Giraffe Baby Shower Planning

Baby showers are an excellent chance to show off your creative decorating skills, and what better way to do so than by throwing a giraffe themed shower? Giraffes are gender neutral, so it's not necessary to know the sex of the baby. Follow these tips to create the perfect giraffe baby shower.

Invitations:

Whether you decide to go with a cuter cartoon giraffe or more elegant giraffe pattern, send invitations that inform guests as to the theme of your party. This is an excellent place to introduce your colors and let them know if there is anything you'd like them to bring, such as recipes, games, or particular gifts.

Decorations:

Giraffe patterns are extremely popular, so it's easy to find candles, linens, and even balloons to fit your theme. These can be in the shape of giraffes or just contain the pattern itself. However, be careful not to overdo it with the patterns. If you intend to use giraffe patterned napkins, choose a solid color tablecloth to go underneath. Also, you may want to purchase a large giraffe baby bag for the mom to be, and encourage guests to fill it with one giraffe toy, blanket, or stuffed animal each. Then you'll have created a whole theme for the new baby's nursery.

Food:

The giraffe theme is easy to continue with desserts, such as a giraffe cake or individual cupcakes and cookies. You can even wrap each one in giraffe print holders. For other dishes, consider combining brown and yellow foods, such as trail mixes, nuts, breads, lentil soup, brown rice, burgers, bananas, chips, corn and cheese, with more colorful foods in giraffe patterned bowls, such as salads. Stick to the same color theme throughout the party so as not to overwhelm your guests.

Favors:

With the availability of giraffe printed ribbon, you can wrap just about any favor in a bag. Get a giraffe paper punch for creating mini shaped confetti to place within the bags. You can also use this confetti to decorate small boxes as housing for your actual favors. Favors themselves can have a giraffe theme simply by adding a cute label that you create. Giraffe clip art for your stickers is abundant online with images from live giraffes to abstract designs. Place the stickers on candy tins, candy jars, seed packets, candles, notepads, hand sanitizers or anything else with a fairly even or flat surface.