Homemade Baby Shower Decorations

Homemade baby shower decorations can be just as beautiful as store bought items you pay a small fortune for. In fact, homemade decorations typically inspire conversation and admiration. Often, guests are so enamored by the creativity of the decorations that they borrow the ideas for future showers.

Creating homemade baby shower decorations simply involves taking everyday objects or common baby items and building an arrangement around them. Decorations can be used in a variety of ways, including the following:

• Centerpieces
• Invitations
• Favors
• Table decorations
• Place settings

The following homemade baby shower decorations are easy to make, and most of these are very inexpensive. You don't have to follow the directions explicitly, however. Don't be afraid to add your own creative spin on each decoration.

Baby tubs can be used in a variety of shower decorations. Once the shower is over, give the baby tub to the guest of honor to take home. Asks guests to bring inexpensive baby items, such as small packs of diapers, pacifiers, wipes, etc. Each item should be wrapped and placed into the tub. Add ribbons and even helium-filled balloons to the tub and set it in the center of the table as a centerpiece.

You can quickly add a festive air to any room by placing bouquets of balloons throughout the area. Some stores, such as the Dollar Tree not only sell balloons at very cheap prices, but they will also fill them with helium.

• For a simple centerpiece, create a balloon bouquet using the shower theme's colors. Anchor the bouquet with baby items, like baby shoes, baby bottles, small stuffed animals, stacks of disposable diapers, rattles, etc.
• Place a series of bouquets down the center of each table, possibly creating a larger one for the main gift table.
• Tie additional smaller balloon bouquets on the backs of guests' chairs.
• Affix two or three colorful balloons to gift baskets filled with baby essentials, like shampoo, wipes, diaper ointment, soft brush, bottles, pacifiers, etc.
• Add helium-filled balloons to larger gifts, like strollers, highchairs, bassinets, car seats, etc.
• For an added festive look, tie long, curled ribbons to each balloon.

Umbrellas make an excellent base for creating homemade decorations. Pastel colors work best. If you are going to use several umbrellas, choose coordinating umbrellas to give a uniform look to the room. Scatter umbrellas around the room, placing them upside down on table tops, hanging them upside down from the ceiling, and filling them with streamers, strips of glitter paper, colorful yarn, curled ribbon, confetti, etc.

Other ideas include the following:

• If you know the intended name of the baby, string ribbon across the room and hang diapers that spell out the baby's name. This would look cute hanging over gift table.
• If you know the theme of the baby's nursery, purchase a few accessories, like figurines, pictures, small lamps, books, etc. that echo the theme and scatter them down the center of the table. The mom can take them home after the shower.
• For placemats, use cloth diapers or small burp cloths.
• Use pacifiers or baby keys for napkin rings.
• Create inexpensive topiaries out of small terra cotta pots that are painted in the nursery theme colors. Stencil baby items on the outside of the pot, place a small circle of Styrofoam in the bottom of the pot, and add real or fake flowers. Baby roses, daisies and/or baby's breath work great for this project.
• Use baby bottles as vases for small bouquets of flowers.
• Use plain white or pastel colored paper tablecloths, and purchase a stamp in the shape of baby hands or feet. Using acrylic or watercolor paint, cover the tablecloth with the stamps.

Finally, if you have any other baby decoration ideas you'd like to share, please do so in the comments section of this article.

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