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Decorating Inexpensively for a Baby Shower
Written by Favor Lady
I recently gave a baby shower for my daughter. As I started the planning process I realized there was going to be quite a bit involved financially to put together a nice, albeit simple baby shower. There was the yummy variety of food I was hoping to offer the shower guests. Of course, it wouldn’t be a baby shower without lots of cute decorations to set the mood as well. The problem was, I also knew that the gift I wanted to give my daughter was a little pricey, but something I knew she really needed and wanted to be able to do all this without breaking the bank. After lots of time searching the internet, here are a few of the ideas I had found that really helped to accomplish this:
1. Instead of ordering a large cake for the shower, I printed a 50% off coupon from the internet for our local craft store (A.C. Moore) and purchased a cupcake stand ($12.50, which I’m sure I’ll use over and over again). I made 2 different flavored cupcakes (a carrot cake and a chocolate cream cheese filling cupcake). I made a simple cream cheese icing from the carrot cake recipe and tinted half of the icing blue (the shower colors were blue and white). Definitely cheaper and tastier than ordering a big sheet cake, and these cupcakes served as favors as well (see below).
2. For baby shower favors, I used extra cupcakes that I had and put them in cute cupcake boxes tied with ribbon and little plastic pacifiers for guests to take home (you can buy cupcake boxes at your local craft store or try etsy.com or ebay.com for cute cheap boxes)
3. I found several videos on youtube.com demonstrating how to carve a watermelon so that it looks like a baby carriage and fill it back up with the watermelon to serve as a fruit bowl (used an orange as baby’s head tucked under watrermelon as if under a blanket). This really was not hard... If I can do it, you can do it! It was adorable! Search “watermelon carriage” and you’ll see examples.
4. Bought a large package of small diapers (70-80) and made a diaper cake centerpiece. I bought cheap flowers from dollar store, cut them up and stuck them throughout diaper cake. Then bought cheap baby socks at Wal-mart and tied ribbon around each pair and sat them around cake. Soooo cute! Again instructions on the internet and videos on youtube.com - just search “diaper cake.”
5. Make your local dollar store your first stop. I bought these beautiful blue butterfly wings for $1.00 ea. and hung them and decorated around them with ribbon and balloons. Found lots of pretty ribbon at the dollar store as well.
6. Didn’t spend lots of money on special baby shower plates, just bought blue cups and plasticware from Wal-mart and wrapped plasticware in white napkins and tied with dollar store ribbon (see photo below).
7. Lastly, of course you will want to order personalized magnets or bookmarks from this website to send home with your guests as a lasting keepsake of the occasion:)
I wish we would have gotten more photos of all the decorations but here are a few. Hope this helps and gets some ideas flowing!
     
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