Ideas needed for making a baby

First, I’m glad you added the word project. I don’t think we really need to go into ideas for making a baby. ;-0

Changing tables/dressers are always useful for newborns. Or, if you want to look down the road a bit, there’s always a child-size rocking chair, a step stool for when they can’t reach the sink. High chairs or booster seats can be very nice as well.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Hi Patrick,

Cradles, cribs, rattles, blocks all come to mind. I once saw a beautiful baby carriage with sled runners on it. I guess it would be cool toodling around Veil with a newborn LOL. It was all made of laminated wood for the bucket. I can’t find the picture any more.

-- Scott - Chico California http://chicowoodnut.home.comcast.net

Picture frames and for later pull toys and as Russel said a rocking chair or a rocking horse.

Ideas for making a baby????!!!! So much for family values! :-)

Did anyone say rocking horse?

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

If you’re looking down the road a little bit maybe an easel/chalkboard?

Wow, all good ideas, gang, keep them coming please!

-- -Be Blessed!, Patrick

What? No other ideas?!

-- -Be Blessed!, Patrick

There are a couple of changing table projects on the site I believe. If you’re looking for “heirloom” I guess that may be the wrong direction though.

Oops, I see Russel already mentioned that.

Kiersten, a new member on here, has some wonderful toy chest ideas also. You may want to look at them for inspiration.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

A high chair comes to mind. Rocking horse is good. Of course a small child’s chair is always a good thing.

Depends on what you want to do, make the parents happy now, or the baby happy later.

blocks are always good, pull toys, baby puzzles, rattles, toy box, keep sake box, a shadow box with space for baby’s first shoes, first spoon, first anything else.

-- Betsy - GO BUCKS!

I like Betsy’s idea of keepsake box, or shadow box for the firsts. Our childrens firsts are in a box somewhere. Good thought Betsy.

-- Bill - If I knew GRANDKIDS were so much fun I would have had them first.

Timeout Chair.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

or Wood Paddle.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

or something more rustic. Oak Switch.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Geez Giz—- did you have a hard childhood..? Lots of penalty ideas there.

-- Betsy - GO BUCKS!

I like the idea of a rocking horse. The rocking horse I had as a child was used by my daughter and now by her children. Some type of heirloom that can be pasted on thru the generation. I also made a steamer trunk for my wife to pass on to her daughter and granddaughter (pictured on my sight). Thanks for asking.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

I’m guessing gizmo has a few kids.

Little shaker step stools. The one with a flip up top for storage.

Toybox’s are a great place to stash baby stuff till they are old enough to use it for toys. Fill it with diapers for that extra nice touch.

Small book rack. The type that would sit on a dresser.

My first commishion, a couple of weeks ago, was a paddle. Poplar and finished with butcher block finish (just in case she needs to use it as a cheese board).

I opened my big mouth and have promised to make my s-i-l an walnut/maple hope/toy chest. I have until November to get it done (I haven’t even started).

-- Adrian ..... The 11th Commandment...."Thou Shalt Not Buy A Wobble Dado"

I’ve seen tha combination changing table / dresser. This seems to be very functional up into early child hood I would say that or a rocking horse or rocker for the Mom.

-- Chris

Perhaps a coin for the year of birth imbedded in a nice piece of burl. I recently did a project like that.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

There’s a lot of interesting stuff here … I’m adding this to my favorites for future reference. You never know when you need a good idea.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Toy boxes are good. Believe me, as my impending parenthood approaches, I realize that there is no such thing as too much storage.

-- The only easy wood project is a fire

A ..um.. training chair. You know the one with a hole in it.

-- Maplewood, MN

You can also do something like a nice baby chest to put all their favorite baby and kid things in… make it classy so the furniture in their house will be there long after the kid has grown up, they’ll enjoy it for years.

Nice dovetaild box to put the baby’s album in…

Changing table…

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)