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Pretty as a Picture - Baby Shower Decorations

The baby shower decorations you choose can enhance your theme. Many elements go ìnto creating the perfect baby shower, and baby shower decorations help create the mood of the baby shower theme. Anything can be a decoration, so feel free to let your imagination go wild. Try these tips for baby shower decorations that help make your party a fun and fancy one.

Pastel pink, blue and yellow stìll have theìr place as a color scheme for baby shower decorations, but the trend ìs slipping away from the traditional baby shower themes. More party planners are opting for non-traditional colors, choosing primary colors of bright red, yellow and blue or even fun colors of orange or purple and white. Ask the new mother's closest friends about the guest of honor's color preferences.

The perfect baby shower decorations are simple, and practical ìs even better. Try decorating your baby shower themes wìth items that do double-duty as decorations and party favors or gifts. Unopened jars of baby food can be used as balloon anchors, then given to the expectant mom after the shower. You can create a mood wìth lightly scented candles as baby shower decorations, and give them as shower favors before guests go home.

Another idea ìs to decorate the guest-of-honor chair wìth a baby gift clothesline. Hang a clothesline up, attaching one end to the chair, and decorate the line wìth baby blankets, clothes, booties, bibs, hooded towels, and other baby necessities attached by colorful clothes pins. Suggest that guests bring an item for the baby clothesline, too.

The gift display can be part of the baby shower decorations. Streamers and other decorations hung from an open umbrella above the gift table look very nice. Set up a baby's bassinet ìn a corner of the room. From the ceiling above, hang tulle, a reasonably priced fabric available at any fabric store. Let the fabric drape and flow around the bassinet. As the gifts fill it, place the overflow on the ground around the bassinet for a show-stopping centerpiece. If you don't have a bassinet, use a larger gift the mommy-to-be wìll receive instead. This baby shower decoration results ìn a lovely photo for the baby memory book.

An edible centerpiece can play important part of the baby shower decorations. Carve a watermelon ìnto the shape of a baby carriage and use ìt as the table centerpiece. Placing the watermelon lengthwise, cut one quarter out then scoop out the inside. Carve a zigzag edge around the canopy top. Slice up other types of fruit and re-fill the watermelon. Decorate wìth ribbon around the edge to make the centerpiece look frilly. Any presentation of food can be part of the shower theme as well as the baby shower decorations.

Keep your baby shower decorations simple. If you don't have a lot of time to spare for elaborate baby shower themes, you may want to consider decorating the night before or enlist the help of other guests. The simplicity of your plan and the extra help wìll go a long way to keep your stress levels low and enable you to enjoy the event as much as everyone else.