How To Make Baby Shower Favors

When hosting a baby shower event, it has been a common gesture to have little baby shower party favors for the guests as a means of thanking them for their presence. These party favors are little gifts that are apart from the game prizes guests will receive when they leave. Here are a few creative and simple ideas for baby shower favors that you can make all by yourself. By making personalized baby shower favors, you can easily coordinate them with the theme of the party as well as the preferences of the mother to be.

Baby Bottle Treats

Find inexpensive plastic baby bottles in your local baby store and have them filled with candies, jelly beans, chocolates or bath beads. Tie it with a colored ribbon that will match your theme and put a little tag with a note saying "Thank You" along with the names of mom, dad and the baby.

Tea Cups

You can purchase a few tea cups, does not necessarily have to be expensive, and a couple of flowers. You can paint the tea cups with flower patterns then put a flower in each cup. You can also fill these cups with a candle gel for another favor idea.

Flower Pots

This is another fun and unique favor idea to match the event. You can give your guests little flower pots with seed packets for tulips or roses that your guests can plant and grow some pretty flowers. Then place a little tag in these pots with a message to nurture the plant as the mommy to be will nurture her newborn little one. If you want to be more creative, you can paint the flower pot or perhaps have rub-on sayings in it.

Homemade Cookies, Brownies, Tasty Treats

If you are fond of baking, then homemade cookies are a great baby shower favor idea. When working with a baby shower theme, have the cookies shaped according to the theme. If you want it to be simple and elegant, you can just cut them into circles and have them decorated with icing according to the color of your theme.

Little Fruit Baskets

You can also make fruit baskets as pretty baby shower favors. Find reasonably priced little baskets and decorative ribbons in your local store. Make your basket more elegant by placing twisted ribbons on it and then put some fruits in it such as strawberries, grapes or any other fruit that you would love to give as a gesture of appreciation.

Personalized Candy Bars

Making a personalized candy bar is a fun and exciting baby shower favor idea. You can make your own candy bar wrappers and stuff them with candies. The perfect favor for a shower that takes place a little after the baby is born. Create your candy wrapper by adding details such as the baby's name, the birthday, weight, length and the parent's names as the manufacturer! To have that desired effect, try words such as "sugar and spice and everything nice", "snips, snails and puppy dog tails" or "love" for the ingredients section.

Soaps

A lot of small soaps come in different sweet shapes. Just find some that will match your theme or that will best suit the taste of the mommy to be and then place it in a cellophane bag tied with raffia or ribbon.

Baby Picture Frames

You can also opt for baby picture frames as baby shower favors. Look for simple and inexpensive picture frames at a local store and have them decorated with scrap booking materials such as rub-on pictures or stamps that will make the item coordinate with the baby shower theme you have. Then place a picture of a baby or if the shower took place days after the baby was born, you can place the picture of the newborn baby in it.

Baby shower favors are just small gifts for guests that serve as a sign of appreciation for their company as well as a good remembrance of how fun and exciting the baby shower was. So when making your baby shower favor, make something that will truly be special for the guests without compromising a lot of time and money spent on making them.