I’ve hit that point in life when it seems like I’m asked to attend a baby shower every other week. Despite the numerous invitations and loads of baby shower favors that I take home, I have remained determined to find unique baby shower favors for my own event. At the risk of making my own unique ideas commonplace, I’ve made a list of several items that you can incorporate into your own baby shower.
Since a lot of my friends have gotten pregnant around the same time, I decided that it would be nice to provide baby shower favors that highlighted the special needs of expecting mothers. When I found out that I was pregnant, I lamented the loss of coffee. It literally took me weeks to get over the loss of my morning jolt. Eventually, I discovered that decaf coffee helped me adjust. Sure, it doesn’t provide the get-up-and-go of regular coffee, but it does help tame the cravings a bit.
Decaf coffee was the answer for me, but a lot of expecting mothers avoid them because even the decaf varieties contain small amounts of caffeine. Also, some of them taste terrible! Provide small samples of gourmet coffee and herbal teas (which don’t contain any caffeine at all). These baby shower favors could help your friends find the solution to at least one of their morning struggles. If you want to help them eliminate morning sickness, then I guess you could include some Pepto and aspirin, but that’s reaching a bit!
Personalized Baby Shower Favors
You can also get personalized baby shower favors. Personalized baby shower favors usually include the date of the event. You could also include your name, the baby’s name, or something else that’s important to you.
There are tons of baby shower favors that you can personalize. Personalize, I like gourmet cupcakes. They are inexpensive, delicious, and fun. Professionals can often personalize the cupcakes with icing. You can also choose to make your own cupcakes for the event. Personalize them by wrapping each one in a small box and write the name of the recipient on a tag. This turns your small baby shower favor into a personalized gift.
You can also order just about any type of packaged candy with personalized wrappers. Just search the internet and you will find countless companies that sell personalized bags of chocolates, mints, and other candies.
Handmade Baby Shower Favors
If you are willing to invest a little more time into your baby shower favors, then you can even have handmade options. The type of handmade baby shower favors that you make will probably depend on how many people you invite to the shower. If you just have a few, then you could knit mittens for each guest. If you have more, though, then you might want to design your own cards, nameplates, or other items by using computer software and your home printer. The options are only bound by the amount of money and time you can invest.
