My First Diaper Cake

In honor of a sweet friend's baby shower, I decided to do something non-traditional. She is having her second son (actually at the hospital right now!) and had saved a lot of things from her firstborn. She did not need a lot of items...and did not register for gifts. I thought and thought about doing a diaper cake but had no idea how to assemble one.

Enter: "Google" and you know the rest of the story...oodles of pictures, videos, and I was all set! So, here's my version of a diaper cake.

Items needed:

tray (I used one that came from some take-out from Famous Dave's)

one box of small plastic hair bands (find them in the girl's section of Target or Wal-Mart)

about 60 diapers (I used some that were left over from "S")

wide ribbon (I bought two spools)

thin ribbon (1/8" or even 1/16" to coordinate with the wide ribbon)

one corsage pin

goodies for the cake

• teddy bear for the top
• pacifiers
• travel-size items (baby powder, baby soap, lotion, etc.)
• small baby bottle
• rattles

~the supplies~

~I started by rolling each diaper~ 

~from the open ends to the fold~

 ~then securing it with a plastic band~

~stand diapers on end on the tray (about 36) and tie with ribbon

around the center of the diapers~

~after you secure the diapers with ribbon and

pin it at the back of the cake,

take out a few and replace it with some

of the travel-size bottles (this picture

shows the bottle in the middle, but I ended up

using that on the top

and putting a bottle of lotion on the bottom layer)~

~the top layer is about 28 diapers, filled in with different items...

I opened the pacifiers and tied them onto the cake with ribbon~

~and the finished product~

~here he is on the table at the shower~ 

I had a lot of fun making this...thank you for stopping by today!