Sweet Baby Treats & Instructions

Have you seen these at Baby Showers? Some creative crafters decided to gift-package baby staples like diapers, onesies, washcloths, socks, and bibs and make them look like sweet treats such as lollipops, cupcakes, sundaes, and even a flower bouquet. How do they come up with this fun stuff?

Do a search on Etsy and you'll find a plethora of sweet gifts:

Gigglebug Baby

Gigglebug Baby

Gigglebug Baby:

Babycakes & Decor

Baby Sweet Treats

Baby Sweet Treats

Baby Sweet Treats

So I searched for an Online Tutorial to make these sweet baby gifts and came up with: PDF instructions for Sale, "How to Applique a Cupcake Onesie", and screenprinted cupcake onesies...pretty much nothing to help.

Perhaps I wasn't searching with the right keywords, but the gifts are adorable and appeared to be fairly easy to make so I bought some onesies Wednesday night and tried my hand at figuring it out myself. It took a couple of tries, but I think I've figured out how to put my own personal spin on them and I'm sure they'll only get easier to make as I practice more. My friends better be making some babies now!!! =)

Supplies for My 1st Cupcakes

• Onesies
• Washcloths
• Pompom
• Wide Ribbon {at least 1.5 in width}
• Cupcake Liners {OR you can always make your own cupcake wrappers HERE}
• Doublestick Tape
• Straight-Pin

1. Fold washcloth in half, then fold again length-wise {so it's long & skinny}
2. Roll the long washcloth tightly & temporarily secure with a straight-pin
3. Lay the onesie out & fold it into thirds length-wise so it's long and skinny {you may have to try at this a while to figure out the best fold for your roll}
4. Remove straight-pin from your washcloth roll & place it on the end of your onesie and beginning rolling your onesie tightly over the washcloth roll
5. Secure the cupcake form with the straight-pin
6. Cut ribbon the length of the cupcake circumference {leave about 1/4" extra}
7. Tape the ribbon at your desired height {see below photos} & secure the ends with the straight-pin so that it holds the ribbon in place along with the cupcake form
8. From the bottom of the cupcake form, push the washcloth center slightly up to make a fully risen cupcake {see photos}; dont be afraid to adjust as the straight-pin will help hold the form together
9. Place a small piece of tape at the top and stick a pompom on as decoration
10. Sit your cupcake in a liner and Ta-Da!

I packaged them individualy in the clear favor bags {I think they were $1.50 for 20 at WalMart}

Here's some I did for a friend at church who is on bedrest expecting twins:

Then I made some gift labels in Word:

And packaged their "sweet baby treats" with some chocolate chip cookies and cupcakes:

Okay, give me some sweet babies...I want to make more treats!