 Baby Shower Theme Ideas
Baby Shower Theme Ideas
It can be hard to decide on a theme when planning a baby shower. Should you pamper the new mom with a trip to
the spa, or fill her entire living room with diapers, onesies, and baby accessories galore? There is no wrong
answer, but some of the baby shower theme ideas below may make your decision a bit easier.
Books and Babies
Clever decorations and references to favorite childhood stories can make a literary baby shower theme shine.
Send out invitations in the form of hand-painted or stamped bookmarks, and decorate the day-of with garlands of
printed pages and cut-out letters. Offer menus disguised as hand-bound books, and title your dishes after storybook
characters, serving goodies like Gingerbread Boys and Mary Quite Contrary Custard Cups. For favors, give out little
lamb cookies with white-as-snow icing, or writing sets for guests to begin telling their own stories.
Baby Bird Nest
Help your mama-to-be start “nesting” with a baby bird theme! Send out invitations in the shape of flying birds
or little nests, and serve birds’ nest cookies or cupcakes with little birdie faces on top. Decorate for the party
with robin’s egg blue and hand-stenciled bird silhouettes. Guests will love favors of delicate bird-shaped charms
or little wire nests filled with candy eggs; alternatively, hand out embroidery projects and let the guests create
their very own feathered friends. Serve fruity iced teas and cakes or cookies covered in flowers, and you may even
attract a few genuine hummingbirds!
Spa Mama
Pamper a new mom with an at-home spa day baby shower theme for real indulgence. Invite guests with sleep masks
and coupons inviting them to a free day at the spa. The day of the party, give guests the royal treatment with
oatmeal facials and a warm oil wrap for tired, dry hands and feet. Serve healthy, delicious treats afterward like
pineapple coconut smoothes, edamame, and avocado, tomato, and feta salad; for a real treat, indulge in a raw
macadamia nut cheesecake, and give each other bright, flirty pedicures as the finishing touch.
Diapers and Essentials
What do new moms need most? Diapers, a breast pump, baby clothes, blankets, burp cloths . . . the list goes on
and on. For a baby shower theme that will really help a friend out, keep decorations simple and invite guests to
bring gifts that will make her life easier after the baby is born. For party favors, hand out things like movie
tickets, a lottery scratcher, bubble bath, and a chocolate bar – all the “essentials” that grown-ups need to pamper
themselves. Instead of dessert, consider having everyone chip in to purchase a novelty “cake” made of diapers, baby
clothes, and stuffed animals.
Regardless of the baby shower theme you choose, a bit of careful planning and consideration will go a long way
towards ensuring that the new mom to be truly enjoys herself. Select decorations, dishes, and favors that will
delight your guests, and everyone will go away feeling excited about the new baby on the way.
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