I headed up hosting a baby shower for a girlfriend last weekend,
and found myself doing a lot of crafts for it.
One of those things was a diaper cake.
I found tutorials online, and lots of pictures of them on Flickr,
but I found it hard to follow the directions, and pieces of info missing,
so I thought I'd make one here on the blog
in case others are having the same problem. :)
Search Flickr for diaper cakes for ideas on filling yours!
This is the diaper cake I made.
Supplies Needed:
Newborn/Size 1 diapers; 1 paper towel tube or wrapping paper tube; a piece of cardboard that can be cut into a circle; hot glue gun; large rubber bands (clear are the best); 1 1/2" ribbon; items to fill it.
And here's how to make one:
1. Cut pieces of your cardboard tube at the bottom;
Then cut a circle out of cardboard (or you might use a cake round?);
Then hot glue the tab-style pieces of cardboard tube to the center of the
round piece of cardboard.
2. Now you will roll each diaper up with the outside showing;
It took a few tries for me to figure this step out,
but you basically use your rubberbands to keep the diapers forming a "cake";
what helped me here was to use a few clear ponytail holders for the 1st few diapers,
then rubberband them together and add to it without the ponytail holders.
Don't make your entire "cake" just yet though! Only a few diapers.
I made too many in the photo below, actually.
What you are wanting to do is form your diaper cake
around the cardboard tube.
3. Take some of your items to "fill" the cake...
(diapers, receiving blankets, onesies, etc...)
and roll them up to be about the size of the diapers & add them in.
Here's what the bottom of the cake looks like after adding what I wanted
to the cake.
You'll do the same for the 2nd layer & if you want, for the 3rd layer.
4. After you've made the cake, cut any extra cardboard sticking up at the top.
Then you'll embellish...
Take your 1 1/2" ribbon, measure it round the layer, leaving a little extra-
cut, then hot glue together making sure it's nice & tight around the layer.
For my cake, I wanted to add a bunch of the bows that I make,
so I cut slits into the ribbon, and attached the bows right to the ribbon.
And then I added the Monkey Crochet hat to the top.
I put the cake on a cake stand for a fun display! :)
Here is another diaper cake someone else brought to the shower.
And another cute idea is cupcakes with socks, bibs, etc. rolled up.
Look it up on Flickr, there are some really cute ones on there.
This was the one that the same lady brought to the shower,
and while it's cute & gives you the idea...
You really could do so much more with these!
(i.e. roll up tighter & top, making look like cupcakes;
display in a cupcake stand, etc...)
I will be adding this to some of my fave linky parties
HERE!