Baby showers can be so much fun, and are a time to celebrate parents and the arrival of a new baby! They can be a huge help to new parents to gift to them all of the items they may want for their new addition. But the most helpful of all and one MUST-HAVE for a new baby is diapers.
A diaper raffle is a great way to collect packs of diapers at the baby shower, whether that be disposable diapers or cloth diapers. It’s also a fun activity that your guests will be excited about. If you’ve been wondering how to do a diaper raffle, this post will tell you everything there is to know! I’ve also included some really cute inspiration photos with links.
Read on if you’d love to learn more about how to do a diaper raffle!
How Does a Diaper Raffle Work
Guests invited to the baby shower will bring a pack of diapers and enter into a raffle with a ticket. At some point in the baby shower, a ticket will be drawn and you would present your guest with a prize. It’s a great incentive for guests to choose to include a pack of diapers with their gifts. And it allows the new parents to build up a diaper stash before the baby comes.
The best way to do a diaper raffle is to notify your guests ahead of time about the raffle. A great way to do this is by including diaper raffle cards with the baby shower invitations. It is a small card that is in addition to your baby shower invitation. There are so many cute ways to do this now, I’ve included some inspiration photos and links below!
Have a designated spot at the baby shower for the diaper raffle game. A great way to display is with a diaper raffle sign and a little box or jar for people to put their raffle cards in. This is the spot where you can also have extra tickets and a pen for anyone who forgot theirs! Hopefully by the end of the baby shower, you will have lots of diapers piled up!
Diaper raffles are also perfect ideas for a baby sprinkle. A baby sprinkle is a smaller shower for expectant parents who may already have other children. In this case, most parents already have the main baby items they need from having other children. So building a diaper fund is a great way to help the parents out!
Tips for Diaper Raffle
If the expectant parents have a brand preference, you can include that on the diaper raffle ticket. Otherwise, they can expect different diaper brands depending on what their guests bring.
It would be best for the new parents if they had a variety of sizes. Sometimes multiple guests will end up bringing all of the same size diapers, which leaves the parents with a lot of exchanging to do. The more guests you have, the higher chances are of this happening. One way you can prevent this is by making groups of guests and requesting that each group bring a certain size diaper if they choose to bring any.
This takes the guesswork out for your guests and ensures the expectant parents will be getting exactly what they need!
Keep extra tickets at the baby shower for anyone who may have forgotten theirs in their baby shower invites. Trust me, this happens all the time!
Hold on to any gift receipts you may receive! Just in case you do need to make some returns, it will make the process go much smoother!
Include the random drawing for the diaper raffle prize with the baby shower games. It’s a fun way to incorporate the diaper raffle into the baby shower and keep the celebration flowing smoothly.
All About the Grand Prize
Depending on how many guests are attending the baby shower, you may choose to have a random drawing for only one great prize, or multiple prizes. If only 5 guests bring a pack of diapers, one good prize would be plenty! If closer to 10 enter, choose to gift two prizes. And if 15 or greater enter, three prizes would be perfect.
Diapers can be an expensive addition to a gift your guest may already be bringing. Make the prize something your lucky guest will genuinely like and represents a nice thank you from you!
Ideas for Prizes
- Gift cards
- A bottle of wine
- Bath bombs
- Movie tickets
- Mani/pedi gift set
- Face masks gift set
- Margarita kit
- Coffee gift basket
- Potted plant
- Cookbook
- Lottery tickets
Depending on your budget, you can choose the price you would like your prizes to be. But a general recommendation would be at least $15, since that’s around or a bit above the price your guests may have paid for the diapers.
Diaper Raffle Inspiration
These boho diaper raffle tickets from AWildBloomPrintables on Etsy are the cutest! For other gorgeous boho inspiration, check out their Instagram linked here!
This simplistic design by WishfulPaperie on Etsy is beautiful! It also includes a matching “books for baby” card, which is another adorable baby shower idea. Guests (if they choose) would also bring a book the expectant parents can read to their baby. They can include a special note on the inside cover for the parents to cherish.
This diaper raffle game kit by LovinglyMine on Etsy is the perfect inspo example of what your table could look like at your baby shower! That little box is so cute!
This under the sea themed card by PartyPrintery on Etsy is so precious! It immediately caught my eye and would be an adorable baby shower theme.
Beautiful design including a matching diaper raffle sign from PlusOneStyle on Etsy! Could be easily matched with any style baby shower invitation.
These little honey bees are so adorable! You can find this precious card from JuniperPlumPaperie on Etsy. I also love the “mommy/daddy to bee” theme for new parents!
The point of a diaper raffle is for expectant parents to be gifted a lot of diapers. If you were inspired by this post and follow the recommendations, I’m sure you will be gifted a large amount of diapers and have a nice stash before your baby comes! Most importantly, the parents should feel celebrated on their special day!
I hope this post helped you learn how to do a diaper raffle and you got some inspiration for your baby shower!