Baby Shower Decorations Ideas – 5 Terrific Baby Shower Themes: Have A Great Party
Baby Shower Decorations Ideas – The answer to the above question is a resounding no, especially since themes work to build a common motif to planning the decorations, food, games, favors and dress-code to a party especially a baby shower where even gifts can be bought with the theme in mind.
Planning is a big part of ensuring a unique baby shower and there is no end to the creative spirit one can bring in to making it a simple or a sophisticated event to be enjoyed by all present, in honor of the mother-to-be (or even father) and the new baby to come.
1. Base the party on a color theme – i.e. blue for boys and pink for the girl, if you know the gender of the baby. From arranging cut-outs of favorite cutesy-pie animals, cartoons or storybook characters to simply decorating with ribbons, ornaments and tinsel in these colors, one can entwine the color theme into the party crockery, favors and games centered on the colors. If you do not know the gender of the new baby, you can opt for neutral soft colors like yellow and green.
2. Teddy bears are adorable through the year so why not pick them to have a sure-fire hit at your baby shower by keeping the party themed around huggable soft toys? From using them as the centerpiece to having the one belonging to the guest of honor taking place of pride at the dining table or games-stand, there’s a lot Teddy and his buddies can do to perk up the party mood! Just ensure the teddy bears you use are old but clean and thus, presentable for using on the occasion of a baby shower.
3. Saying it with Diapers – yes, you can do that and more with the baby shower party, right from shaping out diaper-cut invitation cards to asking guests to bring along diaper gifts in a certain size so the expectant parents are assured of at least a few months supply in diapers, in assorted sizes as the baby grows. Apart from being a practical gift, the invites will look so cute, too!
4. Join the kiddy brigade yourself and go back to school with popular nursery rhyme themes for the baby shower party; have guests dress up as their favorite character from a Mother Goose rhyme and decorative with colored cut-outs of favorite poems. Get innovative with ordering or making replicas of these or add in lines from popular kiddy poems into the invites and games.
5. Twins are double the fun and you can truly make it more so by organizing a unique baby shower for the expectant parents by detailing this important fact into the party invite so guests can bring a set of similar gifts or even different ones for both the new arrivals. From Noah’s ark where guests may dress in pairs and come to old, beloved fairytale themes like Cinderella, Peter Pan and Snow-White (choose gender appropriate themes, if you know the sex of the coming baby) or else stick with a story-idea that suits both genders, there’s a lot of great baby shower themes you can plan your party around.
Co-ordinate the baby shower theme décor with invitations, dress code requirements, menu ideas and games organized – and yes, even the party favors can reflect the theme to be consistent with the desired ambience so everything is perfect!
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Comments on Baby Shower Decorations Ideas – 5 Terrific Baby Shower Themes: Have A Great Party
5:26 am
Wow what is up with all the thumbs down..Well I found a website that has some really cute themes.It is http://www.babyshowerstuff.com .Most of their themes are really cute & reasonable prices too..Also if you have a party city store in your area,they have a few cute things too.My sister had her 1st baby last year & she did a spongebob theme shower.She likes spongebob & was doing the nursery in that too so..It was really cute..Have fun planning..
6:02 am
Is it right to have a baby shower for one who just had a baby 13 months before? Bye the way, she had 2 baby showers for her first.
6:25 am
See if you can find or make something with a "sugar and spice" theme. That would be so cute and very traditional.
6:38 am
as long as someone is throwing it and she’s not asking for these showers, then it may be ok. But if u and others feel like she has enough baby stuff already then u may want to throw a shower focusing just on the celebration of the next baby, not so much baby gifts. just a thought…
6:07 pm
First off….I have a page on my website that has some unique/sentimental activities for the shower. These are activities that HAVE NOT been done a gazillion times before.
Now….on to the THEMES!!
Bathtime Showers and Sleepytime Hours
(Moons and stars and rubber ducks would predominate. This themed shower would feature a registry with these items::::bath products, hooded towels, pajamas, nightlights, storybooks, relaxing cds, blankets, crib sheets….etc.)
Activities: Onesie decorating. One-handed crib sheet changing contest (timed)—-if a crib is readily available!!
Children's Storybook Shower: Classic Children's storybooks like "good night moon", "runaway bunny", "where the wild things are", "i love you this much", "dr. seuss", "but not the hippopotamus", "winnie the pooh", etc. You could ask each guest to bring a copy of THEIR favorite storybook to the shower to start off baby's library. The decorations could be prints from the books, themselves….if you look around you could probably find invites that have these types of themes to them!!
Family Tree: If it is a predominately family-oriented shower….focus on the family tree of the new baby!! Have a family tree made for the new baby and this could be a focal point of the decorations. What a great piece to hang in the nursery, too!! Decorations could be this family tree, and napkins/plates with words like "family", "love", "cherish", etc.
Poker-themed baby shower (a totally different idea that might work really well for the daddy-to-be and his cronies….could occur the same day as mommy's shower!!). Buy in for this poker tourney would be a package of diapers. Winner gets a really great gift certificate to some manly place like Home Depot or Best Buy!!! Decorations could be playing cards with daddy being the "King", mommy being the "Queen" and the new baby being the "Jack"????
I make custom diaper cakes designed to match your shower theme….I do really great work and would love to create a cake for the shower and whatever theme you do decide on!!
I am putting some links below that might help you out!
5:12 am
Set the table with a very bold tablecloth, put out a bunch of different tea pots, post signs to different areas of the house that say "this way" and "that way". Put out an old fashioned clock (the kind w/hands, not digital) set to tea time(make sure it doesn't keep time, you want it to stay at tea time).
For games, think pin the tail on the donkey, but do pin the grin on the Cheshire cat. Play croquet. Make everyone wear name tags with their names spelled backwards…then make everyone call each other by their backwards names or they lose the game.
Ask each guest to come dressed as a charachter in the book.
For the fishing theme, decorate with bobbers, cane poles, set out goldfish crackers, swedish fish(candy), gummy worms,etc.
Make fish cutouts, stick a magnet on the back of each, use a small pole w/ a magnet on the end of the string and "fish".
Very clever themes. They sound like a lot of fun.
6:39 am
I think moons and stars is really cute!
1:21 am
How about a simple fall-ish theme? Little pumpkins, leaves, browns/golds/red colors..
Or to get some ideas, find out the day that your baby shower will be EXACTLY — google the date in history and you're bound to find tons of great things that happened on that day (or your due date) and chose a theme based on a past event?
I love history!.. maybe its just me, but its always been so cute to observe new life being born and relate it to the past in some way. Kinda like blending opposites, yin/yang, etc..
CONGRATS!! <333
4:14 am
My mum and I always crochet things like booties and blankets for our pregent friends. Its easy, cheap, and always adorible.
5:07 am
For the theme take into consideration the theme for the nursery and anything that Mommy and/or Daddy-to-be really like ie: favorite childhood characters, favorite animal or favorite sport. There are many more general themes as well if you are having a hard time selecting a character or style you could do a day in the life of baby theme or welcome baby.
When choosing games it is a good idea to consider all of the people that will be attending the shower. If it is mostly friends your daughters age they may be up for more modern games with a lot of guest involvement. If the shower will have many relatives from older generations then you may want to go with more traditional baby shower games.
When selecting prizes remember that they do not have to cost a lot. Candles, small cookbooks, chocolate, gift cards, and coffee or tea sets. Remeber to also consider the ages and interests of all of your guests when selecting the prizes.
With food it is best to have foods that are easy to eat while standing with a plate or holding it on your lap, unless of course you have enough room for everyone to be seated at a table. Most people opt for small sandwiches and appetizer type foods. Also be sure that none of your guests have any food allergies or dietary restrictions that you should know about.
11:55 am
why not a girly pink theme for your baby shower…
http://freshbabyshowers.com/pink-baby-shower/
2:16 am
that’s a great idea!
2:58 pm
How about an "Ode to Baby". Everyone writes a poem or lymerick to read to the mom to be and the best one (either by vote or new mom) gets a prize. This could go well with a book shower where all gifts include a book and have a book theme.
You could do a scrapbook shower if the mom is into that. Each person brings (or you could make at the shower – supply the materials so that everything has the same theme and goes in a matching album) a scrapbook page ready for pictures to be added and you supply a scrapbook to put them in.
You could do a laundry/white shower. The decorations would be clothes lines and everyone bring detergent, hamper, hangers and whites (sheets, bedding, towels, etc.).
Go to ivillage.com for more ideas.
Good luck!