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| Baby Shower |
 It is always a great joy to expand your family, especially if it is a cute little baby. And how else would you celebrate the joy of having one? Plan the most fun and unique baby shower you’ll ever have. Preparing for a baby shower should be fun and exciting. You can be as creative as you want. Go simple or go real extravagant. As long as you will make your party special and memorable, you can go ahead and experiment on the different themes you can have.You can go traditional or get a little creative and make your baby shower a lot more unique. You can spice up the party with different themes that can either be serious, adorable or humorous. There are many, many ideas for creating a unique baby shower. If ypur planning the baby shower for a friend or collegue and the event is not a surprise, consulting with the mother-to-be is always a good idea. In many cases, a theme is chosen in advance for the baby’s nursery, so choosing a coordinating theme for the shower may be appropriate. The important thing is to have fun and celebrate! Below are some popular themes ideas that would surely be a hit in any baby shower. Color themes The usual color themes for girls are pink and blue for the boys. These are simple themes that can be just as fun as other themes. Decorate your venue with your chosen color theme. In putting up colored ribbons, intertwine them with a white ribbon too. This would give the room an elegant look. If you are unsure whether your baby would be a boy or a girl, settle for neutral colors like green or yellow. Baby bottles theme You can have a baby bottle as your centerpiece in this particular theme. Use them as cute containers for game prizes. You can make fun of them too by using baby bottles as cups or mugs. Teddy bear theme Everyone loves these cuddly teddies. They are perfect for decorations. You don’t have to buy teddy bears though to fill up the room. Old but presentable ones will do. It would be memorable to have the guest of honor’s favorite teddy as a centerpiece. You can purchase small teddy bears as party favors to give to your guests. Diaper theme Begin with sending cute diaper cut- out invitation. Guests should bring their own diaper gifts with a particular size. This way, you can save on diapers even up to three months! Nursery rhyme theme It’s a good idea to make nursery rhymes as theme for your party. You can make use of famous character like Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo Peep, or the famous Mother Goose. Pictures could be nice as decorations but it would really look nice if you have some kind of a replica. You can also add on some of the line to your invitations. Noah's Ark Remember the famous Noah’s ark story? All animals are paired in two’s when housing the ark. It’s the perfect theme for expectant mothers of twins. Don’t forget to note in your invitation that you will be having twins, this way; guests will have to bring two gifts of either thAle same kind or two different ones. Pairs of stuffed animals may be used to decorate the place. Sun & Moon Also a great theme for twins. For a Yin & Yang type theme, opt for Sun and Moon. These two are often paired together, and finding decorations in this theme shouldn’t be a problem. Use blue and yellow as decorating colors Rubber Ducky Center your decorations around the rubber ducky. For a centerpiece, float a ducky in a glass bowl filled with water colored with blue food coloring. Have guests bring bath-themed gifts. Float duckies in the punch boll, and prizes of bath lotions, oils, etc. can be given to guests. Bright yellows with blue and orange accents can be used for decorations to keep with the rubber ducky theme. Fairytale Themes There are thousand of fairytale characters that have been a tradition throughout baby shower parties. Cinderella and Snow White are the most common ones for girl. Peter Pan is the most suitable character for boys. This kind of theme can be made interesting with colorful decorations and creates a fantasy- like atmosphere. Stars Stars symbolize dreams. "A star is born," they say. You can decorate the place with stars hanging from thin strings. You can also design the walls and the ceiling with stars and heavenly bodies. The program may also include wishes for the baby on how he or she will be a bright star. Diapers This is the basic need of the newborn baby. The baby shower organizer can decorate the area with diapers, especially those with cute colors and designs. You can even prepare a diaper cake by neatly stacking the diapers together. The organizer can also ask the guests to bring diapers as gifts. A better idea would be to have a raffle for a special prize in which the raffle entry will be a diaper. This will help the guests since they wouldn't have to think on what gift to buy. It also helps the parents a lot, since they will have a supply of diapers for several months. Books Baby and kid books are good gifts for the baby. With a collection of baby books, the parents can have a small library for the baby. The decorations can be anything related to books. You can place books on the table, or design the walls with books. You can even have a book-shaped cake and cookies. Hollywood Decorate with Oscars, stars like the Hollywood Walk of Fame, movie posters, celebrity magazines and a red carpet. If you really want to go all out for this, you can ask guests to come dressed for the Academy Awards. When the guests start arriving on the red carpet, have someone there (as "paparazzi") to take their picture. Your guests can take home a copy of their "paparazzi photo" as a party favor. For a great souvenir for the mom-to-be, get hold of a video camera and interview your guests as they arrive. Ask them if they think the baby will be a boy or a girl and have them say a special message for mom and baby. Afterwards, you can present mom with the videotape. Be sure to serve some celebrity sounding hors d’oeuvres, like canapés and shrimp cocktails. For the cake, you might want to make one in the shape of a star or decorate a square cake to look like a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And don’t forget the (non-alcoholic) champagne! Glamour and glitter all the way! Prince/Princess Everyone wants the new baby to feel like a prince or a princess. You can adorn the place with fairy tale concepts pertaining to royalty. You can create miniature towers and castles, a garden and shining stuff fit for a royalty. Fairy This is a good option if you will be having the baby shower in the garden. You can enhance the garden surroundings to make it look like the home of fairies. You can include vines, arches, bees and butterflies, as well as small fairy-like decorations to create a fairy garden. Characters You can choose a storybook or cartoon character as a theme. How about a superhero? There are lots of options, and once you have selected one, you can think about what items the character is associated with that you can use for the party. Halloween A Halloween themed baby shower is a great idea for a baby due in October. Decorations should include spider webs, witch hats and black cats , but to play up the fact the party is really a baby shower and not a typical Halloween party, use spider webs with small baby items caught in them, witches hats on baby witches and black kittens. Bobbing for pacifiers is a nice game that ties in both the baby shower and Halloween theme. Another good one is the ‘smell the diaper’ game that uses candy. In addition to games and decorations, the Halloween costumes will really make the party a blast Tea Party All little girls love a tea party! Host a party where various forms of hot and cold tea are served in delicate tea cups. Serve finger sandwiches and cupcakes with the tea. With these simple ideas, you can conceptualize a special baby shower theme that will be remembered by the parents and the guests. Also, having a theme in your baby shower can add a little more coordination in the things you need to prepare. A theme would dictate which kind of food you need to prepare, the look of the invitations and how you would decorate your chosen venue. Without a theme, you would have to be groping in the dark on how you would create that perfect baby shower. Related Articles |
