Diaper Cake

Hey all!

Tomorrow is a teacher friend's diaper party (this is her 3rd baby so she didn't want a full shower). Unfortunately I have to miss it to help a friend move (oh the joys of moving!), but I still wanted to get her something :)

Instead of just buying her a box of diapers, I decided to make her a diaper cake! I didn't do anything too crazy, but I have looked at pictures of a couple different cakes and they take up A LOT of diapers! So I played around with these diapers until I got it to work!

Materials:
Diapers (I needed about 100)
Rubber Bands (these will keep you sane!)
Extras (sample sizes of lotion, shampoo, powder, travel kleenex, antibacterial hand wipes, bottles, etc.)
Ribbon
Hot Glue Gun

I started off with folding the diapers in half, one at a time, until I got to 10 (it was hard to hold more than 10 in your hand and keep them folded). I then wrapped them in a rubber band together. The rubber band starts to give the diapers a rounded look to start your first tier of your cake :) 

For the bottom tier, because it's the biggest, I had about 30 diapers total. I added 5 more to this rubber band of diapers, then did another rubber band of 15. After I got my 30 folded and together, I pulled one of the rubber bands over ALL of them to make it a tight circle. Once you've gotten that done you can add a few little goodies in between. I added two zip up nighty from Walmart (one shown). 

To keep this a tight circle, I decided to put hand wipes in the center of the tier. Normally I do baby bottles all the way up, but since this is baby #3, I figured my friend didn't need a ton of bottles (I just got her one). 

I repeated this same process for the next two tiers. You probably need to make the rubber band a little tighter to make it seem smaller, as well as adding less diapers. I probably put 20 or 25 diapers in the 2nd tier and a couple sample bath supplies. 

After you have all tiers done, you need to find a way to hide your rubber bands. I used thick ribbon and hot glued it around them. In the picture it shows my clips holding the ribbon for them to dry. 

You can top your diaper cake with a stuffed animal, a big bow, or anything you like! :) I normally do a stuffed animal so then it can straddle the top of the bottle and I can put a piece of ribbon around it to hole it on. **Not pictured** I also weaved binkies through the ribbon for them to hang. 

Hope this helps!
Happy Creating!