Five Unique Handmade Baby Gifts to Make For Baby Showers

If you are looking for baby gifts to make but are bored with the standard blanket and baby booties, here are five unique and unusual (yet still functional!) gifts to create that would be perfect baby shower gifts.

• Time Capsule - Don't you wish someone had made you a time capsule of things from the year you were born? Collect newspaper and magazine clippings of current events, trends and fashion, a small toy from the most current hot children's movie and last, but not least, take photos of their home and their city! Document their neighborhood, take snapshots at the local grocery store, the post office, cars on the street, the local school, the front of their house, their parents and their family! Include notes from family members and a special letter from you introducing them to the world. Collect it all and put it in a decorative wooden keepsake box, leaving some room for the parents to add some things of their own. Just think what a treasure this will be when they are your age!
• Padded Mat - No, it isn't just another boring blanket! This time, create an extra thick and padded blanket, a cushy surface that will be perfect for tummy time, even on hardwood floors. Get creative with it and add "activity" toys to it, such as detachable soft toys, flaps that hide bright pictures and small ribbon tags. You could even line the bottom with waterproof PUL fabric which will turn it into the perfect outside on wet grass park blanket.
• Name Blocks - Purchase enough blank wooden blocks at a craft store to spell out baby's name. Decorate each block with the letter an/or images that start with that letter. You could paint with non-toxic acrylic paint, decoupage with paper or fabric or wood burn your design. For design ideas, look at the crib bedding set that the parents registered for and use the same theme or color scheme on your blocks.
• Mix CD - Make baby a mix CD? Yes! Create a mix CD of soothing music, classical is an obvious choice but get creative with music in your collection or check out iTunes for lullaby ideas. Alternatively, a fun and upbeat mix of baby friendly music might be just the thing! Face it, most music marketed towards babies is terrible and many parents would love to have a "normal music" CD to listen to that is still baby friendly.
• Handmade Books - You can purchase blank board books that are the perfect canvas for your own stories! If baby will live far away from extended family, create a story using real photos of family members so that baby can get to know them. Or, create a funny story about the family pet, your own version of an alphabet book, a picture book with different kinds of cars or butterflies, etc. Draw your own or create collages from actual photographs or magazine pictures.

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Have fun creating some unique handmade baby gifts for your next baby shower! These fun projects will be appreciated by both the parents and the baby, which is exactly what a handmade baby gift should be about.

Five Unique Handmade Baby Gifts to Make For Baby Showers

Five Unique Handmade Baby Gifts to Make For Baby Showers

Amber Dusick is the editor of MakeBabyStuff.com at http://www.make-baby-stuff.com where you will find baby crafts, free patterns for baby clothes, homemade baby toys and tons of DIY crafty projects for all things baby! Your how-to resource for baby's homemade lifestyle.

Popular Modern Baby Girl Themes For Baby Showers

You may have found out that your best friend is about to have a baby girl and thought of hosting a baby shower for her. Well, if that is true, you have landed on the right page. Here are some of the popular modern baby girl themes you can use for the baby shower and find out why these are timeless.

Soft shades of pink have always been associated to girls. It could be by tradition or just because the society believes so that pinks are for girls. Light Pinks or Baby Pinks are very relaxing and has a soothing effect. Moreover, pink is a color that symbolizes love, romance, and excitement - a better reason why pinks are always popular to modern themed baby showers. The color adds excitement to the parents-to-be and to the guests as all are anticipating for the baby's soon arrival.

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Butterflies are undeniably among the most beautiful insects we have here on Earth. And we're lucky enough to see one considering that they have a very short lifespan. Butterflies are more likely associated to dreams, fantasies, and paradise. But symbolically, it tells us about transformation, growth, maturity, and relationship. The transformation from a caterpillar to a very beautiful butterfly is just like the new phase the parents-to-be are about to go through. It can also be a good representation of how quickly the baby will grow into a beautiful girl someday. Butterflies are popular modern theme in baby showers not only because of its ideals but also of its deeper meaning to life.

Flowers are very significant to any occasion. Each variety of flowers has its unique symbolical meaning that we associate to certain events like weddings, birth, holidays, graduation, and death. In baby showers, flowers symbolize purity, innocence, love, beauty, and simplicity. Flowers best to use for such events are usually daisies, baby's breath, asters and others that have harmonized petals and sizes. These types of flowers preserve the simplicity of the occasion, as the highlight of a baby shower is the new family - neither the theme nor the flowers.

Animal themes are some of the latest trends in baby showers. These work well for parents who are not sure about the baby's gender or they just prefer balanced and unprejudiced colors for their baby girl. Animal themes can be colorful or earthy. Ideally, modern animal themes are better in shades of brown and green. Too much color may overwhelm the significance and simplicity of the event and could turn out like a children's party instead. So when choosing an animal theme, do not let the jungle take over the celebration. Always remember your focal points, which are the parents and their baby girl.

Baby girl themes are the most common and probably the most popular theme of all time. It is simple and straightforward. If you plan the celebration with this theme, you can never go wrong. There are plenty of ways how to enhance the preparations for this theme while keeping it simple and wholesome. Combine it with any of the above mentioned and you are sure to bring this baby shower to a blast.

Popular Modern Baby Girl Themes For Baby Showers

Alice White is a mother and a writer for babyshowerparty.net where a complete resource on Baby shower decoration ideas can be found. Click here to get free information and inside tips for planning hassle-free baby showers.

Five Unique Handmade Baby Gifts to Make For Baby Showers

If you are looking for baby gifts to make but are bored with the standard blanket and baby booties, here are five unique and unusual (yet still functional!) gifts to create that would be perfect baby shower gifts.

• Time Capsule - Don't you wish someone had made you a time capsule of things from the year you were born? Collect newspaper and magazine clippings of current events, trends and fashion, a small toy from the most current hot children's movie and last, but not least, take photos of their home and their city! Document their neighborhood, take snapshots at the local grocery store, the post office, cars on the street, the local school, the front of their house, their parents and their family! Include notes from family members and a special letter from you introducing them to the world. Collect it all and put it in a decorative wooden keepsake box, leaving some room for the parents to add some things of their own. Just think what a treasure this will be when they are your age!
• Padded Mat - No, it isn't just another boring blanket! This time, create an extra thick and padded blanket, a cushy surface that will be perfect for tummy time, even on hardwood floors. Get creative with it and add "activity" toys to it, such as detachable soft toys, flaps that hide bright pictures and small ribbon tags. You could even line the bottom with waterproof PUL fabric which will turn it into the perfect outside on wet grass park blanket.
• Name Blocks - Purchase enough blank wooden blocks at a craft store to spell out baby's name. Decorate each block with the letter an/or images that start with that letter. You could paint with non-toxic acrylic paint, decoupage with paper or fabric or wood burn your design. For design ideas, look at the crib bedding set that the parents registered for and use the same theme or color scheme on your blocks.
• Mix CD - Make baby a mix CD? Yes! Create a mix CD of soothing music, classical is an obvious choice but get creative with music in your collection or check out iTunes for lullaby ideas. Alternatively, a fun and upbeat mix of baby friendly music might be just the thing! Face it, most music marketed towards babies is terrible and many parents would love to have a "normal music" CD to listen to that is still baby friendly.
• Handmade Books - You can purchase blank board books that are the perfect canvas for your own stories! If baby will live far away from extended family, create a story using real photos of family members so that baby can get to know them. Or, create a funny story about the family pet, your own version of an alphabet book, a picture book with different kinds of cars or butterflies, etc. Draw your own or create collages from actual photographs or magazine pictures.

Baby

Have fun creating some unique handmade baby gifts for your next baby shower! These fun projects will be appreciated by both the parents and the baby, which is exactly what a handmade baby gift should be about.

Five Unique Handmade Baby Gifts to Make For Baby Showers

Amber Dusick is the editor of MakeBabyStuff.com at http://www.make-baby-stuff.com where you will find baby crafts, free patterns for baby clothes, homemade baby toys and tons of DIY crafty projects for all things baby! Your how-to resource for baby's homemade lifestyle.