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Turn a crib sheet into a non-kickable toddler blanket

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Brilliant cool-weather problem-solving, Jessica!

My toddler wakes every night crying because she kicked off the blanket and is cold. I took another crib sheet and cut the elastic away except for the two corners on the ends. I tuck those corners under the mattress and let the rest of the sheet cover her. She can't kick it off as easily and it is lighter-weight than her blanket, so she stays warm (but not too warm).

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Asha Dornfest is a writer, parent, and insistent optimist living in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of PARENT HACKS, co-author of MINIMALIST PARENTING, and co-host of the Edit Your Life podcast.

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Comments

  1. Becky C. says

    November 2, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    Love it, I’ve got some crib sheets where the elastic is almost shot, I’ll have to try it…

  2. Ticia says

    November 3, 2009 at 6:26 am

    Interestingly enough, if you buy the toddler bed sets. That’s what the sheets look like. We got a Disney Princess one that has a sheet, fitted sheet, and a blanket. I wish you could just buy the sheet….. This hack would have been so helpful a few years ago.

  3. Clancy says

    November 3, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    I’m more in the “Halo sleep sacks until they go away to college” camp, myself. In the One Step Ahead catalogs, they have sleep sacks that’ll fit a 5-year-old. Of course in those larger sizes, they’re fleece only, but I think my mom has the sewing talent to make a sleep sack out of cotton jersey material. I really WISH Halo would make the cotton jersey sleep sacks in larger sizes!

  4. Vashra Araeshkigal says

    May 12, 2012 at 9:00 pm

    I just but mine in a “wearable blanket” *shrug*

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