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How to Plan a Baby Shower
Personalized baby shower favors
Baby shower food ideas
Signature Mocktails and
Gifts for the Mom-to-Be!

We’ve all been to the classic Pooh bear showers and played that “guess the baby food” game, but sometimes we just want new ideas! If you’re hoping to plan a unique baby shower, you’ve come to the right place. We have some new personalized baby shower favors, baby shower food ideas including Signature Mocktails, and other ideas for how to plan a baby shower with your own original touches.

baby shower favors
Baby Shower Theme
Nothing shows your creativity more than your choice of theme, and this choice will guide you through the rest of your decisions. Many planners still stick to the pastel basics when it comes to baby shower themes, but why not mix up your palette for a bold or sophisticated look?

Bold Books for a New Look
Use children’s books as your inspiration and let Dr. Seuss lead the way! Think The Cat in the Hat, and choose teal and coral in several shades, incorporating in your baby shower décor, place settings and favors. Your cake may not look as lopsided as the one on page 17, but add a bit of pink icing and it will fit in brilliantly!

There's a whole library of favorite stories for bold color options. Green Eggs and Ham with its persimmon-and-green cover, for example, could lend two or three colors to your shower's palette.

For book theme showers, invite guests to select a gift to add to the baby’s library.

bear cub shower theme

Blue-Beary Theme
Blueberries for Sal
is another favorite children’s book (especially here in Maine!). Robert McCloskey’s classic with its monochromatic illustrations inspires a sophisticated baby shower. Deep navy paired with white or ivory creates the palette; consider a bear cub motif for invitations (not your average teddy bear theme!), and blueberry lip balm, lotions or bath salts for baby shower favors. For dessert, a blueberry cake or cupcakes are excellent choices.

Use your imagination and revisit other children's literature to choose color schemes and motifs. Remember that the words and images in books are protected by copyright, so use them for inspiration, not duplication.

Baby Shower Food Ideas
Once you have a theme in mind, the menu is never far behind. Finger foods are great for any shower, and couldn’t be more appropriate for a baby shower. Food ideas can include sandwiches, salads, and decorated cookies—for a twist (and easy munching), why not choose “baby” sized foods? Imagine baby carrots, grape tomatoes, tiny broccoli florets, and baby corn gracing a veggie platter, along with tiny tea sandwiches and bite-sized cookies.

Think sandwiches are too blah? How about gourmet pizzas? To save time, buy pre-made pizza dough in the deli section of your local grocery, roll and cut into tiny circles to make mini pizza crusts. For less mess, place toppings in the center and fold and tuck edges of dough, then bake mini calzones.

baby shower food ideas
Noah's ark baby shower
Whether you’re a fan of those marshmallow jell-o ambrosia salads or not, we can all agree that a shower menu has to include sweet baby shower food! Ideas for desserts can be inspired by your theme: tiny cookies can be made in lots of shapes and decorated in coordinating colors. For a Noah’s ark baby shower theme, raid the kids’ play dough box! Any self-respecting child has a box full of tiny animal-shaped dough cutters that can be washed well and used to make pairs of colorful animal cookies.
Purchasing prepared cookie dough will help to save time; mini cookie cutters in fun baby shower shapes like baby bottles and onesies are available from Foose Cookie Cutters. Browse their other mini cutters for more ideas that could match your own baby shower theme.
Signature Mocktails
A recent trend in events is to choose a Signature Cocktail to accent the theme. This is great for weddings or bridal showers, but what about a baby shower? Most planners drop alcoholic beverages from the baby shower menu out of sympathy for the mom-to-be, but consider featuring a Signature Mocktail that everyone can enjoy. See our recipes below for Babylove, Lullaby, and Apple of My Eye mocktails, and take a look at our matching lip balm favors in these inspired baby theme flavors!
Babylove
1 1/2 oz coconut milk
3/4 oz cream
2 oz pineapple juice
3/4 oz banana syrup
1 banana

Shake well over crushed ice in a shaker. Strain into a collins glass and fill with crushed ice. Top with banana slices and serve.

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Apple of My Eye

2 oz apple juice
1/3 oz black currant syrup
1 oz whipping cream

Blend with crushed ice and serve in an old-fashioned glass, sprinkled with cinnamon.

Lullaby

12 oz orange juice
4 oz sweet and sour mix
4 scoops vanilla ice cream
crushed ice

Blend all ingredients until slushy. Serve in margarita glasses with orange slices.

Signature Mocktail Lip Balms
$2.75 each, undecorated (see right)
Click below, then choose your flavor in the shopping cart. Special order minimum of 10, please.

Personalized Lip Balm Favors
Baby shower balms with personalized labels are $2.95 each; minimum order of 10 pieces, please. You may specify your quantity as well as your design and flavor in the shopping cart.
Balms with personalized labels $2.95

Baby shower balms with personalized tags are $3.50 each; minimum order of 10 pieces, please. You may specify your quantity as well as your design, bow color, and flavor in the shopping cart.
Balms with personalized tags, $3.50

Baby shower balms with personalized labels and tags are $3.75 each; minimum order of 10 pieces, please. You may specify your quantity as well as your design, bow color, and flavor in the shopping cart.
Balms with personalized labels and tags, $3.75

Big Sister Lip Balm Favor
If your guest list includes some big sisters, you’ll want to make them feel special, too! Our new Big Sister Lip Balm is a perfect favor for older siblings who may be feeling left out by all the fuss over this new baby. Big Sister Balms come in bubblegum, strawberry, and vanilla cake; choose from six faces to make the label look just like your Big Sister guests! $2.75 each

NEW!
Mama's Bliss Gift Set

We have some super gifts for the mom-to-be, with soothing ingredients that will pamper her before the new baby's big debut! Soak those overworked toes in our special blend of salts, then smooth on our lavender foot rub to moisturize and heal. Our hand cream with silk proteins will leave skin feeling smooth and pampered! And she can read up on how to be a "Spa Mama" in style!

Gift set is packaged in a white gift tub with cello and a coordinating bath pouf. You may choose the fragrance of hand cream and foot soak in the shopping cart.

Mama's Bliss Gift Set $33.95

See our gift sets page for other options, or talk with us about making a custom gift set.

mama's bliss gift set

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