The idea behind the shower is to have all the guests provide services to the mother to be – before or after the baby is born. These can include housekeeping services, making meals, babysitting, running errands or simply keeping the mother company. The idea behind the whole shower is to form a support group to help the mother to be pull through what is going to be the most tiring time of her life. Filled with wonder yes. But definitely tiring too!

Call In A Favor Theme Baby Shower Invitations:

• Design typical coupons and put in the details of the party. Mail them instead of handing them out. Ensure that the guests can immediately recognize that the mail is from you lest they think it is junk and throw it out.
• But small plastic telephones or miniature chocolate cell phones. Attach a note with the details of the party.

Call In A Favor Theme Baby Shower Decorations:

• You can design huge favor coupons similar to discount coupons and put them up around the room.
• Hang spiral wires like the cords of a telephone instead of streamers.
• Cut out large telephones from card paper and put them up on the walls.
• You can also put up words like SOS, Help, Thank You and Please on the walls to get into the mood of the theme.

Call In A Favor Theme Baby Shower Food:

• Design calling cards and use them to name the various items on the food table.
• Serve spiral pasta and a meal that can be prepared and stored in the fridge for at least a week. Simply reheat and eat. You can also give the recipes for all the dishes to the mother to be as part of the baby shower gift.

Call In A Favor Theme Baby Shower Games:

• Ask the guests to list all the favors that they would be willing to do for the mother to be. The guest with the most creative list or the list that appeals most to the mother to be wins.
• Ask the guests to list out all the excuses they can think of for getting out of doing favors! The guest with the shortest list wins!
• Make out a list of baby chores like feeding the baby, changing the baby, burping the baby and the like. Get a baby doll and ask each guest to perform each of the chores blindfolded. The best babysitter wins. This is a great
• opportunity for the mother to be to evaluate which of her friends she can trust to baby sit!

Call In A Favor Theme Baby Shower Party Favors:

• Gift coupons would be perfect as party favors.
• Chocolate telephones tied with a bow.
• Matchbooks designed like calling cards with chocolate mints inside.

Call In A Favor Theme Baby Shower Gifts For The Mother To Be:

The whole idea behind the theme is to give the mother to be favor coupons. Make a set of blank coupons and give 3 coupons to each guest. Each guest must then put down the exact favor that they are willing to do for the mother to be. Examples: Baby sit for 2 hours on a weekday / weekend. Do your laundry on a weekend. Make you 3 meals that you can store in the refrigerator.

The nature of the favor will of course be dependent on the relationship the guest shares with the mother to be. Office colleagues and not so good friends may choose simpler things like ‘Make a trip to the post office for you’ or something at work. Closer friends can help with more intimate tasks.

In addition to the favors, guests can also gift the mother to be things that would make her life easier to manage once the baby is born. A feeding bottle sterilizer, a cleaning service once a week for 2 months and the like.

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You Are My Sunshine Theme Baby Shower Invitations:

• Cut out large yellow suns from yellow paper and write out the invitations.
• You could buy large yellow lollipops and add yellow cellophane for rays. Attach a small note with all the party details and hand out as invitations.
• Take large yellow balloons and draw sunny faces on them. You can put the invitation details on a piece of paper and put it inside the balloon. Send the blown up balloon as the invitation. The guests can retrieve the details by
• bursting the balloon. Alternately, write out the party details on the balloon and deflate it. Guest will then need to blow up the balloon to read the invites.

You Are My Sunshine Theme Baby Shower Decorations:

• Yellow all the way!
• You can use sunflowers for decorating the food table or as a centerpiece.
• Cut out large yellow suns from yellow card paper and hand them from the ceiling or stick them on the walls.
• Use yellow balloons to decorate the whole room.
• You could even make yellow sun party hats for all the guests.
• Ask the guests to dress in yellow to match the theme.

You Are My Sunshine Theme Baby Shower Food:

• Again, yellow all the way!
• Make sunny side up sandwiches accompanied by lemonade.
• You can add yellow sun faced cupcakes to the menu or make lemon tarts.
• Order for cheese pizzas and make a sunny smile with tomato ketchup or mustard.

You Are My Sunshine Theme Baby Shower Games:

• Ask the guests to list as many items as they can that are naturally yellow in color. The guest with the longest list wins.
• Divide the guests into groups of three or four and give them lots of yellow paper and fabric. One of the team members should be dressed up as Ms. Sunshine. The team with the prettiest sunshine wins.
• Ask the guests to think up as many songs as they can with the word sunshine in them. The guest who lists the most songs wins!

You Are My Sunshine Theme Baby Shower Party Favors:

• Large yellow sunshine lollipops. If you used lollipops for the invites this is avoidable.
• Golden sunshine wine charms.
• Mini yellow soaps in the shape of the sun.
• Anything round and yellow would work well.

Adapting This Theme

You can also adapt this theme to be a Yellow baby Shower. All the above ideas for invitations, decorations, food, games and party favors still apply.

If you want to adapt this theme to be a Sky’s The Limit Baby Shower then instead of focusing just on the sun, include the stars and moon into all the party planning too. Use blue and yellow as the color theme and hang stars from the ceiling for decoration. You can give away moon party favors and play galaxy related games.

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Diaper Theme Baby Shower Invitations:

• Use a black marker to write out all the party details on a cloth diaper. Fold the diaper and pin it with a diaper pin and hand out as invitations.
• For a more economical option, you can also fold paper as you would cloth diapers and just pin it up with a diaper pin. The paper of course is printed with the details of the party.

Diaper Theme Baby Shower Decorations:

• Send each guest a cloth diaper and ask her to paint a message on it and send it back. You can hang these message diapers around the room and make a gift of them to the mother to be after the shower.
• Make huge cloth diapers (cloth diapers are basically folds of squares so all you really need to do is keep pieces of cloth handy) and put them on each of your guests. Hold in place with diaper pins. You want to test the diaper on yourself for size beforehand.

Diaper Theme Baby Shower Food:

• More than the food it is the presentation that will match the theme. Use cloth diapers as placemats and runners. You can paint them to make them look more attractive.
• Make a centerpiece using a stack of Pampers creatively arranged.
• Cut out pictures of baby’s in diapers and make small cards to write the names of the dishes being served.
• You could also order a cake in the shape of a huge diaper.

Diaper Theme Baby Shower Games:

• If your guests have been diapered, the guest whose diaper stays on longest wins.
• Blindfold your guests and hand them a baby doll. The guest who can diaper the baby fastest, blindfolded, wins.

Diaper Theme Baby Shower Party Favors:

• Custom chocolates in the shape of a diaper.
• Personalized refrigerator magnet diaper pins.
• Bookmarks with diapers and diaper pins on them.

Diaper Theme Baby Shower Gifts For The Mother To Be:

• Ask all the guests to bring along diaper themed gifts. Large packs of pampers in varying sizes is an extremely useful gift for any mother to be.
• A diaper disposal bin.
• Hand painted cloth diapers.
• Baby wipes and liners.

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When thinking of a farm, you usually think “boy,” but don’t write off the little cowgirls either. A fun (and adorable) theme, this can be used for a new baby boy or baby girl, and it is perfect for “one-of-each” twins.

Old McDonald’s Farm Baby Shower Invitations:

Invitations for this theme baby shower can be bought at any store or made at home. You can get as creative or be as simple as you want.

• If you want DIY invitations, design a card on a graphic software like Adobe Photoshop or Corel Draw and take print outs. Easy and economical.
• Another really great invitation idea is to buy chocolate farm animal lollipops. Attach a little note with all the invitation details and tie it around the lollipop. However, this will work only for guests in town. Shipping chocolate
• lollipops to invite out of town guests is a bad idea.
• You can simply head for a party store and pick up Old McDonald’s Farm invitation cards.

Old McDonald’s Farm Baby Shower Decorations:

• Get stiff white card paper sheets. Draw out cartoon animals in an extra large size or as big as you can manage (you can find plenty on the Internet) and paint them with regular poster colors. Cut out the animals and put them all
• around the venue. This is especially great because after the shower you can gift the animals to the mother to be to decorate her nursery.
• Stuffed toys of various farm animals like dogs, cows, sheep, hens, horses, pigs and the like also make great décor. Again, after the party gift them to the mother to be. If you want to keep expenses low, borrow stuffed toys to
• decorate the venue from friends and family who have little children.
• You can use some potted plants and flowers to give the nature effect. If the shower is being held outdoors go all out and get haystacks for seating. You will need to ensure that the mother to be or any other guests are not allergic
• to plants and hay. Put a rake in one corner of the room. Ensure that it is out of harm’s way.
• You can also get all the guests to dress up as farmhands in coveralls and dungarees with hats.

Old McDonald’s Farm Baby Shower Food:

• If the baby shower is being held outdoors a barbecue is the only way to go.
• For an indoors baby shower you can cut out sandwiches in circles and dress them up as little cats, make mashed potato ducklings, piggy cupcakes with pink icing and milkshakes of course!

Old McDonald’s Farm Baby Shower Games:

• You can organize a sing along where all the guests have to sing along the Old McDonald’s song. For each animal a guest must take center stage and imitate the animal being sung about. Be prepared for lots of laughs and guests who are
• simply terrible at imitations! The best imitator wins.
• Play animal trivia games.
• You can hide little plastic farm animals around the room and get the guests to go on a scavenger hunt with clues from you.

Old McDonald’s Farm Baby Shower Party Favors:

• Stuffed toy farm animals make cute favors.
• Chocolates in the shape of farm animals.
• A small bucket with a spade filled with cookies.

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Rainbow Theme Baby Shower Invitations:

• Get rainbow hued letter papers and print your invitations on them.
• You can also get little decorative umbrellas that have all the colors of the spectrum. Either write out the party details on the umbrella itself or attach a little note with all the details.

Rainbow Theme Baby Shower Decorations:

• Anything and everything that you want to use works great. The idea is to use as many colors as you possibly can.
• Put up balloons in every color that you can find.
• Multi colored streamers can really perk up the atmosphere.
• Create a garden with the mother-to-be’s favorite flowers.
• You could also create a huge rainbow at the entrance to the venue and place a small pot of gold at one end. Use the pot of gold to hold the party favors and ask the guests to take one as they leave.

Rainbow Theme Baby Shower Food:

• Blue blueberry muffins
• Green salad
• Yellow mashed potatoes with cheese. Yellow cheese pizzas, corn on the cob.
• Orange salsa with chips. Orange juice, papaya salad.
• Red watermelon balls and apple pie, penne pasta in arabiata sauces, chilli.
• Use a violet runner to decorate the table and get some orchids as centerpieces.

You can of course use food colors to get rainbow hued foods of your choice.

Rainbow Theme Baby Shower Games:

• Color games would be a great idea for this party.
• You can play a version of the four corners if you have a large party. Designate seven corners or locations as various colors. Turn on the music. When the music stops the guests have to choose a color and head that way. The mother to
• be picks out a color at random from a hat containing all seven colors. Guests who chose that color are out. As the number of players lessens keep removing one color at a time so in the end you have just two players and two colors.
• The player who does not get out in the end wins.
• Ask the guests to list out baby names related to color. Eg: Violet, Scarlet, etc. The guest with the best names wins. The mother to be of course decides the winner.

Rainbow Theme Baby Shower Party Favors:

• Little pots of gold filled with rainbow colored candy.
• Scented bath salts in rainbow colors.
• Potpourri in rainbow hues.

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This theme can also be easily adapted to a farm theme, a ranch theme or a horse / cow / cattle theme. It is also a great theme for a Dad’s Baby Shower or a Couples Baby Shower, too.

Rodeo Theme Baby Shower Invitations:

• Take some rope and design tiny lassos. Put them around a paper bearing the party details and give as invitations.
• Get horse shaped cards or paper with a horse print and write out the party details and mail.

Rodeo Theme Baby Shower Decorations:

• Cut out horses and cattle from magazines and use them to decorate the food table.
• Gets saddles and put on benches as seating. This can get a bit uncomfortable so you might want to let guests put the saddles on the side when they actually sit.
• Set up hay bales around the room for a rodeo look.
• Ask all the guests to wear cowboy hats and boots to the party.

Rodeo Theme Baby Shower Food:

• A barbecue is the only way to go!
• Texan style chilli and hamburgers with coke would be great.
• Serve dark bottles of Root Beer or Ginger Ale. You can choose to serve beer but since the guest of honor cannot imbibe liquor this is generally considered bad baby shower etiquette. If you must then clear it with the mother to be beforehand.

Rodeo Theme Baby Shower Games:

• Lasso the bottle. Set up an extra large size baby bottle and get a lasso. Give each guest a turn at lassoing the bottle. The guest who can lasso the bottle quickest wins.
• Have a two-step and square dancing competition to see who can do the cowboy dance the best.

Rodeo Theme Baby Shower Party Favors:

• Miniature cowboy hat candles.
• Chocolates in the shape of cowboy boots.
• Tiny stuffed toy horses with saddles.

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There are two ways to go with this theme shower. You can either go the graduation way or choose to have fun with a college theme. The former is more serious but the dream of most parents. The latter can be more colorful and fun.

Send Baby To College Theme Baby Shower Invitations:

1. Take a sheet of handmade paper and put the party details on it. Roll it up and tie it with a ribbon to look like a scroll or degree.
2. Get or make paper graduation hats and put the party details on the top surface of the hat with a silver pen.
3. Write the party details on pennants and hand them out as invitations.

Send Baby To College Theme Baby Shower Decorations:

1. Black has to be the theme color. However all black can becoming rather heavy for a baby shower so you may want to offset it with another color. White is a good option to maintain the college theme. Black and white balloons, graduation caps hanging from the ceiling and even a wooden dais would make great decorations. Ask all the guests to carry along a graduation robe to really get into the theme.
2. Optionally, instead of focusing on graduation you can choose to go the college way and decorate with pennants, college jerseys and banners bearing names of top national colleges. Ask the guests to wear their college jerseys if they have one or borrow one from someone they know.

Send Baby To College Theme Baby Shower Food:

1. Chips, coke, fries and pizza.
2. If the party is outdoors grill some burgers.

Send Baby To College Theme Baby Shower Games:

1. Trivia games related to having a baby. Questions can be about conception, pregnancy, delivery and baby care.
2. Any knowledge or IQ games work well with this theme.

Send Baby To College Theme Baby Shower party Favors:

1. Mini college jerseys with the name of the parents embroidered on them.
2. A chocolate graduation hat.
3. A mini photo frame with a thank you note or a mock degree that announces that Ms.Name_of_the_Guest successfully graduated as a great guest from Ms.Name_of_the_Mother_to_Be’s Baby Shower.

Gifts For The Mother To Be:

An important part of this baby shower is the gifts to the mother to be. It is a great idea to request all the guests to bring savings bonds, certificates of savings, or cash gifts. You can then collect all the money and gift it to the parents to be to start a college fund for the baby. Most couples would be ecstatic with this.

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Sweet Dreams Theme Baby Shower Invitations:

• Cut out stars or a crescent moon from silver card paper. On the back put down the details of the party. Punch a hole and add a few silver ribbons and hand out the invitations.
• Get miniature cushions or pillows and embroider them with the parents’ to be names. Attach a small note with the details of the party.

Sweet Dreams Theme Baby Shower Decorations:

• Arrange a whole lot of pillows and cushions all around the room. Not only will it fit in with the theme but will also make your guests extra comfortable.
• Cut out stars and a huge silver moon and hang from the ceiling.
• Cover one wall with midnight blue cloth. Arrange a sofa / lounger / recliner in front of it and drape it with a baby bed sheet. Throw in a few pillows and let the mother to be enjoy sweet memories of the party from her make-shift bed.
• Put up large ZZZZ’s on the walls. Ask all the guests to show up in their pajamas to match the theme.

Sweet Dreams Theme Baby Shower Food:

• Serve midnight snacks like biscuits, cookies and chips.
• Chocolate fudge and rocky road ice creams are a must.
• Cut out sandwiches in the shape of a moon or stars.
• Make ZZZZ shaped cup cakes.
• You can also serve nightcaps like coffee or hot chocolate. The mother to be and other pregnant women may prefer warm milk.

Sweet Dreams Theme Baby Shower Games:

• Ask the guests to have a snoring competition. The loudest snorer wins.
• Get a baby doll and ask each guest to have a turn at getting the baby ready for bed with one hand behind her back. The tasks include bathing the baby, changing the diaper, putting the baby into nightclothes, feeding the baby and singing it to sleep.

Sweet Dreams Theme Baby Shower Party Favors:

• Little cushions embroidered with, “Celebrating MothersName’s Baby Shower”.
• The sandman’s sandbag filled with chocolate stars and moon.
• A sleeping baby nightlight.

Sweet Dreams Theme Baby Shower Gifts For The Mother To Be:

• All the guests can pool in and buy a crib if the mother to be doesn’t already have one.
• Starry nights cot mobiles.
• Bedtime books and music tapes.
• Nightclothes for the baby.
• Night theme bedcovers, bedsheets, pillows and a blanket for the baby.

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Noah’s Ark Theme Baby Shower Invitations:

Set up your Noah’s Ark theme baby shower right from the word ‘Go’ and design Noah’s ark invitations. Here are some invitation ideas.

• If you have a computer this is really easy to do. Use a graphic software like Corel Draw or Photoshop and put together cliparts of animal pairs like a lion and lioness, a horse and mare, elephants, giraffes and the like. It doesn’t
• matter which animal you choose but they must all be in pairs. Put down the date, time and venue of the party. Add a heading that reads “Join Noah’s Ark To Celebrate The Coming Of Baby (Lastname)”. Also ensure that your invitation
• makes it clear that you are having a theme party and the guests are requested to dress appropriately. Once the card is designed print as many copies as required, address, stamp and post!
• If you prefer to do things by hand cut out little arks from brown card paper. Add a few animal pictures (again all animals must be in pairs) and all the required information and post the cards.

Noah’s Ark Theme Baby Shower Decorations:

• Stuffed toys make great decorations. You can buy animal couples or pairs of stuffed toys and put them all around the room. These are really great because they can even be your baby shower gift to the mother to be.
• Alternately, you can pick up the 6 inch variety of stuffed animals and hand them all around the room. When your guests are ready to leave ask them to pick their choice of stuffed toy to take home as a party favor.
• You can also create an Ark throne for the mother to be to sit in. Take a comfortable easy chair and put brown paper or brown cloth on it. Give it a little shape to resemble a boat. Place a blue mat / cloth / paper under the chair to represent water. Add a small wheel on one arm of the chair. Throw in a sailor’s hat and you have a special Noah’s Ark throne for the guest of honor to sit it. If the mother to be is uncomfortable sitting in the chair, use it as a centerpiece to hold all the gifts or the party favors. You will need two thrones for a couple baby shower.

Noah’s Ark Theme Baby Shower Food:

• The cake must of course be an Ark with lots of plastic animals on it. If you plan to bake the cake yourself and an Ark is a little beyond your capabilities, make a simple brown chocolate cake and use the plastic animals to give it the Noah’s Ark theme feeling.
• You can have other animal food like Little Pigs Sausages, Noah’s Hens Egg Sandwiches and Monkey Banana Chips or Fritters.

Noah’s Ark Theme Baby Shower Games:

• Get the couples to dress up as animal pairs and have a fancy dress competition. The best-dressed couple of course wins!
• Plan an animal trivia game. Dig out a little known facts about different animals and make a list of 20 odd questions. Give your guests the list of questions and ask them to write down the answers. The guest who gets the most correct answers wins. Example: Which animal On Noah’s Ark sleeps standing up? Answer: Giraffe
• ‘Spot the family on Noah’s Ark’ is also a great game to play. Make a list of animals of which you know the male, female and child. Example: Dog, bitch and puppy. Or horse, mare and foal. Or lion, lioness and cub. Give your guests just the male animal and ask them to list the female and child. To make the game tougher you can also ask your guests to come up with the entire family that they think would be on Noah’s Ark.

Noah’s Ark Theme Baby Shower Party Favors:

• Stuffed toys animal pairs will make a really cute party favor.
• Personalized key chains in the shape of animal pairs.
• A photo frame with a Noah’s Ark theme border. You could insert a thank you note in each photo frame to make it more special.
• Animal shaped candies wrapped in an ark shaped box.
• Animal shaped candles or a Noah’s Ark candle.

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Other options for baby girl showers include a pink shower, a Barbie shower, a Doll House shower and a Ribbons and Lace shower.

Summer Tea Party Baby Girl Shower Invitations:

• Get little plastic teacups. Attach tiny invitations to the teacups and invite all your guests.
• Cut out card paper in the shape of a teacup and write out all the party details behind the cup. Mail to your guests.
• You can also include recipe cards for tea recipes and ask all the guests to bring the cards filled with their favorite tea recipes. Tie all the cards with a ribbon and present them to the mother to be.

Summer Tea Party Baby Girl Shower Decorations:

• All the decorations need to be grand and frilly. Get out your best tea set.
• Use pretty, lacey table covers.
• You can drape the walls and ceilings with white organza fabric for a rich, elegant look.
• Request all the guests to wear a summer hat to get into the mood.
• Use small potted plants as centerpieces and to decorate the room.

Summer Tea Party Baby Girl Shower Food:

• Delicate pastries and sandwiches.
• English tea of course! Herbal tea is good for the mother to be as well.

Summer Tea Party Baby Girl Shower Games:

• You can set up a ring the bottle game. Put 4-6 feeding bottles and give each guest three rings. They have to stand at a distance of 10 feet and try to ring the bottles. Much tougher than it sounds.
• Bowling bottles. Use the bottles as bowling pins and get some children’s balls to use as the bowling ball. Have fun.

Summer Tea Party Baby Girl Shower Party Favors:

• Pretty little bags of summer flower seeds tied with ribbons.
• A small potted plant.
• A teacup inscribed with the mother’s name and date of the shower. You can also fill it with candy.

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