Baby Shower Centerpiece Ideas

If you've done any research online looking for baby shower centerpiece ideas, you've surely come across diaper cakes. These rolled disposable diaper, inedible confections make wonderful baby shower decorations because they're not only cute but they're useful long after the party is over.

A diaper cake is usually made from disposable diapers but they can be made from cloth diapers, too. They can be as simple as several tiers of rolled diapers stacked in the form of a cake and decorated with ribbon or they can be elegant and covered with baby items like booties, diaper covers, baby bottles, and personalized feeding utensils.

There are two main styles of diaper cake centerpieces - rolled and smooth style.

Photo by: Peterpolak | Dreamstime

Rolled diaper cakes for baby showers are made by literally rolling the diapers individually and securing each one with a rubber band. The diapers are stood on their ends to form a circle with a large rubber band around them to hold them in shape. Smaller and smaller layers are stacked on top to build the tiers of a diaper cake.

Once the tiers are in place, beautiful ribbon covers the rubber bands. One alternative is to stack the diapers around an 8 oz baby bottle so that the second tier shows the top of the baby bottle as the top of the diaper cake.

Photo by Kates Craft Corner CC BY 2.0

Smooth style diaper cakes are made in much the same fashion as rolled diaper cake centerpieces except that the tiers are formed by fanning the diapers around so they spiral out from the center. A large rubber band or simply the ribbon holds them in place. Make sure the rubber band is large enough that it doesn't cause the diapers to be cinched in at the middle.

The cake can then be covered with a baby item like a crib blanket, a receiving blanket, or baby towels to appear like the icing on the cake. Additional diapers are folded and wrapped around the tiers and then covered in ribbons and bows. The final touches are any additional baby items that you want to attach as gifts or decorations.

You'll find lots of baby shower balloon decoration ideas online and at baby stores. Not only are there the standard Mylar baby shower balloons, but you can make incredible balloon decorations yourself with some simple projects.

Start by making balloon rattles out of twisting balloons. These can either be strung around the party area or attached to the top of a diaper cake for pretty party centerpieces.

Twisting balloons can also be wrapped around round, latex balloons and placed in planters for garden-style baby shower decorations that are bright and cheery. Use your imagination and come up with great color schemes that either match the baby's nursery or the mother's favorite colors.

I can't think of any celebration in which flowers won't work so using flowers in baby shower centerpieces is always a way to go. Even simple, less expensive daisies - a happy flower, if ever I saw one - tied with ribbon that says "It's a boy", "It's a girl", or "Happy baby shower!" make festive centerpieces.

Another way to use flowers in baby shower centerpieces is to mix them with balloons. Insert florist's foam in children's plastic sand pails. Stick the stems of some plastic daisies from a craft store into the florist's foam. Tie a nice giant, pink, yellow or blue bow around the daisies. Then, inflate clear and pastel 5" balloons, attach them to balloon sticks and insert the sticks into the foam so the balloons sit just under the daisies, making a colorful collar around the flowers. Use pacifier holders to attach blue and pink pacifiers to the center of the bows.

Baby dolls can be used as baby shower centerpieces - especially if the expecting mother is having a girl or if she already has any daughters. The baby dolls can then be used after the party as toys for the new baby or her siblings.

Find cute baby dolls - and I'm not talking Barbie, I mean dolls that look like newborn babies. Find small. flexible baskets at your local craft store. Swaddle the baby doll in pretty receiving blankets, place a doll in each basket and tuck flowers in around the baby. You can even attach small bunches of 5" helium balloons to the baskets. This works especially well if you're having a baby shower for a mother expecting multiples. Have one baby doll for each baby on its way and place the baskets side by side.

Deco bubble balloons are a decorating balloon that combines the shape of a round balloons with the long-lasting qualities of Mylar balloons. They're clear or frosted in color and are meant for making stuffed balloon decorations. The clear sheen of the deco bubble balloon makes the balloons stuffed inside appear more lifelike and colorful.

You can either stuff smaller round balloons inside a Deco balloon and use them as centerpieces or floating balloon decorations attached to centerpieces or you can find deco balloons made for baby showers.