Make Your Own Diaper Cakeby Mary Ann Romans | More from this Blogger 03 Mar 2007 07:22 AM
This is a great gift idea for a baby shower or for any new mom. A diaper cake is a fun gift that looks great and is actually useful. I love this gift because the parents can at first use it to decorate the nursery. Then they can take it apart and use the diapers and the gifts. Parents always need diapers! If you prefer, you can make the diaper cake out of cloth diapers, but that will definitely raise the cost of making this gift. What is a diaper cake? It is basically an arrangement of diapers and small gifts that, when assembled, resembles a tiered cake. The cost of your home made diaper cake can cost as little as $10, depending on what you put into it and what brand of diapers you buy. To make a diaper cake, you will need a jumbo pack of diapers or about two regular packs of diapers, rubber bands of various sizes, cardboard to cut a round base for the cake to stand on, some wooden dowels, and some things to decorate the cake, such as pretty ribbons and bows. To save money on the dowels, purchase them at a home improvement store instead of at a craft store. You can also insert some small gifts inside the cake. Some ideas for gifts include onesies, washcloths, coupons, a small stuffed animal, diaper cream and a rattle. You will also need some netting or cellophane to wrap the cake and keep it all together. For step by step instructions, including lots of photos, you can check out this article on Wikihow. This is the best instructional site for a diaper cake that I have found. You can also check out Craftbits version of a diaper cake. It is a really cute design, and I love the fact that they incorporated a cake topper on it. Want to talk about diaper cakes? Check out this forum! Related Articles: Free Baby's First Birthday Cake Learn more about Mary Ann Romans  Mary Ann Romans is a freelance writer, wife and mother of three children. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, the kids and a 16-pound cat. Relevantfrugal tags User Comments 1001001SOS (225) 08 Mar 2007 09:22 AMCute! mzwoods (5) 27 May 2008 07:52 AMThank You Mary Ann!! I wish I would've found you and this blog sooner because my babyshower is in less than a week and I would've loved to have my girlfriends make one of those diaper cakes for it...BUT, I do have 2 other girls that are pregnant and 2 babyshowers I will be attending and I think this is a WONDERFUL idea for a gift!! I just bidded for a cake on eBay...minutes before I found you...hope someone outbids me! = ) But again THANK YOU for sharing this info with us!! P.S. My name is Ginger...lol! Just thought it was a little funny....Mary Ann and Ginger...lol!! Community Tags baby gift, diaper cake, frugal Discuss this article
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Why spend $80 or more on a commercial diaper cake? Learn how to make one yourself and save money on a great baby gift.
