UNIQUE BABY SHOWER
GIFT WRAP IDEAS

Going to a baby shower and need some baby shower gift wrap ideas for a spectacular gift? Spice up your present with an awesome and artful packaging, a nice baby greeting card and loving wishes! Your gift will be one of the eye-catchers at the baby shower party! Follow my easy tips to come up with not just a great gift inside but also with a beautiful and remarkable outside!

So finally you found the perfect gift and want to wrap it perfectly, too. Nowadays, many stores offer a gift wrapping service. But do you really want your beautiful gift to be presented in a department store gift wrapping paper, possibly with the store's logo sticker on top? No, we do not really want this! It is much nicer to be creative yourself and it really is easy, too. Here are some tips and baby shower gift wrap ideas for a beautiful and unique packaging.

THE BASICS:

• It's always nice to wrap the gift in a suitable color, that would be a pale pink for a girl and light blue for a boy. For unisex gifts green and yellow are popular colors. Your local greeting cards store (for example Hallmark) will surely have baby shower gift wrap with a special baby design.
  
  
  DECORATE YOUR GIFT. Embellish your packaging with accessories:
  

• Napkin roses / napkin flowers are very easy to make and are real eye-catchers! Choose a matching color of your napkin rose so it complements your gift wrap. Alternatively use white wrapping paper and a pink or blue napkin rose. See here how to make beautiful napkin roses.
  
• Use stickers to spice up your gift. Take unicolor paper and add some 3D baby stickers (get them at amazon or at the scrapbooking department of your local crafts store).
  

• Alternatively decorate the paper with a pen. Use some unicolor paper (it musn't necessarily be special wrapping paper) and take a golden or silver pen to write on in a fancy style. What you write, is up to you. Could be just 'It's a boy, Congratulations' or a baby poem.
  
• Buy a big ready made bow and add it to your gift.

• Use real (or plastic) flowers and leaves to decorate your gift.

• Add a foil balloon with baby design or fix an inflated balloon on top. Use a waterproof pen to decorate the balloon ('Hello baby', 'It's a boy', 'It's a girl', etc.).

• Use ribbons, if you like in several matching colors, lavishly.
  

  
  
  'CHEAT AND DECEIVE'. Gifts are wrapped so that they are a surprise for the recipient. For this reason it sometimes is wise to 'conceal' the gift so the recipient cannot guess the contents right away (just think of a wrapped CD - you will most probably be able to guess that a CD is inside due to its unique shape). So here are some exceptional baby shower gift wrap methods:

• Why not change the form and size of the gift with the packaging? Thus, nobody will guess it's a plush toy if you put it in a box before you wrap it! However, consider that, the more complicated the shape of the package, the harder it is, to wrap it up.
  

• If necessary and possible, change the weight of the gift or package, e.g. put stones in the box. Of course you should not do this, if your gift is heavy and bulky already (for example a high chair). In case the gift is heavy, you could take a photo of the contents and then just wrap the photo.
  

• Try to avoid noises that might give it away. For example, if you pack a rattle, it will be easy to find out there's a rattle in your package. Thus, secure loose objects or try to dampen the noise with the help of some filling material
  
  
  USE A GIFT BOX OR BABY GIFT BAG:
  

• If your gift is clunky and unshaped (for example a plush toy) put it in a gift box, a tin box, a decorated shoe box or let it poke out a baby gift bag. If you try to wrap it up with baby shower gift wrap just as it is, your gift will look clunky and unshaped, too.
  

• You might like to decorate the (unicolor) gift box or gift bag with stickers or a pen. A shoe box can be laminated with wrapping paper.
  
  
  TRY GIFT FOIL WRAP:
  

• If you have a spectacular gift such as a gift basket or a diaper cake it would be a shame to use the 'usual' baby shower gift wrap. Display it 'as it is' by either using clear gift foil wrap and colorful ribbons or by not using any packaging at all.
  
  
  SHOWCASE YOUR GIFT ON A DIAPER CAKE:

• Place your teddy bear, cuddly toy or baby doll on top of an easy to make one tier diaper cake.
  
  USE A 'NO WASTE' WRAP:
  

• Take a baby blanket or also a tea towel to wrap your gift! For an organic gift use an organic baby blanket.

Along with a nice gift in a great baby shower gift wrap goes a greeting card with a personal message and some cordial words. Baby congratulations cards are available in many different forms and designs. If in doubt, the classics 'It's a boy' or 'It's a girl' or unisex 'Congrats on your New Baby' never go out of style. If you feel up to it you can even make a card on your own - especially if you give a homemade baby gift, a handmade baby congratulations card will nicely complement your gift. Instructions for handmade baby greeting cards are available on the net but you can even do that without any special instructions. Have a look at what they offer at your local crafts store (scapbooking section). Take a plain card, buy some stickers with a baby theme - depending on the baby's gender in blue or pink and add some nice wording. Here you go, a very personal and cute card without much ado!

And if you are not sure what to write on your congratulations card get some helpful suggestions here: ideas for new baby wishes and messages.
or also here new baby poems.
You'll find many examples on affectionate wording to use for your unique card!

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