Baby Shower Themes Ideas – Theme-based Baby Shower Menu
Baby Shower Themes Ideas – Who says your baby shower theme will just surround you and your guests? If you’re really going for a theme-based baby shower, we suggest that you do it all the way. And this means having a theme-based menu!
Finding the right recipe for a particular dish is no longer difficult. There are so many websites like Allrecipes.com and Recipezaar.com, which contains a lot of recipes, and each comes with a review by food fanatics like you. Because of this, finding the perfect recipes, are just a few clicks away.
Which leave you the dilemma of what dish to serve. And with lot of choices out there, we are not surprised that you cannot reach a decision among all those options.
This article will not tell you which specific meal to serve, since whatever we like does not necessarily mean you will like them as well. However, we will help you limit the choices, and at the same time, help you come up with your theme-based menu. Talk about killing two birds with one stone!
A little creativity goes a long way.
Let’s say you want to throw a Pooh baby shower. A Pooh shower is pretty popular, but you might be stumped on what to serve your guests. Here’s a little trick. In coming up with your shower menu for a theme-based shower, you could start with the favorite food of your theme character(s). If the main character is not a viable candidate, you could look to his/her friends. If everybody’s favorite food does not happen to be edible, then you might want to implement a different approach. Does the theme character remind you of a specific color? Taste? Does your character have hobbies that you could tie up to certain dishes? Because that could also help you determine what food to serve. Don’t worry, we will be providing specific examples.
Let’s go back to the Pooh shower that you are planning. Pooh absolutely loves honey, so you could approach this by serving sweet dishes or dishes wherein honey plays a big role. That should already limit your scope, and give you an idea which dishes to prioritize.
But you could go beyond Pooh. How about something related to Rabbit? Nope, we are not recommending you serving rabbit (unless you really want to). Rabbit is popular for his garden, and you could serve salads fresh from his garden, and make all your health-conscious guests happy.
Let’s take another example. What if you are absolutely crazy on throwing a frog baby shower? But, after thinking about it, you are faced with the dilemma of what to serve your guests?!
No worries, since that is still covered by the above formula. Green (frog color) and brown (color of mud) are two colors that we associate with frogs, and we want to start with that. Green means salads are in, especially leafy green vegetables. As long as green is really the major color, you could add other-colored vegetables, and your dish is still very froggy-like.
Pesto appetizers and pastas are also great candidates. And for your dessert, chocolate is absolutely in. But just in case you are not inclined to chocolate, then how about green tea cakes, to conclude your meal?
But you wouldn’t be limited to color-coded meals. Since many frogs live in ponds and lakes, and short of eating frogs (some countries consider frogs a delicacy, so you might want to try them), anything that lives in ponds and lakes that you consider edible, are also great candidates. That should give you a wider assortment of dishes.
And lastly, some say chicken wings, if chopped correctly, look like frog legs, so you might want to go back to your chicken and hack them accordingly.
By this time, you should already have an idea how to go about your shower menu. Once you learn the trick, you could choose even the most untypical theme, and come up with some amazing theme-based menu ideas. As we mentioned before, creativity is the key.
Just in case you have some problem coming up with your own theme-based menu, there are great baby shower resources out there, and they’re just one google away.
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Comments on Baby Shower Themes Ideas – Theme-based Baby Shower Menu
5:32 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..
5:34 am
Hopefully your work can do something for you!
6:33 am
Ok kewl! My hubby isnt so understanding when i tell him i dont want to get out the house for two reason 1) heat and 2) being the pain its SOOOO uncomfortable. But thanks, I figured it was my daughter being stubborn lol
6:41 am
See if you can find or make something with a "sugar and spice" theme. That would be so cute and very traditional.
11:05 am
I can never get comfortable at night its annoying… i have like restless leg syndrome or something right when I’m ready for bed. I’m gonna have my husband (if he’s here) my mom, my dad, and my grandma in the room. My dad is cutting the cord
11:29 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.
4:42 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!
1:33 am
I’ll be 30 almost 31 weeks when I have my shower. Yea the pelvic pain definately feels like that, it is normal according to my dr too. So no worries
5:19 am
The baby stuff you have is so cute! At what week are you having your babyshower? and I wanted to ask you is the pelvic pain kind of like pressure and does it almost feel like your utero is about to fall out when you stand and walk? ive had that for a few days but nurse told me it was normal.
11:58 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.
9:48 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!
10:23 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
11:36 pm
why not a girly pink theme for your baby shower…
http://freshbabyshowers.com/pink-baby-shower/
12:47 am
We are all getting more and more pregnant YAY!
you look great! I told my doc about the pain i usually get it at night when Im laying down. She told me to have better posture lol! 
i do have horrible posture! I have the pain in my lower left side of my pelvis and Im pretty sure its his feet cuz he is always kicking my left side and everything 
I think its only gonna be my mom and my hubby in the room with me when I deliver! 
10:35 am
I think moons and stars is really cute!
11:57 am
YAY baby shower stuff even if you jacked my bottle HAHA OMG i wnat to hear your advice cards i did that too but i ghetto made my own lol obviously hear them after they are filled out lol