Baby Shower Decoration Ideas

Simple, easy, elegant, adorable, inexpensive and atmosphere are what you want to think about when deciding on your Baby Shower Decorations. Use a few of them or use them all, depending on your theme, time, and budget.

• One of the cutest ideas is to string a clothes line across the room and use clothes pins to hang little baby clothes, baby socks, bibs, towels, and more on the line. 
• A nappy cake, if done properly, can look very cute. Use as a centrepiece and give to the mother-to-be as a gift.
• Balloons are timeless baby shower decorations. Pink for little girls, light blue for baby boys, and yellow for the "To Be Determined" baby.
• Confetti gives a fun "party" feel to the room. Sprinkle confetti on the gift table, the serving table, and anywhere else that would look good.
• Sometimes baby shower decorations look strewn about a room, without anything to unify and pull everything together. Streamers can be strung (with tape) throughout the party room to give your baby shower decorations more colour and texture. Streamers that match your baby shower theme colours tie all of the decorations together to look unified and balanced. Be sure to hang them high so they don't get in the way.
• A personalised baby shower banner is an excellent and affordable decoration. Once the baby shower is over, the mum-to-be gets to take the banner home and can decorate the baby room with it.
• Use some white tulle and run white, blue or pink twinkle lights through it. Bunch it up every four to five feet (so it looks like a swag valance) and drape it around the room. Accent it with coloured bows of your choice.
• Baby Shower Cakes and Cupcakes look stunning when displayed on the serving table. Match to a theme or simply coordinate with pinks, blues and yellows.

• An artificial Christmas tree can be decorated with baby socks, rattles, booties, baby caps, and small toys. Add pink or blue lights for a great conversation piece.
• Decorate an umbrella in the open position, with blue and pink streamers and hang them so that they cascade over the sides. You can hang it from the ceiling near the gift table or chair where the mum (and dad) to be will be sitting. You can also decorate a rocking chair with streamers, bows, etc. also.

Remember simplicity. When it comes to baby shower decorating ideas, keeping it simple is the key. Do not equate simple with cheap, poor quality, cheesy or tacky. Rather, simple and classy baby shower decorating ideas will add a sweet feel to the baby shower that will give your party a fun, intimate, and memorable mood. AND you will not have to break the bank to do it!

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Baby Shower Favour Ideas - Bun in the Oven!

The weather’s getting cooler, and your friend has a “bun in the oven?”  Do we have a baby shower favour for you?!

The “Bun in the Oven” baby shower favour is thoughtfully created in gender-neutral colors. That means this favour blends with any colour pallet!

Little Details:

Fresh-baked enchantment with the captivating scent of cinnamon – yum!

• Bun in the Oven” Scented Candle looks and smells like the real thing
• Bun candle, dripping with white “icing,” measures 2″ x 1″
• Candle arrives in clever, pale-yellow stove gift box with knobs, burners and lavender accents
• Gift box with oven mitt-shaped “For You” tag measures 2 ¼” x 2 ¼” x 3″ .

Presentation:

Do you have a child’s oven (or know someone who does?) Make it your centerpiece for the shower! Leave the oven door open to display the favors inside.

Or, cover a card table with a gingham cloth, set the favours on a real baking sheet or pan and display by the door. Tuck a cute “Take One Please” note in an oven mitt and set by the pan – adorable!

Make sure that delicious cinnamon fragrance reminds your guests of the cinnamon-spiced coffee you served at the party. Here’s a delish recipe you might like to try:

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup hot espresso or strong coffee
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 teaspoons caramel-flavoured syrup
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon-flavoured syrup
• Whipped cream, for garnish
• Cinnamon stick, for garnish

Directions
In a serving glass or mug, combine the hot espresso, milk, caramel syrup, and cinnamon syrup. Stir gently to combine. Garnish with whipped cream and cinnamon stick. Serve immediately.

Baby Shower Cupcake Exclusive!

We've been selling baby shower cupcakes on our website for a few years now and they are always a firm favourite with our customers. So, we thought it could only be a good thing to help you create fabulous baby themed cupcakes at home!

Baby shower cupcakes on a beautiful tiered stand make amazing centrepieces for tables and will have your guests watering at the mouth in anticipation!

Here are a small selection of our stunning and elegant cupcake wrappers, which are now in stock and will be on our website within the next few days.

Baby Shower Cake Idea!

These "building blocks" are ideal for a baby shower and are covered with fondant and decorated with royal icing. One sheet-cake recipe will make twelve scrumptious blocks.

Ingredients

1 White Sheet Cake
1 recipe Buttercream
2 pounds rolled Foundant divided in thirds and tinted green, yellow, and white (available at cake decorating supply shops)
One recipe Royal Icing divided in quarters and tinted blue, green, yellow, and pink
Cornstarch for work surface for rolling out fondant

Tools and Materials

Serrated Knife - To slice uneven cake layers with precision.

Offset Spatula - Its flat, slightly flexible metal blade makes this the best tool for spreading icing.

Piping Bag - Put each colour of icing in its own bag, so you don't have to wash bags in the middle of the project.

Piping Tips - A round hole creates a line or dot; a star-shape hole makes a ridged line or flower.

Plastic Coupler - Allows you to change piping tips to make various shapes in the same color.

Drinking Glass - Place a damp paper towel at bottom, and set piping bags in it when not in use.

Cake Turntable - Lets you spin the cake with one hand while holding bag or spatula steady with the other (a useful extra).

Baby Block Cake How-To

All these designs were piped with a #3 plain tip using royal icing, which dries hard in about ten minutes. Turn the side you're decorating face up before piping. Wait for the finished design to dry, and then you can lay it face down to do the opposite side.

1. Place sheet cake on clean work surface, top side up. Trim top to make level. Cut cake in half horizontally. Sandwich layer of buttercream between the layers. Trim sides of cake to be square. Cut cake into twelve 2 1/2-inch squares. Place each on its own piece of parchment or waxed paper. Ice each with a thin layer of buttercream to help fondant stick to cake. Chill blocks to set the buttercream.

2. Lightly brush cornstarch onto a clean work surface. You'll cover just one block at a time. Remove a 2-inch ball of fondant from one of the larger, tinted pieces (tightly wrap remaining fondant to keep it from hardening). Using a rolling pin, roll it out into a thin circle about 1/8 inch thick and roughly 7 inches in diameter. Don't refrigerate the blocks after you cover them; the fondant will get sticky.

3. Remove cake squares from fridge. Centre the rolled fondant circle over a block of cake, and place it gently on the cake. Carefully press the fondant against the sides of the block, working on two opposite sides at the same time and smoothing up from the bottom. Repeat for the other pair of sides. Gently pinch the fondant together at the corners, creating four flaps. Working quickly, so fondant doesn't dry out, fold two flaps toward center of one side, as if wrapping a gift box; repeat for opposite side. Use a dab of water to help the flaps adhere, if necessary. Trim excess fondant from base of block with a sharp knife.

4. Repeat process for each block, using different-colored fondants, as desired. (If trimmed scraps are free of crumbs, knead together and reuse.)

Baby Shower Decorations! How to Make pom-poms

These pretty pom-poms appear to float in the air; in reality, they are hung from the ceiling with cotton, imparting a cheerful radiance to any party. Pinks and blues look fabulous for a baby shower event. Heres how to do it!

Stack eight 20-by-30-inch sheets of tissue. Make 1 1/2-inch-wide accordion folds, creasing with each fold.

Fold an 18-inch piece of floral wire in half, and slip over center of folded tissue; twist. With scissors, trim ends of tissue into rounded or pointy shapes.

Separate layers, pulling away from center one at a time.

Bend wire into a loop to fit around napkin, and twist end around loop to secure.

Congratulations Mel B!

We'd like to pass on huge congratulations to Mel B and her husband Stephen on the birth of their baby girl!

This was Mel's tweet an hour ago:

"Finally our baby arrives, Stephen nearly passed out, Phoenix screamed, I laughed so hard the baby popped out!! She is just sooo amazing!!"

Baby Shower Favour of the Week!!

No party-hosting enthusiast should be without a strategic assortment of spreaders for cheeses, dips, jellies and other spreadable fare.

I have a drawer full of spreaders in my kitchen, and I choose the spreaders for a particular event based on their distinctive handles. My handle designs complement the occasion, whether it’s a Halloween party, baby shower, Christmas party, birthday bash, spring garden party…well, you get the idea.

Spreading Joy!

For most of my well-worn collection of spreaders, I have family and friends to thank. They chose spreaders as wedding gifts, baby shower favours, wine-tasting favours—and I’ve saved every one! Every time I open that drawer, I pull out a few heartwarming memories along with the perfect spreaders for my party.

That’s why you might want to consider this adorable baby themed spreader for your baby shower.  You can use this spreader for the delicious jam and cream to spread on your scones and your guests also receive one as a favour to take home! Perfect!