Baby Shower Centerpieces
Make baby shower centerpieces to focus the baby shower theme. Baby shower centerpieces are the first thing to catch the eyes of your guests as they enter the room and will be the focal point of your party. Baby shower centerpiece ideas should coincide as a perfect compliment for the theme of your baby shower. Select your baby shower centerpiece ideas from the following list of possibilities:
Baby Shower Centerpieces
- Diaper Cake – A diaper cake is a popular centerpiece that can be decorated to fit any baby shower theme. The diaper cake doubles as a gift of much needed diapers for the expectant mother. Link to other post on make a diaper cake
- Edible Fruit Bouquet – Make an edible fruit bouquet as the centerpiece for a Cravings baby shower or just a unique centerpiece idea.
- Stuffed Animals – Decorate stuffed animals with diapers, bottles, pacifier or other baby accessories. Place the stuffed animal in a baby bathtub and add balloons for an adorable centerpiece idea.
- Baby Sock Rose Bouquet – like the diaper cake this centerpiece doubles as a gift for the mother to be.
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Build a Fort
It’s easy to build a fort indoors as a rainy afternoon adventure. When you build a fort with your child or grandchild you will provide a rich opportunity to unleash your child’s imagination. Begin this fun activity by “scouting” out a place to build a fort: a hiding place under the stars or a fortress in a far off land help to create the imaginative background to build a fort.
Build a Fort
The framework for building a fort can be dining room chairs, sofa cushions, footstools, etc. Drape a blanket or sheet over the top of your framework to create their enclosed fort. Add sleeping bags to simulate camping, add stars to create a spaceship, decorate the fort as a palace for your little princess – the possibilities are as endless as your child’s imagination. Building a fort is a fun activity for rainy days, winter vacations or any time you want to let your child’s imagination soar.
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Golf Birthday Party
With planning, a golf birthday party is a unique outdoor party idea with fun activities. The golf birthday party is entertaining for children age 7 and up as they hold their own miniature golf tournament. Decorate the party with golf themed items: green tablecloths with white (golf ball) tableware, a bucket of golf balls makes for an adorable centerpiece, foam golf visors, scorecards, etc. Golf themed activities include golf ball relays (golf ball on spoon), putting practice or a golf obstacle course.
Golf Birthday Party
Make your own miniature golf course with ordinary items found around the house and garage. Make a sand trap with a baking sheet and play sand. Design your own ramps with croquet wickets and cardboard cutouts for your golf course. Have each hole played a specific way: backwards putt, hopping up and down like a frog, or eyes closed on another putt. Children may decorate their foam visors with letters, stickers and pom poms as another golf themed activity.
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Memory Mobile
Making a memory mobile is a fun and educational family craft. A memory mobile can display family pictures, helping children to understand their family relations and where they fit in the family. Your family tree is the basis for your memory mobile, therefore the mobile can be as large as the information you have on hand.
Further research of your family tree will help the whole family discover if their last name is based on a profession, or if the family name has changed when ancestors came to this country. The memory mobile can be used to display your family history, a special family vacation or other special family event.
Memory Mobile
Materials:
- Colored poster board or construction paper, one color for each branch of the tree
- Individual photos of family members
- Twigs or dowels: One 10”, one 16”, two 8”, and four 5”
- String
- Glue
Memory Mobile Instructions:
- Cut a 3” square of one color, two 2.5” squares of another color, four 2.5” squares of another color and eight 2” squares of the last color.
- Cut photos of family members a half inch smaller than the colored squares. Center the photos and glue in place.
- Poke a small hole 1/8” from the top and bottom of each square.
- Lay out twigs/dowels in rows, largest to smallest
- Position the photo squares with mom’s side of the family on one side and dad’s on the other. Arrange each couple with the men and women each on their own side.
- Cut 22, 6” long pieces of string. Thread one piece through each of the holes in the photo squares. Tie to the twigs above and below each square. Hold up the mobile and adjust the photos until it balances.
- Cut a 24” long piece of string and tie the ends to the top twig, then hang.
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Make a Diaper Cake
Need to make a diaper cake? Make a diaper cake as a centerpiece with lasting value for the mother-to-be. To make a diaper cake is a wonderfully creative gift for an expectant mother. It is a collection of diapers (either disposable or cloth) rolled and stacked together to resemble a traditional tiered cake. The tiers of diaper cakes are also garnished with baby care items such as bibs, pacifiers, baby socks, bottles, toys, and often wrapped in ribbon. How to make a diaper cake? First let’s start with the “ingredients.”
Make a Diaper Cake
- Diapers – either cloth or disposable; depending what the expectant mother would like. Use one large box of diapers to create as many tiers as you would like.
- Wide Ribbon – patterned to fit the baby shower theme. Pink, blue, or yellow are good choices.
- ¼ inch Ribbon – to tie rolled diapers with.
- Cake Platter
- Large Baby Bottle or Bottle of Lotion
- Baby Items – Pacifiers, bottles, lotion, bibs, receiving blankets, miniature stuffed animals, baby towels, onesies, wash cloths, toys, etc.
How to make a diaper cake:
- Unfold and tightly roll 17 newborn diapers, starting from the front and rolling to the back of the diaper and put a rubber band around each diaper.
- Take the cake platter and place the 8-oz baby bottle or large bottle of baby lotion in the center. Then place about 5-6 diapers around the bottle and put a large rubber band around the entire ring of diapers.
- Form a 2nd ring around the first ring with the remaining 11-12 diapers. Place a large rubber band around the 2nd ring of diapers.
- For the final ring of first tier diapers: take 18-20 diapers, roll them up tight like before, but instead of a rubber band around each one, tie a thin, 1/4 inch piece of ribbon around the middle around each one. Then place them around the second ring to form a 3rd ring. Take a wide ribbon and tie it around the entire tier to hold them all together in a circle shape.
- The next tier is made much like the first, except that instead of 3 rings of diapers you will only use 2 rings. Part of the bottle will be sticking out of the 1st tier, so place your 5-6 diapers around it to form the 1st ring of the 2nd tier. The 2nd ring will need 11-12 diapers. Use ¼ inch ribbon around each one of those 2nd ring diapers and hold them all together in a circle with the wide ribbon like before.
- It is probably easiest to assemble the third tier on a table and then place it on the rest of the cake after it is assembled. Take a 4-oz bottle and place it on the table,
then take 5-6 diapers and roll them up like before and tie them with the ¼” ribbon. Place the diapers around the baby bottle and tie your wide ribbon around it to hold it together tightly. Take the top tier and place it on top of the other two layers.
- Place baby shower decorations on the diaper cake by adding items like onesies, baby towels, wash cloths, bottles, bibs, receiving blankets, stuffed animals – tucking them into the diaper folds and outer layer of ribbon.
Baby Shower Diaper Cake
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