35+ Creative and Sweet Baby Shower Themes

This celestial theme can be as mystical or elegant as you’d like — you could lean into the classic children’s song with your decor, or go for something more zodiac-inspired. It could also be a fun theme if you’re doing something a little bit different and hosting a nighttime baby shower, complete with stargazing.

• Decor ideas: Make DIY clouds out of bunches of cotton or white balloons and hang them from the ceiling with garlands of gold stars and moons for an out-of-this-world look. If the mom you’re celebrating loves astrology as much as astronomy, you could also decorate the space with zodiac signs and constellations.
• Food ideas: Serve cookies in the shape of clouds, moons, and stars.
• Favor ideas: Send guests home with a goodie bag filled with essentials for a relaxing evening, think sleepytime tea, lavender pillow spray (or a small sachet of dried lavender), and sweet tea lights.

Go wild with a theme that is full of colorful design potential —think zebra patterns, tiger print, and even cheetah spots. We’ve shared our favorite ideas for this theme below, but you should also check out our full guide to planning a safari-themed baby shower for even more inspiration.

• Decor ideas: Create a photo wall with balloons in a variety of green tones, palm fronds, and even monkey stuffed animals. Provide some fun props for guests to use in the photoshoot like binoculars and safari hats.
• Food ideas: Give your appetizers and snacks some fun and on-theme names — put out carrots and dip (label it “Tiger Tails”), grapes (“Snake Eggs”), or nuts (“Elephant Treats”).
• Favor ideas: Package gummy animal candy or animal crackers in cellophane. Tie your bundle or treats with raffia and finish each favor off with a cute sticker that ties into the baby shower theme.

Adorable shower ideas like this one are both easy and affordable to pull off. Whether you’re having the shower indoors or out, there are many ways you can tie in decorations and activities to honor the “mother/queen bee.” (Check out our full guide to planning a bee-themed baby shower for more inspo!)

• Decor ideas: Use wooden hexagons to create a hive look behind the dessert table or gift table. You can also use these wooden hexagons throughout the shower for a photo wall, centerpieces, etc.
• Favor ideas: Hand out little jars of local honey that guests can take home with them for a sweet treat they’ll enjoy even after the baby arrives.
• Food ideas: Put honey front and center by creating a grazing table complete with cheeses, local honey (or even honeycomb!), crackers and more. If you plan on serving something more substantial, consider making hot honey chicken sliders or even going simple with pizza drizzled with delicious hot honey.
• Game ideas: Get a large jar and fill it with honeycomb-shaped pretzels. Have guests guess how many honeycombs are in the jar. Baby shower game ideas like this are easy to manage because guests can place their “ballot” at any time during the shower. Just be sure to set aside some time at the end of the celebration to go through the guesses and declare a winner!

It’s common for hosts to ask guests to help stock the new parent’s library by bringing a children’s book instead of a card or gift. So why not expand on this idea and theme the entire shower around books?

• Decor ideas: Use children’s books as decorative pieces throughout the space. Incorporate them into centerpieces, use stacks of books to add height to grazing tables, and find a few cute garlands or cut-outs featuring characters from classic children’s books to hang around your venue. You can also print up some signs with your favorite quotes from children’s books.
• Game ideas: Create a list of children’s books and their main characters. Mix up the list so people will have to match the book to the character. Whoever gets the most right wins.
• Dessert ideas: Create mini flags with your favorite storybook character or book covers and use them to decorate cupcakes.

Rubber duckies come in all kinds of fun aesthetics and personalities, so there are countless directions you can take a rubber ducky-themed baby shower. If you’re planning a combination baby shower and gender reveal party, use the tagline “Waddle it Be?” on your invitations or party signage. Guests can then be asked to mark their guess if the baby will be a mallard or drake.

• Decor ideas: Go for a bathtime theme by forming clusters of bath suds with white balloons or foam, and topping each off with an oversized rubber duck. You can also buy a collection of rubber duckies in various sizes to use throughout your centerpieces and decor.
• Food ideas: Create the illusion of ducks floating on water by making cups of blue jello with a thin layer of whipped cream on the top. Then place a miniature rubber duck on top.
• Game ideas: Fill a small kiddie pool with a collection of mini rubber duckies and have guests guess how many are in it. Guests can then take home a duckie or two at the end of the event as a party favor.

If the mom-to-be you’re celebrating has become even more obsessed with tacos than usual during her pregnancy, a fiesta-themed shower complete with a pinata, taco bar, and agua fresca station is the perfect idea.

• Decor ideas: Set up an Instagram-worthy food table with big gold balloons that say “Taco Bout A Baby.” Sprinkle some green mylar cactus-shaped balloons, and colorful Mexican Picado-style bunting around your venue as well.
• Food ideas: Serve tacos, of course! Set up a taco bar your guests won’t forget. In addition to having some pre-made margaritas on hand, stock up on a few agua fresca flavors to keep mom — and anyone else who is skipping alcohol — happy.
• Game ideas: Set up a baby stork piñata and fill it with candy your guests can take home to their families.

Most baby showers are hosted during brunch, so why not use everyone’s favorite meal as your theme? Go all-out with crowd-favorite brunch food, and set up your venue like a mini cafe or coffee shop.

• Decor ideas: A brunch-themed baby shower is all about the food, so do your best to create stunning tablescapes that invite guests to sit down and enjoy! Go for beautifully patterned tablecloths, coordinating placemats, and serveware. Line the center of each table with floral arrangements and taper candles, and finish each place setting off with a beautiful place card and menu.
• Favor ideas: Let guests choose from an assortment of colorful potted succulents, which can serve as decor throughout the party.
• Food ideas: Serve traditional brunch items like donuts, pastries, quiches, and croissants. You can also set up fun DIY stations like a bagel bar, parfait bar, and mimosa bar. And, if you have a bit of extra room in your budget, hire a cute coffee cart to come and serve guests their favorite flavored lattes.

Does it get more classic than this sweet baby shower theme? Set up your venue to look like the Hundred-Acre Wood, gather up stuffed animal versions of Pooh and friends, and have plenty of honey on hand.

• Decor Ideas: If you don’t have the luxury of hosting the shower in an actual forest or English-inspired garden, give your space a magical, storybook feel by building a balloon arch using pastel yellow, blue, and green balloons, stringing up gingham bunting, and decorating tables with small bud vases filled with white and yellow wildflowers.
• Favor Ideas: Send everyone home with their very own honey jar complete with vintage-inspired honey stir sticks!
• Food Ideas: Take inspiration from the iconic characters of Winnie the Pooh for your menu — serve Pooh’s honey ham sandwiches, Piglets in a Blanket, Rabbit’s veggies, and more.

Hosting a shower for a fun-loving, free-spirited family? Go for a boho baby shower theme! There are a few directions you can take this theme in — you could go modern boho by focusing on macrame, rattan, and neutral colors, or you can lean into the groovy 70s with disco balls, and vibrant oranges, yellows, and greens.

• Decor Ideas: No matter which type of boho you’re going for, nailing the look is all about mixing organic textures with funky details. So choose your color palette (whether that be neutrals or something more flower-power inspired), then set up a photo vignette with an arched backdrop, rent a peacock chair for the mom you’re celebrating to sit in while opening gifts, and incorporate plenty of macrame details. Check out our full guide to planning a boho baby shower for even more ideas!
• Favor Ideas: Send everyone home with a suite mini bouquet of dried flowers — bonus points if you’re able to incorporate the flower associated with the month the baby will be born in.
• Activity Ideas: Let guests tap into their creative sides by setting up a few DIY stations throughout the shower. If you’re hosting outside, set up a place where they can tie-dye baby onesies, bibs, socks, and more. If you’re hosting inside, set up a table where guests can write a sweet personalized message on a set of neutral blocks for the baby to play with.

This sweet pun makes for the perfect baby shower theme, no matter if you’re celebrating the arrival of a baby boy or baby girl. The key to getting this right is to incorporate bears wherever possible — all of the other details and decor are up to you!

• Decor Ideas: In addition to choosing an invitation design that features the saying “Can Bearly Wait,” find a place to set up a sign with the quote somewhere in the shower. A sweet idea is to create a photo booth or vignette with a sign that says “I can barely wait,” balloon arch in your color palette, and oversized stuffed bear.
• Food Ideas: Stock a dessert table full of bear-themed sweet treats like bear claws, cookies in the shape of bears, honey candies, and more.
• Game Ideas: This theme is perfect for the classic guess-the-due-date baby shower game. Set up an oversized calendar featuring the baby’s expected birth month, then give guests a bear sticker and ask them to write their name on it. Have everyone put their stickers on the day they think the baby will arrive — bragging rights go to the winner!

Blocks, bears, binkies…the list of baby toys and nursery essentials goes on — and makes for the perfect baby shower theme.

• Decor Ideas: Baby toys are so cute, so why not put them front and center in your decor? Build centerpieces around toys the new parents can use as the baby grows like books and stuffed animals, rent or buy a few oversized toys like a giant rocking horse or larger-than-life baby blocks for photo ops, and more.
• Food Ideas: There are tons of fun ways to make your party spread fit the toy theme. Use bigger toys like dump trucks or Barbie pools as serving trays, decorate cookies to look like stuffed animals and rubber ducks, and set up a display of cake pops or donut holes that look like rattles.
• Game Ideas: If most of the guests that will be attending the shower are also parents, it could be fun to host a diaper raffle and have the prize be the toy all the kids are currently coveting!

Get inspired by all of the classic iconography of babies and baby showers of the 1940s and 50s with this sweet theme. Go for soft pastels, invitations that look hand-drawn, plenty of stork iconography, and lots of fun, retro-inspired details.

• Decor Ideas: Vintage-inspired tablescapes have been trending for a few years, so lean into the look by sourcing vintage serveware and tea cups for guests to use, and laying everything out on a floral or classically striped tablecloth. Hang sweet bunting in a pattern that coordinates with your table linens throughout the space, and set up a few clotheslines where you can hang a cute collection of vintage baby clothes to gift the mom-to-be at the end of the shower.
• Food Ideas: If you really want to lean into the 1950s spirit, feature some retro classics on your menu — think deviled eggs, jello, ham-and-cheese sliders, mini meatballs, and more. We also recommend making a big batch of punch served up in one of the family’s vintage punch bowls.
• Game Ideas: Get guests involved in the process of opening presents by turning it into a fun game of bingo. Simply print out cards with the most common gifts (be sure to put the gifts in a different order on each card), and pass them out to guests before the mom-to-be begins opening gifts. As she opens them, everyone will cross them out until someone gets a bingo!

This sweet, Beatles-inspired baby shower theme is one of our favorites for a baby boy. Not only is it a fun way to play with the idea of the sun coming out after a shower, it is perfect for a family of music lovers.

• Decor Ideas: There are so many fun ways that you can incorporate this theme into your decor: rent a large sunburst backdrop for a photo booth, hang up garlands featuring suns and clouds, pick up napkins in a sun print, and so much more.
• Food Ideas: Set up a cute cart stocked with drinks that taste like sunny days — think lemonade, mimosas, Arnold Palmers, and lemon-infused water. Serve sun-shaped cookies or lemon and orange macarons alongside baby shower staples like sliders and salad.
• Favor Ideas: For a cheeky (and practical!) take on the theme, send guests home with a mini bottle of sunscreen.

Perfect for a couple’s shower, play up the idea that the mom is “brewing” a baby boy inside her belly. Purchase an assortment of craft beers for guests to sample. You could even purchase little flight glasses so guests can be served three sample beers at once.

• Decor ideas: Purchase some gold balloons that say “Cheers” and surround them with other balloons in gold, yellow, and white. Not only is it a nod to the theme, but it’s also perfect for photo opportunities. Also, consider how you can transform a room or backyard to resemble a German beer garden.
• Drink ideas: It goes without saying that you should offer local craft beers for those who can drink. For those who can’t, apple cider is a great alternative — or, ask your local liquor store if they have any non-alcoholic beers for guests to try.
• Food ideas: When it comes to baby shower food ideas, serve freshly baked pretzels with mustards and dips; perfect with beer or sparkling waters as a refreshment.

Say hello to one of the cutest baby shower theme ideas for a boy! Shower the mom-to-be with a celebration that pays homage to the wise, innocent, and mischievous baby elephant.

• Decor ideas: Find a large stuffed toy elephant and blow up a bunch of balloons in gray, white, and blue so it looks like they’re coming out of his trunk. If you can pull it off, it’ll look like he’s spraying water in an arc — and will be the perfect backdrop for photos.
• Favor ideas: Order soap in the shape of an elephant and package each one in a mesh bag. Include a thank you note on the ribbon.
• Game ideas: Fill a jar with peanuts and have people guess how many are in the jar. Also, because an elephant never forgets, you could think of a game that tests your guests’ memory, like some trivia about the mom-to-be.

If you’re looking for baby shower ideas for a boy, this one will get the checkered flag. Base your baby shower theme around fast cars, shiny trains, and things that are going places — just like your future little man.

• Decor ideas: Set up antique toy planes and trains on the dessert table and weave them into centerpieces on guest tables. You can also hang a few toy planes from the ceiling using fishing line.
• Food ideas: Serve a cake with a train track fashioned out of icing. Or, you could even set up a toy train set to circle your cake. All aboard!
• Game ideas: Play a game that celebrates the “ABCs”. Give guests 3 minutes to try and name a type of car that starts with every letter of the alphabet. The winner could also take home something on theme like a collection of brand-new Hot Wheels cars.

Celebrate the arrival of a new wild child with a baby shower theme that embraces all the fun — and chaos to come. The key to getting this shower theme right is to use the “Oh Boy!” saying in a few key places like your invitation, a welcome sign, and more.

• Decor Ideas: Embrace classic baby blue as your color palette by incorporating it into details like table linens, fun blue drinking glasses, balloons, and more! Set up a photo area by stringing up balloons that spell out “Oh Boy!” (or you could invest in a fun piece of large-scale art with the saying that can hang in the baby’s nursery once he arrives) for guests to pose in front of.
• Food and Drink Ideas: Have fun with the blue color palette by incorporating blueberries into your food and drink lineup. Serve beautiful blueberry lemonade, and stock your dessert table with lemon bars topped with blueberries, mini blueberry cheesecakes, and more.
• Game Ideas: Encourage guests to tap into their mischievous side by playing “Who’s Watching the Baby?” For this game, you’ll need to purchase a large amount of mini babies and place them in a basket near the table where guests will drop their gifts as they arrive. Encourage everyone to pick up a baby and tell them that they must keep track of it for the entirety of the shower, because, if they put their baby down, it becomes fair game for anyone to steal! The guest who’s amassed the most babies at the end of the shower wins a fun prize.

If you’re looking for unique ideas for a girl, this one is perfect! Create a shower that is almost Alice In Wonderland in nature. Showcase the colorful patterns and arrangements found on butterflies throughout your decor. You could even plan the party in a rose garden or botanical garden.

• Decor ideas: Purchase giant artificial butterflies online, hang butterfly garlands over tables, string up a butterfly-shaped pinata, and even set up a balloon arch for a huge statement piece at the shower.
• Favor ideas: Send guests home with a favor they’ll never forget by gifting them a butterfly kit. Give each one a mini topiary with a caterpillar that they’ll be able to watch transform into a butterfly for them to release.
• Game ideas: Create a worksheet featuring pictures of the world’s most famous butterflies and then have a list of their names. See if your guests can correctly identify the Monarch, Tiger Swallowtail, Blue-spotted Emperor, Buckeye, and more.

Have you considered a French theme? Ooh-la-la! There are so many creative ways to bring this theme to life, starting with a super sweet French-inspired invitation and a menu full of Parisian favorites.

• Decor ideas: Turn your venue into a French flower market with tall silver vases filled to the brim with flowers. These are perfect for the base of the buffet table or gift table. If you’re hosting the shower outside, set up some bistro lights, cute fringed umbrellas, and use lots of neutral gingham accents.
• Food and drink ideas: Serve traditional French pastries, including croissants, eclairs, canelés, and macarons. True to French form, offer champagne to those who can drink and sparkling water or cider to those who cannot.
• Favor Ideas: What’s more Parisian than a perfectly baked baguette? Work with a local bakery to buy enough French baguettes for each household invited to the shower, wrap them up in some butcher paper and pretty wine, then find a beautiful wicker basket to display them all in until it is time for guests to go home.

If you’re welcoming a little girl, you can expect there to be plenty of pretend tea parties in mom and dad’s future. So why not celebrate the baby with an actual tea party? This theme is so fun and super easy to pull off.

• Decor Ideas: To recreate the look of a classic tea parlor, set tables with vintage (or vintage-inspired) floral table linens, source plenty of fun teacups and saucers for guests, and turn vintage teapots into centerpieces.
• Food and drink ideas: Hello, finger sandwiches! Source tiered trays and stack them full of tea sandwiches and other tea-party-inspired finger foods like scones, mini quiches, macarons, and more. For drinks, be sure to offer a wide variety of teas for guests to choose from and plenty of hot water. If you’re hosting a tea party-themed baby shower in the summer, it may be fun to have some iced tea — as well as some Earl Grey syrup for guests to use to make spiked tea-inspired lemonade or other cocktails.
• Favor ideas: Gather up a few of the mom-to-be’s favorite flavors of tea and assemble little sample bags for guests to take home with them.

It is hard to think of a trendier motif than bows right now (Minted’s artists have been loving incorporating them into baby shower invitation designs), and a bow-themed baby shower is a super cute way to celebrate both mom and her new daughter.

• Decor Ideas: Part of getting the bow trend right is to really lean into it, so when in doubt, put a bow on it. Come up with a color palette, and then buy a bunch of beautiful ribbon to tie onto chairs, the stems of wine glasses, create a bow garland to hang from a mantle or above the gift table…the opportunities are endless!
• Favor Ideas: Any favor becomes on-theme when tied up with a pretty bow, so think about what your guests might actually use after the shower. Assembling a little sachet of dried lavender for them to tuck in a drawer is a fun idea that they’ll be sure to appreciate!
• Game Ideas: Really all of the classic baby shower games work for this theme, but we love the idea of setting up a diaper note station (decorated with bows, of course). Stock the station with non-toxic markers and enough diapers for all of your guests, then ask everyone to write down an encouraging message for the new parents on each diaper. Reading them will bring a smile to their faces as they wake up for their third diaper change of the night.

It doesn’t get more sweet — and more springtime appropriate — than a floral, “Baby in Bloom” themed shower! Whether you’re hosting the celebration in a beautiful garden or avoiding spring showers indoors, there are tons of fun ways to incorporate this theme into all of the details on the day.

• Decor Ideas: Obviously, decor for this theme revolves around florals, so don’t hold back when it comes to creating beautiful bouquets! Place vases overflowing with beautiful blooms on every table, if you’re assigning seats for guests, pick up some floral-themed escort cards, and hang beautiful paper flowers as garlands above the space.
• Food Ideas: In addition to adding a few floral-flavored treats and drinks to your menu (think rose-flavored sweets, hibiscus or lavender iced tea and lemonade, etc.) use edible flowers to elevate the plating of all of your dishes. Blooms like chamomile, hibiscus, rose, violet, squash blossom, and thyme are as beautiful as they are delicious.
• Favor Ideas: In addition to having bouquets throughout the space, set up a “flower shop” as your favor station. You can either have pre-arranged mini bouquets ready for guests to grab on their way home, or turn it into a fun activity by filling decorative baskets or vases with various types of flowers that guests can use to assemble their own bouquets.

While the mom-to-be may not be able to partake in a “Sunday Funday,” that doesn’t mean she can’t enjoy a fun bubbly juice bar with her girlfriends! You could even have custom champagne flutes made up that guests can take home with them as party favors.

• Drink ideas: Serve a variety of juices (orange, strawberry, cranberry, etc.) along with champagne and sparkling cider. Set up a few fun toppings like berries, mint sprigs, and edible flowers for guests to top their drinks off with, too.
• Decor ideas: Since this theme is so focused on juice, it could be fun to play up the fruit angle with your decor! Add trendy sliced or whole fruit like oranges, lemons, limes, and melons to your centerpieces, go for a fruit-inspired color palette, and find sweet, vintage-inspired fruit linens to dress all of your tables with.
• Favor ideas: Send guests home with a split of champagne or prosecco with a tag that says “Pop it when she pops!”

Celebrate the little pot of gold that’s headed your way with the most colorful and magical baby shower theme. Do keep in mind that sometimes a rainbow baby shower can represent that the mother-to-be may have lost a previous child or pregnancy. If this is the case, the new baby is often referred to as a “sunshine baby”, “rainbow baby”, or “angel baby”.

• Decor ideas: Create a rainbow arch for a doorway or to use as a backdrop for photos out of balloons, streamers, and garlands.
• Favor ideas: Rainbow lollipops were so fun as a child, so why not bring them back as a favor now?
• Food ideas: Line up food by color rather than by type. For example, a plate of carrots next to a plate of orange cupcakes, next to a bowl of yellow lemon drops or sliced mangos. It’s fun and unexpected!

A teddy bear-themed baby shower works any time of the year, but we particularly love it for spring celebrations, when you can honor both new mama bears and baby bears.

• Decor Ideas: Collect plenty of teddy bears to use throughout your venue space. Snuggle them up next to sweet bud vases in centerpieces, hang them from the ceiling above the food table to give the impression that they’re cheekily trying to steal a treat, and rent a larger-than-life teddy bear for guests to take photos with.
• Game Ideas: Get the new parents prepped for speedy diaper changes with this fun game! Set up a table with multiple “changing stations” complete with a teddy bear and diaper, then have guests race each other to see who can change their bear’s diaper the fastest.
• Favor Ideas: Everyone loves a bear-shaped honey bottle. So send guests home with a sweet treat that they’ll actually use, wrapped up with a pretty ribbon and hand-written tag.

Babies bring a ton of joy, so welcome them with a theme that will literally brighten your day! A “You Are My Sunshine” concept is an easy and fun party idea that allows for plenty of DIY opportunities. It is also a perfect option for a summer baby shower.

• Decor ideas: Decorate tables with vases of baby’s breath, sunflowers, and sliced lemons to add an unexpected pop of sunshine yellow.
• Favor ideas: Give guests flowering potted plants. Arrange them on a table under a sign that reads “Thank you for showering our little sunshine with love.”
• Drink idea: Lemonades! Set up a lemonade bar where guests can create their own unique flavor combinations like strawberry, blueberry, or even elderflower.

A great couple’s (or co-ed) shower idea, a Baby-Q is a cute play on a BBQ-themed day. Lean into the theme’s casual vibe with traditional red-and-white gingham tablecloths and picnic blankets, and be sure to bust out classic backyard games like horseshoes and cornhole.

• Decor ideas: If you’re having a burger bar, indicate which table it is by attaching three baby onesies to a piece of string with clothespins. Each onesie will have a letter on it: B-B-Q. Use red and white checked cloth to create the letters.
• Game ideas: Baby Bump Twister is a fun take on the iconic kid’s game. Blow up a bunch of balloons and have everyone who plays Twister put one under their shirt. You’re in for hilarity!
• Food ideas: Besides hot dogs, hamburgers, and corn on the cob, offer a delicious picnic dessert with mini strawberry shortcakes in mason cup jars.

Whether you host the shower on land or at sea, a nautical baby shower is so much fun because there are endless ways to tie in the theme.

• Food ideas: Set up a self-serve station with crab cakes, shrimp cocktail, fish and chips, and more. Just make sure there are some safe options for the pregnant mother to eat!
• Decor ideas: Order a life preserver that has the baby’s expected name (or says “Baby Smith”) and the month the baby is due on it. You can hang this at the entrance to the party, above the food station, or near a popular photo spot. Once the party concludes, repurpose the custom preserver in their nursery.
• Game ideas: Play “My Water Broke,” a game where you freeze miniature plastic baby figurines in ice cubes ahead of time. Hand an ice cube to each participant at the same time. The first person to have their ice cube melt and expose the figurine inside yells “My water broke!” and wins the game.

Nothing says summer quite like a picnic — making it the perfect theme for a June, July, or August baby shower! There are plenty of ways to tailor a picnic-themed shower to what you know the mom-to-be you’re celebrating will love, no matter if her style is casual or a little more elevated.

• Decor Ideas: The key to making a picnic shower look intentional, and not like something you just threw together at the last minute, is to go for a more-is-more approach with your decor. If you’ll be sitting on the ground, make sure everyone is comfortable by layering picnic blankets in various gingham and floral patterns, and setting out lots of cushions and pillows for guests to sit on. Skip the paper plates and instead opt for cute china, real glassware, and—of course—picnic baskets overflowing with snacks, drinks, and flowers.
• Food Ideas: If you’re skipping a table in favor of a traditional picnic setup, plan your menu around items that are going to be easy for guests to eat while sitting on the ground. You can’t go wrong with small sandwiches, charcuterie cups, and salads.
• Favor Ideas: Help keep guests cool while soaking up the sun by assembling a little collection of summer essentials like mini bottles of sunscreen and paper fans.

A woodland-inspired baby shower is another theme idea that is cute no matter the season, but we think it is especially sweet to host a shower inspired by foxes and forests in the fall.

• Decor ideas: Use decorative wood slices to display food, favors, game ideas, and more. If it’s the fall, look to collect and feature pinecones creatively. Use plush toys or cute character garlands to incorporate some of the cute critters that call the forest home, too.
• Game ideas: Given it’s a woodland theme, send guests on a “Pacifier Hunt,” around your venue grounds. This spin on a more traditional scavenger hunt will have guests looking in trees and searching bushes.
• Favor ideas: Send guests off with a small jar of custom-made trail mix and a label that says “Happy Trails”

A little pumpkin-themed shower is the perfect fall baby shower theme. In addition to the ideas below, stop by the local pumpkin patch for a pregnancy photo shoot and display some of the images at your shower or in your thank you cards.

• Decor ideas: Tie in the orange theme with pumpkins of all shapes, hues, and sizes, along with sunflowers, burnt orange leaves, and gold spray-painted jars.
• Game ideas: Fill a jar with pumpkin candies or candy corn and have guests guess how many pumpkins are in it. You could also play a guessing game using the baby’s weight. Have the mom-to-be share the most recent weight estimate of the baby with you, then assemble a few pumpkins that weigh both more and less than the baby. Ask guests to lift each pumpkin up and guess which one weighs the same as the baby!
• Favor ideas: Decorate mini pumpkins with glitter and attach a small “thank you” note to the stem with string

A “peek-a-boo” theme is the perfect way to bridge the gap between Halloween and traditional baby showers! You can lean into the spookier side of the holiday if you want, or keep it sweet by focusing on friendly ghosts and cute creatures.

• Decor ideas: Use black or orange balloons and lanterns for decorations and spell out things like “Boo,” “Spooky,” and of course…”Baby.”
• Drink ideas: Label your drink pitchers things like “Worm’s Wart” and “Frog’s Breath”. A cauldron of “witches brew” set above dry ice seems on theme.
• Game ideas: Blindfold guests and provide them with a variety of popular chocolate bars and Halloween candy. See who can correctly identify the most options.

Get literal with an umbrella-themed baby shower! We love this theme because the decor is so easy to pull off — and playing with the idea of a “shower” is a perfect nod to the season.

• Decor Ideas: If your shower venue has high enough ceilings, we love the idea of using umbrellas as a hanging centerpiece above tables where guests will be eating or where mom will be opening gifts. You can also create “showers” using clusters of white balloons, and paper “raindrops” strung from them using fishing line.
• Favor Ideas: Everyone could always use an extra compact umbrella! Buy a handful of small umbrellas in colors that match the shower’s color scheme, and tie a sweet note to each saying “from baby!”.
• Food Ideas: Lean into the cozy vibes of a rainy day by planning a menu full of comfort food! Ask the mom-to-be what she’s been craving, and include that alongside rainy-day favorites like tomato soup, grilled cheese, tea, and more.

The classic Christmas song makes for the perfect December baby shower theme idea! Lean into all the winter vibes with hot cocoa, mittens, and more.

• Decor Ideas: Turn your shower venue into a cozy winter wonderland by draping throw blankets over the backs of chairs and centering tablescapes around plaid linens. Incorporate winter florals like holly, winterberries, evergreen garlands, violets, and roses into centerpieces, on mantels, and into arrangements for gift and food tables.
• Drink Ideas: Help guests combat the cold by setting up a fun hot drink bar! Include a hot cocoa and tea station for those not drinking alcohol, and for those who are partaking, you could offer spiked hot cider, hot toddies, or even mulled wine.
• Favor Ideas: Winter is the season for baking, so we love the idea of sending guests home with a cookie-in-a-jar kit. To pull this DIY-friendly favor off, simply gather up a bunch of mason jars, and portion out the dry ingredients for your favorite cookie recipe into them. Then, seal each off with the instructions for how to complete the recipe and bake the cookies.

This baby shower idea is the perfect wintertime twist on the classic teddy bear-themed shower. All of the ideas we shared for that shower apply here — just swap out traditional brown bears with white polar bears!

• Decor Ideas: Transform your venue into a winter wonderland by layering tables with white linens, white floral arrangements, and plenty of sweet plush polar bears. Use cotton balls to create “snow” that you can nestle food into, and hang garlands that feature polar bears, clouds, and snowflakes from the ceiling.
• Food Ideas: Create a dessert bar full of snow-dusted treats like powdered donuts, cookies in the shape of snowflakes, pretzels dipped in white chocolate, and more. You can also use marshmallows and small chocolate buttons to create cupcakes (or even mugs of hot chocolate) that look like polar bears
• Activity Ideas: For a fun activity that doubles as decor, set up a snowflake-making station at your shower! Simply set out a stack of paper and a few pairs of scissors for guests to use to create their own snowflake (it may also be a good idea to have a sign that gives basic snowflake-making instructions), and then encourage them to write a sweet message for the mom and baby on it before hanging it up.

For a unique twist on a winter-themed baby shower, lean into one of the season's bright spots: sweet and sour winter citrus! A “Little Cutie” orange-themed shower is such a fun — and delicious — way to celebrate a new arrival.

• Decor Ideas: The easiest way to make your theme obvious is to keep mandarin oranges front and center in your decor. Incorporate whole oranges into your centerpieces, use them to bring color to food and gift tables, and more. Get inspired by their color to create orange, white, and wintery blue balloon arches for guests to pose in front of for photos and hang up a clothesline featuring orange, white, and green onesies.
• Food Ideas: Having freshly squeezed orange juice is a must for a Little Cutie-themed baby shower! Beyond that, how far you lean into the orange theme is up to you. You could serve a citrus-flavored cake for dessert, set out cookies decorated to look like mandarin oranges, or simply incorporate orange wedges into a salad.
• Favor Ideas: Assemble small bags of oranges for your guests to take home with them after the shower! Make each feel extra special by tying them off with a cute green satin ribbon and including a thank you note for helping them shower mom and baby in love.