Easy Diaper Cake Tutorial
Putting together this awesome and unique baby shower gift only takes about 30 minutes and $15.00. Use this Easy Diaper Cake Tutorial to help inspire your own diaper cake craft!
Materials
- diapers (buy in bulk)
- travel size baby items ($3)
- round cardboard cake piece ($2 but you can easily make your own)
- ribbon
- tape
- optional: rubberbands, rattles, toys, full size baby products
Instructions
- Fold the diapers in half, and alternate the way you stack them. I believe I used 15-17 for each row on the bottom layer, but you can make yours smaller or larger. If you're going to stack more than 15 or so, I suggest using rubberbands to secure smaller stacks, and then wrapping the ribbon around the entire row.
- I cut the ribbon to the length I needed, and wrapped each row with a thick piece of satin, followed by a very thin piece of satin. You can use any type of ribbon, or even tulle – whatever you have on hand is best. I secured the ribbon with a small piece of rolled up tape in the back of the cake. NONE of the tape was visible on this diaper cake, but I used a LOT.
- After wrapping vertically with ribbon, wrap it horizontally as well. It really makes it “POP”. Use scrap pieces of ribbon to make little bows.
- Add toys, baby wash, etc to your diaper cake – secure with hidden tape if possible. With the round diaper cakes, I always put a baby bottle, baby shampoo, or a big box of wipes in the center – so that's a possibility as well if you are trying to put as many things as you can in/on your diaper cake.
Notes
- You can add rattles, toys, full size baby products, etc to yours, but I like very simple diaper cakes. To accompany the diaper cake, I am giving the mom-to-be a diaper bag full of full-size products that will help her during the first months of mommyhood, along with some extra diapers – because we know how fast those go!
- This diaper cake takes less than an hour to make, and less than $15 in supplies (even cheaper if you have more on hand!), and will be the hit of ANY baby shower!