Baby Shower Ideas
Order Baby Shower Supplies and Personalized Baby Banners
Party Planning
- General Party Planning Schedule
- Order your party supplies. If invitations are part of the order, allow at least six weeks for standard invitations, longer for custom.
- In addition to the baby shower supplies linked at the top of the page, you'll find a good selection of baby shower supplies and pinatas at Pinatas.com.
Party Decorations
- Personalized baby banners add your special message and wishes.
- Pastel streamers, balloons with ribbons, tablecovers, and partyware go a long way for decorating.
- A baby shower pinata can serve as decoration and an activity.
- Decorate a special chair for the mother-to-be. Drape it with fabric, tie the base of the back with ribbons, add flowers, rattles, diaper pins, and/or bows to the edges or sides, and attach some helium-filled balloons to the back. You can use a white or pastel sheet for the main cover, then drape a baby blanket over the back. Sweet!
Party Invitations
- Baby shower invitation kits help you make your own invitations.
- Or use our generic invitation templates as a basis for making your own baby shower invitations. Baby booties, a bottle, or a rattle work well for graphics, so does a rocking horse, or colorful baby blocks.
- Get really crafty and fold your invitations like a baby diaper. Use diaper pin stickers to close the folds.
- Keep your envelope size in mind when making your invitations. Stores like Wal-mart sell boxes of 4 3/8" x 5 3/4" envelopes, which fit a four-folded sheet of computer paper, or half a sheet of card stock, folded in half, either of which yields and invitation 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".
Party Food
- A cake is traditional, and cupcakes are very popular, too. You'll find the largest selection of cake pans, cake toppers and cupcake decorations at The Party Works. They have baby shower supplies, too.
- You'll also find dozens of great party recipes there.
- Think about having healthy foods like veggies and low-fat dip, whole grain crackers and cheese, fruit salad, and our naturally sweet party punch.
Party Activities
- A baby shower pinata is a fun activity.
- Baby food tasting. Get several jars, and a bunch of little tasting spoons. Vote on which is the best, and which is the worst.
- Get a baby bottle and fill it with jelly beans. Whoever comes closest to guessing the number of jelly beans wins the bottle (and the jelly beans!)
Great selection of download and print games for baby showers, at very reasonable prices!
Additional Suggestions:
- When the baby is born, instead of cigars, hand out custom pens!
