Diaper Wreath Tutorial! *IMG HEAVY, OF COURSE*

How To Make A Diaper Wreath

Diaper wreaths make great gift/decoration crafts for a baby shower. Not only are they extremely cute, they're also quite a bit cheaper to make than a diaper cake, which can take over 250 diapers!

This tutorial was first written in HTML, and looks much prettier that way. For the HTML version, click here

Necessary Ingredients:

Styrofoam Ring (Can be the rounded{smooth} white kind, or the squarish {rough} green kind)
- IF USING THE ROUGH GREEN TYPE OF RING: you’ll need tulle or something similar to wrap the wreath form to keep it from leaving bits of Styrofoam in the diapers.You will also need 2-3 straight pins to hold the tulle in place
Approximately 16-20 diapers, size 2 (this way the mother can keep the wreath together for a while before using the diapers, lol!) (also, make sure to have extras, just in case!)
Clear small hair elastics (the kind used for little teeny braids, you can find them in packages of a few hundred for a dollar or two)
Curling ribbon in at least 2 colors
Bottle, binkies, teething rings, rattles, toy keys, etc. Make sure all of the gifts are fairly light, or the ribbon won’t hold them on.

Steps:

Wrap the wreath form completely with the tulle. Hold it in place using a few straight pins stuck straight into the foam.
Start by unfolding the diapers, so they make a long rectangle. You don’t need to fold out the wing parts, just unfold the main crease along the bottom.

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Wrap the diaper around the wreath form, so that the crease is towards the middle of the ring and the top of the diaper sticks out away from the middle. Bunch the top of the diaper together somewhat, and hold it in place around the wreath using a clear rubber hair elastic. Don’t try to wrap it around multiple times, like you would for hair. Just once will do.

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There are two ways to do the rest of the diapers:

A: Overlap each following diaper onto the previous diaper, to create a smooth, slightly swirled look for the end result. When you get to the final diaper, you will have to undo the elastic from the top of the first one, so that you can slide the last diaper underneath the edge.

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B: Squish each diaper up against the side of the previous one, making a bunched appearance. While this looks a bit less finished, it does have the bonus of not having to do anything special for the final diaper.

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When it is finished, it should look something like this:

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Once you have finished putting all of the diapers onto the wreath, start cutting pieces of curling ribbon about 12 to 18 inches long. Take one of each color that you are using, and hold them together as though they are one piece of ribbon, then tie them around the top of a diaper, covering the hair elastics. Do the same for each diaper, then start curling the ribbons one by one, using the standard scissor curling method. If you don’t know how to do that, search google for “how to curl ribbon.”

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Finally, take each of your gifts, and cut a few 20 inch long pieces of ribbon for them. Tie the ribbon around a diaper, leaving two long equal-length tails, and then tie those tails through or around your gift. For a bottle, you’ll want to tie right below the ring that holds the nipple on. For a pacifier or toy keys, you’ll want to tie through the ring. Also, leave a bit of slack between the diaper and any smaller gifts, so that they don’t disappear inside all the curls.

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Curl the gift ribbons, and you’re ready to go!

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