How to Create a Cool Baby Shower Theme

Baby ABC’s

Decorate the party room with the alphabet. This can be done easily through purchasing streamers and writing the alphabet on them, or purchasing alphabet themed streamers. You can add a little creativity through hanging baby bibs from the ceiling with individual letters and phrases painted on them, such as “B is for Baby” and “P is for Poopy Diapers.”

Nursery Rhyme Theme

Choose a few of mom’s favourite nursery rhymes, or classic nursery rhymes, such as Humpty Dumpty and decorate the room accordingly. You can create your own baby shower games or choose games that can be changed to follow the theme. For example you can play “Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick”, and have your guests race to complete a Nursery Rhyme cross word.

Baby Toys

A baby toy theme is one of the easiest themes to follow! Choose a few typical baby toys, such as rattles, building blocks or mobiles and make cut-outs to hang from string throughout the room. You can find tones of clip art on the Internet if you are not equipped with an artistic hand. Your can bake a rattle shaped cake, or cupcakes with little toy shaped candies sprinkled on the icing.

Baby Necessity Theme

Send out invitations rolled up inside baby bottles, or paint the invitation on a bib or a diaper. Decorate the party room with diaper, bottle, bib, and pacifier decorations. Decorate your table with real bottles and pacifiers that mom can take home after the party. If you are unsure about what a baby’s necessities are I have compiled a list of items that all baby’s need.

Baby’s Nursery Colors
Find out which colors mom is planning to use, or has used to decorate the nursery. This gives you a lot of lee way in the types of decorations that you choose; you do not have to by the themed or patterned decorations. Using the nursery color scheme is nice when there are unique decorations that you want to incorporate.

Follow Baby’s Nursery Theme
Find out how mom has decorated the nursery and follow this theme. For example, if the mom has chosen, or is planning to decorate the baby’s room in a Winnie the Pooh or Mickey Mouse theme you may want to buy decorations that follow suit. If mom is planning to decorate the nursery in a certain theme it is also a good idea for you to tell your guests this. Guests could purchase shower gifts that will help mom in the decorating process.

Stork Theme

Throughout history people have used the stork as a symbol of baby’s arrival. The stork theme is a classic. You can create your invitations in the shape of a stork, and buy decorations that follow suit. You can bake a stork cake and decorate your table with nests and eggs.

Animal Theme

This one is fun, and super easy. You can either choose one animal, such as mom’s favourite animal, or you can choose to go with the baby animal’s theme. Both are cute and fun. You can cut out invitations in the shape of an animal or baby animal’s, or you can decorate your invitations and envelopes with animal stickers. There are tones of animal decorations that will help bring your theme together.

Noah's Ark

This is a classic. Decorate with animal cut outs hung from the sealing. Make an ark to hold the gifts in, and ask your guests to dress for the rain. Ask guests to come dressed in raincoats and bring umbrellas. You can choose to play games that incorporate your theme such as animal word searches. You can cut out your invitations in the shape of Noah’s Ark and decorate them with animal stickers. If you are baking a cake, you can bake it in the shape of an ark and decorate it with animals and balloons.

Teddy Bears’ Picnic

Hand out teddy bear shaped invitations and decorate the party room with stuffed teddy bears dressed in diapers and baby clothes. Your table can be covered in a traditional chequered table cloth, and your menu items can include berry dishes and berry deserts, and you can bake a cake shaped like a teddy bear. You can clear the room of furniture and lay blankets on the floor for your guests to sit in and fill picnic baskets with game supplies and snacks.

Shower for Mom
If you are hosting a baby shower for a mother of one, two, or three already why not host the party to shower her with gifts and pampering. This theme will be more mature and modern, similar to that of a wedding shower. I suggest you choose a color, such as her favourite color and create a menu reflective of all of her favourite foods and pregnancy cravings. Let her know that the party is in celebration of her patience, kindness and lovingness toward her children. Play games that stimulate discussion about mom, and complement her beauty.