We are organizing a Baby Shower: decorations

Baby Shower decorations reflect the unique atmosphere of this party and make your souvenir photos look great. How to prepare an inscription for a Baby Shower yourself, how to make a balloon with confetti announcing the baby's gender? What is a Gender Reveal Party, how to organize decorations for a Baby Shower depending on whether the world is to be a girl or a boy?

If you are looking for inspiration for Baby Shower decorations in a boho style or in a more classic, elegant atmosphere, you will find proven decoration ideas in this article.

Baby Shower decorations: determine the main theme and color palette

A baby shower is a party organized in honor of the future mother and the unborn baby, therefore it is carefully selected decor should emphasize the unique theme of this joyful event.

Baby Shower decorations can be chosen in: fashionable boho style or go towards timeless, classic elegance. The selection of decorations and colors should primarily take into account the taste and preferences of the future mother.

Where to start preparations decorations for Baby Shower?

In addition to determining the place where the Baby Shower will take place (e.g. garden, house/apartment of the future mother, restaurant), when completing the decorations, it is worth determining first base color palette and party theme. It is a good idea to take into account both the future mother's favorite colors and the expected gender of the baby.

The best basic colors include: beige, white and light gray, and complementary colors are most often chosen colors referring to the baby's gender - pink or blue, in various shades.

Then determine well Baby Shower theme. The decorations may refer to, for example, the boho style, the pregnant woman's favorite fairy tale, or they may repeat selected motifs such as: a cloud, a pacifier, a teddy bear or a flower in a color appropriate to the expected gender of the unborn baby.

gender reveal party: how to prepare balloon with confetti announcing the sex of the child?

More and more couples decide to organize a Baby Shower gender reveal party - what is that?

Gender Reveal Party - the name, just like the tradition of organizing this type of events, comes from the English language and means baby gender reveal party. These types of parties are most often organized in the second trimester of pregnancy, when the baby's gender is already confirmed. Decorations for the Gender Reveal Party refer to both genders, both in terms of the selected theme and colors.

Popular inscriptions on Gender Reveal Party decorations include: Oh baby, Girl or Boy? or from English Boy or Girl?. Thanks to properly selected decorations at the Gender Reveal Party, excited guests are put into a joyful mood of expectation. The culminating moment is a surprise - the reveal of the baby's gender.

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Anna Milewska

Senior specialist in the Department of Assessment and Cooperation Development, Institute of Mother and Child

How to reveal your baby's gender at a baby shower?

This can be done using, among others:

  • slices of cake/cupcakes with blue or pink filling;
  • launching a special smoke candle (necessarily outdoors) in pink or blue;
  • shooting confetti from a decorative tube - the color of the confetti announces gender;
  • a spectacular puncture of a confetti balloon, revealing the baby's gender.

How to prepare it yourself, easily a balloon with confetti revealing the baby's gender? Just buy a black, opaque balloon, then insert a plastic funnel into the inlet and pour pink or blue confetti through it. Then we inflate the balloon, tie it, decorate it with a ribbon and add the inscription with a gold or silver marker: Boy, or Girl? A balloon with confetti revealing the baby's gender; during the Baby Shower, the baby's mother and father pop it with a pin - a surprise effect is guaranteed.

Baby Shower decorations for a boy or girl: classic or maybe stylish boho?

Baby shower decorations for a boy

They are the most common in various varieties of blue and silver, although this is not the rule. In boho Baby Shower decorations for a boy, very popular colors also include shades of green, warm yellow and brown, and the child's gender is emphasized with inscriptions, e.g. It's a boy and/ or Baby Boy. Baby shower decorations for a boy can also refer to the child's gender with a selected motif, e.g. a toy car, a rocket, a blue teddy bear.

Baby shower decorations for a girl

Popular baby shower decorations for girls most often have pink color, with gold accents. Boho baby shower decorations for girls can also be in the color of muted red, pastel green or orange mixed with shades of warm beige. Baby shower decorations for girls emphasize inscriptions It's a girl, Baby Girl and selected motifs, e.g. bow, pink elephant or flower.

Popular Baby Shower decorations for boys and girls also refer to animal motifs, e.g. safari, forest animals, which can be matched to the child's gender through the colors of other decorations and accessories: napkins, straws, candles, balloons. Garlands made of children's clothes, such as rompers, socks and hats, are also very popular - all you need is a separate string and tiny clothespins to attach the clothes, creating a unique garland.

Universal decorations for Baby Shower

Universal, boho decorations for a Baby Shower include: rattan or wooden snack mats, linen tablecloths and tableware in subdued, beige colors. Bouquets of dried or live flowers, braided macrame and garlands of balloons in subdued earthy colors will also work perfectly in the boho atmosphere of Baby Shower decorations.

Baby Shower inscription: how to prepare it yourself?

Most Baby Shower decorations can be ordered online (including an inscription in the form of a helium-inflated balloon or a paper/wooden garland), but many people prefer to prepare an inscription for a Baby Shower themselves.

The most popular one to prepare yourself is Baby Shower inscription in the form of a garland. To make it, we need:

  • stiff, decorative paper in the selected color;
  • scissors;
  • glue tube/stick or hot glue gun;
  • decorative string or ribbon;
  • metallic markers.

We cut out triangles from decorative paper and write one letter of the selected inscription on each of them, e.g. Baby Shower and/ or It's Boy/Girl. The letters can be applied with a glossy marker or cut out from decorative paper in a different color. Then we glue the decorated triangles to the ribbon/string, bending them slightly at the top.

Instead of triangles, you can cut out very large letters from gold/silver-colored paper and then glue them to the string with hot glue, arranging them into an attractive inscription. Baby Shower.

We hope that our ideas for Baby Shower decorations they will inspire you to create an unforgettable party for the future mother and baby.

 

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