Diaper cakes are a unique baby shower and new baby gift constructed out of disposable diapers, and styled to look like a tiered cake. These cake shaped diaper towers can vary from easy very elaborate. The cakes can be personalized to the baby itself or can be crafted to coordinate with various baby shower themes.
The diaper cakes are most often three tiers of rolled disposable diapers secured together with rubber bands. It is coarse to remove some of the diapers in the inner layers of diapers in the cake and replace them with other small gifts like baby clothing, diaper rash ointment and baby bottles. After the diapers have been rolled and rubber banded together, and the extra gifts supplanted inside separate portions of the layers, dowels need to be strategically located within the layers to hold the cake together. The dowels will keep the cake from falling over while being conveyable and keep it stable. To hide the rubber bands that hold the diapers in place, it is coarse for diaper cake builders to add ribbon that has coordinating colors to cover the bands and add a cohesive nature and radiance to the cake which is mostly diaper white at this point.
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Additional toys and tidbits are often added to the surface of the cake to convey the theme of the baby shower or to go with the colors of the baby's room. Often tacked onto the outer portion of the cake are theme or color based stuffed animals, monogrammed clothing, hats and pacifiers. They are then wrapped in protective cellophane wrapping and tied with a ribbon so everything stays clean and secured to the cake. Actually the sky is the limit to how a diaper cake can be created and decorated. Because of the size of the cakes it is often a gift that is split between a few people. If not used as a gift, the baby shower giver can have a diaper cake created and it can stand as a town piece to the table where population will be eating.
If you have a crafty hand you can make a diaper cake yourself. There are how-to tutorials that can be found online and illustrated classes that can be taken to learn how to stack and create the cute gifts. However, if you are not a crafty person, or if you do not have the extra time on your hand and still want to make a big impact with the gift that you give to the mother-to-be, there are many companies that make diaper cakes. You can find companies online that will send them to you and will personalize them and there is also a good occasion you can check your local area for a someone who crafts them and can hand deliver it to you.
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