Creative Centerpiece Suggestion Needed for Baby Shower

How about little diaper cakes, and decorate them with green and lavendar bibs, washcloths, or burp rags? That way the mom-to be can bring them home and she has some much needed baby supplies.

You have received many great ideas, but had to add my two-cents worth. My mom, a former florist, did an awesome centerpiece. She took a small doll-size bassinet and filled with colorful mums. Around the bassinet was a beautiful ribbon bow. Staged through out the arrangements on floral sticks were a baby rattle, pacifiers, booties, etc. It was simple but elegant. The mom-to-be loved it. Good luck.

Get 3 lavendar yards of tulle per table. (It is only 88 cents a yard at Walmart).

Lay the tulle like a table runner on each of the 6 foot tables, but make the tulle kind of fluffy (don't pull it tight like a real table runner).

In the middle of the table, fill a glass vase or bowl (get some interesting and cheap ones from Thrift Town) and fill them with water and float lavendar flowers in them (or green apples like the other mom suggested)

Or for the middle, get those styrofoam topiaries at Micheals/Hobby Lobby, spray paint them a pretty pastel green, and put them in those cheap pots (paint the pots white). Tie a big pretty bow around the vase, and pin another pretty matching bow at the top of the topiary.

Or, get large Chinese take out boxes in fun colors from Micheals, and stuff each one with lavendar or green gift bag stuffing, and tie a large contrasting bow on the side. You can leave it like that, or get silk flowers from Micheals in her colors and make easy bouqets and put them inside the Chinese boxes. Super easy, and pretty cheap.

Or, you can make some of these and put them in the Chinese boxes, super easy to make:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6749783

The tulle alone is a super cheap and easy way to add a ton of color and cuteness (I've seen it done at bridal showers and it's so nice). So I would definately try the tulle. Any type of centerpiece will look adorable on top of it!

I have done a lot of these things, and so if you need any help on how to actually do any them, or if you want me to make them for you (for cheap of course), let me know! Here's my website so you can see a little bit of my craftiness:

www.LittleLovables.etsy.com and www.BumblebeeBabyBoutique.com

Hi J., Flower pots with either White begonias or white mums would be really cute. You could tie some Lavender and pastel green ribbon around the pots or just buy some Lavender or pastel green tuile(netty kind of ribbon used to wrap with) and tie that around and knot it on the front then fluff. You should be able to get the ribbon at either Hobby Lobby or Joann. The pots would be very inexpensive at Loew's or Home Depot and they should have the flowers there as well! It also might be cute to scatter pastel m&m's(get at candy store) down the center of the tables as well or get some cute pastel confetti!, you could also tie balloons to the pots for some height! I hope it is fun and festive! Blessings, J.

The diaper cakes are adorable and you can find pictures and directions on how to create them online. For one of my showers my friends also strung up a clothesline above the table and hung items I could use (cute sleepers, bibs, socks, hats, mittens etc) with clothespins. You could even spraypaint the clothespins to match your colors. I have also been at a shower where the host used the nursery as their decorating theme. It was for a boy and they used big Tonka dump trucks and filled the back with cookies, a toy train and filled the open cars with mints and nuts. Maybe you could try finding small miniature doll carriages and filling them with pink mints.

One of the most simple and classic centerpieces that I use often is....clear glass vases (any size or shape would work) and then use fresh fruit inside....at Christmas time I use cranberries, I've used oranges, lemons....for green, Granny Smith apples would be pretty. After you put the fruit in the vase, you fill it up with water and then if you'd like, you can add a few stems of matching color flowers....with the Granny Smith, I've used white tulips or gladiolas (cheap). have fun being creative.

I always use these 2 things.

Glass bowl filled with water and blue food coloring. Get tiny styrofoam white balls for bubbles and put them in to float. The put a few differend size rubber duckies. The Mom-to-be can then use the duckies at bathtub toys later on.

Get baby bottles and take the nipples out and swrew the ring back on. Tie 1/4 inch ribbon in your colors around the tops. Then put daisies or other coordinating flowers in them. The mom-to-be will then have bottles to use.

I have also done both on a table depending on the size of the table I am using.

Have Fun!

Ms J.,
Not sure how well you know the mother to be or the father to be...but if you could get baby pictures of those two and place them either blown up at the center, or smaller prints throughout the tables. Blow them up, at Walmart photo center..very cheap and can be done same day. If you have several of them...Arron Brothers carries those mini frames for pretty inexpensive as well. Then you could also turn this into a game of guessing which parent the picture is, obviously depending on the type of photo you have. Just a thought...Good Luck.

:) N.

I just did a wedding shower and needed the same thing for our cake table. I ended up using an ivory table cloth. On it I put down some books or cake pans (to raise the cake) and bought a very inexpensive ($7.00ish)3 yards of satin in chocolate brown. I don't have a sewing machine so I tied the rough ends of the satin (folded up and tucked in) on each side with a chocolate and pink polka dotted ribbon. I then just layed down the satin sheet and positioned it to cover the books in a wavy casual look across the table. I added a vase of flowers and a plate of cookies along with the punch bowl. It looked very nice and was very inexpensive!

I would suggest helium balloon arrangemets, weighted at the table to keep them in place. The balloons will be up out of the line of vision of people sitting across from each other and will give your room some height instead of everything being down on one level.

you can fill plastic bottles with candies (m&ms, kisses, skittles). Or hunt for something that matches your theme colors.

I have a friend that makes diaper cakes for table arrangements, and she is awesome, and so reasonable.

Her name is Leslie Ryan, and her # is ###-###-####.