Adoptions Gifts

[treasure84]

Hello all,

Not sure if this is the best place for this but I am hoping someone can give me some inspiration. As an adopter myself I thought finding a gift for my friends who are imminently due to have her little one move in with them would be easy. I am looking for suitable gift to celebrated them becoming a family. My friends have all the practical stuff ready so looking for more of a keep sake...How ever I am really struggling!

That got me thinking about adoptions gifts, we received quite a few gifts from family and friends to celebrate the arrival of our 2 boys 18 months ago, but again done of these were personalised. Is there such a thing, everything I have seen seems very american and cheesy!

I did think about scrabble art, happy to make this myself ( as have previously done so) but it raises quite a few questions in my head. E.g. do I put the word adoption on it, what other words etc.

Can i ask if anyone got anything personal or any other great ideas they would be so kind as to share. alternatively any great websites with gifts.

TIA

Something UNBREAKABLE is a good idea. A little tin train ornament or money box, or silver item. Something to keep.

OR
a plaque for the wall that states a lovely message that feel appropriate
www.scorchpyro.co.uk/Pictures.html
www.notonthehighstreet.com/q/childrens-bedroom-name-plaques
www.bambinogoodies.co.uk/moo-baa-cluck-wooden-dog-door-plaque/

A name plaque for the wall or bedroom door (check they are not changing it etc) and if you can get a full name one made, first and middle name etc (this is lovely because some adopted children, or even children generally, can have quite unusual names and you cannot always get the name plaque in the shop, you need to have it specially made so it is a special gift - both my children, one adopted and one not have names that never appear on the list of names in shop items

OR
a toy which is special and nice (but ask the parents to be what the child is into or has got!).

Good luck, finding a nice item is special. One of my favourites was a plaque when my son joined us.

Thanks for the ideas, I will have a look at the websites Italian.

I had a play around with a couple of scrabble art pictures. I would appreciate your thoughts.

I wouldn't use adoption in it. Dd doesn't publicly acknowledge aged 16

I agree with QOD - DS (now 9 ) would not have anything up in public acknowledging his adoption - I'm not sure what the point of something that they put away in a drawer would be.

How about something similar with "The Kewcumber family" followed by their first names.

We have a scrabble art picture (someone made it for us) - only has our five names on it, no other words. It's lovely, and simple. And gets loads of comments from everyone that sees it.

Have you used worlds? Type in lots of words and it makes a picture out of them. The word you type in the most comes out bigger so you could have family or love as the central word for example.

I mean wordle

Thanks ladies. I did wonder about the word adoption. We are quite open and my boys proudly tell people they are adopted. I have often thought they would stop doing this as they got older, currently only 3 and 4.

I will have a look at wordle and keep playing around with scrabble art. I did try their names in scrabble art but struggled to make them connect - unusual names!

Ds had no problem with it at 3/4 but at 9... no a chance he'd put it up publically!

You could use other words to connect...

family
fun
laughter
joy
together
their surname

When I got each of my children, a good friend had two wooden chests for them - with lockable lids, and rope handles. She got a local chippie to make them up, then she painted them (F&B!) and stuck their names on the fronts with those colourful wooden letters. Each now uses this as her memory box, with special things inside. They have combination locks, which only they (and I) know the number of.

One thing I got dd2 when she joined us was a big framed personalised print of a colourful martian figure with her name emblazoned across. notonthehighstreet has lots of this sort of thing - it kind of made a nice statement about the bedroom being her space.

Agree not use the word adoption. We don't talk to others about it, outside those who know. I figured ds would not be able to go back and untell people if he decided later he did not want them to know.

I even took the jumper off his adoption bear!

The chests idea from devora is wonderful.

Devora's idea is wonderful. Notonthehighstreet also have many beautiful family gifts

One of the nicest things I got was a figurine of a mother and child. I also loved getting picture frames because I really enjoyed filling them with photos of my new baby.

I love the chest idea, thank you Devora. I may even steal this one for my 2 boys as well.

I knew this would be the place to ask!