The first one I made I followed her steps exactly but I didn’t like how awkward it was for me to get the hood attached. I’ve taken the tutorial from PatternShmattern and modified it slightly based on what I’ve done. They make life so much easier! There is no fabric between the child and the straps so safety isn’t affected and because it is worn over the head it also isn’t going to fall off like a blanket could. I also made one for our niece and will probably make one for our other nephews as well at some point soon. I made one for each big boy and once Mercedes got big enough I made one for her. Thankfully the best search engine to ever be created (at least for visual people) was publicly open by now and I stumbled upon this tutorial for a fleece car seat poncho. Again, there had to be a way to let these kids walk but still stay safe and warm in the car. The next winter Jamison was big enough to be out of his infant bucket so we did the same thing with him – big fleece blanket and we each carried a kid in our arms all bundled up. We saved the coat for snow play only and instead dressed him in a couple layers that still allowed his straps to be at the correct tightness and wrapped a fleece tie blanket around him to carry him to and from the car. About a month later I learned from a friend that we were making a HUGE mistake and we set out to correct it immediately. Parker had a giant puffy coat and we stretched those straps as far as needed in order to fit him in the seat while wearing the coat.
We had NO IDEA we weren’t supposed to use coats in the car seat. I’ll admit right here right now that with our first kid we made big ol’ mistakes when it came to car seat safety.
Carseat poncho how to#
Winter is fast approaching and if you have children in car seats you know how annoying it is to get them bundled up and brought to the car only to need to undo all that bundling to get them buckled in their seats and then figure out how to keep them warm again once they are buckled.
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