Baby Shower Centerpieces to Impress
If you’re organizing a baby shower, you have lots od details to think about and plan for in advance. Making the baby shower centerpieces is one of those tasks that will definitely require a bit of creativity and some patience, but luckily, it isn’t one that has to cost a fortune either.
Edible Baby Shower Centerpieces
- Candy Topiaries: A glue gun is your weapon for making candy topiaries, but you’ll also need some plain or patterned flower pots, candy corn or similar candy, and cinnamon sticks.
- The Watermelon Buggy: If you’re feeling extra creative, carve a watermelon into the shape of a baby buggy or carriage, which actually isn’t as difficult as it first looks, and then fill with all sorts of delicious fruits such as grapes, melon balls, and cherries. Use orange slices with cherries in the center for the “hubcaps” and place lettuce underneath as a garnish.
Non-Edible Baby Shower Centerpieces
- Baskets: Your local dollar store, craft or discount store should all have a variety of baskets to choose from that could be easily turned into adorable centerpieces. These could include items that are either geared toward the new mother, or for the guests to take home as gifts. Baskets can be just about any container these days, so be creative and think outside the box (basket!).
Some fillers for the basket could include bottles, toys, socks, pacifiers, teethers, lotions, and bath toys, or if the centerpieces are for the guests, add candles, aromatherapy items, coupons for book stores, spas, and hair salons, as well as bubble bath, books, nail polish, chocolates, and useful items for the kitchen.
- Baby Sock Roses: Using simple vases, some artificial flowers, baby’s breath, floral wire, and several pairs of baby socks in the colors of your choice, you can easily make “roses” arranging them in the vases with the greenery. Each sock should be tightly rolled, with thinner socks working best, by starting from the toe, working towards the opening, and finished by fastening with double sided tape.
Experiment with rolling or folding the socks to achieve the desired look of petals, and then insert the floral wire and wrap the bottoms of the “flowers” in green floral tape before arranging in vases.
- Diaper Cakes and Wreaths: An old favorite diaper cakes and wreaths are still popular in today. With a bit of imagination, you can still make diaper cakes unique with your choice of decorations for “icing” the cake. The idea could be used to make diaper cupcakes, also using either disposable or cloth diapers.
Some other ideas include using colored balloons either alone or with flowers, or attached to cute stuffed animals with pretty ribbons. A cute plush toy can be transformed into a centerpiece with imaginative decoration, useing things like bibs, baby blankets, baby bottles and so on.
Plain and inexpensive flower pots can be painted in any color and easily stenciled with pretty designs, pictures, or sayings. Instead of buying costly flowers from a florist, head to the supermarket the morning of the shower and purchase a few seasonal bouquets for a fraction of the price. The bouquets can then be broken down and added to the painted pots, or placed singularly in clear glass vases.
Once you have made your decisions on a baby shower centerpiece then you can think about getting organized and sending out those baby shower invites.
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