5 Children’s Gifts That Will Leave A Lasting Legacy

Last week, I was crafting Amazon wishlists for the kids. They will love the Bluey AND Bingo hide and seek (because, duh), and the energy focused items, like the wobble disk and a spinning chair. If you know anything about me though, my legacy-obsessed brain can’t stop thinking about things that are meaningful; things that will withstand the test of time in one way or another.

With friends and family living so far away, I almost always focus on things that allow them to be a consistent part of my children’s lives. Here are a few ways we have, or plan to, do just that. I hope these items can be as meaningful to you as I’m sure they will be to us.

1. The StoryPod
One of our wishlist items! The StoryPod is an audio speaker for kids that allows you to record audio onto disks for story time. You purchase disks and can manage the audio through an app. When the disks are tapped on the StoryPod box, the kids can listen to the audio.

I’ve done my research, as Toniebox and Yoto are contenders. However, StoryPod is less expensive than Toniebox, Yoto is more suited toward older kids, and overall, I just like the concept and design. Regardless, all of these amazing products give you the option to record stories for your kids, have family members record stories, and do so all though the app so they can add to it whenever they’d like. How cool is the world we live in right now?!

2. Build-A-Bear Audio
Did you know that build-a-bear has a birthday bear that kids can get for the price of their age on their birthday month? This is a household tradition we have with both of our kids, and we’ve done audio ($9.50) with the bear each time, capturing our voices inside a voice box in their paw.

This is a very big deal to me, especially after discovering that build-a-bear will replace the battery when it runs out, so the child will always have that voice memo.

3. Photo Cubes
A few months ago, I was enamored watching my daughter point to various family members in just a few photos we had on the wall for my son. My husband is one of six kids, and we don’t see my brothers very often, so we wanted to create something that would allow the kids to see the faces of all of their family members, especially people they don’t get to see often.

What I ended up doing was purchasing photo cubes, filling them with photos, taping them together, and even filing down the corners. Now my kids are looking at family photos every day, and they are loving that they can role around the cubes and point to different people, some of whom they are with in the photo.

4. “Letters To You”
I’ve always loved the idea of writing letters to my children on each of their birthdays, but I’ve never made time for it. The concept is simple. You write them a letter, and you stash it somewhere. You get all of the letters out on their 18th birthday, and suddenly they have all of these sweet letters from you.

In my head, they are somewhat uniform. Maybe they talk about their favorite birthday present, the party they had and the kids who attended. Maybe it mentions what they want to be when they grow up. I also imagine telling them my favorite memories from the past year. How insanely cool would that be to receive on your 18th birthday?!

5. A Kids Camera
This is such a wild concept to me, because I lived on disposable cameras, but I’m eager to get my kids digital cameras (they have these ones for toddlers). Not only are they incredibly interested in taking photos on my phone, but this way they could take photos all day long if they wanted. I love the idea of saving some of these images in a special folder to show them when they are all grown up.

See you!
Amy