Baby Tree

You’ll need:

• 1 small tree branch – leafless
• 1 flower pot
• 1 piece of foam to fit in pot
• 1 can white spray paint (or other color if so desired)
• Small baby toys to decorate

This is extremely simple to make. Find a sturdy small tree branch with lots of smaller branches protruding from it. Spray paint the branch white, or whichever color you have picked. Place chunk of Styrofoam inside the flower pot. Once the paint has dried, place the branch flower pot by sticking it in the foam. Tie or hang various baby items such as rattles, pacifiers, teethers and etc to the smaller tree branches and voila! baby flowers,baby gift baskets,new baby gift

Mint Pacifiers

You’ll need:

• 1 package of lifesavers (or similar brand) breath mints
• 1 small jelly bean for each pacifier to be made
• white cake frosting (for edible favors) or craft glue (for better hold)

Place a bit of frosting or glue on one mint, and stick it together with another mint. Using the cake frosting or glue, stick a jelly bean into the hole of the two mints. To make the handle of the pacifier, turn one mint facing outwards and secure to the pacifier.

You will need:

• 1 diaper pin
• 1 piece of good-n-plenty (white), broken in half
• 1 individually wrapped lifesaver (white)
• curly ribbon
• broken off piece of a plastic fork

Open the diaper pin and almost straighten. The sharp end is bent down to make the leg and the other side will be the head. Take a half of piece of good-n-plenty and insert it into the hole of the lifesaver. Poke the pin into the center. Tie a piece of curly ribbon through the loop to make the tail and curl. Now, insert the piece of plastic fork into the pin head to form the beak.

You will need:

• 1 roll of lifesavers
• 1 white lifesaver
• 1 white good-n-plenty
• vanilla frosting
• plain white paper, cut to fit around the roll of lifesavers
• curly ribbon
• glue stick

Glue with glue stick the plain white paper around the roll of lifesavers. Take the white lifesaver and glue it (using vanilla frosting) to one end of the lifesaver roll. Place some vanilla frosting inside the hole of the white lifesaver and insert the white good-n-plenty. Let the frosting harden, then tie a piece of curly ribbon around the bottle were the roll and the white lifesaver meet. Curl the ribbon.

*You can decorate the white paper before gluing it to the roll of lifesavers.

*You can also use a paste of powdered sugar and water for the gluing

You will need:

• Waffleweave kind only receiving blanket 30"x40"
• Baby bonnet, or small baseball cap
• Bib
• Pacifier
• Rattle, or small toy
• Tissue paper, three sheets. Or, burp cloths or baby washcloths
• 1 rubber band
• Gloves or socks
• booties or shoes
• Embroidery floss: pink and blue

Body: Roll the two 30" edges, evenly and tightly, toward the center. Then roll in thin receiving blankets or burp cloths to give it more support or you can use tissue paper.

Head: To stuff the head, wad three pieces of tissue paper into a firm ball. Measure 18" (you can adjust) down from top of blanket and place tissue paper ball (or wash cloth or burp cloths) on top of blanket rolls. Starting at the left side end, fold upper rolls over tissue, this is forming head, arranging blanket to cover tissue. Wrap rubber band tightly below the head. Tie in a ribbon around the neck to cover the rubber band.

Arms - Unroll short ends of blanket up a little. (This forms the arms) (hands) attach gloves or socks. Attach a bib, toy and pacifier around neck.

Embroider the face using a large easy-to-remove running stitch, work the eyes in blue in an upside down half moon. Work mouth pink, right side up. Place bonnet or baseball cap on doll's head. Roll up legs same way as arms, place small booties or baby shoes for feet.

Variation 1

• 1 regular receiving blanket
• tissue paper
• ribbon
• newborn hat or cap
• pacifier (pink or blue)

Lay the receiving blanket out the wide way on a work surface. Begin rolling the blanket in from both sides until they meet in the middle. Fold the top of the rolled blanket down about two-thirds of the way. Inside the part that you have folded, where the fold is, place a ball of tissue paper (baby's head). Pull the blanket gently around to cover the tissue paper and tie around the neck with a ribbon.

Turn the baby over (front to back). The arms are made from the rolled blanket which is now in back. Sit the baby up and bring the arms around to the baby's lap in front, securing the baby's lap with a stitch of thread. The legs should already be there, as they are the lower part of the rolled blanket. If you want, you can prop the baby up with a piece of stiff cardboard in back to make a stand. If you have done it right, you should have the baby.

Now add the accessories. Place a newborn hat or cap on the baby's head. Cut off the mouthpiece of a pacifier and glue in place for the mouth (this is the only thing that is not usable afterwards). Place a small stuffed animal, rattle or other baby toy in the baby's hands, securing with a little thread to the blanket. Make sure to advise the mother that if she is going to use the items, to wash the blanket and remove any lose threads prior to use.

Variation 2

• 1 (30" x 40") cotton waffle-weave receiving blanket
• Baby bonnet, newborn size 11
• pacifier, rattle, or small toy
• stuffing
• large light colored rubber band
• 2 medium-size safety pins
• pink and blue embroidery floss
• needle
• ribbon

Mark center of long edges of blanket with straight pins. Roll the two short edges, evenly and tightly, toward center. Remove pins.

Use enough stuffing to make head of desired size. Measure 17" down from top of blanket, and place stuffing on top of rolls. Fold upper rolls over head, arranging blanket to cover stuffing. Wrap rubber band tightly below head; tie with ribbon (optional).

Unroll short rolls part way. Roll center back up to neck; blanket still rolled will form arms. May need to pin center to back of neck. Bend arms toward front. Pin with safety pin holding pacifier or toy. Embroider face using large easy-to-remove stitches, using blue for the eyes and pink for the nose and mouth.

Place bonnet on head.

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