Keepsake gifts mark the passing of a child's life. They give you concrete memories of times gone by. They also offer parents an opportunity to bond with their children and create lasting memories. When you combine keepsake gifts with baby blankets you have a winner of a baby gift.

There are milestones throughout a child's young life. Each new milestone can be turned into a memorable keepsake and a memory. First steps can be commemorated with a footprint. Their first lost tooth can be kept in an engraved tin. A first haircut can be a lock of hair saved in a small tin, and there are so many more. All of these can be commemorated with something special. When you put all of them together they make a great gift a parent will remember throughout their child's life.

Baby Handprint and Footprint Kits

Having a keepsake of your baby's handprint or footprint is essential. It is something a parent will look back on often. It is amazing even at two how small an infant's hands and feet used to be.

You can get baby footprint stamp kits where you use ink to make an impression of the baby's foot (or hand for that matter). You can also get a baby handprint or footprint kit where you imprint the baby's handprint in a solid material, like clay or concrete.

In fact, you can buy kits with 5 tins so you can have a memorable hand or footprint for each of the first 5 years of baby's life. This is a great idea, and will make an amazing memory for the new mom, and a fun activity for the child as they get older. It will be something they look forward to doing together every year.

Milestone Tins:

Milestones such as losing a first tooth, or getting their hair cut for the first time can be commemorated with small silver or gold tins. You can find tins that will have first tooth or first lock engraved right on them. This provides mom a safe place to store these cherished memories.

These keepsake gifts are not necessarily practical gifts, so if you want to make your gift not only memorable, but practical as well you can create a gift basket. If you want to create a wonderful keepsake baby blanket gift basket you can put the keepsake gifts all together in a basket, add a couple soft colorful baby blankets or onesies and have a beautiful gift any new mom would love to receive.

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