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This Baby Shower Party Planning Package includes:

Pre-printed baby shower invitations that you can personalize, or the instructions and templates you can use for making your own, including matching mailing and return address labels

Pre-printed baby shower guest book pages, and options for putting together a baby shower guest book that can also be used by Mommy-to-Be for doing her thank-you cards

A baby shower table decoration idea that is easy to make following the illustrated instructions provided and matches the motif of the invitations and guest book

Pre-printed thank-you cards that Mommy-to-Be can use that also match the baby shower invitations and guest book

Baby shower games

More free printable baby shower clipart that you can use to make your own invitations, guest book pages, table decoration, banners, and thank you cards following the instructions that accompany the pre-printed versions!

You don't need anything special, and everything can be made using plain computer paper (although there are options for using card stock or postcard stock).

Each individual piece of the Baby Shower Party Planning Package comes with the links you need to download either the pre-printed items or the templates you can use to make your own. Each includes links to the other pieces of the package. However, all the links you will need for everything in the package are provided in the accompanying illustrated examples page, so you can simply bookmark that page and use it to guide you to everything you'll need.

Each article provides easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions for personalizing the pre-printed invitations and cards, how to complete the mailing labels, and how to make the table decoration. You can easily use these instructions to make your own, using the other clipart that is available at Mom's Break Baby Shower. You can also use the provided templates as guides to help you design your own cards and labels---even if you don't have card-making software!

Baby shower kits are a practical way to find everything you will need to host a party. Today you can find them in various fun themes to fit your style. They are also a smart idea if you are feeling overwhelmed with hosting a shower or have limited time to do the shopping required.

Most shower kits provide the following:

Invitations
Table Cloths
Table Centerpieces
Plates & Utensils
Balloons & Streamers
Party Games & Activities
Prizes
Party Favors
Name Tags
Thank You Cards
Planning Guides and Party Tips.

Adding a theme to your gathering can be a lot of fun for your mom-to-be and guests. It can also simplify your decision-making regarding your decorations, invitations and menu selections! A baby shower kit takes this simplicity one step further. When selecting a theme take in consideration the personal taste of your expectant mom, your guest list and the style of your shower.

If you are unaware of the sex of the baby look at gender-neutral themes such as rubber ducky or nursery rhyme. Other popular themes are Little Prince or Little Princess Baby Shower, Old MacDonald Farm Animals and Noah's Ark Baby Shower. Your options are endless!

Baby Shower Kits maybe your answer to taking away some of the stress of planning and hosting a baby shower. If you are still unsure a shower kit is the best option for the party you will be hosting, take a moment and go surfing online. There are many reputable online website stores that all-in-one kits a long with other party necessities. You will find a large selection of themes to choose from, as well as a variety of options all at reasonable rates.

Taking the time to look online will allow you to know what is available and give you some tips and ideas for your party. Happy Planning!

Favors should be at every baby shower for its guests. Cute little items, items that are easily available, are perfect for your shower. You have a great variety of party favors, such as gift certificates to choose from for your shower. Your party favors need not be expensive to be appreciated.

You will have fun giving out favors, and your party guests will enjoy getting those favors. Favors will also be a reminder of being at the shower. Plus, they will serve as a small thank you letting them know you appreciate their attendance at the shower. After all, the shower guests had a helping hand in celebrating the coming arrival of the new baby to be.

You also might want to have some extra Favors on hand. You never know if someone you didn't expect might drop in. Plus, there is always the possibility that you might misplace a couple of Favors. It will be good to be prepared with extra favors, just in case.

You can give out the favors as the guests arrive. Another way to give out the shower favors would be to have them placed around the table/s where the guests will be eating. If you are not serving a meal, hand the party favors out when you serve the appetizers. Or you could hand out the party favors as the shower guests are leaving. This is the time to thank each guest for coming to the shower. And to thank them for giving the guest of honor a gift.

You could also choose to have favors you can make yourself. One suggestion would be to personalize your favors. Check out favors crafts at any crafts store and let your imagination run wild. Your guests will love the idea of having favors homemade by the hostess. Talk about being unique!

Many different kinds of local stores carry items you can use to make party favors. There also are numerous online merchants that carry the items you need for party favors.

If you choose to make your own party favors, favors are not hard to make. Most of the items needed for making party favors are available locally. They are all easy items to find, so you shouldn't have any problems getting the items to make your favors.

Your shower will be appreciated by the party guests by this gesture. Even though favors are usually token items, the favors show that you have put a lot of effort into the planning. Making for a very enjoyable experience for yourself, your guests, and your guest of honor.

Choosing themes is the first step in planning a baby shower. Or, you may choose not to have a theme at all. However, having a theme for your shower should make the party entertaining, fun, and a memorable experience.

Before picking one, decide on what your guests would find enjoyable. Put yourself in their shoes and think about what you would want to do if you were the guests. Themes for your shower are time savers by providing a focus on the party.

The theme you decide on will determine everything else about the baby shower. The location, whom to invite, what kind of decorations, games, food and beverages.

You also need to determine if the shower will be before the baby arrives or after.

One of the themes that the Ladies would like would be a tea party. There are tea gift baskets that would work well with a tea party. Not only can Gift Baskets provide the theme for the shower, they can double as a centerpiece for your table decorations. With so many gift baskets available, you will be able to use a gift basket for almost any theme.

More Examples of Themes:

Baby Diaper Cake
Teddy Bear
Gift Basket
Stork
Harvest Moon
Nursery Rhyme
Baby invitation
Baby safari
Winnie the pooh
Christmas
Baby Shower cake
Baby girl
baby duck
Baby boy
Baby game
Baby buttery
Noah's ark
Decoration
Frog shower
Book shower
Rubber ducky
Sports
Care bear
Ducky
Teddy bear
Snoopy
Tigger
Jungle
Princess
Angel
Cowboy
Precious moments
Sports
Jungle

Much like any other parties, it does require some planning, but, being an informal event, you don't have to worry too much about all the details and you can keep things casual while at the same time being creative. The benefit of baby-themed parties is that there are many amazing things you could try and you can make most decorations and foods yourself. With a bit of imagination, you can turn the shower into an unforgettable event, not just a formality, and enjoy its memory for years to come.

Cute decorations

Decorations are key in creating a theme for the shower and establishing a warm and pleasant atmosphere in general. You don't necessarily have to create a theme if you don't want to, buy decorations are a must. Until not that long ago, future parents would choose decorations based on the baby's gender, but recently this trend has lost its popularity. If you don't want your baby shower to be gender specific, or if you're tired of classic ideas and want something new, you should think outside the box. choose charming decorations that can apply for both little girls and boys and place them carefully around the house. You can get everything from toys and stickers to baby themed plates and balloons. Pastel colours are recommended, because they inspire purity, playfulness and innocence.

Creative desserts

Desserts are the highlight of any baby shower, but, apart from pleasing guests who have a sweet tooth, desserts can be a sort of decoration if done properly. Instead of the traditional cookies and cupcakes, why not make thematic sweets shaped like cute animals? Baking them yourself can be quite difficult and the last thing you want in the last month of pregnancy is to spend hours in the kitchen, so ordering them from a candy shop would be more practical. Also, don't forget about the cake. It should be the most impressive dessert yet, so find a professional cake shop to bake you something custom and colourful.

Baby shower favours

Although shower favours aren't as important as wedding favours, they add a personal touch to your party and help guests remember what made the shower so special. Contrary to common belief, baby shower favours aren't expensive at all and you can even do them yourself. For example, you can fill a small jar with candy and then wrap some cute pastel colour ribbon around it. Alternatively, you can also offer mini tea sets, miniature stuffed toys or a jar of cookies.

Holiday themes

If you happen to throw the shower around a main holiday, such as Christmas, Easter, Halloween or St. Patrick's Day, you can use that holiday as inspiration for your shower theme. You can ask your guests to wear thematic costumes and choose your decorations accordingly. Regardless the holiday, there are many amazing baby shower ideas you can try.

Baby shower photography

People who don't like their picture being taken might wonder what the purpose of baby shower photography is if maternity photography and newborn photography exist. It's simple: the shower is a completely different part of pregnancy, the final step, where parents are the most excited. Maternity photography also illustrates pregnancy, but in a different way. The parents are usually alone and photographs consists of portraits. At baby showers, you can take candid photos and capture a fun event with all your friends and family. After many years go by, you will definitely love showing your grown up child how you got ready for the event and how happy you were to welcome them to the family.

No matter how you decide to decorate your home for the shower, planning is very important. Some things should be established one month before the big day, while others can be left until the last minute. Also, regarding the responsibilities for the planning, it depends how well you feel. Women with easy pregnancies like to take charge and organise everything themselves, while others decide to get help from their spouse, friends and family.

It's party time. A baby shower where the soon-to-be parents are going to find out the gender of their precious bundle is the most enjoyable type of party. The hostess of the party already knows whether the baby will be a boy or girl so she has to prepare a bunch of confectionaries to keep the parents guessing until the gender is revealed.

She starts off with multi-coloured cupcakes. This will certainly keep everyone guessing. Sunflower oil is combined with the dry ingredients so that the batter doesn't separate when baked. Before adding the multi-coloured icing on the cupcakes, the hostess fills the inside of the cupcakes with either blue or pink jelly for a fun touch to the confectionaries. She then creates a butter frosting and splits it in two. Next, a blue colouring is add in one batch and red in the other batch to make the butter frosting turn pink.The main cake that will reveal whether the baby is a sweet little boy or girl. This is exciting part and will be an emotional event for everyone at the baby shower.

The hostess uses a similar recipe to the one she used for the cupcakes but adds some melted chocolate for a sweeter and stronger taste. The ingredients are mixed together with sunflower oil to prevent the mixture from sticking to the pan. The hostess uses a silicone jelly mould to get the ridged shape for the cake.

Once the cake has been baked, it is easily removed from the mould that was lined with sunflower oil. The bottom will be cut out so that the hostess can fill the centre with the appropriate colour smarties. She then closes the smartie filled centre and applies colourful frosting for the final presentation.

The cake is moved to the table which is decorated with baby items and silver embellishments. The parents are excited because it is baby gender reveal time. Together, they pick up a cake knife and are filled with excitement. They make the first cut from the centre to the circumference and then repeat the step.

They slowly remove the piece and finally... They have found out that they are having a baby girl. A bunch of pink smarties spill out of the cake and all over the table for the guests to see. Both parents are crying with joy and hugging all their guests.

The excited parents can now prepare for a baby girl.

It might sound intimidating, but with the right planning and proper preparation, planning a baby shower can actually be a fun process.

Here are some helpful tips on how to plan a fun and memorable baby shower:

Decide on a date and time

If you are planning for it to be a surprise, aim to hold the party sometime in your guest of honor's 7th month in pregnancy - the perfect time where the pregnancy is safe and she's still comfortable to move around. Involve the husband in the surprise to make sure that your chosen date and time are ideal (and ask about gift ideas, too!). Otherwise, ask the mommy-to-be when she'll like to have the baby shower!

Set a budget

You don't have to carry all the expenses all by yourself (unless you can and you're willing to!), you can ask your close girlfriends to pitch in financially. The first step is to come up with the guest list. You can create the list on your own if it's a surprise baby shower or ask the guest of honor if it's not. Knowing how much you have to spend and how many people to serve will make the next steps easier.

Decide on the venue and theme

Based on your budget, choose a suitable venue for your baby shower. Depending on your budget, it can be at a café, restaurant or even at one of your friends' backyard. As for the theme and decorations, take into consideration what the mommy-to-be likes. It can be as simple as a color theme based on the baby's gender. Make sure you buy the flowers on the day of the party!

Plan the menu

Don't plan a complicated menu! Go for comfort food - salads, sandwiches, mini sliders or even pizza! If you're holding the baby shower in a backyard, a barbecue would be nice. But also make sure to ask your guest of honor for her input!

Create the program flow

Baby showers are not complicated. They usually consist of fun games related to pregnancy and babies, opening of gifts, giving advice to the mommy-to-be and generally just friends celebrating new life. Do research for fun games, good music and other forms of entertainment. Don't forget the party favors!

Follow these simple steps to planning a fun and memorable baby shower and you're sure to have a blast, especially your guest of honor and her guests!