13 Ways To Make Baby’s First Christmas Special

Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year and now that you have a beautiful new baby, it has just become even more special and fun. As it is your baby’s first Christmas you are going to want to make it extra memorable and I am here to share 13 really sweet ways to make your baby’s first Christmas special!

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1. Make A Christmas Decoration

There are a couple of different DIY Christmas decorations you can make. The first is this mould of baby’s hand or foot and you can hang the decoration on the Christmas tree. For the second decoration is this Christmas bauble kit that you can put baby’s handprint on. This makes a really lovely and treasured memory that you hang on the Christmas tree every year.

2. Get Christmas Stockings

Pick out stockings for all the family. You can even get baby’s stocking personalised with their name and why not get Mum and Dad personalised stockings too! These ones are adorable and you can even personalise yourself, or if you prefer, go to your local gift store or Christmas craft fair and they can personalise them for you.

3. Baby’s Christmas Photo Shoot

Get some cute baby outfits and a Christmas hat and as soon as the tree goes up, get snap happy! You can get some really sweet photos of baby. If you need some tips on how to take some great photo’s, then check out this Instagram post from Eimear O’ Donnell Photography. She shares some really helpful tips for us amateurs to get great pictures!

You can get some really cute baby Christmas hats from Amazon like this one or if your good at crocheting, you can make your own!

4. Matching Family PJ’s Pic

A must take Christmas family picture! These are the type of pictures that you want to back on in years to come! On Christmas Eve, get your matching pajama’s on and take some fun family photo’s. These ones even have matching dog bandanas!

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5. Visit Santa Claus

This is more for Mum and Dad than for baby, which is totally OK because it is all about starting Christmas traditions too! Get your Santa hat and Christmas jumpers on, go visit Santa, drink some hot chocolate, check out the Christmas lights and make some more lovely memories.

6. Visit Family & Friends

In the run up to Christmas, take some time to visit extended family and friends. Make sure you bring baby’s Christmas hat and take some pictures for some more special memories.

7. Make Personalised Christmas Cards

You can use baby’s footprint, hand print or one of the sweet photo’s you have taken of baby in their Christmas hat or outfit as the card image. A lovely memory to give to family and friends.

8. A Christmas Eve Box

The excitement of Christmas Eve is just the best! For baby’s first Christmas, they won’t have any idea what is going on, but a Christmas Eve box is a tradition that will be so special every year and will bring so much excitement! Putting little things like a teething ring, a teddy, a book to read on Christmas Eve are just some of the little things you can put into babies first Christmas Eve box.

9. Go To Christmas Eve Mass

Now this one might not be for everybody, but if it is something that you would like to do then, get dressed up or put on your Christmas jumper and head to Christmas mass. It is also a nice way to see some neighbours and friends from your community and wish them all a Happy Christmas!

10. Get A Special Christmas Day Outfit

Whether it’s a hand me down from a friend or family or you buy something new, having a special Christmas Day outfit is a must! Maybe this is something that you can include in the Christmas Eve box. It may get pee’d or pooped on at some stage, so get some photo’s as soon as you put it on!

11. Read A Christmas Book

On Christmas Eve night, after you have hung up the Christmas stockings take some time to relax with baby and a mug of hot chocolate and read a Christmas book. This might become the book that you will read to your little one every Christmas Eve, how special! Here are some lovely ones.

12. Donate

For some people Christmas Christmas is a difficult time of the year. I bet your little one received lots of gifts when they were born. Did they get so many clothes that they will grow out of them before they have a chance to wear them? Did they get one too many teddies or teething rings? Check to see where you can make local donations, maybe to a local shelter or your local church or grocery store may be accepting donations for a toy drive. Or do a Christmas Shoe Box appeal, these are always a great way to give a little something back. Just Google ‘Shoe Box Appeal’ and put in your area and see where the donation center is where you can drop off your Christmas Shoe Box. This is a great tradition to do every year with your little one.

13. Make A Christmas Scrapbook or Album

After taking all those pictures and making some special memories for baby’s first Christmas, then creating a scrapbook or photo album is a great idea. We don’t print pictures as much as we should these days because, well we don’t have to, we just look at the phone or camera and there’s the pictures. But there is nothing nicer than flicking through an actual photo album. And what a lovely coffee table book it will make at Christmas time!

If you would like to make your own scrapbook, all you need is scrap book paper, a cute scrapbook, adorable stickers, washi tape and some nice sparkly Christmas coloured pens. Don’t forget your glue! If you prefer, you can get great Christmas scrapbook kits with everything you need altogether.

Do you have any other things that you did to make your baby’s first Christmas special? If you do, I would love if you would share it in the comments below!

For our daughters first Christmas, we flew home to surprise our family. It was must of our family’s first time to meet her. We made so many memories and we had the best Christmas!