Homemade Baby Gifts

Homemade baby gifts for the baby shower include making a diaper cake or a baby sock corsage. A diaper cake is really a gift basket in the form of a cake, so you can also think about doing other creative gift basket designs around the baby theme.

Making a homemade gift can safe money, be fun to do, and the personalization of the gift can show the recipient mom-to-be how much you care about her. Making good-looking diaper cakes, for example, is not the easiest thing to do in the world, so you should give yourself enough time to make the gift yourself.

Fortunately, many are thinking along the same lines as you do, and making all kinds of homemade gifts for the mother-to-be. This popularity of homemade, personal gifts has brought "recipes" online for how to do the process from supplies.

Resources for Homemade Baby Gifts

The instructions for making diaper cakes and baby sock corsages can save you a lot of time and effort. Just looking at ready-made gifts of this type may give you ideas what to include in the gift package, but don't really prepare you to make such a gift.

For baby sock corsages, the inredients to make one include:

• Baby socks
• Floral or crafting wire
• floral tape or clear tape
• ribbon
• Bud vase or Diaper Pins
• Scissors

For a complete instruction on how to make one from these supplies, see pregnancy.about.com/cs/babyshowerdecor/a/aa052403a.htm.

As for diaper cakes, typical ingredients include:

• diapers
• platter on which to build the cake
• ribbon
• baby bottles
• adhesive tape
• pacifiers
• combs
• bibs
• etc.

This is really a cake-like gift, with all kinds of baby products making the cake. You can personalize the cake with a bit of imagination. For actual instructions on how to make these diaper cake homemade baby gifts for the baby shower, see entertaining.about.com/cs/showers/a/diapercake.htm?terms=diaper+cake.


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