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We’ve got about a dozen new candy wrapper designs up in our baby shower candy wrapper favor section!  There are some really beautiful and fun wrappers!  Here’s just one example:

Chocolate Brown and Blue Baby Shower Candy Wrapper Favor

There are literally millions of different cake ideas out there for animal themed baby showers.  Below we’ve put some of our favorites.  For most of the cakes, you can click on the image to see instructions for how to make the cake:

Jungle Cake

Sheep Cake

Fun Jungle Cake

Jungle Cupcakes

Monkey Cake

Once you’ve got all of your supplies for your baby animal baby shower, then it’s time to consider foods.  Tomorrow we’ll have information about cakes, but today we’ll take a look at party food.  Most foods can be connected to animals if you just put a sign next to it, for instance a vegetable tray is rabbit food, there are also many foods with animals in the name, to help make sure people know the tie in, put a fun little sign next to the food with the snack name, or post a menu.  Here are some of our favorite ideas:

Monkey Bread

Animal Crackers

Goldfish Crackers

Tiger Toast

Monkey Munch (or Puppy Chow)

Hippo Muddy Puddles = made from brownies cut into circles topped with hot fudge. For a special touch, add a marzipan animal to each (found at specialty and gourmet stores).

Use animal-shaped cookie cutters to cut fun shapes from cheese and lunchmeat for a fun twist on a cheese tray

Marvelous Monkey’s Choc Banana = Make a “banana pop” for each guest. Insert a Popsicle stick into the bottom of a halved banana. Pour chocolate syrup over the banana until it is completely covered. Roll the chocolate-covered banana in a thin layer of nuts. Freeze 4-6 hours before serving.

Toucan Treats: Hornbill Hoopla = 6 cups Fruit Loops, 1 package (10 ounces) marshmallows, and 3 tablespoons margarine
Melt margarine in a large saucepan on low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until they’re completely melted. Remove from the heat and add the Fruit Loops. Stir until well coated. Using a buttered spatula or wax paper, press mixture evenly into a 13″x 9″x 2″ pan coated with cooking spray. Cut into Hornbill Hoopla squares for a colorful snack!

Party Favors:
When choosing a party favor for you baby animals baby shower, there are a few things you’ll want to take into account, besides just the theme.  Remember the party favors are for the guests, so choose something that they can use, rather than something “baby”, if your intent is that they will leave it for the mom to give to baby, then it is not really a party favor.  Next, consider whether you want a personalized favor or would rather stick with a standard gift that is not personalized for the event.  Finally, choose whether you want to have all of the animals featured, or just one.  Below are a few of our favorite baby shower favors for this theme.

Baby Animal Tea (also available in coffee, lemonade, cocoa, capuccino, and cocktail mixes)

Safari Animal Candy Bar Wrappers

Baby Lion Sachets

Monkey Baby Shower Favor Cookies

Zebra Baby Food Jar Candles (available in other animals also)

Once you’ve decided on your party favors, it’s time to start thinking about decorations.  Here are some decorating suggestions:

-  Consider a diaper cake or other decorative baby gift to use a centerpiece.  Not only will it make a great decoration, but it can double as your gift also.

Jungle Baby Shower Cake

-  Use small stuffed animals to tie balloons to.  The animals will act as balloon weights and will also enhance the party theme

-  Hang a baby shower banner featuring baby animals up to congratulate the new mom.

Baby Animals Baby Shower Banner

-  Hang stuffed animals from a clothesline or scatter around the room

- Play jungle noises or songs about animals

-  Use animals made from diapers to decorate the room

Still to come:  ideas for games, food, cake, and gifts.

Yesterday we discussed planning for your “A Star Is Born” baby shower.  Now that you have the basics planned out, let’s talk about feeding your guests.  Here are some fun food ideas:

Finger sandwiches cut in the shape of stars – use a cookie cutter to cut regular sandwiches into fun star shapes.

Yummy Star-Shaped Shortcakes

A Star Is Born Baby Shower  Cookies

Star Fruit – Generally used primarily for a decoration, this is a great addition to any table:

Star Shaped Pasta (often found for making homemade soups)

Now, let’s talk cakes.  A beautiful cake also makes a great decoration and can really bring a theme together.  Here are some fun ideas.  In most cases you can click on the images below to find  complete instructions:

A Fun Moon and Stars Cake:  Sorry, there are no instructions for this one.

Catch Those Falling Stars cupcakes:

Star Soiree Mini Cake:

A Star Is Born Cake

Throwing a shower for triplets, quads, quintuplets, or sextuplets certainly has it’s share of challenges, but finding a fun theme doesn’t have to be hard.  Virtually any theme will work for multiples,  just multiply the number of items you use (3 teddy bears instead of 1, 4 baby animals, etc).  Here are a few of our favorite themes for higher order multiple baby showers.

Three Peas In A Pod (or Four, Five, etc)

Baby Carriages, Multiples

Baby Animals, Zoo, Safari, or Jungle (since these often have more than one animal on them, it is a great way to work around the lack of tableware and supplies available for higher order multiples.

Although most people generally avoid throwing baby showers during the holidays, there are times when having a holiday shower makes the most sense.  The main reason that people opt for the holiday shower, is to accomodate visiting relatives.  If the expectant mom’s family (or in-laws) are already flying in for the holidays, and won’t be able to make it back for a shower, then having a holiday shower can be the perfect solution.  If you are having a holiday shower, there are a few things you should consider.

First, will your shower be holiday themed, or just take place during the holiday season?  Will you use a regular baby shower theme such as nursery rhymes or baby footprints, or will you use the holiday itself as the theme?

Second, when will the shower be?  Remember the closer it is to the actual holiday it is, the harder it will be for people to attend.

Now that  you’ve decided on the basics, be sure to get your baby shower invitations out extra early, that way those who want to attend can be sure to make plans appropriately.  While it is generally considered proper to send invitatons 2 weeks to a month before a shower, you should send them 1 to 2 months beforehand if you are having a holiday baby shower. 

Tomorrow we’ll have some tips for planning your shower.

In our baby shower planning guide, we walk you through all of the steps to planning a baby shower, but if you just need a quick reference timeline, we think this will help:

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our wonderful customers and friends who have filled this year with things to be thankful for!

Welcome to our brand new Babbling Baby blog.  Here you’ll find information and suggestions for throwing baby showers, baptisms and christenings, first birthdays and more!  Be sure to check back frequently to keep up with all of the latest trends in baby parties and gifts.