the heart, otherwise our family cannot,” shared Maria Bogoslovskaya.
Help with deeds and gifts: an action through the eyes of a volunteer
Ksenia Lisina is an IT project manager and a volunteer at the New Year’s gift collection point in Gorky Park.
“When to share kindness and help believe in a miracle, if not on New Year’s Eve? Our beautiful chalets with Christmas trees create a festive mood among Muscovites, and the things they donate will bring smiles to children and participants of the NWO. I myself decided to bring something tasty and bought several sweet sets for the kids. We need to help with all our might, we have a unique opportunity to create an atmosphere of kindness and miracles for those who need it now,” said Ksenia Lisina.
Participation in volunteer projects for Ksenia is an opportunity to do good, to help people. The experience of a Muscovite inspired her son to also take part in the action. She told him about a student volunteer with whom she went to work.
“I was very pleased and pleasantly surprised that the guys are all so open, able to sympathize and help. When you give something for nothing, you get much more in return: gratitude, warmth and the feeling that your participation is really needed.
