How Do You Make A Baby Shower Diaper Cake?
The Diaper Cake is an increasingly popular baby shower gift. A “cake” that is made of diapers, rattles, baby clothes and other tiny items is sure to get “oohs” and “aahs” and “oh how cute!” from the crowd, and can take the place of the ever popular memorize the items on the tray game. Step 1 To start the base you will need the pizza tin or cake decorating stand (to help shape and support the base of your cake) and a receiving blanket. Cover the base with the blanket so the material cannot be seen. If you do not want to give a base with the cake, just use the base as a guide for shape and size initially. Step 2 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep2 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2254427/DiaperCake2008_Full.jpg’); }); Start to roll your diapers. Take a diaper right out of the package and roll it up like a burrito. Start at the folded end and roll tightly until the diaper is completely rolled up. Wrap with a rubber band
These make great focal points as well as gifts for the mom to be. You can specialize them in almost any way you choose for a specific theme, color scheme or keeping them neutral. Step 1 Cut out the base for your cake out of an old cardboard box bottom, to about 3 feet round. Step 2 Wrap the wrapping paper over the base and tape on the bottom the paper into place. Use a wrapping paper that goes with your theme, one that says baby or a solid color in your theme. Step 3 Roll the diapers individually and tie with the ribbon. Do not tie too tightly as it will cut into the diapers–you want them to be used by the mom to be. You can either use the decorations on the diapers as part of your theme or roll the themes of the diapers to be on the inside and just have white showing. Try to use alternate ribbon colors when tying the ribbons on the diapers. Step 4 Set your bulkiest inside stuffer in the middle of the base. Set the diapers around it standing up and making a circle around it. Once the
