Turn a crib sheet into a non-kickable toddler blanket

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).

Comments

[Becky C.]

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

[Ticia]

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.

[Clancy]

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!

[Vashra Araeshkigal]

I just but mine in a "wearable blanket" *shrug*