How to Make a Diaper Cake for a Baby Shower

Diaper cakes are one of the best and most feasible gifts to give at a baby shower. They also make great baby shower centerpieces. It's a gift that is sure to go a long way, and one for which the soon to be mom will be quite grateful! On an average, a new born bundle of joy uses some six to eight diapers a day! Phew! So, rest assured, your gift is sure to help lessen the burden of the expectant mother. But how to make a diaper cake for a baby shower?

Well, first of all, you need to decide how big you want your baby shower cake to be. Normally, a three-tier cake is the most common type of diaper cake seen at baby showers. Here are a few simple instructions on how to go about making a diaper cake for a baby shower:

List of Things Required:

• For the third tier: You will need around thirty disposable or clean white cloth diapers
• For the second tier: Around twenty disposable or clean white cloth diapers
• For the topmost tier: Around ten disposable or clean white cloth diapers
• Colorful, thick ribbons
• Rubber bands
• A baby bottle
• Pacifiers
• Baby socks
• Teddy bear

The materials besides the diapers are required for holding the diaper cake together and for decorating it. The most important step involved in the entire procedure though, is to be able to properly and firmly twist the diapers, to ensure that they stick together and look neat when twisted and placed.

How to Twist the Diapers?
Take a diaper and unfold it. Then, along its length, twist it tightly and secure the twists with the help of a rubber band. You should try to avoid using safety pins, duct tapes or scotch tapes while securing the diapers. Though they may ensure that the diaper cake stays till the baby shower, but after that it becomes a tedious task for the already over burdened new mother to undo it all.

Once the diapers have been twisted and secured in the manner mentioned above, start arranging them in a circle to form the third tier. Use approximately thirty diapers. Secure the diapers together using a thick colored ribbon. Place a baby quilt in the center to even the level out. Then using twenty diapers, make a smaller circle and place it above the third tier, securing these as well with a thick colored ribbon. And then, finally using the remaining ten diapers, form the top most tier, secure it with the ribbon and place this over the second tier. Place the stuffed toy in the center of the topmost tier. Similarly, you can hide other baby gifts in the lower two tiers, like baby bottles, baby socks, baby clothes, baby bibs, napkins, etc. It'll be a fun exercise for the mother to be, to hunt all of them down. Also, you can have guessing games during the baby shower regarding the gifts hidden in the diaper cake. It's sure to increase the fun quotient of the party!

Innovative Ideas While Making a Diaper Cake
If you already know whether it's a boy or a girl, then you can always give the diaper cake a personal touch. For a boy's diaper cake, you can use blue ribbons or give the cake a theme - like a pirate theme using cute eye-patched buccaneer stuffed toys and black and white ribbons. Or a jungle theme by using lion or tiger stuffed toys with spotted ribbons.

If it's a girl baby, you can have a fairy tale theme using Snow White and the seven dwarfs stuffed toys and arrange the dwarfs at different levels on the cake. Or you could have a Little Mermaid theme using fishes and blue wavy ribbons along with a huge mermaid stuffed toy at the top.

Thus, there's no need to fret over how to make a diaper cake for a baby shower because it's relatively easy and a lot of fun to make too! To ensure that it's the perfect baby shower decoration idea, you just have to try and be as innovative as possible. So go ahead and experiment, till you manage to make that ideal diaper cake for the ideal baby shower!