A Baby Shower Gift Basket is just the sort of thing you'd like to give to would-be parents.  Baby showers give you a wonderful opportunity to express your warmth and encouragement for the expecting couple. You can make it a little bit easier for them by giving them what they need. You can also use your artistic sense to make the event memorable and successful. A baby shower gift basket lets you do just that, by combining beauty and utility.

Choose a large basket or hamper for this purpose, one that has a lot of hollow space. Fill it with items that would be useful, and at the same time can be arranged nicely and artistically.

An infant-sized bathtub isn't too expensive, but a nice utility item, and looks great too. A caddy or a bathroom bucket is also very useful for carrying the baby's clothes around, and they are even cheaper than the tub. Soaps, lotions, towels and diapers are other items that you can include if you want to stick with the bath theme for the baby shower gift basket.

Another useful theme is health and safety. You can pack the hamper with useful yet not-too-expensive medical items like commonly prescribed drugs for children – fever reducers, tummy ache medicine and so on. A thermometer, infant nail clippers and a first aid kit are nice additions.

Some people prefer not to focus on a theme, and just put in whatever they think will be useful in their baby shower gift basket. That also works, as long as it is done with an eye to arrangement and shapeliness. Diapers are something that the expectant mother will need lots of quite soon – so give her lots of those. Picture books, feeding bottles, bibs, rattles and other toys can be both useful and attractively arranged.

The secret of assembling a successful and attractive baby shower gift basket is to add personalizing touches. So try to include the baby's name (if it is already fixed) or the date of birth (if it is already known) in artistic lettering or calligraphic writing. Do that extra bit to show that you care. Usefulness is good, but usefulness plus love and personal care is even better. Put together a baby shower gift basket.

Randy has dozens more baby shower related articles at How to Plan a Unique Baby Shower www.planning-a-baby-shower.com