Ideas for budget baby shower favors abound if you know where to look. Finding ideas for cute, inexpensive baby shower party favors can be as close as your local Walmart, party, craft or dollar store. Read on to see how you can create some the cutest baby shower favors you ever seen without spending much green.
The Dollar Store is a great spot to find budget baby shower favors ideas. Options at the dollar store vary by section and chain. At the Dollar Tree, there is an actual baby shower section which has invitations, decorations and party favor supplies. Included in the party favor supplies are ribbons and bows, small baby themed boxes and bags, and small plastic pastel blocks, bottles, bears, etc. accents for decorating your favors. Look in the candy section for white or pastel colored candies to fill the containers and you are all set.
Looking for something a little more upscale? Check out the dollar store’s selection of ceramic containers and figurines. You will often find adorable ceramic baskets or baby themed ceramic boxes. Add a little bag of candy or cookies, attach a ribbon and tag and you have a beautiful, professional looking baby shower favor!
Cookies and candy not what you were thinking? Check out the dollar store’s great selection of bath supplies, some of which are packaged in a surprisingly upscale fashion. A container of shower gel, lotion, bath salts, home spray, or reed diffusers in a pastel pink, baby blue or sage green tied with a matching ribbon and finished with a personalized tag would make a great budget baby shower favor.
But don’t stop there. Take a look in the glass and dinnerware section. Fancy bar and juice glasses or elegant stemware can make great baby shower favor containers. Use the clear plastic cellophane party bags (available at party & craft stores, sometimes at $store) or colored tulle to match your theme to wrap your candy or cookie filled glasses. Tie with a ribbon and decorate with tag and/or baby themed ornaments. Be sure to cut a hole in the bottom of your bag or cellophane to wrap stem ware glasses so that you are only wrapping the glass and not the stem, otherwise you will have your contents spilling out into the packaging.
Last but not least, check out the dollar store’s baby goods section. Real baby bottles, cups, and booties make great containers for baby shower favors. Again, just fill and decorate. (Use small plastic bags for contents before stuffing into booties.)
If you are not up for mixing and matching and are looking for a more straightforward approach, then a baby shower favor kit may be the right choice for you. Kits can be found at party stores, craft stores and Walmart. The party stores offer the best selection but their prices are the highest. For example, a kit containing 24 pastel tins, ribbons and tags cost $24.99 at Party City. That is a pre-tax per unit cost of $1.04. By comparison Walmart’s pastel baby bottle kit contains 12 clear bottles with pastel lids, ribbons and tags and costs $9.97. That is a pre-tax per unit cost of .83 cents. The best value on kits however can be found at craft stores IF you make use of the weekly 40% off coupon found in craft stores like Michaels weekly Sunday paper circular.
For example, Michael’s 24 count pastel bottle kit for $19.99 is comparable in price to Walmart’s kit of 12 for $9.97. However, when you apply the 40% coupon your savings is sizable, dropping the cost of the kit to $12.00 and your pre- tax per unit cost to .50 cents! Michaels also has several lower cost kits including a 12 count white plastic baby shoe and 12 count baby bottle kit with white lids for $7.99 each. Apply the coupon and its $4.79 for the kit, and .40 cents per piece. A word of caution however, Michaels only accepts one coupon per person per visit so you will need extra coupons and the help of some friends depending on the amount of kits you need.
All of the above listed kits do not come with the candy filler. All of the above mentioned stores do offer bags of baby themed filler like candy rattles and bottles or you can just fill with another treat of your choice. If you decide to purchase the themed candy, don’t forget your Micheal’s coupons will work for that too.
Speaking of fillers, as of this writing, the stores are filled with pastel colored treats of all sorts for Easter. If your shower coincides with an Easter time frame, then you are in great shape to get a wide selection of reasonably priced pastel goodies. If your shower is planned for after Easter, then you are in even better shape! Take advantage of the post holiday sales when these items are drastically reduced for quick sale. Chocolate, jelly beans, & malted balls all have self lives of 1 year + if kept in a cool, dry place so even if your shower is planned for November, you can still take advantage of these extraordinary buys! Good Luck with the baby shower and have fun making your budget baby shower favors!
