Baby Shower Centerpieces to Think About
If you have the special honor of hosting a baby shower for a friend or family member, you’re well aware that there are many important aspects and details that will need taking care of before the big day arrives. Using your creative abilities will help make your baby shower centerpiece unique, and keep the costs down.
Edible Baby Shower Centerpieces
- Candy Topiaries: Build candy topiaries using Styrofoam balls and blocks, decorative or plain flower pots, toothpicks, a glue gun, some large cinnamon sticks, candy corn or other similar types of semi-hard candies.
- 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.
Baby Shower Centerpieces - Non Edible
- 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 can be things geared to the Mom-to-be or take home gifts for the guests. Remember, though, that these days “basket” can mean just about any time of container, not just an old fashioned wicker 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: You can use plain vases to hold your baby sock roses. Select artificial flowers that fit with your color theme, baby’s breath, wire and some pairs of baby socks in your chosen color. Oh, and don’t forget some greenery as a foil. 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.
You could play around with folding or rolling the socks, in a way that gets the best result for a “petal” appearance, then inserting the wire before wrapping the flower bottoms in green floral tape, prior to arranging in a vase.
- Diaper Cakes and Wreaths: Don’t dismiss diaper cakes and wreaths as old favorites that have been overdone, as both of these creations can be easily turned into one-of-a-kind masterpieces depending on the decorations you use to “ice” the cake or finish off the wreath. The idea could be used to make diaper cupcakes, also using either disposable or cloth diapers.
Other possibilities include stuffed animals with ribbons, balloons of varying colors, and flowers; all this can be mixed and matched. Any ordinary plush toys can be turned into one that would make a great baby shower centerpiece by adding a few embellishments such as diaper pins, baby bottles, bibs, and little blankets.
You can paint cheap flower pots and decorate them using your color theme. Stenciling them with pretty designs can make them even better and more unique. 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. You can then break down the bouquets and added to the pots, or even displayed singularly, each in a clear glass vase.
Once you have made your decisions on baby centerpiece then you can think about getting organized and sending out those baby invitations.
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