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- Pick up some cheap ceramic tiles at the home improvement store and stamp baby's monogram or even your guest's initials on them for use as coasters. They make cool favors or gifts for any occasion.
- Present your guest some mini books as gifts decorated in your baby shower's theme as personalized baby shower favors - Decorate the cardboard cd folders and turn them into special compact scrapbooks. You can tuck in a few photographs or a card thanking them for coming to the party. Altering notebooks for use as baby shower favors is even better than giving your guests a card of appreciation because they won't be tossed in the trash!
- Goody bags filled with special chocolates or other candies in your party's colors are always a nice treat. Do some pretty stamping on the front of the goodie bags that carry out your theme
- Save up some little boxes that jewelry and other small items come in and stamp or glue something pretty on the top and tuck something cute inside. You can also make your own decorative boxes, pouches, bags if you are really good with DIY crafts.
- Design and make up your own 5X7 sized personalized homemade calendars or address books with special dates and addresses written in gold, silver or any color coordinating ink. Baby shower favors that remind friends of important birthdays and dates are very helpful. If your baby shower falls at Halloween or after, consider a Countdown to Christmas Calendar stamped with Christmas designs.
- Buy some small, cheap composition books and pens. Insert pretty colored paper in the clear cylinder that you have decorated and personalized with matching laminated bookmarks.
- Homemade star books, coaster books, brag books are all cool inexpensive baby shower favors to make yourself at home. Make mini-albums for baby shower favors and a big matching scrapbook album for the guest of honor!
- Name Frames are an easy do it yourself craft that will tickle your friends to no end!
- For holiday baby showers, crochet or molded Christmas ornaments are super baby shower favors to make.
- Are you a beader? If so, a dainty beaded bracelet, charm or earrings would be lovely party favors
- Craft some little notepads with your bind-it-all!! You can use blank coasters for the outside, decorate the front with embellishments and stamping, use printer paper pages, bind it and cover the coil with ribbons.
- Make some homemade fabric totes with handles decorated according to your shower's theme. You can fill them with candy, homemade soaps or scented candles.
- Buy cheap pictures frames and alter them.
- Decorated store bought candles using tissue paper are excellent baby shower favors
- , Stamp your guests initials on pretty colored laminated counter top samples to make personalized name tags that they can use for a variety of occasions
- Paint some funky pictures, names or designs on clipboards you bought at the $1 store
- Pick up a sappy chick flick that only a mom would love and alter the DVD case in creative ways
Those are just a few of the homemade baby shower favors that will be so easy for you to make in your own home! If you have other suggestions, please share them with our visitors!
