Blackout blinds/material advice

[mothercourage]

My 2 year old has gone from getting up at 8am to a mind boggling 5.30am. Think it's to do with the new lighter mornings. We currently have blinds in her room with blackout material on the back but the light creeps in round the outside. Anyone know of a blackout solution that we can fix directly onto the window frames? I guess it would need velcro fastening or similar?

Any help much appreciated.

[Fuschia]

You can get travel blackout blind things.. or I know some people line the windows with foil!!

[Fuschia]

http://www.babyworld.co.uk/information/reviews/product.asp?id=633

[The Nappy Lady]

Another option is to stick magnetic strips which you get in DIY shops on a roll to the frame and then use magnets - fridge magnets or the like to hold the blind against the frame. Just a bit fiddly if you want to put it up and down for nap times etc.

Molly

[Bishberro]

We have a Baa Baa blind which we stick to the window underneath a black out roman blind. Think they're a worthwhile investment as we take it whenever we go away.

[Bobbaz]

I stuck my sons black-out blind to the frame using those cheap and cheerful sticky velcro rectangles. You can buy them in any stationers and worked really well.

[woofmarkthedog]

Sash windows ?

It's easy to make a very light frame from 20x20mm wood ( Jewsons ) I then stretch and stapled black material to it ( from fabric shop in rye lane )

I made a couple of these for about ?15 the pair

They fitted just snugly inside the beading of each window

It works a treat

Sleeep baby sleeeeeeeep

W**F

[Smiler]

We just bought black card from the stationers on Lordship Lane and stuck it to the window frames with blue-tack. Thick black bin bags and selotape (if plastic window frames) also work well, though a bit of a faff in the daytime!

We did this to find out whether it really was the light waking our little one up, thinking that if it was we would then get something proper, but unfortunately the early waking continued, darkness made no difference, so we didn't invest in any proper blackout solutions!

Hope you have more luck.

[veryseriousgirl]

We use a big piece of blackout material that sticks to velcro on the window frame - has pushed not so serious baby's waking back to 7 again.

http://www.easyblindsonline.co.uk/index.html

[mothercourage]

Thanks everyone - some brilliant ideas. Have followed Smiler's advice and tacked up some bin liners just to see if it actually is the pesky sun that's responsible. If it isn't then I'm just going to have to get used to my new routine and pray that the clocks changing next week will have some effect.