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Sometimes time just gets away from you and all your great baby shower plans fall apart. Favors are always the most creative and often the most time consuming so what if its the night before and you got nothing? Can you do baby showers on the fly? Well they may not be color coordinated or your best work but last minute shower favors are possible.

Hit the store on the way to the shower and pick up something already made. That doesn’t mean spend a ton of money. Go to the dollar store and either buy something that is ready to go or something that you can split up easily. Think about five pack lip balms or hand creams. While you are there grab some candy bags with twisty ties and assemble as you set the table.

Okay so you have a little more time before the shower? If you have ingredients you can make four dozen cookies very quickly. Choose an easy recipe and check the yield. If it says ‘makes 24′ double the recipe and you have four dozen. Place three or four cookies in a bag and tie it with a little ribbon or string or whatever is laying around.

Now here’s a fast favor I did before. Take brown paper lunch bags and cut them down to a manageable favor appropriate size. Get the kid’s stamps and ink pads and do a quick decoration on the outside of the bag. Fill the bag with popcorn, cookies, or penny candy or even flavored tea bags if you have them to hand. Fold down the top and use a hole punch to make two holds in the fold. Thread a piece of curling ribbon through the holes and tie a bow. Curl the ribbon ends with the blunt side of a scissor blade and you are good to go.

There’s always something you can give your guests as a thank you gift at a baby shower. Just think of something in bulk, accessible and easy to put in a plain old bag.

Hey if it is cookies, no-one will care about the bag.

Filed under: baby shower on January 18th, 2012