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If you are trying to make extra pocket money, start your own home-based business by making and selling baby gift baskets. Are you wondering who would want to buy these gift baskets from you? After all, no point getting into any business without knowing who your customers are going to be. Anyone who is attending a baby shower or a baby’s birthday is your potential customer.
As always, the first thing you need to do is to buy the materials required. You can buy these at a dollar store and any shop that sells baby products. To ensure that you get the materials at low prices, buy them in wholesale and ask for a discount. You will require the following materials:
- basket
- baby toys and products (baby blanket, rattle, booties, bibs, teething ring, soft toys, baby soap, baby oil, baby powder, baby shampoo, photo frames, sipper cups, feeding bottle, baby clothes etc.)
- decorative cellophane
- satin ribbon/bow
- filler material (tissue paper, ribbon pieces etc.)
- rubber stamps
- markers
- plain card and envelope
Here are the steps involved in making baby gift baskets.
1. You will need a container to place all the baby products and goodies in. So buy a sufficiently large basket. You can buy the basket at either a yard sale or a dollar store. My suggestion is to go for a basket that is sufficiently large, so that the mommy can put the basket to good use in the baby’s room. She can use it to hold diapers, the babies bathing products, extra clothes and so on. So the basket itself can double as a gift. Cool, huh?
2. To ensure that the basket looks full even with just a few items in it, make use of filler materials. At the base of the basket, place some pretty tissues. Then fill the basket with several inches of decorative fillers like ribbon pieces, shredded color paper etc. So without loading the basket with too many goodies, you can still make a baby gift basket that looks like it’s overflowing.
3. Place the baby toys and products inside the basket. You can fill the basket with things like baby blanket, rattle, booties, bibs, teething ring, soft toys, baby soap, baby oil, baby powder, baby shampoo, sipper cups, feeding bottle, baby clothes and so on. You might also want to include a cute picture frame.
4. After placing the gifts in the basket, you will have to wrap the gift basket in decorative cellophane. Place the gift basket at the center of a sufficiently large piece of decorative cellophane. Pull all the edges of the cellophane towards the top of the basket.
5. Once you have pulled the edges of the cellophane towards the top, secure it with a pretty satin ribbon or ready-made bow.
6. When someone buys the gift basket from you, they might want to include a message for the baby. So you can either attach a gift tag to the basket, or you could include a card and an envelope. The best thing to do is to decorate a plain card using rubber stamps/markers and then, include this card and an envelope with the basket. This way, the gift giver can write a few lines of good wishes for the baby.
You could sell these baby gift baskets online on ebay. If this DIY project appeals to you, you can also learn how to make a candy gift basket and start selling them. You can also talk to local craft and gift shops, and they could help you sell these. Print out posters of your home-based business and stick it up in places where people buy gifts. I suggest looking at the following two articles to get more ideas to market your gift basket business.
Tips to Make a Profit Off Selling Gift Baskets
50 Free Ways to Market Yourself Offline
You will have more than enough customers before you even know it!
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