Homemade Baby Gift Ideas: {Toys & Playthings}

Butterfly: Made with a few scraps of material and ribbon, has a jingle bell inside the head and a crinkly piece tucked in the wings.

Bear In A Boat: A musical item made with assorted pieces of material, pull-string music box mechanism, stuffing and felt.

Toadstool Rattle: Made with assorted colors of yarn and stuffed with a cat toy (with bell inside) and stuffing. Worked on DPNs.

Knit Football: Finished size measures approximately 4″ x 2.5″ and stuffed with polyester fiberfill, pattern via pdf download.

Crochet Loop: Stuffed with small jingle bells inside.

Crinkle Toes: Made with a pair of socks, appliques cut from old clothes and filled with crinkly plastic.

3-D Hot Air Balloon Mobile: Simple project using colorful scrapbook paper (heavy weight), double sided tape and twine.

Ship Ahoi: A sweet boat with ribbon taggies along the edges, can be attached to a stroller with a plastic link, used as a mini cushion or as a rattle.

Crinkle Square: This is made with fabric, ribbon and packaging to make it crinkly.

Sock Animal Rattle: With some clever cutting and sewing, turn a polyfill stuffed sock into something fun.

Soft Book of Colors: Each page is a crazy quilt square with scraps of just one color with lots of shades and variations of each.

Soft Rings (pdf): Made with fat quarters and fabric scraps, stuffed with fiberfill, bells (optional) and embellished with ribbon tags.

Ribbon Teether: Made with an unfinished wood ring, cotton material, fusible fleece and strips of ribbon.

Soft Blocks: Sew soft and squishy blocks using assorted charm blocks and stuffed with polyester fiberfill.

Modern Paper Mobile: Simple project made with strips of cardboard, paper and thread. Black & white templates available to download.

Crib Mobile: Made with colorful circles, iron on adhesive, decorative ribbon, an embroidery hoop and beads.

Munchkin Book: Fabric book featuring different shapes and embellishments appliqued to each page.

Paper Bird Mobile: Printable bird template included (jpg file). Also see this page for a different design (templates included as well).

Beach Balls: Make soft, multicolored fabric balls filled with cotton stuffing in three different sizes (small, medium and large). Template download available.

Mysterious Grab Ball: Individual wedge and petal shaped pieces are stitched & stuffed then sewn together into a ball that’s easy for baby to grab.

Play Squares: Squares in assorted sizes, colors and textures are sewn and then stacked on top of each other with tabs of velcro.

Owl Softie Teether: Scraps of fabric are used to make a lightly stuffed owl and features ribbon loops along the edges.

Sunshine Rattle: Bright & cheery with ribbon loops around the edges to make the “rays”, stuffed with a plastic case filled with beads to make the rattle.

Tagged Star: Star points are made using different textures and colors, ribbon tags are sewn around the outer edge.

Mirrors How-To: Use a non-breakable, flexible mirror for this project (trimmed with padded fabric).

Squeaky Star: Simple project that’s easy to whip up, star is sewn with a plastic squeaky toy tucked inside.