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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. Baby shower centerpieces can be made to look attractive and created at a low price, especially if you use your creative talents.

Edible Baby Shower Centerpieces

– Candy Topiaries: These can be made with styrofoam blocks and balls, with either plain or attractively decorated flower pots, cinnamon sticks, candy corn or other not too hard candies, and a glue gun.

– 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 nearest discount store may have many baskets to choose from which could be turned into attractive centerpieces. These can be gifts for the guests to take home, or more for the Mom-to-be herself. The possibilities for “baskets” is endless when you realise that a “basket” these days can be just about any container.

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. Tightly roll each sock, thinner fabrics work best, starting from the toe working to the open end, and then 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.

Other possibilities include stuffed animals with ribbons, balloons of varying colors, and flowers; all this can be mixed and matched. A cute plush toy can be transformed into a centerpiece with imaginative decoration, useing things like bibs, baby blankets, baby bottles and so on.

Painting and stenciling inexpensive flower pots can make great baby shower decorations. Just choose your own stencil designs and sayings for a unique decoration. Flowers from a florist can be costly, so on the day of the baby shower can could pick up a bouquet at the supermarket at a lower 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 shower centerpieces then you can think about getting organized and sending out those baby shower invitations.