Baby’s first Christmas: bunny ornament or embroidered name hoop?

A first-Christmas ornament can spotlight a festive character or keep the baby’s name at the heart of the design. These two Sewadora keepsakes both mark baby’s first holiday, but their illustrations create different moods.

The bunny design has a storybook feel, with a dressed-up rabbit framed by holiday greenery and presents. It suits a family who likes a character-led keepsake and a classic Christmas scene.

The name hoop makes the baby the center of the keepsake, with a sleeping-baby scene and holiday details around the lettering. It may be the right choice when the family prefers a name-forward design.

Two newer embroidered ornaments also put a character first. The bunny and star ornament shows a bunny in a pink dress standing on a stool to place the golden star on the tree, stitched with the baby’s name, the words First Christmas and the year. The teddy bear ornament sets a bear beside a decorated tree, wrapped gifts and falling snowflakes, with the baby’s name and year inside a wooden embroidery hoop crowned with a ribbon bow.

Name-and-year check

• Confirm the baby’s name spelling exactly as the family wants it displayed.
• Check the Christmas year needed for this first-holiday milestone against the product’s current personalization instructions.
• Choose the bunny illustration or name-centered scene that better fits the family’s keepsake style.

Families choosing a keepsake for Hanukkah, or for both holiday traditions, can compare family, baby and engaged-couple designs in our personalized Hanukkah ornament guide.

Explore more baby and baptism keepsakes in the baby and baptism collection. For a nursery gift beyond Christmas, compare crochet baby mobiles. If you are telling grandparents before a baby’s first Christmas, our guide to announcing a pregnancy to grandparents has card, video-call, and wearable-clue ideas. For an ornament that names the whole new family, see personalized family Christmas ornaments.

For a name display beyond baby’s first Christmas, compare four embroidered baby-name hoops by design and frame options.

Related: What to write on a baby's first Christmas ornament.