craft ideas for guests

EMTCNursebride

I am hosting a shower for one of my best friends and would love to do some type of craft to take up time and give her cute stuff. I was thinking of having plain white onesies available with fabric scraps for people to iron or glue on in cute pictures or sayings.  Anyone ever made a craft at a baby shower?

ToesnthesandBride07

That is very cute. I have heard a lot of girls doing scrapbook pages with advice and stuff like that. Also, ornament decorating for the holidays. 

superaunt

I've decorated onsies and burp clothes (using some sort of squeezable pen paint?) and frankly, didn't care for doing either. JMO of course.

BBachmann

We decorated onsies at a baby shower I threw.  I forgot to buy bibs.

Harms80

I'd hope you have some crafty people coming to the shower if you're going to do fabric scraps.... that would intimidate most of my guests.  My sister had people decorate bibs at my DS's shower and all the ink washed off after 2 cycles of laundry.  It's a great idea if you don't want to do games but make sure the designs don't fall off and the people coming will be down for something like that....

beachykeen1723

At my SIL's shower, they drew/wrote on quilt squares (using special fabric and crayons), which her grandmother then sewed on to a quilt. It was very sweet!

jifer

For a shower i threw I had the guests make scrap book pages for the first year. For example, first hair cut, 1st bath, holiday pages, grandparents, mom & me, dad & me. Everybody had a great time making their pages. And the mom loved it that she just had to glue the picture on the pages.

hopefulmom

I've done scrapbook pages...which I didn't like very much.  I couldn't think of enough things to say for a whole page.

We did onsies at one shower and used puffy fabric paint.  It took forever to dry and there was not enough space to lay them out without overlapping them and some got on others and so about 75 percent of them were messed up.  It was fun to do though.  If you do fabric markers you won't have that issue and if you use scraps to iron on...that would be cute too.