Decorations:
I had made the expectant Mom a few Dr. Suess items well before the arrival of the baby (a car seat over, changing pad, and pillow). I had a few scraps left over and used them to make a banner with his name. I got my Dr. Suess Fabric here. I used my handy dandy silhouette and some heat transfer vinyl for the name. I love using double folded bias tape for banners because it puts them together super fast.
I love to use balloons for a party because the kids love them so much. So I had balloons for them and a few little Suessy type decorations for them to put on the walls to "help" me.
I also made a diaper cake. It looked much better before the 1.5 hour flight to get here. With everything else I had to do, I must say I just kind of let it go, but the monkey was suppose to hide the ribbon seams. I used the typical method of rolling diapers. I found Dr. Suess ribbon at JoAnns Fabrics.
Amazon had this awesome teacher pack of Dr. Suess stuff. It had tons of cutouts which I used to make the wreath (see below) and I used for the mini diaper cakes and for this book banner.
I got this from Amazon and set the books around for decorations. They also doubled as backs for writing during the games.
This bulletin trim was at Target and the straws I picked up at Amazon and the turtle came in the aforementioned teacher pack from Amazon.
I used this method for the wreath. But I made it rainbow, obviously, and color coded the cutouts. I used regular vinyl for Welcome.
Food:
The shower started at 10:30 so I thought it was a little early for regular munchies. Instead, I went with a breakfast theme. I had a fruit salad, powdered donuts and mini blueberry muffins, goldfish, cinnamon raisin bagels, assortments of mini muffins, croissants with ham and cheese (kroger put lettuce on them and it made it too lunchy and I was kind of irritated), bacon wrapped pretzels, cupcakes (it's still a PARTY!), and a parfait bar.
We had regular and greek yogurt, two kinds of jams, fruit, granola, almonds, coconut, m&ms, mini trix, etc.
I sent a picture ahead of time to a relative and she went to Kroger and they made me these cupcakes. I made the toppers with my silhouette cameo.
I had to get a goldfish bowl for the goldfish. It was just too cute of an idea.
Get the Bacon Wrapped Pretzel Recipe Here. I only added one T of chili powder and 1/4 of cayenne because I knew my crowd and they were not going to like HOT. The first batch was devoured so I offered to make more. There was some protest and some "oh you don't need to do that" and then the second batch was also devoured. I think they were better cooked for 17 minutes.
For drinks, we had coffee and this punch and water bottles that I wrapped with red and white polka dot duct tape. Yes, the punch was amazing. I did not slushy it because I didn't have time but still very good.
Games and Memories:
This "I hope" "game" has been floating around the showers I've frequented lately and I think it's a marvelously good idea. Get your Dr. Suess themed "I hope" game here. Each guests fills out their hopes for the baby's future and signs their name. Instant guest list done and a keepsake for the baby. It also puts away the pressure that games sometimes give to guests.
I had also planned this game but we ended up having a few too many people to play it. Everyone was more interested in chatting and that's fine!
At the entry, we set up this table, I made the little lorax guy there to hold my sharpies and pencils. I found Dr. Suess stickers and some corresponding scrapbook paper. Set our scissors, brushes, and mod podge too and let guest decorate their own blocks for the baby.
I love having favors and this was something I could make easily make ahead of time, green eggs and ham! I found tiny bags at Joann's Fabrics that only held about two which was perfect. All you need are pretzels, white candy melts, and green candy. I found everything but the pretzels at Joann's Fabrics. Put a white candy melt on top of each pretzel and bake at 350 degrees for 5 minutes. Pull them out and pop on a candy and set in fridge to cool. I was worried the candy would pop off but they didn't and they survived a flight in carry-on luggage.
A fun time was had by all and the new arrival got lots of new fun baby stuff, which is why we throw baby showers, right?
