There are so many baby shower theme ideas it can be hard to keep up…These are some themes that are always popular, and that can be used for boys, girls, or for a gender-neutral party if the shower is for twins, triplets, or for a baby whose gender hasn’t been revealed yet.
These are some theme ideas and some ideas for decorations, invitations, and party decor.
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Wildflower Baby Shower Ideas.
A wildflower baby shower is perfect for celebrating new beginnings, especially for a baby girl.
For decor, you can decorate the room with a variety of fresh or faux wildflowers in mason jars, rustic vases, and hanging garlands. Use soft colors and pastels to add to the casual mood.
Give dried flowers for a party favor, like these that you can find on Etsy: Dried flower bouquets.
Serve a cake decorated with wildflower wafer paper, or cupcakes with wafer paper flower toppers.
For games, consider a “name that flower” quiz or a wildflower crown-making contest where guests can create their own, then vote for whose is the best.
Get wildflower-themed invitations, party favors, and gift wrap on Zazzle. You can personalize the products to add your own name or date if you’d like to.
For a more detailed look at what you can do for a wildflower themed baby shower, click here.
Fall Themed Baby Shower Ideas.
If your shower will be during the autumn months, make that the theme! Use pumpkins, gourds, and colorful leaves to create the centerpieces. Warm up the space with plaid blankets, hay bales, and lanterns.
For games, host a pumpkin decorating contest or a guess the baby food challenge with seasonal flavors. Limit it to vegetables and fruits, though, nobody wants to eat turkey baby food.
Serve guests apple cider and pumpkin spice treats, or set up a caramel apple bar where people can dip and decorate their own.
Send guests home with mini jars of homemade jam or apple butter as party favors.
For an article with more ideas for a fall-themed baby shower, click here.
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Pumpkin Themed Baby Shower Ideas.
Pumpkin themed baby showers and gender reveals are a good way to keep your guests busy, since you can do activities that take a decent amount of time!
Incorporate pumpkins of various sizes and colors as decorations, from centerpieces to photo props.
Organize a pumpkin carving or painting activity for guests.
For party favors, give out pumpkin-scented candles or pumpkin spice mix.
Play games like pin the stem on the pumpkin, or a pumpkin relay race.
Serve pumpkin-flavored treats, such as pumpkin pie, pumpkin muffins, and pumpkin spice lattes.
You can check out the pumpkin-themed gender reveal collection on Zazzle.
Berry Sweet Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A berry sweet baby shower theme is popular these days, and is a good gender-neutral choice.
Decorate with a mix of fresh berries and berry-colored accents like red, purple, and blue balloons and streamers.
Create a berry-themed dessert table with berry pies, a cake with a wafer paper strawberry cake wrap, and berry-infused drinks.
Use these strawberry-themed paper plates and cups for your party food.
For games, consider some printables that you can download and personalize, like these from Etsy.
Party favors could include mini jars of berry jam or berry-scented bath products.
Wild One Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
Wild one baby showers are fun to plan because of all of the things you can incorporate. It could be wild animals or themed like the book Where the Wild Things Are, and both of those can use jungle themes.
Use jungle or safari decorations, such as animal print tablecloths, leafy garlands, and stuffed animal centerpieces.
Plan games like these Wild Ones themed games on Zazzle.
Provide guests with animal-themed party favors, like miniature animal figurines or animal print cookies.
Set up a dessert table with animal-shaped cupcakes and a jungle-themed cake.
Poppin’ Bottles Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A poppin’ bottles baby shower theme can use either champagne or baby bottles, depending on how you want to handle it!
Decorate with bottle-shaped balloons, bottle garlands, and champagne flutes or baby bottles.
Play games like baby bottle chug with juice or soda to see who can drain a baby bottle the fastest.
Give guests bottle openers or mini bottles of champagne with custom stickers on them as party favors. Get the stickers here: Custom bottle stickers
Daisy Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A daisy baby shower is a good theme that can be used with a lot of colors and styles. You can go colorful with bright gerberas or keep it more neutral with Oxeye daisies.
Decorate with daisy bouquets, daisy chains, and yellow and white color schemes, or add other colors in and use gerbera daisies.
Organize a daisy crafting station with artificial daisies where guests can make daisy crowns or bracelets, and play games like daisy bingo, where the bingo cards have pictures of different daisies on them.
Serve a cake or cupcakes decorated with edible wafer paper toppers.
Offer daisy-themed treats such as daisy-shaped cookies and lemon bars, and serve them on these colorful pink gerbera daisy paper plates from Zazzle.
Party favors can include daisy seed packets or you could let people fill a vase with flowers and take them home.
Watermelon Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A watermelon baby shower is perfect for summer. You can decorate with melons and serve them, too.
Decorate with watermelon slices, watermelon-shaped balloons, and a pink and green color scheme.
Serve watermelon-themed snacks like watermelon salad, watermelon punch, and watermelon cake.
Plan games like “Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest” or “Guess the Weight of the Watermelon.”
Give guests watermelon-scented soap or watermelon-shaped keychains as party favors.
Use picnic-style decor with checkered tablecloths and outdoor seating for a relaxed, fun atmosphere.
Oh Boy Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
An Oh Boy baby shower is classic, focusing on traditional boy-themed decor.
Use blue hues, bow ties, and mustache motifs to decorate the space.
Play games like guess the baby boy where guests identify baby photos of famous boys, and serve blue-colored treats like cupcakes, candy, and punch.
Party favors could include blue candles, personalized keychains, or baby boy-themed cookies.
Turtle Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A turtle baby shower is always cute.
Decorate with turtle stuffed animals, green and blue streamers, and mini turtles on river rocks in bowls.
Offer turtle-shaped cookies, green punch, and a turtle-themed cake.
Party favors can include turtle keychains or stickers, or you can set up a turtle adoption station where guests can “adopt” a small turtle figurine to take home.
Thanksgiving Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A Thanksgiving baby shower would be fun to do if you have extended family in from out of town.
Decorate with fall foliage, cornucopias, and pumpkins.
Serve a traditional Thanksgiving meal with turkey, stuffing, and pies, which would be easy to do if you did a small shower right before Thanksgiving dinner was served.
Give guests mini pumpkin pies or gratitude journals as party favors. If you do limit it to your close friends and family, you could also write a note to each one telling them what you’re thankful for about them personally.
Coffee Themed Baby Shower Ideas.
A coffee themed baby shower is perfect for parents who are coffee lovers, and for guests who are, too.
Decorate with coffee beans, burlap, and brown and cream colors.
Serve a variety of coffee drinks, from lattes to cold brews, along with coffee-flavored treats like tiramisu and coffee cake. Make sure to have decaf for the expectant mother if she’s avoiding caffeine.
Play games like having a few different brands of coffee that your guests have to identify, coffee trivia, or give away a doorprize to the guest who can guess how many coffee beans are in a jar.
Party favors could include personalized coffee mugs, bags of gourmet coffee, or coffee-scented candles.
Denim Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A denim baby shower is casual and stylish, and is a good gender-neutral theme or a theme for boys.
Decorate with denim fabrics, bandanas, and rustic accents for a country tone, or tie dye and denim for a 60’s feel. Put a denim-colored welcome sign at the front to greet guests when they arrive (click to see it on Etsy.)
For a casual mood, serve comfort foods like sliders, fries, and milkshakes.
Party favors could include denim keychains or denim-patterned notebooks.
Farm Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A farm baby shower is cute, and you can use farm animals and red barn elements for decorations.
Decorate with pink balloons, mini farm animals, and barnyard elements.
Play games like these farm-themed games on Zazzle.
Serve farm-themed snacks like red barn cookies and sheep cupcakes made with mini marshmallows.
Party favors could include piggy banks or bags of “chicken feed” trail mix (put it in bags with a custom label!)
Polar Bear Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A polar bear baby shower is great for a winter celebration.
Decorate with polar bear dolls, white and blue balloons, and snowflake accents.
Serve winter-themed treats like hot cocoa, snowball cookies, and a polar bear cake.
Party favors could include polar bear ornaments, winter-themed candles, or cozy socks.
Sugar and Spice Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A Sugar and Spice baby shower is a cute idea for a girl’s baby shower.
Decorate with pastel colors, candy jars, and spice-scented candles.
Serve a variety of sweet treats like cupcakes, cookies, and cinnamon rolls.
Party favors could include mini jars of homemade spice blends or personalized candy bags.
Succulent Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A Succulent baby shower is a good idea for a cute unisex theme.
Decorate with an array of succulent plants, terrariums, and earthy tones. Or go pink or blue if you want to theme it toward a girl or a boy.
Serve green-colored snacks and drinks, and party favors could include small potted succulents, mini cork succulent desk decor. or succulent-shaped candles.
Sprinkle Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A sprinkle baby shower is usually for a second or third baby, and it has a lot of potential for decorations.
Decorate with colorful sprinkles of confetti, and bright balloons.
Serve sprinkle-themed treats like cupcakes, cookies, and ice cream. Get a sprinkle-themed cake topper to add to the cake.
Party favors could include sprinkle-themed candles, mini jars of sprinkles, or personalized treat bags.
Storybook or Once Upon A Time Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A storybook or once upon a time baby shower is perfect for book lovers.
Decorate with vintage books, fairy tale characters, and enchanted forest elements like moss, mushrooms, and twinkling lights.
Create a storybook photo booth with themed props, and serve themed treats like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland cakes and cookes that are decorated with wafer paper.
Party favors could include miniature books, bookmarks, or fairy tale-themed candles.
Fairy Themed Baby Shower Ideas.
A fairy themed baby shower is good for a girl’s shower.
Decorate with fairy lights, glittering tulle, and floral garlands.
Create a fairy garden centerpiece and use delicate butterfly accents to match your color scheme.
Plan activities like a fairy wing crafting station, where guests can decorate their own pair of wings using glitter and stickers with glue. (Click here to see fairy wings on Amazon)
Serve treats like fairy cupcakes, pixie dust popcorn with colored sugar, and pastel-colored drinks.
Party favors could include a box of macarons with edible glitter, or candy in a colorful bag.
Halloween Baby Shower Ideas.
A Halloween baby shower is going to be a fun one to put on, with endless creative possibilities.
Decorate with pumpkins, spider webs, and black and orange streamers.
Encourage guests to come in costume and hold a costume contest.
Serve Halloween-themed treats like cake pops decorated like ghosts, punch served in a bowl that looks like a cauldron, and a jack-o-lantern cake (click here to go to my cake decorating website for a tutorial on how to make it.)
Play games like mummy wrap relay where teams have to wrap a team member in toilet paper to look like a mummy, with the first team that’s done being the winner.
Party favors could include Halloween-themed candles, mini pumpkins, or bags of Halloween candy.
Elephant Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
An elephant baby shower is a classic that’s perfect for a gender-neutral celebration.
Use these printable invitations from The Printress on Etsy (Click to see them.)
Decorate with elephant toys, gray and pastel balloons, and leafy garlands.
Serve elephant-shaped cookies, peanut-themed candy like peanut butter cups, and cupcakes with elephant toppers.
Party favors could include elephant keychains or mini jars of roasted peanuts.
Flower Theme Baby Shower Ideas.
A flower theme baby shower is perfect for a spring or summer celebration, especially for a baby girl.
Decorate with fresh blooms, floral garlands, and pastel-colored linens.
Set up a flower arranging station where guests can make their own bouquets to take home as their favor.
Serve flower-themed treats like floral cupcakes or cookies, rose lemonade, and edible flower salads.
Music Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A Music baby shower is perfect for parents who love music or who are musicians.
Decorate with musical notes, instrument centerpieces, and vinyl records.
Create a playlist of the parents’ favorite songs to play during the party, and have it available for guests to download.
Serve music-themed treats like musical notes cookies, black and white cookies for piano keys, and music wafer paper cake wraps.
Play games like name that tune, or baby song trivia.
Party favors could include Amazon music memberships, personalized playlists, or music-themed candles.
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Cloud Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A cloud baby shower is gender-neutral, and you could incorporate angels or cherubs if you wanted to.
Decorate with fluffy white clouds made from polyfil batting, blue and white balloons, and sunbeam accents.
Serve cloud-themed treats like cotton candy, cloud cupcakes with piped white icing or mini marshmallows, and light blue punch.
Party favors could include cloud-shaped soaps, mini cloud pillows, or sky-themed candles.
Winter Wonderland Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A winter wonderland baby shower is perfect for a winter celebration, and it’s unisex.
Decorate with snowflakes, icicles, and white and silver accents.
Serve winter-themed treats like snowball cookies, hot cocoa, and a snowflake cake.
Party favors could include snowflake ornaments, winter-scented candles, or bags of hot chocolate mix with peppermint sticks tied to them with curly ribbon.
Astronaut Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
An astronaut baby shower can use any number of outer space themes.
Decorate with planets, stars, and rocket ships.
Serve space-themed treats like galaxy cupcakes and moon pies.
Party favors could include star-shaped cookies, space-themed keychains, or mini astronaut figurines.
Here Comes The Son Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A here comes the son baby shower can incorporate a lot of decor elements for a boy’s shower.
Decorate with yellow and blue accents, and sun motifs.
Serve sunny treats like cupcakes with sun toppers and a cake with a wafer paper wrap to match.
Play games like these themed ones that you can find on Zazzle: Here comes the son themed games.
Party favors could include sunflower seeds, sun-themed candles, or personalized sunglasses.
Jungle or Safari Theme Baby Shower Ideas.
A jungle or safari theme baby shower can incorporate animals, foliage, and activities that involve hunting to find things.
Start with this printable invitation and paper suite that you can customize with your party details.
Decorate for a safari theme baby shower with jungle foliage, animal print balloons, and safari props.
Serve safari-themed treats like “Animal Crackers,” “Safari Sandwiches,” and “Jungle Juice.”
Play games like pacifier hunt, where you hide pacifiers around the place and the guest who finds the most wins.
Party favors could include safari-themed soap or a small tropical plant.
Valentine’s Day Baby Shower Ideas.
A Valentine’s Day baby shower is perfect for a February celebration.
Decorate with hearts, roses, and red and pink accents.
Serve Valentine’s-themed treats like heart-shaped cookies, chocolate-covered strawberries, and cupcakes with Valentines toppers.
Play games like pin the diaper on Cupid, or throw darts to see who gets closest to a heart on the bullseye.
Party favors could include heart-shaped candles, personalized chocolates, or mini bouquets.
Picnic Theme Baby Shower Ideas
A picnic baby shower is perfect for an outdoor celebration.
See if there’s a local park that rents out pavilions if you’d like a place with tables, and even a barbeque if that’s available. Decorate with checkered tablecloths, picnic baskets, and floral arrangements.
Serve traditional picnic food like sandwiches, chips, sodas, and fried chicken.
Play games like picnic basket relay, hopscotch, and monkey bar races if you have playground equipment available.
Party favors could include mini picnic baskets, personalized water bottles, or sun visors.
To see more signs that can be customized for baby showers, click here.
Two Peas In A Pod Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A two peas in a pod shower is perfect for celebrating twins.
Click here to get invitations and plates on Zazzle.
Decorate with green streamers and string unshelled pea pods to make garlands if you want to really go crazy.
Serve sweet pea-themed treats like cupcakes with fondant pea pod toppers, or cookies decorated with pea pods. Get a cute cake topper with a pea pod theme.
Party favors could include sweet pea seeds, pea pod-shaped soaps, or sweet pea-scented candles.
Shark Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A shark baby shower is more for the parents than the baby, so you can go cartoony or realistic, whichever you prefer.
You can decorate with shark cutouts, ocean waves, and blue and white accents.
Serve shark-themed treats like cupcakes with shark fin toppers, or gummy fish.
Party favors could include shark keychains, ocean-themed candles, or shark-shaped cookies.
Mermaid baby shower theme ideas.
A mermaid baby shower is nice for a girl’s party, and it’s pretty easy to pull off as far as decor goes since there are a lot of options.
Decorate with blue, purple, pink, and green streamers and painted clam shells.
Serve mermaid scale cake done with edible wafer paper, seashell-shaped cookies, and pink lemonade punch.
Party favors could include mini treasure chests full of candy.
See more printable invitations and paper that you can customize from The Printress Designs.
Hunting Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A hunting baby shower can incorporate lots of camo patterns, deer antlers, and forest elements.
Serve hunting-themed treats like S’mores, camo-iced cake, and green and brown candy.
Party favors could include camo keychains, personalized water bottles, or hunting-themed candles.
Dog Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A dog themed baby shower is something everyone will enjoy, and it will give you a lot of possibilities for decorations and treats.
Decorate with dog paw prints, bone motifs, and dog-themed balloons.
Serve dog-themed treats like cookies shaped like dog bones, or a cake inthe shape of a dog. (Click here to see a tutorial on my cake decorating website about how to make a pug cake)
Party favors could include dog-shaped cookies, paw print candles, or personalized dog tags.
Celestial Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A celestial-themed baby shower can incorporate lots of stars, planets, and sparkling lights.
Set up a photo wall with little led lights to make it look like twinking stars, and add planets and moons cutouts all over the room.
Serve star-shaped cookies, cupcakes with star toppers or edible confetti, and send guests home with a customized chocolate thanking them for attending.
Cow Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A cow baby shower is cute and charming, perfect for a farm-themed celebration.
Decorate with cow print balloons, hay bales (if you’re entertaining somewhere outside,) and barnyard elements.
Serve cow-themed treats like cow-spotted cake and milkshakes. You could also set up an ice cream sundae bar so that guests can make their own.
Party favors could include bags of milk candy from Japan (see it here on Amazon.)
See more customizable party favors from Blue Bow Designs UK
Baby in Bloom Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A baby in bloom baby shower is a popular floral theme for baby showers.
Decorate with blooming flowers, pastel colors, and garden elements.
Serve blooming treats like flower cupcakes, cookies, and a cake with flower decorations.
Party favors could include flower seeds, mini potted plants, or floral-scented candles.
Dinosaur Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A dinosaur baby shower is great for a baby boy, or it can be gender neutral too.
Decorate with dinosaur cutouts, jungle foliage, and fossil replicas.
Serve dinosaur-themed treats like a cake with a dinosaur-themed cake topper..
Party favors could include dinosaur keychains or custom tshirts with dinosaur designs.
Butterfly Kisses or “A Little Butterfly Is On The Way” Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A butterfly kisses baby shower is perfect for a spring or summer celebration, but you can also use autumn colored monarchs and other butterflies in the fall and winter.
Decorate with butterfly cutouts, floral arrangements, and pastel colors.
Serve a cake decorated with edible wafer paper butterflies, or use them as cupcake toppers.
Party favors could include butterfly keychains, butterfly-shaped soaps, or butterfly stickers.
Camping Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A camping baby shower is perfect for parents who love the outdoors.
If you can have the party outside, decorate with tents, campfires, and forest elements.
Serve camping-themed food like S’mores, trail mix, and hot cocoa.
Party favors could include mini flashlights, personalized water bottles, or a book about the state parks.
See more baby shower cake toppers from Memory Keepsake Party
Teddy Bear Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A Teddy Bear baby shower is cozy and cute, perfect for a warm celebration.
Decorate with teddy bears, bear paw prints, and soft blankets.
Serve bear-themed treats like teddy grahams, bear claw pastries, and cupcakes with teddy bear toppers.
Party favors could include mini teddy bears, bear-shaped soaps, or personalized bear gifts.
Diaper Theme Baby Shower Ideas.
A diaper theme baby shower is a natural fit, pun intended. It can also give the parents-to-be a nice diaper stash if they host a diaper raffle.
Go to the Pampers website here to read about how to do this activity: Pampers diaper raffle
For your party, you can decorate with diapers that you hang on a clothesline to make garlands, and put this sign up on the diaper raffle table.
Serve diaper-shaped cookies and have a game where blindfolded guests have to put a diaper on a baby doll, with the fastest being the winner. You could make it a round robin where people compete in groups and the winners from each group compete with progressively more difficult situations (One-handed, backwards with the doll behind their backs, etc.)
Party favors could include anything that’s a cute thank you but isn’t a diaper…Maybe a bag of candy or more diaper cookies to take home to eat later.
Color-Themed Baby Shower Ideas.
A color-theme baby shower is fun because you can coordinate everything to be that color.
Decorate with color themed balloons, floral arrangements, and tablecloths.
Serve color-themed treats in shades of the color you’ve chosen.
Party favors could include anything that’s the color you’ve chosen.
Bee Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A bee baby shower is sweet, and perfect for a spring or summer celebration.
Decorate with bee cutouts, yellow and black accents, and honeycomb motifs.
Serve bee-themed treats like bee topper cupcakes or cake, honey flavored candy, and ice cream with caramel and chocolate toppings.
Party favors could include honey jars with dipping wands, a customized thank you card with a heart (pictured above, click here to see those,) or these cute bee cork figures.
Christmas Baby Shower Theme Ideas.
A Christmas baby shower is festive and joyful, perfect for a December celebration.
Decorate with Christmas trees, ornaments, and red and green accents. Or go with a vintage theme with these suggestions about decorating for a retro Christmas aesthetic: Whimsical Retro Christmas Decor Ideas
Serve Christmas-themed treats like Christmas cookies made with wafer paper (click here for a tutorial,) hot cocoa, and candy canes.
Party favors could include Christmas ornaments, holiday candles, or personalized Christmas gifts.