Stacking Ring Baby Shower Gift

November 30th, 2009

This past weekend was the baby shower for my sister in law. I wanted to do something neat for her shower and decided to put together a gift that looked like a child’s stacking ring toy (though the random size of her portable high chair sort of screwed the pooch on the sizing of the boxes).

Each box had a theme and was appropriately marked with a tag. These tags were simple to create. I went to dafont.com and picked out some hip looking fonts and printed the tags on normal copy paper. I then glued them onto scrapbooking paper and embellished them with scrapbooking stickers relevant to that particular box’s theme. (In doing this, I also discovered that I am a glue dot sped. I could not for the life of me get the stupid glue dots to come out in any sort of properly spaced line and half of them kept getting stuck on the edge of the dispenser….I’m guessing it is just me!)

Box Titles

The Bathtime Box was the smallest box and contained a baby robe and some Sassy Snap and Squirt Sea Creatures.

Bathtime Box

Next, came the Naptime box. This box contained a Carter’s Easy-Fit Printed Crib Fitted Sheet – Blue/Green Dot, 2 fleece stretchies and the The Going-To-Bed Book by Sandra Boynton – one of mine and the boys’ favorite authors!

Naptime Box

We were asked to bring a book for the child’s library, so I made an entire box. This was the StoryTime Box.

Storytime Box

The MealTime Box consisted of the Chicco TravelSeat Hook On Chair from the gift registry.

Mealtime Box

The last box was a humungous box and therefore contained 2 themes – PlayTime and Dress-Up Time. I included clothes – all with a monster theme (because I found some cute monster items!) – ranging from sizes 0-3 months all the way up to 12 months. Moms generally tend to get a ton of smaller sized clothes, but nothing for later on. For PlayTime, I included Baby Einstein Stack and Discover Blocks, a Melissa & Doug Geometric Stacker, a JellyCat Jungly Tails Book and a little stuffed turtle toy that was also a soft story book.

Playtime & Dress-Up Time Box

I also made her a diaper cake. I included size 1 Huggies diapers in the middle layers and size 2 Pampers on the outside. I tried to give a variety since it took us some trial and error to find out that my boys were Pampers boys. (Tip – This cookie monster doll was a bit large and heavy and I got it to sit upright atop the cake by rubber banding it to one of those silly, squiggly straws!)