It’s time for the beast of all beasts— the Mommy Shorts 2014 Holiday Gift Guide! I say it’s a beast because I spend WAY TOO MUCH TIME scouring the internet for everything I think is worthy of the holidays. There are gifts for moms, gifts for dads, gifts for babies, and gifts for children who still can’t let go of their Frozen obsession (*cough cough* Mazzy and Harlow).
There are also a few sponsored items which each have Mommy Shorts holiday discount codes and will be part of the Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway at the bottom of this post.
Hope you find one or two or ten things for your family on here!
These are some of the toys in my house that have stood the test of time and been favorites of both my girls: 1) Melissa & Doug Portable Dollhouse 2) Hape Mini Kitchen 3) Melissa & Doug Ice Cream Set 4) Melissa & Doug Basic 60 Wooden Block Set and 5) Soft Unbreakable Tea Party Set .
Kiwi Crate is a monthly subscription service that delivers all the hands-on materials you need to inspire 2-3 craft projects per crate. The crates have different themes like music, color, robots, and safari, along with educational materials to make it an intereactive learning experience.
Promotion: For 25% off your first month’s subscription, use code MS25. New subscribers also receive free shipping PLUS a bonus welcome kit. Valid until 12/31
1) Warm or cool face mugs 2) Foodie Dice 3) Zoo Friends Pancake Pan 4) Julia, Child book
and 5) Bicycle Pizza Cutter.
Cutie Tattootie from North American Bear ($25) is a woven cotton doll that comes with 12 Tattly temporary tattoos complementing each character— a girl, a shark, a fox, a bunny, a monster, and a DJ— six for your kid and six for their super cool doll too. All tattoos are one-time use and non-toxic ink, removable from your child’s skin and machine washable for the doll.
Promotion: For 20% off AND Free Shipping on all orders of $25+, use code SHORTS20, good until 12/17
1) Frozen themed sweatshirt 2) Ridley’s Balloon Modelling Kit 3) Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids and 4) Domo Monster Toaster.
1) Seedling Fashion Designer Kit 2) Sew Cool Machine 3) My Wonderful World of Fashion Coloring Book and 4) Fashion Design Portfolio.
1) Umbrella Doll Stroller 2) Little Henry Vacuum 3) Get Out n’ Grill Kitchen Set and 4) Groovy Boy Doll.
Apple Park’s Baby Gift Crate ($46) is all packed up and ready to gift with some of Apple Parks’ best sellers, curated in a cute box fashioned after a wooden crate. Each crate includes a soft teething rattle, a baby burp cloth and a finger puppet, all made of 100% organic cotton. Plus, it includes Apple Park’s beloved board book introducing their Picnic Pal characters.
Promotion: For 20% off, use code MS20, good until 12/20
1) Crochet headphone cover 2) Chat Books to print out your entire Instagram feed in mini books of 60 pics a piece 3) Poste Smartphone Wallet and 4) Cardboard camera phone projector.
1) Simon Game 2) Connect Four 3) Clue 4) Go Fish 5) Retro Mastermind and 6) Monopoly.
Babiators Sunglasses are the most stylish aviators for adventurous and fashionable babies and kids. They are made out of flexible rubber frames which are virtually indestructible. The lenses are shatter-resistant with100% UV protection. Plus, Babiators offers a Lost & Found Guarantee! If a child’s loses or breaks their Babiators within one year of purchase, Babiators will replace them. Limited edition Holiday Babiators come in four fun winter colors. Plus, they come in a holiday-themed box, making them the ultimate gift or stocking stuffer.
Promotion: Use code “HolidayBabiators” for 20% off, good until December 20th.
1) Tulip Tree-to-Be 2) Customized Children’s book with your kid’s name 3) The Baby Owner’s Manual and 4) Mysterio Baby Tees which come emblazoned with an unknown and totally random future for your baby.
1) Make Your Own Snow Globe 2) Story Box Circus 3) Big Box of Art 4) Scribble On Your Own Leggings and 5) Bo The Rainbow Creature Kit.
BoomBoom Prints features kid-friendly designs from independent artists all over the world on a wide variety of products like wall prints, onesies, tote bags, phone cases, and more. You can also upload your own artwork to sell. The photos above were both taken by me. When I posted those pics, a few of my Instagram followers asked if they could purchase them. Yep, now you can! Canvas prints are printed on high quality canvas, laminated, and stretched on 1 3/8″ wooden bars. The artwork comes complete with a sawtooth hanger.
Promotion: Use the code MommyShorts14 for 15% off, good through 12/31/14
1) Baby Toms 2) Indie Rock Coloring Book 3) Miniature VW Beetle 4) Hape Early Melodies Ukulele 5) Mustachifier and 5) a mason jar sippy cup.
1) Book of Frozen Hairstyles 2) Frozen Castle & Ice Palace Playset (characters not included) 3) Princess Elsa Costume 4) Frozen Karaoke CD and Karaoke Player.
Baby Jives makes adorable handmade mobiles; her cloud mobiles with falling stars being her most popular. This Frozen twist on her classic cloud mobile uses ice blue or turquoise clouds with gold or silver falling snowflakes. Add a custom initial and you’ve got one very special gift for a Frozen fan.
Promotion: Use the code MOMMYSHORTS for free shipping in the US
Tart Collection was founded by a California husband-and-wife team who wanted to create a laid-back line of sexy-cool clothes that would take women seamlessly from day to night. The collection includes a line of versatile maternity dresses like the Rhainnon dress pictured above.
Promotion: Use code Mommy25 for 25% off your entire purchase
1) Disney INFINITY: Toy Box Starter Pack 2) Zoomer Interactive Puppy 3) Laser Pegs Indy Car and 4) Apple iPad Mini .
1) Fifty Shades of Grey Wine 2) Downton Abbey 3 Tin Tea Set 3) What Would Olivia Pope Do tote and 4) Mellark Bakery apron from the Hunger Games.
Baby Jack and Company creates sensory tag blankets with a unique design consisting of sewn shut ribbons, so little fingers do not become intertwined in loops. Their newest blanket design uses an educational print that encourages early learning with basic shapes, colors, ABCs and 123s. All blankets come with a toy link teething ring that can be clipped to car seats, strollers or baby carriers.
Promotion: For 25% off, use code MOMMYSHORTS, good until December 31st
1) Pantone Mini Board Books 2) Wood Alphabet Factory Blocks 3) Miller Goodman Wooden PlayShapes and 4) Font Alphabet puzzle.
1) Cabbage Patch Kid 2) Rubik’s Cube 3) Monchhichi 4) Unicorn headband 5) Lisa Frank Sticker Book and 6) View Finder.
Why invest in a “My First New Year” or “My First Christmas” shirt when baby’s only going to wear it for a few hours and cover it with spit up? This pack of 12 removable holiday stickers from Sticky Bellies guarantees adorable pictures with the look of a custom shirt and the convenience of a sticker. Simply peel, stick, and snap a pic!
Promotion: For 15% off, use code TISTHESEASON
1) Reusable Juice Boxes 2) My Quotable Kid 3) Lego Sort and Store 4) Fortune Cookie Booties 5) The Storymatic Family Game and 6) Soopsori Doctor Play Set.
1) Children’s Toy Drum Set 2) Tub of Loose LEGOs for parents to step on at night 3) Tiny Doll with even tinier clothing and shoes 4) Tots Finger Paint Set and 5) the most annoying cat piano around that every child loves to infinity.
1) Nice Underwear doormat 2) Nose Plug 3) Cookie of the Month Club 4) Toothpaste squeezer 5) F-bomb paperweight and 6) Mommy Shorts mug (the best item on this whole guide).
Phew. That’s it. See what I mean about it being a beast?
Oh wait! That’s not it! The giveaway…
GIVEAWAY RULES
The giveaway includes one pair of Babiators, one Cutie Tatootie, one print from Boom Boom Prints, one crate from Kiwi Crates, two personalized mini Frozen themed mobiles from Baby Jives, one item from Tart Collection, one set of Sticky Belly Happiest Holiday stickers, one Baby Jack Blanket, one Apple Park gift set and one Mommy Shorts mug.
One lucky duck will win EVERYTHING.
To enter:
1) Tell me the gift you are most excited to get your kid this year in the comments below.
2) For a second entry, pin any graphic in this post to Pinterest with the caption “95 awesome holiday gift ideas for babies, kids, moms and dads”. Then leave a second comment saying you did so.
3) For a third entry, tweet the following and leave a third comment saying you did so:
“I hope I win the holiday gift guide giveaway from @mommyshorts! http://bit.ly/1qvtAy5”
Winner will be announced on December 19th.
Good luck!
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I’m excited about getting my 16 month old a little remote control car!
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My 6 year old daughter is going to ask Santa for an RC Car this year! I can’t WAIT to zoom that around the house Christmas morning! Thank heavens is isn’t more frozen…not that there won’t obviously be some of that, starting with Olaf for her 1 year old brother…he’s obsessed. 🙂
I tweeted it too! The time is really off on your website…unless I’m in Dublin and didn’t know?
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I am excited to give my one year old a little baby piano! Plus fill his stocking with cute little things!
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I’m most excited about the Air Hogs Zero Gravity Laser Racer that my almost 6yo son will be receiving. When asked what he’s going to ask Santa for, he rattles the name of that thing off with such detail that it rivals Ralphie from A Christmas Story!
My daughter loves Frozen, so I’m excited for her to find Elsa & Anna Dolls & Dresses on Christmas morning 🙂
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Buzz lightyear. It is going to blow his mind.
A baby doll for the baby who is obsessed with her sister’s, and a scooter for my 3-year-old – with helmet of course!
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Also tweeted (@tmkg) 🙂
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An indoor slide.
My oldest son is 3 and finally understand Santa. He saw a commercial for a Batman Duplo set and we told him about Santa, being a good boy, and now he can’t wait to go see Santa Claus to ask about Batman Lego, as he calls it!
Most excited about a dump truck that’s about the size of my 1 yr old. He played with it at the store and actually cried when we had to leave, so I can only imagine…
I’m looking forward to getting my 2 month old a little people’s nativity scene and the Pantone board books!
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I’m most excited to give my younger daughter a baby doll. Her older sister has plastic one, so I wanted to get her something a little different. I found a cuddly cloth doll that is machine washable. It’s so cute!
Tweeted it! I hope I win! This is an amazing gift list!
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Most excited to give my girls a camping tent. They love the Bubble Gupies episode about camping. 🙂
the laser peg Indy car!
I’m most excited to give her the wooden train set this year.
(and coincidentally you’ll be announcing the winner on my daughter’s birthday so that would be an extra special surprise)
The cutie tatootie!
My toddler is going crazy for dollhouses whenever we visit a toy shop so I think that Melissa and Doug one might end up on our list.
My daughter keeps asking for a real puppy, which unfortunately isn’t happening. The Zoomer interactive puppy will be perfect for her…and will hopefully hold her off of wishing for a real one for a while!
I’m most excited to give A the doll she’s been obsessing over all year. I’m most excited to give J, her sister, the “Opticopter” (helicopter) she has been obsessing over all year. Mostly because it looks cool and I can’t wait to fly it.
homemade wooden blocks I made for my son from a tree that was taken from his great grandmother’s house
We are making our boys a lego table and I think they’ll go nuts over it. We found a plastic, kid-sized, folding table at Costco and ordered lego plates to glue/screw onto it. Oldest is getting a remote control helicopter he’s been begging for years for and is finally old enough. Two are getting bikes. Third boy begged for a tiger superhero cape so I found some tiger striped plush fabric for the outside and orange satin for the inside. Hood has tiger ears, too. I think he’s going to live in that cape for months. Having trouble coming up with ideas for our 20 month old as he has 3 older brothers and a TON of hand-me-down toys and clothes, so thanks for this great list!
I’m excited to give my son a trampoline!
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I’m most excited to give our 2yr old a chalkboard/dry erase board easel with art supplies.
For my 2mth old, being her first Christmas that she’s too young for anyway, will just be filling a stocking with teethers, binkies, and a lovey.
I have an almost 3 month old, and we’re getting him a jumper. I’m excited about his stocking…and starting our own family traditions!
I am most excited to give my daughter plush Sully and Boo dolls. She is obsessed with Monsters Inc!
A new doctors kit, she destroyed the last one with too much use
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I’m most excited to get my then 8 month old something to push around so it encourages walking!
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Getting some new books, you can only read the same ones over and over again.
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Most excited about the American girl dolls & accessories I ordered my girls. This was such an awesome post! I found so many gift ideas, thank you!
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I’m getting my little guy his own mixer. I can never find my hand mixer when I need it because he keeps borrowing it to “cook” up his own stuff. Am I being too hopeful to think he will actually adopt his super cool, noise-making, toy version over my lame real version?
I love the tart maternity collection, the toast maker & the hope mini kitchen. Great post, thanks!
I am excited to give my 3 year old son a toy care parking garage (he loves cars and garages)
I’m most excited to give my son his very first 4 wheeler! 😀
Awesome list! So far, all my toddler son wants is “farm animals,” but that’s not really exciting ME. 🙂 So I’m still looking for ideas!
I’m the most excited to get my youngest the tea party set. My oldest 2 are boys (7 & 8) and my little one is 18 months. I’m so excited to do girlie things with her!!
My 3 year old is getting his first ‘big boy bike’ with training wheels and I cannot wait to see his face!! My 1 year old is baby obsessed so she’ll be getting a doll house! And quite possibly the Melissa and Doug you featured because it looks perfect for her!
I am excited to get my daughter more books she can read with her daddy!!
I got my 4 year old ice skates (she’s been asking since last Christmas!) and for my 8 year ld I got sewing kit and sewing accessories.
Most excited about getting my daughter a dollhouse.
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The Melissa & Doug Block Set!
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I am so excited to give both my girls (1&3) a FROZEN, two seater, ride on Jeep they can play with–hopefully together! It also cost me about what the down payment on a real car would be so if that doesn’t win them over, I don’t know what will!
I love the Melissa and Doug doll house. I’m thinking my three year old would love it too!!
We are looking forward to giving our 2 year old the B. Parum Pum Pum drum set, to be used exclusively when visiting Grandma and Grandpa overnight. Also, we have the tradition of picking out fun and unique stocking stuffers.
I am most excited about giving our girls a Power Wheels dune racer for Christmas. (I always wanted a power wheels as a child, and I’m happy to be able to gift one to my children!)
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My almost 4 year old would like anything Frozen. My 1 year old wants anything the 4 year old has. I am putting the smartphone projector on my wishlist today.
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I’m most excited to give my kid a learning tower so she can hang out in the kitchen with us!
I am SO excited to give my daughter the dollhouse I am making for her. It is looking SO CUTE! Funnest project ever.
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A train set!
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a reading nook!
My 22 month old son is obsessed with cars so I got some wicked Got Wheel cars and got wheel race tracks.
For my 4 year old, we got a big sized table top hockey game. He’s been asking for one for years!
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I am excited to get my little girls the rainbow creature set, the Apple Park Gift Set and for my Little man the Laser Pegs indy car. All bright ideas Mom did not know about until today..
My 4 year old is in love with all things Frozen. She has all of the Disney Baby Dolls, except Elsa. I’m pretty excited to see her face when “Santa” completes her collection with the baby ice queen.
Most excited to get my baby girl very basic blocks to play with! Looking forward to her first Christmas this year!
I tweeted! https://twitter.com/brittneycira/status/535511609507328000
I would love to win the font alphabet puzzle! Dad is a Graphic Designer and I was an animator before .. Well you know this stay at home mom thing. Such awesome gifts, THABK you for the inspiration.
I’m super excited to give my 2 year old the little tykes bounce house!!! Wishing for hours and hours of active entertainment in the new year!!!
I’m actually in the process of making my son a teepee for his room. We’re going to be redoing his bedroom soon, and a number of his Christmas gifts will be for it. I’ve made pillows, ordered new bedding, etc. I’m really excited to see how much he loves it.
My 3 yr old would like the view finder. The 80s needs to live on!
Baby Jack blanket for my little girl! Thanks for the discount code!
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Legos!!! I love to watch their creative minds at work!
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i’m super excited to get my daughter a pretend play kitchen set this year!!!
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https://twitter.com/cindym27/status/535516424585084928
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