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Baby carriages make are a fun and very popular baby shower theme.   We’ve got some great ideas for you about throwing your own baby carriage themed baby shower.

There are literally hundreds of baby carriage invitation designs to get you started on the right foot.  Remember, it is best to plan to order your invitations at least a month before the big day if you are able to, that way you won’t feel rushed when you get them in.  You’ll find it pretty easy to find baby carriage themed invitations for a girl, boy, or in gender neutral colors, they even come for twins and triplets too, but today we’re going to focus on the single baby theme.

Baby Carriage Invitation

In general, the “A Baby Is Blooming” baby shower theme is used for baby girls, although it also works quite well when the baby’s gender is unknown.  Over the next few days, we’ll give you some fantastic ideas for this great baby shower theme.

Invitations:

The start of any part is the baby shower invitations.  Any invitation that incorporates flowers will do well, but those with baby’s coming out of flowers are always extra suited.  Here’s one of our favorites:

A Baby Is Blooming Baby Shower Invitation

 Party Favors:

There are many, many suitable baby shower favors for this theme.  Here are a few of our favorite ideas:

Individual flowers
Small potted flowers
Seed Packets

A Baby Is Blooming Candy Bar Wrappers

A Baby Is Blooming Baby Food Jar Candle

Daisy Party Favor Cookie

Please note, this guide will be delivered in a few installments in order to keep it easy to read.

Step 1: Decide which types of animals you would like to include.  Will you include all baby animals, baby farm animals, or baby zoo animals?

Step 2:  Find appropriate and cute invitations.  You’ll want to get these sent out between 2 and 4 weeks before the event, so you’ll want to order them at least 4 weeks before the big day.

Baby Jungle Animals Baby Shower Invitations

Safari Baby Shower Invitations

Zoo Crew Invitations

 Step 2: Find Your Baby Animal Baby Shower Tableware

Zoo Crew Tableware

 Choose fun tableware that coordinates well with your invitations.  The tableware will be an important part of setting your theme.  If you are having appetizers and deserts or snacks only, you wll be fine using just desert plates, desert napkins, and cups.  If you will be serving a full meal, you’ll need to get both dinner plates and napkins and desert plates and napkins, along with flatware and cups.  Don’t forget to consider what you’ll do for a tablecloth.

The A Star Is Born baby shower theme is a fun twist on the traditional moon and stars baby shower theme.   It is made even easier by the fact that most supplies for moon and star baby showers also work wonderfully for the A Star Is Born theme.

For decorations and tableware, choose items that feature a star.  Many items are available for decorating here are a few of our favorites:

An “A Star is Born Diaper Cake” makes a great centerpiece

Star shaped balloons mixed in with pink, blue, yellow, and/or green balloons add a festive feel.

Small glow in the dark stars scattered around on the tables will add an element of fun, especially if the room is dimmed  a little add a nice touch of ambiance.

Some children have lights that shine stars on the ceiling, one of these makes a really fun touch, or get mom one as part of her baby gift.

For your baby shower invitations, anything featuring stars will work wonderfully.  You can even ask the company you order them from to put the caption “A Star Is Born” at the top.

Tomorrow we’ll have food and cake ideas!

Now that you have your food all scoped out for your pink or blue we welcome you baby shower, it’s time to consider how you will decorate for the big event.   There are many options for decorating in this theme, just remember to stick to the colors and your set.  Here are some of our favorite ideas:

• Decorate with pink and blue flowers.  For blue flowers, purchase white carnations and place them in water colored with blue food coloring overnight.
• Decorate with pink and blue balloons.  To add an extra special touch, use baby bottles filled with pink and blue tissue or another baby item to keep them from floating away.
•  Scatter pink and blue baby shaped ornaments around or pink and blue confetti.
• Hang pink and blue baby clothes around the room
• Place a pretty pink and blue diaper cake on the table

Finger Foods:

Pink Elephant Popcorn - to make this perfect for pink or blue, make two batches of popcorn, make the first as directed, for the second choose a blue, berry flavored gelatin.  Once they are dry mix the two together.

Sugar Plums

Again, make two batches, 1 set with the red gelatins, and 1 with blue gelatins.

Tickled Pink Pickled Eggs

 Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs

Blue Hardboiled Eggs: Boil and peel an egg. Put a drop or two of blue food coloring in a cup of water, stir it, then set the egg in it. The water should cover the egg. Let it soak, checking every 10 minutes to see if the color has deepened to the shade you want. I find pale

Blue Cornbread – Substitute blue cornmeal instead of regular cornmeal in your favorite cornbread recipe

Blue Corn Tortilla Chips

Blue or Pink Bread – Make a favorite bread recipe, but add red or blue food coloring before kneading, enough to turn it the desired color.

Desserts or Snacks (other than cake):

Raspberries in Champagne Gelatin

 Fruit cups with strawberries and blueberries

Blueberry Kiwi Tarts

Beverages:

Raspberry Peach Smoothie

 Fruity Tea Punch (Pink)

Pink Lemonade

Blue Lemonade

Meal Ideas:

Pink Tarragon Cream Dressing

While you could easily substitute blue food coloring instead of the red, we’d recommend stinking with pink  for this one.

Shrimp Luncheon Sandwiches - Pretty Pink

Raspberry Chicken Salad in Mini Pitas (pink)

Spiced Blueberry Soup

Blue or Pink dorayaki – Made just like regular dorayaki, except you add blue or red food coloring to the batter, and fry the cakes on low heat so the browning doesn’t obscure the color too much. There will be some browning, but it should be light enough tan that the blue shines through, especially on the bubbly side. The frying surface should be hot enough that water sizzles on it but not hot enough to make it skitter around, and turn the cakes as soon as they look done.

Blue or Pink Noodles – Add food coloring to the water while it cooks,  you’ll need to be very generous with the food coloring.

Blue or Pink rice in Sushi – Make rice as usual but add food coloring just before you add the water.  Proceed to make sushi as you normally would

Tomorrow we’ll treat you with Pink or Blue We Welcome You Themed Cakes!

There are hundreds of fantastic themes for baby showers when you don’t know the baby’s gender, but one of our all time favorites is the “Pink or Blue We Welcome You” baby shower, and it’s such an easy shower to throw!  One of the reasons we like it so much, is that you can use almost any decoration that is in pink or blue, and you can easily slide in yellow and green too, these showers just scream baby!

Let’s start with your baby shower invitations,  any pink or blue invitation will work wonderfully, and you’ll have no trouble finding one.  Once you do find one, you can either use it as it is, or request the printer change the text to read “Pink or Blue We Welcome You” (not all companies are willing to change the text, but many will).   Below are some examples that we think work wonderfully for this theme.   

Once you’ve ordered your baby shower invitations, it’s time to pick out your tableware and favors.  For tableware, order an assortment of pink and blue.  For instance, order half of your plates in baby blue, and half in pink, and then alternate them when you stack them, do the same with your cups, forks, knives, spoons, and napkins, and you’ll have a beautiful display.  Next come the baby shower party favors.  You can choose favors to match your invitations, or find some cute themed baby shower favors.  You can find a few of our favorite Pink Or Blue We Welcome You baby shower favors by clicking here.

In our next couple of posts, we’ll have more information about planning for this fun baby shower theme, including fun foods, cake ideas, games and more.