Homemade Baby Shower Favor Ideas

Baby Shower Favors are Gifts of Appreciation

When planning a baby shower, one of the things you don't want to forget are baby shower favors for your guests. A baby shower favor is meant to be a small gift of appreciation for your guests. Homemade or personalized baby shower favors are a great way of thanking them for joining you in celebrating the arrival of the new baby.

Choosing Baby Shower Favors

There are several factors to take into consideration when choosing favors for your baby shower:

• What type of shower are you planning: casual or upscale?
• What is the baby shower theme? You might want the favors to match the theme.
• Do the guests and new mom have a common interest? Such as baking/cooking, embroidery, or a book club they attend? If so, use that interest for baby shower favors.
• What is your budget?

There are plenty of beautiful and unique ready-made baby shower favors to choose from but homemade baby shower favors show your guests how much you appreciate their thoughtfulness. You don't have to spend a lot of time or money to give your guests a special memento that they can actually enjoy.

Here a few simple ideas that don't take a lot of time and make cute party favors:

• Gift Baskets - You can find inexpensive small baskets at your local craft or dollar store. Add a little colorful paper shred to the bottom of the basket and fill with a variety of items. Wrap with cellophane and tie with ribbon.
• Spa Gift Basket - fill with small, fragrant soaps, bath salts, a scrubbie or loofah, and body lotion.
• Coffee or Tea Gift Basket - fill with a few mini bags of coffee or tea bags and small packages of cookies.
• Home Fragrance Gift Basket - fill with fragrant candles, potpourri, and pillow sachets.
• Nail Care Gift Basket - fill with mini bottles of clear and neutral nail polish, nail file, nail buffer, polish remover, and hand lotion.
• Gardening Gift Basket - fill with a few seed packets, gardening gloves, and a decorative shovel.
• Goodie Gift Basket - fill with cookies and/or candies.
• Candy Favors - Use small decorative boxes, such as mini take-out favor boxes, fill with candy, mints, or chocolates and tie with decorative ribbon. You can also use small rounds of colorful tulle or sheer organza tied with ribbon. Add a cute gift tag with a personal message to make the gift a little extra special. Another idea is to buy some high quality candy bars and make your own candy bar wrappers. .
• Candles - Wrap a fragrant candle in colorful tulle or decorative cellophane tied with a ribbon and gift tag such as these humorous baby powder scented candles.
• Potpourri Sachets - Cut rectangles out of decorative fabric, fold in half, stitch the other 2 sides up or use fabric glue, fill with potpourri, tie with decorative ribbon and gift tag.
• Decorative Soaps - There are many varieties of baby shower themed soaps available. Get small decorative boxes, cellophane, or sheer organza bags and fill with small decorative soaps such as ducks, heart-shaped, or teddy bears. Tie with ribbon and a gift tag.

Make the favors a little more decorative by adding baby themed charms to the gift. Your local craft store carries baby shower charms such as pacifiers, blocks, safety pins, and more. These can be tied on to the ribbon and makes a cute addition to the gift.

Whether you choose to make homemade baby shower favors or buy ready-made favors your guests will be thankful for these small tokens of appreciation.