Are you tired of toddlers clothing that is just too cute? Are you sick of pretty kitties and slogans like 100% Princess? Maybe you just want your toddlers clothing to be nice and somewhat stylish. If that’s the case, here are some toddlers clothing recommendations for you.

If you are handy, try making clothes yourself. Toddlers clothing can be easily refashioned from existing adult t-shirts with just a pair of scissors and a serger or sewing machine. A plain shirt can be livened up with the addition of a crocheted circle, like shown in the photo at left. Check online for some great tutorials to get you started.

If you have the means, there are great companies out there that offer a variety of options for sale. No Added Sugar is a UK brand of toddlers clothing that is edgy, funky and stylish. They are well known for their contrasting colors and terse graphics. No Sugar Added is just that for the mom who is tired of too cute toddlers clothing.

Crib Rock Couture has been around making tees for quite a while now. They are very popular with celebrity children from Angelina and Brad’s gang to Violet Affleck, and Apple and Moses Martin. They are age appropriate from toddlers to tweens and have maintained their funk and freshness. If you want something adorable, but not cute, try Crib Rock Couture for toddlers clothing.

Now you can buy Ed Hardy toddlers clothing, it’s true. The tattoo inspired designer line now produces Ed Hardy Kids clothes. The children’s styles are basically mini versions of the Ed Hardy adult line.

Kingsley makes rock tees for kids and their parents. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt wore one on the cover of People Magazine and ignited a firestorm of popularity. Kingsley took advantage and expanded into a full children’s fashion line.

Diesel jeans are famous everywhere and, of course; they produce a full line of tops, jackets, trousers and more. Now, there is Diesel Kids that carries that hip urban look into the toddlers clothing market.

As you can see, the market for stylish toddlers clothing is wide open. Many of the most edgy and exclusive fashion lines now carry similar products adapted for children. Perhaps it is because the chic, hip youngsters of a few years ago are now the chic, hip parents of today. Perhaps, the clothing manufacturers just saw an opportunity for an untapped market.

Whatever the case may be, you no longer have to tolerate the limitations of too cute clothes for your youngest children. You can get rid of the pretty little kitties and the worn out fairy tale slogans and dress your kids like you dress yourself, if you so choose.

These clothing lines make really excellent birthday gifts for children. Some parents aren’t aware of just how stylish toddlers clothing has become in recent years. One of your relatives of friends would probably be thrilled to see their kids get some of these hot fashions for their closets. Just remember that you pay for what you get. None of these clothes are cheap, but they are well made and edgy and after all, its style that counts in the long run. Isn’t it?

Cheap toys can be good toys too. In this day and age, under twenty dollars qualifies as cheap. There are a lot of cheap toys out there that are really fun. So, if you want to give a toy gift for a child and you can’t spend much, it isn’t being chintzy to consider cheap toys.

Make Your Own Cheap Toys

Of course, you may not even need to spend a cent if you make your own toys. This is probably the best way to get cheap toys. Some ideas would be to make a sock puppet, make a little diorama or scene out of a box, sew a costume, make a boardgame or even make some snowglobes.  

The teddy bears at left were made using felt scraps and other bits of things found around the house.  You can easily draw your own patter up.  Kids toys don't have to be perfect - just think colorful!

There are many DIY articles online that will help you make cheap toys. Have a look around and check for supplies in your cupboards and you may be surprised with what you can come up with.

Dollar Store Cheap Toys

Be sure and check out your local dollar store for cheap toys. You can find toys for $1 a piece and it is a good opportunity to stock up. Buy a small selection of cheap toys and keep it in a cupboard for when a surprise birthday comes along or another occasion that you wish you already had a gift to bring along.

Second Hand Cheap Toys

When yard sale season rolls around, this is one of the best places to look for cheap toys. People are in the mood to clean out their houses in the spring and more often than not, if they have children in the house, they will be apt to get rid of toys... and cheaply. Year round, be sure and check into thrift shops and charity shops. Things can be had for very cheap there.

Other Cheap Toys Ideas

Morph-O-Scopes are a really great selection for cheap toys. They are basically distorted coloring pages. They come with a cup shaped mirror that you set on the page to bring the objects into clarity. These things are fun and entertaining and kids love to do the reveal with the mirror.
Joining the Morph-of-the Month Club is less than ten dollars and you get links to ten morphs, a mirror, crayons, and links to new morphs. This toy promotes concentration and imagination in kids six to fourteen.

The Zolo Ha Ha Mirror and rattle is a cheap toys selection for babies. Babies enjoy looking at themselves and playing with rattles. Here are two for the price of one. Zolo Ha Ha Mirrors cost less then ten dollars.

The Star Fountain is a cheap toys bathtub selection. It costs around ten dollars and flashes a blue light as water shoots out the star in a sprinkler effect. It will be a hit with parents because it gets the kid in the tub every night.

Appleletters is a spelling game in a red apple case. Its one of the best cheap toys because its not only cheap, but educational as well. Children can play it like dominoes, only using letters instead of dots. It comes with other, more challenging, game instructions, too. Children really like the carrying case, also. Appleletters cost around seventeen dollars.

Rainbow Brushes are colored markers that you can snap together to write or draw in rainbows. There is a DVD in the introduction kit to show how to mark bright colored art. You can also get kits with dinosaurs and flowers. At ten dollars, it is one of the best cheap toys for the aspiring young artist.

The Play-Doh Burger Builder is one of the classic cheap toys, at under fifteen dollars. This kit includes five cans of Play-Doh, and a press to create onions, pickles, lettuce, and a brand new Play-Doh chip maker. Building the burger is pretty much intuitive.

Cahootie is a variation on the fortune-telling game kids used to play with slips of paper. The kit features eleven themes and forty reusable stickers, so the game is always different. It is always fun to tell fortunes, especially at seven dollars or so.

The Crayola Box of sixty-four crayons is only about five dollars and it now comes with a code for Crayola’s Lights, Camera, Color!, which is a new system they’ve created that turns family photos into coloring pages. You can get twenty-four hours of free uploading with the code. Lights, Camera, Color! Even allows children to add borders, backgrounds, and comic bodies to the coloring pages. This is probably the best cheap toys deal.

The key to finding cheap toys is to keep your eyes and ears open. Put the word out to friends and family of things that you are on the hunt for and they will also be aware of such deals to pass along.