Baby Shower Favor Ideas and Tips

Cute Ideas for Baby Shower Favours

Even though guests shouldn’t expect to leave any party with anything, it is always a nice gesture to give parting guests a favour. Here are some instructions for simple and easy baby shower favours that you can make at home. By making the favours yourself, not only can you save money, but the handmade favours can be personalised easily to reflect the tastes of the mum-to-be and the theme of the shower!

Baby Bottles

Even your local Poundstretcher store can be a great place to find favor ideas. Plastic baby bottles can be filled with chocolate, candies, Jordan almonds, jelly beans, bath beads or bath salts. Tie some ribbon around the neck with a tag that says “Thank You” with the mum’s and baby’s names on it.

Baby Booties

Filled with candies, wrapped chocolates, gum balls, you can tie these at the tops with ribbons and a tag, much like the baby bottles.

Organza or Net Bags

You can find these in the wedding section of most major craft retailers. Fill with candies, bath salts, chocolates, etc.

Plastic Bottles or Glass Jars

It’s not too hard to find these types of containers. If you don’t see them locally, search online and you can order them in large quantities. Fill them with bath salts, bubble bath, shower gel or even baby powder. You can tie a tag on them that has a cute verse about showering them like they showered the mum-to-be!

Tea Cups

Some baby shower hostesses have purchased tea cups and a flat of flowers and put one flower in each mug for a beautiful favour. A great place to find odds and ends tea cups is at local garage sales and thrift shops. Find some with pretty flowers painted on the sides. You can also fill the tea cups with candle gel and a wick for another fun favor idea.

Flower Pots

With a cute tag telling the recipient to nurture their plant as the new mom will nurture her new baby, you could give guests small flower pots and seed packets or bulbs for tulips or daffodils for them to plant and grow some flowers. If you want to do more, decorate the flower pot with acrylic paints or rub-on sayings or pictures found in the scrapbooking section of craft stores. You can even get a simple foam stamp to decorate them.

Candy Bar Wrappers

You’ve seen those expensive candy bar wrappers you can order, but why not make your own? These are perfect favours for baby showers that take place after the baby has arrived! Just purchase a large quantity of candy bars from your local warehouse store and take one wrapper off to measure the size of the wrapper. Now you have a template. Create a wrapper using your favourite software and add special details like the baby’s name, birthday, weight and length and don’t forget to add the parent’s names as the “manufacturer”. For ingredients, try words like “sugar and spice and all things nice,” “love,” “snips, snails and puppy dog tails.”

There are so many ways you can make inexpensive favors that your baby shower guests will really love. Even something as simple as a bar of glycerine soap tied with a pretty ribbon is a nice gift most people will enjoy. Look for sales and clearance items to really save money, but have the look of an expensive gift.

Baby shower favours that you make at home are personal gifts that add a great touch. Not only does it make your guests happy, but it shows the mom-to-be that you care for her friends, too! Have fun making your homemade baby shower favors!