 Butterfly Baby Shower Decorations
Butterfly Baby Shower Decorations
Butterfly-themed parties are one of the easiest and most versatile to plan, especially for baby showers. The
image of a caterpillar gestating into a cocoon is particularly appropriate for a celebration of a baby’s impending
birth. There are many decorations, invitations, and favors for sale, but you can alsosupplement butterfly purchased
party decorations simply and easily.
Fast Butterfly Baby Shower Decorations
Butterfly decorations come ready-made in many forms. Butterfly hanging lights, sold online or at party outlet
stores, create a wall of twinkling beauty in a flash. Butterfly wall-hangings in all colors can be found from the
dollar store to the department store. Craft stores stock wooden and metal butterfly shapes ready to be painted in
the expectant mother’s favorite colors. A lovely butterfly quilt can hang on the wall for the party, as well as
doing double-duty as a shower gift for the expectant mom.
Butterfly templates
In order to create your butterfly baby shower decorations, use a template. Find a butterfly wing template about
three inches tall, or draw your own, ensuring the wings are symmetrical and the top wing is about 1/3 larger than
the bottom wing. There is no need to include head, body or antennae in most decorations – the familiar butterfly
shaped wings are easily recognized. Once you make the template, you can copy, cut-out and resize on a
photocopier to the size you need. The shape can then be used over and over, providing consistency in
the theme.
Hanging Decorations
Using the template, cut butterfly baby shower decorations out of scrapbook paper and cardstock. Try alternating
solid colors with interesting patterns in coordinating colors. Hang suitably colored paper lanterns and adhere the
fluttering cutouts with hot glue. Butterflies can also be created by taking a few layers of coordinating tissue
paper in a wing shape then wrapping the center (the body) with a pipe cleaner to create curly antennae. Create the
illusion of flight by hanging them from lamps, mantles, light fixtures, banisters, and ceilings with fishing wire
or clear thread.
Food
The dessert table is another wonderful way to incorporate your butterfly baby shower decorations. There are
butterfly cookie cuttersto make your own edible treats; decorate them with edible glitter and colored frosting. Try
large and small butterfly cake pans for different versions on one table display, using different frosting and
edible decorating paper. For a citrusy flair, lemon cupcakes can be topped with icing, gummy worms for the
body, and fruit slices cut out for the wings. Two slits in the scrapbook paper butterflies will allow a straw
to fit snugly through for festive, fluttering drinks.
Keeping it Real
Make interactive butterfly baby shower decorations by using your guests as décor. Break the ice as they arrive
by offering them all tasteful temporary butterfly tattoos. Partygoers can choose a butterfly pin instead, which can
be purchased or created by you with your template. Real butterfly cocoons can be ordered online for a truly lively
and unique touch. Time the order so that the butterflies emerge from the cocoon a day or two before the party. Put
them in a mesh butterfly house or large glass bell jar for the party, and release them outside afterwards to help
in the garden.
Butterfly baby shower decorations can be purchased or created easily and adjusted for color, theme, taste, and
scale. Simplicity and ease of planning should make for a smooth party for the expectant mom, partygoers and
party planners!
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