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DIY Mini Succulent Favors for a Baby Shower

DIY Mini Succulent and cactus favors with a colorful paper wrap. -MamiTalks.com

I love to help with decorating and/or any type of creative planning so when my friend Vanessa asked me to help with her Baby Shower favors I accepted immediately!

I’m always looking at so many cute ideas online, especially on Instagram and Pinterest. But lately, I don’t have much time to make them in real life, so let’s get to it!

We started to think about what to do for favors and I thought of the idea of giving plants because they are so pretty and useful, something that people won’t through away. They are so cute that I even did a special photo shoot when I had them all before making them into favors!

Once we had the little succulents and cactus, I started looking for more concrete ideas on Pinterest, there are tons! It was difficult to choose, but we did and decided to make them with colorful paper, the result was very cute!

Mini cactus en tobitos para recuerditos. -MamiTalks.com

Here is how I made the mini succulent favors:

You will need:

Instructions:

We bought the cacti and succulents on this page, they are perfect for favors and they offer them in lots of different sizes. We ordered the little ones 2 ” in the regular plastic pot. You can also order special pots but I found them at a much better price at the dollar store, three little white pails for one dollar!

  • Plant the succulents on the pots (if you bought them separately).
  • Cut the paper using this guide.
  • Wrap the plants with the paper and stick the ends with tape.
  • Use the circle punch to cut the paper and make the labels.
  • Write your message with the marker on each label and attach them to each plant with the mini clothespins.

Steps to wrap the mini succulent party favors -MamiTalks.com
Cut circle labels with a circle punch -MamiTalks.com

Mini succulent Favors and cactus Baby Shower centerpiece -MamiTalks.com

Extra tip: Make Centerpieces too!

I was also helping to decorate the party and was put in charge of the centerpieces, so I decided to unite the two things, place the favors on pedestals and done, peeeerfect!

Since I don’t have many pedestals to place them, a great solution was to get white dishes and candlesticks at the 99cts store, I glued them with a strong glue (I was inspired here) and voalá! I placed the favors and in the middle of each pedestal I placed another white pail with soil and stuck cupcake sticks that were from the Baby Shower decoration theme, they were perfect! The centerpieces are useful, budget friendly and easy to do!

Beautiful Mini Cactus and Succulents in mini buckets -MamiTalks.com
Group of Mini Succulent favors wrapped with colorful papers. -MamiTalks.com

– E S P A Ñ O L –

RECUERDITOS DE SUCULENTAS Y CACTUS – HAZLO TU MISMA

A mi me encanta ayudar con la decoración e ideas creativas de todo tipo y mi amiga Vanessa me pidió que la ayudara con los recuerditos de su baby shower ¡así que acepté rapidito!

Yo me la paso viendo ideas tan bonitas en la internet y en Pinterest pero no tengo tiempo de hacer muchas realidad ultimamente, así que manos a la obra!!

Nos pusimos a pensar que dar y a mi de un principio me gustó la idea de dar maticas porque son tan lindas, útiles y no es algo que la gente luego lo bota. Como verán yo hasta les hice un photoshoot completo antes de conventirlas en recuerditos!!

Empecé viendo muchas ideas en Pinterest, ¡hay cantidades! Estuvo dificil elegir, pero lo hicimos y decidimos hacerlas con papel de colores envueltos, ¡el resultado fué muy lindo!

Mini cactus para recuerditos de fiestas en botecitos blancos. -MamiTalks.com

Aquí les cuento cómo hice los recuerditos de suculentas y cactus:

Necesitarás:

Instrucciones:

Nosotros encontramos los cactus y suculentas en esta página, son perfectas para recuerditos y hay de varios tamaños. Pedimos las más chiquitas de 2″ en los materitos de plástico. También las puedes pedir en materitos especiales pero nos pareció que comprar los materitos por otro lado era mejor y así fué, encontramos los tobitos de metal blanco en la tienda de Dolar, 3 por un dolar!

  1. Planta las maticas en los materos (si las compraste separadas).
  2. Corta los papeles usando esta guía.
  3. Envuelve las maticas con el papel y pega con el teipe.
  4. Corta las etiquetas de círculo con el troquel.
  5. Escribe el mensaje con marcador en cada etiqueta y sujétala a la matica con los ganchitos.

A hand holding a mini succulent favor from a baby shower. -MamiTalks.com
Recuerditos de mini suculentas y cactus para baby shower. -MamiTalks.com
Baby shower centerpiece idea made with succulents -MamiTalks.com

Extra tip: Haz centros de mesa

Les cuento que yo también estaba ayudando aparte a decorar la fiesta y estaba encargada de los centros de mesa, así que decidí unir las dos cosas y poner las maticas en unos pedestales en cada mesa.

Como no tenía tantos pedestales o platones de servir compré platos blancos y candelabros en la tienda 99cts, los pegué con una pega fuerte (Me inspiré aquí) y quedaron como unos platones para servir. Allí puse los recuerditos, en el medio puse un tobito con tierra y un palito de cupcakes de la decoración del baby shower, ¡quedaron perfectos! Son unos centros de mesa económicos, útiles y fáciles de hacer!
Collage of DIY Mini Succulent and Cactus Favors and Centerpiece. -MamiTalks.comDIY mini succulent and cactus favors, step-by-step photos and group photos. -MamiTalks.com

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    Taina de The Blog By Taina
    October 19, 2016 at 9:37 am

    Ay pero que linduras ! Me encantan hasta para una fiesta de cumpleaños. Te quedaron super lindos.

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      Dariela Cruz
      October 20, 2016 at 11:04 pm

      Gracias Taina! Si, som demasiado cuchis, no me canso de verlas!! Pueden servir para cualquier tipo de fiesta!

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    MILDRED INFANTE
    July 24, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    Gracias por darme la idea, genial para una tarde de té!

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    Sheryl Lawrence
    February 9, 2018 at 6:43 pm

    I would like to know where you got the succulents and how much they cost.I saw pots at Dollar Tree similar to yours.

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      Dariela Cruz
      February 20, 2018 at 3:43 pm

      Hi Sheryl! I did get the little pots at the Dollar Tree in the wedding section. The succulents I got them in a website, it’s listed here in the article: https://thesucculentsource.com

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    kara
    May 30, 2018 at 2:11 pm

    Do you know how many of the templets you can cut out of a a 12×12 paper?

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      Dariela Cruz
      May 30, 2018 at 9:36 pm

      My guess is you can probably fit at least 4!

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    beausoleil
    July 7, 2018 at 7:07 am

    Bonjour
    J’adore votre idée , j’ai trouvé les plantes avec des pots de hauteur 7 cm pouvez vous me dire comment je peu modifier votre schéma pour avoir la bonne hauteur?
    Bien cordialement

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      Dariela Cruz
      July 8, 2018 at 5:53 pm

      Hi there! I did Google translate for your comment and it seems you are trying to get my template but for a bigger plant. I would print the template and use a copy machine to enlarge it until you have it to the size you need. Hope that helps!

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    Shayla
    September 30, 2018 at 4:28 pm

    Love your instructions! And thank you for the template! How far in advance did you order the succulents? Thank you!

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      Dariela Cruz
      October 3, 2018 at 2:53 pm

      You’re welcome! It was like 10 days before I think 🙂

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    Heather Swanson
    July 6, 2019 at 1:39 pm

    This is awesome! Such an original and thoughtful gift. Everybody loves succulents.

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    Cindy
    August 16, 2019 at 6:48 pm

    These are great and I’m making them for a party. What size do you’re u cut the paper, though?

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      Dariela Cruz
      August 19, 2019 at 12:16 pm

      You can cut them from a letter size paper or scrapbook papr size. Follow the template I provide and it should be easy!

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    Dan
    September 25, 2019 at 12:59 pm

    Que chido!

    I love succulents, just bought one for my desk, I’ll have to suggest them as an idea to my wife for her next baby shower!

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    Lee-Ann gildenhuys
    October 24, 2019 at 5:19 am

    What size must the paper be to rap the succulent in an small vas?

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      Dariela Cruz
      October 24, 2019 at 4:29 pm

      I am not sure… What is a vas? I would try it out with scrap paper or newspaper first!

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    deepti vardhan
    October 29, 2019 at 10:32 am

    Where did you get this paper from ? I tried Michaels and Joane and not getting these lovely double sided printed paper anywhere

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      Dariela Cruz
      November 3, 2019 at 6:30 am

      I got it at Michael’s! It’s scrapbook paper, they usually come double sided.

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