2. Custom Milestones Wooden Age Blocks
New moms love documenting their baby’s rapid growth through monthly milestone photos. Instead of buying generic paper stickers, you can craft a beautiful set of reusable wooden milestone blocks. This project is highly durable, visually appealing, and serves as a wonderful prop for social media updates and baby scrapbooks.
To create these, purchase plain, unfinished wooden blocks from a local craft store. Carefully sand the edges to ensure there are no sharp corners or splinters. Using non-toxic, child-safe acrylic paint or a wood-burning tool, apply numbers to the smaller square blocks and time increments like “weeks,” “months,” “years,” and “grade” to the larger rectangular block. Seal the wood with a natural, food-safe beeswax finish. This thoughtful gift will help the new mom capture precious memories from the first week of life all the way through the elementary school years.