A few weeks ago I decided to host a Baby Shower for my friend Trisha from MomDot. We have been friends for years, but I have never thrown a baby shower before – so I knew I was way out of my league. Since Trisha was asking only for “diapers and wipes” I immediately decided to make a diaper cake. I have to say, I was pretty impressed with the results.
I began with a trip to KMart and Hobby Lobby to pick up the supplies:
What you will need:
- diapers – any size, but the larger they are the more room you have for “stuff”
- tiny plastic hair ties – will hold the wrapped diapers
- larger rubber bands in assorted sizes
- large plate – or in my case, a pizza pan
- plastic bottle – will begin the base
- wide ribbon – to wrap around each layer and hide the little hair ties
- assorted baby goods and decorations
How to begin:
Start by rolling each diaper and securing with tiny hair ties. For this large 3-tier diaper cake I used 92 (entire box) size 1, and 42 (half box) size nb diapers. This was a great activity for my girls to help me with – The Tween doing the rolling and The Toddler handing her a hair tie to secure it with.
Since I knew I wanted a pretty large cake, I found the largest pizza pan I could find, and used three bottles to start the base. I used a large rubberband to hold them in place.
Then begin putting the rolled diapers in the rubberband along with the bottles in a circular motion – where it looks like this:
Now, since this cake was huge, I continued to wrap rubber bands around the outside layer of the cake, and stuffing more diapers in, until it was nearly 2 feet in circumference. For the second layer, do the same steps, wrapping the next layer of diapers around the tops of the bottles:
For the third layer I actually pulled one of the bottles up just enough to wrap a layer of diapers around it. The finished product looked like this:
The ribbon that I found at Hobby Lobby was double sided… and what a difference some ribbon makes:
Then… the hard part (for me) kicks in. DECORATING. Just when I thought I was just as crafty as they come, I got hung up with where to PUT everything. The part that should be easy put me in a bit of a tizzy, but thankfully with the help of my friend Jennifer (and probably 6 text images) I was able to put it all together in a way that I was pleased. In fact, I will tell you this – put EVERYTHING on it first, and then step back and rearrange. When I just put two or three things on there, it looked crappy, and my blood pressure would rise. But I just kept adding stuff and it came together nicely.
The Diaper Cake was a big hit at the shower, along with the other favors and games. It was a fun activity for me to do with my girls as well.
Oh, and of course we had cake pops to match:
love it! you did a great job!
Wow! You did an amazing job girl! Looks like the cake pops were totally yummy too!
Wow – I am really impressed. That is a fabulous idea, and you pulled it off so well. I could never be that crafty. Give yourself a big pat on the back
It turned out adorable! Thanks for doing all the hard work for us!
You did awesome! Love it!
Wow! You did an awesome job!!
You did an amazing job! It looks great and I am so happy that Trisha was able to have the shower she deserves!
Great job! Such a cute cake!
The cake and the cake pops turned out amazing! You’re such a great friend to Trisha and thanks for letting us be part of the shower too!
Absolutely love it! I always wondered how a diaper cake is made..thanks for the step-by-step! I am sure that Trisha loved it!
Adorable! You did a great job!
So cute! You did a great job. So glad I could help out for the shower!
looks fab! I wish I would have had a baby shower, I am 0 for 2…
If I could, I would run out this instant and get myself all knocked up, just so you could make me on of these – that is too stinkin’ adorable!
(and I’m so sorry I missed out on contributing to this
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Oh wow! That is really fun and crafty! I can’t wait to see photos from the shower!
Adorable! I love to make diaper cakes, they are so much fun!
Great job making the diaper cake! Great tutorial on how to do it also, thanks for sharing!
That is so freaking awesome! Thanks for sharing it. Now maybe I can make one….maybe….
You did a wonderful job, that diaper cake is HUGE!! So glad the party was a hit!
You did a fabulous job!!! Everything is adorable.
Awesome Job! It’s very cute!
You did so good! I bet it was a beautiful shower.
You did a terrific job!
Look at you Ms. Crafty! That’s awesome.
WOW – you did a beautiful job with that. Thank you so much for organizing for those of us who couldn’t be there.
You did a great job!
WOW! Very cool! I had one at my baby shower but it wasn’t nearly THAT cute!!! Great job!
That came out cute! I like the idea of doing the clear rubber bands and rolling the diapers. I got a cake that had the diapers flat in a big spiral with straight pins holding it all together… it was a PITA to undo and find all the pins! LOL
I SAW one like that and wondered how they held them all together! Wow straight pens… that would be a disaster if one was forgotten lol thanks for stopping by!
Love it! I may just have to try one sometime!
Awesome job! It is soo cute!
That turned out awesome and I’m so glad you thought to take pictures along the way. I’m thinking of making one (or sweet talking my grandmother into making one) for my grandbaby’s shower next month. This was helpful to see the entire process.
Love the cake. Great job and thanks for the directions.
I took your idea and made it pink! Check it out http://joyfulmusings.com/diaper-cake-for-makynzee/