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Ideas for Newsborns
Every birth is a miracle and should be celebrated accordingly! Greatime offers you creative birth ideas to celebrate the welcome of a new life and support new parents.
From original gift ideas to DIY instructions for diaper cakes, self-designed cards and more to photo books and personalized clothing, you will find a variety of inspiring ideas here.
You’ll also find tips and suggestions for new parents on how to enjoy the first days with their little one.
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How to Make a Diaper Cake With the Best Surprises | Tutorial
Practical, adaptable to any budget and visually eye-catching: the diaper cake is a perfect gift for birth, baptism and baby shower. This is how you can make it yourself quickly and easily.
Congrats Baby Boy Card – Cute DIY With Stamps | Tutorial
Stamp, punch, colour. Create a super cute welcome with baby motifs. Design the front and the inside of the card and get creative!
Felt Baby Mobile With Cute Parrots - How to Make It | Tutorial
Tropical feeling in the baby's room! With this tutorial, you can create a beautiful baby room decoration from felt and wool. With free templates to print out!
How to Make a Cute Birth Card With Elephant | Tutorial
Bet this birth card will end up in the family photo album. Make your loved ones happy and surprise them with a homemade card for the birth of their little treasure.
Teddy Bear Diaper Cake - How to Make a Super Cute Teddy | Tutorial
Creative and super cute: A teddy bear diaper cake is visually an eye-catcher and still a practical birth gift. With this simple tutorial everyone can do it yourself.
Congrats on Newborn Baby Card – Stampin up DIY ? | Tutorial
Stamp, colour, stick. All you need to make this DIY baby card is paper, stamps, markers and tape. Conjure up a loving welcome!
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Practical, adaptable to any budget and visually eye-catching: the diaper cake is a perfect gift for birth, baptism and baby shower. This is how you can make it yourself quickly and easily.
Stamp, punch, colour. Create a super cute welcome with baby motifs. Design the front and the inside of the card and get creative!
Tropical feeling in the baby's room! With this tutorial, you can create a beautiful baby room decoration from felt and wool. With free templates to print out!
Bet this birth card will end up in the family photo album. Make your loved ones happy and surprise them with a homemade card for the birth of their little treasure.
Creative and super cute: A teddy bear diaper cake is visually an eye-catcher and still a practical birth gift. With this simple tutorial everyone can do it yourself.
Stamp, colour, stick. All you need to make this DIY baby card is paper, stamps, markers and tape. Conjure up a loving welcome!
Creative Ideas for Newborns: Welcome Gestures for the New Life
The birth of a child is a very special moment in a family’s life, filled with joy, love and excitement. To celebrate this momentous occasion properly and support the new parents, there are a variety of imaginative ideas for newborns that warmly emphasize the welcome of new life.
We at Greatime have become parents ourselves in recent years, proud godparents and godmothers and have accompanied and gifted family members and friends at these great moments in life. On Greatime you will find numerous ideas for newborns, both for the parents and for the child. There are birth gifts, DIY instructions and lots of tips.
Gift Ideas for Newborns
What are parents and baby really looking forward to? That’s not an easy question! Because parents are almost always fully equipped before their little treasure sees the light of day. However, anyone who has become a mother or father knows that there are many useful things and beautiful gifts for birth that everyone is happy about. They either save time and money or are so sweet, personal and beautiful that they simply hit the heart.
Gift Baskets With Useful and Heartfelt Gifts
Instead of a single gift, friends and family can also put together gift baskets with practical and loving items. Diapers, baby clothes, care products and a personal greeting card not only create practical benefits, but also emotional warmth.
Make It Personal: DIY Instructions for Homemade Birth Gifts
Self-designed birth cards are a creative way to show your joy at the little miracle. Birth cards are often kept as keepsakes, making it all the more worthwhile to make an effort and design a card.
Personalized items of clothing with the baby’s name or cute motifs make a loving gift. Bodies, bonnets or rompers with individual details show that every little detail has been thought of.
Diaper Cake as an Original Gift
Diaper cakes are not only pretty to look at, but also extremely practical. Individually designed with baby care products, small toys and, of course, diapers, they are a sweet and original surprise. A creative diaper cake with a personal touch is really sweet.
Gift Voucher for Support and Relief
Instead of a material gift, friends and family can offer vouchers for practical support. A voucher for a meal, household help or childcare shows that you are thinking of the new parents’ needs during this exciting time.
Photo Book for Memories
A photo book documenting the first days and weeks of the newborn is a touching gift idea. It offers a way to capture and share precious memories. Alternative to the diaper cake: the diaper bear. You can find instructions on how to make one on Greatime.
Tips and Suggestions From Experience for New Parents
Most ideas for newborns are gifts for the parents and the baby. However, Greatime also offers tips and suggestions for parents. For us parents, giving birth is a life-changing experience that turns everything upside down. It’s all about enjoying the time of getting to know each other to the full, keeping your nerve and celebrating the milestones of your little treasure.