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More Decorative Themes for Baby Showers

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Here are some more great ideas for throwing a baby shower!

The Duck Shower is uni-sex and is a good idea if nobody knows the sex of the baby. Ducks can be used to decorate everything from the invitations to party glasses. There are a great variety of commercial products available to support this theme on the market right now including floating toys, glasses and liquid dispensers with ducks floating inside, rubber placemats, baby furniture and soaps. It is a very popular motif as it is considered to be uni-sex.

The color scheme of at a duck shower is usually yellow. Plastic or rubber yellow ducks are used as decorations. A nice touch is to float a few rubber duckies in the punch bowl. You can also freeze small yellow ducks inside ice-cubes and drop them into drinks.

Flowers such as daffodils, freesia and yellow daisies and bright yellow candles also suit this event.

The cake is usually yellow inside, and the guests usually take a rubber duckie or two home with them as a party favor.

This popular theme is also supported greatly by the commercial market and guests are encouraged to bring china, clothing, linen and toys that boast this motif. Sometimes a mother who adapts this theme is looking to collect china based on the books of Beatrix Potter. Books by Beatrix Potter as well as the classic “Wind In The Willows” make great gifts at this kind of shower.

In this case the cake is often vanilla or chocolate and baked in the shape of a rabbit. Cheese fondue and vegetables such as carrots and celery are also popular snacks. If the shower is a sit down dinner, hosts might consider serving a rabbit-less dish such as Welsh Rare-bit.

A blue and white color scheme suits this theme, as do flowers of the field such as daisies, violet and baby’s breath. If they are in season, furry pussy willows are also a nice addition.
Guests can take home chocolates tied with blue or pink net or ribbons as party favors.

Another nice idea is the Noah’s Ark Shower –

The Noah’s Ark shower encourages guests to bring a stuffed animal to the shower. The animals are usually deposited into a cradle or toy-box that is set up before hand. If the mom is young and hip, guests may be encouraged to bring linens and clothing in wild patterns and prints. A nice group gift for the mother is a charm bracelet, and each guest is invited to purchase a different “animal” charm.

Invitations can be bought or purchased featuring this theme or you can decide on an exotic print scheme for tablecloths and linen such as tiger stripes or leopard print. The party area can be decorated with animals such as elephants, giraffes, lions and zebras.

Tropical finger-foods and dishes such as curries, satays, samosas and rice pilafs suit this theme, as do pineapple-flavored items. A centerpiece featuring exotic fruits from the world such as pomegranates, kiwis and coconuts is also a nice touch.

Cakes can be baked in the shape of a favorite animal of the mother’s. An elephant, which is an animal that represents prosperity, is a popular choice. Animal crackers and goldfish crackers can be served as snacks.

Orchids, tiger lilies and birds of paradise make gorgeous decorations for this kind of party. Suggested party favors are toy animal key chains or animal pendants.

Decorative Baby Shower Themes

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There are hundreds of themes for baby showers, and perhaps the perfect theme lies somewhere in the region of your imagination. For instance, if the mother-to-be is addicted to reading tabloid magazines, you might want to throw a shower that features a collage of celebrity babies. If she is into astrology, you might want to consider having the baby’s chart done or visiting a site on the Internet that helps you name a star for the baby.

Try a Baby bookworm Party! You might wantThe point of this party is to make sure that baby grows up with a well-stocked library, so guests are encouraged to bring a children’s book as a gift. Really creative hostesses may want to suggest that participants dress up as their favorite character from a children’s story such as Alice in Wonderland or Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.

Another clever idea is to serve typical foods, yet create placards that give them clever names. Egg salad or tuna sandwiches could be served up as The Mad Hatter’s Tea Sandwiches and pumpkin pie as Harry Potter’s Magic Pie. A cake can also be baked to resemble an open book upon which is a verse in honor of the mother is inscribed with icing.

A good game for literary types is Baby Scrabble, in which guests try to create words that only have to do with babies, or try to invent baby names.

For this kind of party, it is a nice idea to send guests away with a miniature bible as a party favor or a Polaroid photo of the guest with the mom. Make sure to take two pictures so Mom has a copy for her photo album.

You might also want to try throwing her a Sock Party! This party is created around the theme of tiny baby socks. The socks can be blue, pink or yellow depending on whether the parents know the sex of the baby. Usually the invitations are stuffed inside a small baby booty or sock that is mailed out to the guest. Guests may also be encouraged to return the baby sock with a cash donation that is then hung from a clothesline or a “sock tree.”

These kinds of showers are often decorated with what are called “sock flowers.” These are imitations of roses made by rolling back a pair or two of baby socks so that they resemble rose petals. A balled up sock represents the bud and the other socks are folded over to look like flowers and attached to a wooden stem. Mom is presented with a bouquet of baby sock flowers at the end of the shower.

The cake may also be created in the shape of a baby sock or baby bootie. Guests may also take home a party favor, chocolates or a charm, wrapped up in a baby bootie or shoe.