Baby Shower Decorations Favors – Polish Up Your Interior Decorating By Using A Baby Shower Theme
Baby Shower Decorations Favors – Baby showers should be fun and the decorating should match that. Using a child’s theme or a theme to suit the sex of the baby is usually the best way to go about it.
A baby shower can be fun and it can also be a chance for the mum to be and her family and friends to get together before the baby is born. However, there really is so much to do in order to prepare. You need the invitations, presents, a venue and you even have to come up with a list of games and activities which you can do too. What’s more, if you are hosting the shower at one of your houses, you will also have to worry about decorating ideas too! So just exactly how do you decorate for a baby shower?
Decorating For a Baby Shower
Obviously the way that you decorate will be dependant completely upon your budget. If you have a lavish budget you will be able to think about champagne, perhaps a chocolate fondue, bright colored candles surrounding the room and different mood lighting for the occasion.
However, if you are on a budget you may find it a little harder but there really is no need to! Balloons do not cost a lot of money and hand made gifts and decorations are often a lot more personal to the occasion and they can also look better than fancy, expensive decorations can.
The decorating itself will depend entirely on your own personal circumstances. Each baby shower tends to be completely different and therefore it should be unique to you and the mum to be. As a host you will be responsible for creating most things and it is important that you take on board the tastes of the mum to be. You could choose to decorate the room in a blue or pink theme dependant upon the baby’s sex. Or, you could host a little children’s party as a theme and that way the decorations would consist of balloons, paper hats and paper cups and well as plenty of animal and wildlife themes.
It all depends upon your imagination. It is always easier to host a baby shower at home as otherwise the decorations you can provide will be limited. For example, if you are having the party at a restaurant, you are not likely to have balloons everywhere or ribbons etc. So, bear in mind the location of your baby shower as to what you can actually do.
Overall decorating a baby shower should be a fun experience and it does take time and effort to create the perfect one. However, it can be done and you should find that you and your guests will marvel at the finished result!
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Comments on Baby Shower Decorations Favors – Polish Up Your Interior Decorating By Using A Baby Shower Theme
5:12 am
See if you can find or make something with a "sugar and spice" theme. That would be so cute and very traditional.
5:39 am
lovely julie… pronounce it (or-kid)…;) ur great…
5:52 am
LOL.
No, I havent ever had a baby shower for myself…
I made a shower for my sis-in-law~
I’m pretty sure I mentioned that its for her…
=)
If not, I’m sorry for the confusion~
XOXOX
JULIE
6:05 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..
10:08 am
Wow, you put together some very nice stuff!
3:18 pm
Thx~
XOXOX
JULIE
12:51 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.
3:41 am
Party City sells lots of cute stuff for baby showers and you can also find great deals at ebay. I got the tummy tape and scratch cards at Paty City. Another “game” we played was: We counted the guys that were there and blowed up extra balloons and sat that # of chairs in a row and told the guys to sit in em and gave them a balloon to put under thier shirts and made em try to tie thier shoe strings and humiliated them kinda. LOL.
5:29 am
heyy
so i’m kinda confused. did u have a baby shower before you got pregnant? i watched all ur videos
2:10 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!
5:43 pm
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.
7:16 pm
It was awesome. Very fun, but noone had a video camera, I couldve used my laptop, but didnt think of it, since I was the host and had to keep the party alive…Thanks for asking about it tho~
XOXOX
JULIE
7:22 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!
5:22 pm
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
6:24 pm
why not a girly pink theme for your baby shower…
http://freshbabyshowers.com/pink-baby-shower/
2:59 am
hey there..i just wanna ask how’s that baby shower??
i see that u never made a video about that shower?
5:16 am
Hey where did you get that tummy tape from? and the scratch cards? I’m making programs for the shower and I want to have the scratch cards in them for all the guest. Please let me know.. What other games did you play at the shower? thanks
10:45 am
I think moons and stars is really cute!