If you have the special honor of hosting a baby shower for a friend or family member, you’re well aware that there are many important aspects and details that will need taking care of before the big day arrives. Creating a baby shower centerpiece may need some creativity, but fortunately it can be done at a reasonable price.

Baby Shower Centerpieces - Edible

- Candy Topiaries: A glue gun is your weapon for making candy topiaries, but you’ll also need some plain or patterned flower pots, candy corn or similar candy, and cinnamon sticks.

- The Watermelon Buggy: If you’re feeling extra creative, carve a watermelon into the shape of a baby buggy or carriage, which actually isn’t as difficult as it first looks, and then fill with all sorts of delicious fruits such as grapes, melon balls, and cherries. Using a lettuce garnish as a base, you can add slices of orange plus cherries as a “hubcap” in the center.

Non-Edible Baby Shower Centerpieces

- Baskets: You can search local stoers and find attractive baskets to use as a centerpiece base for beautiful centerpieces. These can be gifts for the guests to take home, or more for the Mom-to-be herself. Baskets can be just about any container these days, so be creative and think outside the box (basket!).

Some fillers for the basket could include bottles, toys, socks, pacifiers, teethers, lotions, and bath toys, or if the centerpieces are for the guests, add candles, aromatherapy items, coupons for book stores, spas, and hair salons, as well as bubble bath, books, nail polish, chocolates, and useful items for the kitchen.

Baby Sock Roses: You can use plain vases to hold your baby sock roses. Select artificial flowers that fit with your color theme, baby’s breath, wire and some pairs of baby socks in your chosen color. Oh, and don’t forget some greenery as a foil. Each sock should be tightly rolled, with thinner socks working best, by starting from the toe, working towards the opening, and finished by fastening with double sided tape.

You could play around with folding or rolling the socks, in a way that gets the best result for a “petal” appearance, then inserting the wire before wrapping the flower bottoms in green floral tape, prior to arranging in a vase.

- Diaper Cakes and Wreaths: Don’t dismiss diaper cakes and wreaths as old favorites that have been overdone, as both of these creations can be easily turned into one-of-a-kind masterpieces depending on the decorations you use to “ice” the cake or finish off the wreath. The idea could be used to make diaper cupcakes, also using either disposable or cloth diapers.

Other ideas could include displaying colored balloons, either on their own or with flowers, or with stuffed animals that look cute to babies. Any ordinary plush toys can be turned into one that would make a great baby shower centerpiece by adding a few embellishments such as diaper pins, baby bottles, bibs, and little blankets.

You can paint cheap flower pots and decorate them using your color theme. Stenciling them with pretty designs can make them even better and more unique. Instead of buying costly flowers from a florist, head to the supermarket the morning of the shower and purchase a few seasonal bouquets for a fraction of the price. You can then break down the bouquets and added to the pots, or even displayed singularly, each in a clear glass vase.

Once you have made your decisions on baby shower centerpieces then you can think about getting organized and sending out those baby invitations.