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If you’ll be going to a baby shower, think about baby gift baskets to make your gift a special one.
Have you been invited to a baby shower? Whether it is before or after the blessed event, it can be difficult picking just the right item. So why try? Instead, think about baby gift baskets. Baby gift baskets make fun gifts as the mother-to-be pulls one wonderful item after another from the basket.
As the guest of honor, the mom-to-be has lots of fun. A baby shower can certainly save the new mom from having to do a lot of shopping. But for the guests, shopping for a baby shower can be tough. You don’t want your gift to simply blend in with all the others. You want the new mom-to-be excited when she opens your gift. An easy way to accomplish all that is by thinking about baby gift baskets.
Once you’ve got your gift chosen, it is now time for you to have fun. Very often games will be played at baby showers. You might end up winning a prize and have a gift of your own to take home!
One popular game has to do with nursery rhymes. If you read them to your children (or are reading them to your grandchildren) then you’ll probably do fine. There are many variations of this game. In one variation, you need to know the name of the rhyme. In another variation you need to know how it finishes.
In another game, pieces of ribbon are cut with one perfectly fitting the girth of the new mom. Can you guess which is the right piece of ribbon?
Have you considered a blind taste test of baby food? Each jar has the label removed and, instead, it has a number. Then you have the opportunity to taste the food in each jar. You get a piece of paper with a list of numbers and, next to each number, you write what you think is in the jar. Of course the one guessing the most right wins.
Be sure to bested and have your memory in tip top shape. If you were to look into a box, for a few seconds, that is filled with baby items like a bib or baby spoon could you remember everything that was in the box? Quickly write down what you remember seeing and maybe win a prize.
Baby gift baskets allow you to relax at the shower. Have fun. Watch the mom-to-be light up as she opens your gift and starts looking at all of the wonderful items inside.
Author Kimberly Green loves mixing and matching items to create the perfect baby gift baskets
How to make a fabulous diaper cake for a baby shower:
Sure it is fun to go shopping for those baby gifts for that shower…but it is even more fun to make your own personalized baby gift!
For the last baby shower I went to I made a diaper cake. It took many tries and a few hours but the result was well worth it because it came out adorable! And once I got the hang of it, it was not that hard. When I brought it to the shower it was the gift that got the most “Oohs” and “Ahhs”. Everyone thought it was so nice and they also thought that it was costly but in reality it was an inexpensive gift that looked fabulous and it is something that is practical because every baby needs diapers. And if you do not use the cloth diapers they make for excellent burp cloths!
Making that personalized baby gift can save money and be a lot of fun to. Here are some simple instructions on how I made my diaper cake. First, I went out and got cloth diapers…they were having a sale at Babies R Us so I picked up around 50 diapers. You can use disposable or cloth but I found the cloth to be easier to work with. I then got some blue ribbon, because she is having a boy, a bag of rubber bands, a baby bottle, baby lotion, fake blue flowers, cardboard (for the base), baby socks, pacifiers, and little stuffed animals. You can get what you want to “garnish” the cake with…I just preferred these items.
You want to roll up the individual diapers and put an elastic around it. Make around 18-20 and place them around the bottle of baby lotion on the cardboard and tie it all around with the ribbon. This makes the first tier. You do the same for the 2nd and 3rd tiers but making each one a little smaller and placing them on top of each other. You have to tie them individually with the elastic bands and then all together with the ribbon for each tier. I also tied each diaper with a little bow to give it a more finished look. I then put fake flowers, stuffed animals, pacifiers and baby socks around the base and in the top center I put a baby bottle. And that is pretty much it!
These types of personalized baby gifts usually go for around $80 but you can do it for around $30 depending on what kind of diaper you get. The best part is that you can make it how you like which is the beauty of making your own gifts. And it really is quite pretty when it is all done!
Author Kimberly Green has made several personalized baby gifts in the past and has become quite a pro at it!
If you’ll be going to a baby shower, consider personalized baby gifts to make your gift to the new baby a special one.
For the mom-to be, being the guest of honor at a baby shower can be loads of fun. For one thing, it will save the new mom a lot of shopping. But shopping for gifts for a baby shower can be very difficult for the guest. You want your gift to be something special, something that the new mom will remember, for a long time, that you gave it. To accomplish that, take a look at personalized baby gifts to make your gift special.
And be prepared, when you attend a baby shower, not only with your special gift but also to have lots of fun. Games are often played at baby showers and you might even find yourself heading home with a gift of your own.
For instance, how well do you know your nursery rhymes? Do you (or did you) read them to your own children or grandchildren? Then you will probably do well in the nursery rhyme game. Depending upon which version of the game is played at the baby shower, guests will either have to guess the name of a nursery rhyme or remember how it finishes.
How are your spatial skills? Think you can just look at the new mom and guess how big she is around? You might find cut up pieces of string or ribbon at the party. Only one of them will perfectly fit around the mother to be. Can you pick the right one?
And how long ago were you feeding baby food to toddlers? If pretty recently, then you will probably do well at the ‘guess the baby food’ contest. Labels are removed from baby food jars and the jars are only identified with a number. Each guest then gets a sample from each jar and has to guess what it is. Pureed spinach anyone?
And be sure to get your memory in good shape before attending the baby shower. One very popular game has an assortment of baby items put into a box and each guest has just a few seconds to look in the box. Then, everyone writes down what they remember was in the box. What was there? Bib? Diaper? Bottle? Whomever gets the most right wins.
So head over to the baby shower, have a great time but don’t forget to look first for personalized baby gifts so you have your own special gift to give to the new mom.
Author Kim Green has children as well as nieces and nephews and has experienced not only receiving personalized baby gifts but buying them as well.
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