There are so many great ideas out there for baby shower favors. It just makes sense if you are on a budget to make your own and it can be a lot of fun as well! One my favorites homemade favors out there is the candy pacifiers. These are easy to make and they are adorable. People will be sure to comment on how cute they are and they cost nearly nothing to make! You need to get the big white lifesavers and colored jellybeans. You put 1 life save on top of the other lifesaver in a “T” formation and then you glue them together and let them dry. Then you glue the jellybean on the top of the “T” in the top lifesaver (that is the pacifier part). To dress it up a big get some pink and blue ribbon and put it through the hole of the other lifesaver. This makes for a great favor!

Now of course you do not want to use Elmer’s glue…you need to make some edible glue…icing. This is very easy to make and it great for other edible homemade projects that need that “glue” to stick things together. You are going to need an egg and powdered sugar.

You are going to blend together 2/3 cup of the powdered sugar with an egg white in a bowl. Microwave this for 45 seconds. This will actually help to kill off any bacteria because of the egg so that it will be edible. After you do this add another 2/3 cup of powdered sugar and whip it on high until is has a peak and has that nice thick and pasty texture that you need to stick things together. Add powdered sugar to make it thicker or water to make it thinner until you get it just right.

Remember, if you decide to make baby shower favors you will need to get quality supplies. Many online stores, such a SimplyBabyStuff.com, have ‘do it yourself’ supplies you can order. This makes the process so much easier! You can make 30 of them in a matter of minutes. The longest part is just the waiting of the glue to harden on the lifesavers. And they are quite delicious. Just make sure that you do not get jellybeans that taste bad. You are going to want to spring for the good tasting quality jellybeans for this project. This also makes for a great homemade project with children as well. Just be sure to wash your hands well and were gloves when handling the candy to make it more sanitary.

Sometimes, party favors can get a bit, I don’t know, redundant. Remember when you were a kid and you would go to four or five birthday parties a year and each one would have the same lame party favors? Chances are, the unused favors would usually end up either in the trash or put away in some drawer to not see the light of day until the next spring cleaning.

Now that we are all grown up, party favors have gotten a bit more grown up, but at the same time, just as redundant. Whether they are baby shower favors or wedding favors they all seem to follow the same type of pattern: lotions, mints and bubble bath. I can honestly say, outside of possibly the mints if I find them at the bottom of my purse a few weeks later, that I have never used any of them. I don’t take bubble baths, and the lotions usually end up going away in my lotion drawer.

I’ve come to the realization lately that the only way to make sure that your party favors are used is to make them edible. That’s right, food. Or, more specifically, candy. Everyone likes candy and everyone eats candy, especially your friends who lie to you and say that they never touch the stuff (they are the worst offenders, usually). Candy is your surest bet, and it’s usually cheaper than the bulk packages of lotion or bubble bath that you buy from a big box store.

You have two options: you can buy your candy or make your candy. Or, I guess, you can buy candy, open them and then place them in a custom holder, which I guess would make that three options. If you choose to buy your candy, but it in bulk and give your guests a variety of it. Truffles are usually a good bet as they are classy enough to be a parties treat but also cheap enough to buy in bulk. Chocolate covered hazelnut candies are always popular, as are M&Ms (which you can get customized now), and chocolate covered raisins. If chocolate is not your thing, you can go with hard candies, licorice or hard caramels.

Making candy is probably a lot easier then you might think, especially chocolate. All you need to do for a custom chocolate favor is melt chocolate chips over a double broiler, place them in a mold (which you can get at any baking supply store) and then freeze. You can then wrap them yourself and attach a cute personalized note. I guarantee these will go over better than any lotion or bubble bath ever will.

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