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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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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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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