As baby showers gain in popularity inside the UK you’ll find a growing number of party-ware and decoration themes from which to choose. This article explores a number of the loveliest themes around.
1. Cupcakes – One of the most popular trends around this year. This has got a chance to be the most versatile themes as cupcakes can be produced to fit any colour pallette and fit perfectly with the traditional afternoon tea baby shower. Serve them with tea, co-ordinate the icing colours while using gender of the baby, create all of them with baby related toppers, cause them to become as many thanks favours to the guests and even get guests to generate their unique as a fun party activity!
2. Nursery Rhyme Characters – There are so many famous rhymes we all love and very easy to turn it into a fun baby shower theme. Print out some well-known rhymes onto coloured paper or card and stick up round the room; use soft toys & other props to re-create rhymes (including using a painted egg for Humpty Dumpty in the middle of some toy soldiers or sticking a toy mouse up onto a clock for Hickory Dickory Dock); have guests dress up as their favourite character and play games like finishing the road of the nursery rhyme. There are even tableware themes to match just like the lovely Nursery Toile themes which come in pink or blue.
3. Baby Clothing – Brilliant it doesn’t matter if you know the gender of the people or not as clothing gifts can be obtained in neutral colours along with the traditional pinks or blues. Help the new parents maintain stocks of really helpful items they’ll use on a regular basis like baby bodysuits and sleepsuits, little socks and bibs. Incorporate the theme into the food by looking into making or buying iced biscuits inside the shape of baby booties & bodysuits, pin up the clothing gifts onto a little clothesline and string across the room as decoration. Match the theme with baby clothes tableware, obtainable in boy, girl and neutral versions with coordinating decorations & balloons.
4. Jungle Animals – Always your favourite. It’s easy to find animal themed tableware and soft toys to dot throughout the venue. Serve animal crackers, monkey nuts, cakes with animal toppers or animal shaped cake pops and string up some leaf garlands for trees with animal stickarounds about the walls (these could provide again inside the baby’s nursery) and green confetti about the tables as grass. Play games like matching the animals on the name of their babies.
5. Retro – A hot trend with throwbacks to the 70’s! Choose colour schemes with greens, browns & pinks, swirls and patterns which might be brilliant for girls or boys. Choose retro sweets for your favours – think little bags of pick and mix like black jacks, refreshers, jelly babies and cola bottles. Serve drinks with little umbrellas, buffet food like cheese & pineapple on sticks and get guests to decorate up of their best 70’s gear!