It’s almost time for your baby boy! This calls for a celebration so throw the best baby shower party for your little bundle of joy. Liven up your baby shower with colorful and creative decorations what will wow your guests and create beautiful memories to look back on. Choose a boy inspired theme for the baby shower to create a fun event. Go all out with some of the cutest decorations that you have ever seen. Decorate your table with unique and creative centerpieces. Design your very own adorable backdrop. Step out of the box and decorate away.
If you find yourself a little stuck on decoration ideas, don’t fret about it. Get some groovy ideas from our selection of decorating ideas for baby showers. We have an assortment of ideas that you can mix and match to help create your perfect baby shower. You can even build up on some ideas and put your creative skills to the test.
Baby Shower Decorations for Boys
Babies are so adorable and cute. The initial reaction of most mothers would be to choose the sweetest and cutest decorations in very cute colors and shades as well. But you have to avoid making the decorations look too feminine. In order to negate this effect, most baby shower parties for boys use the more masculine colors like blue and green. This is usually on the softer tone so that it will still look sweet and adorable. But there is no mistaking that it is meant for a little boy.
There are different kinds of decorations that you can use for a baby shower. You have the traditional banners that mark what the event is for. You also have table decorations to consider. When you have a lot of colorful and creative food choices though, you can actually use them as decorations. The key is just to arrange them and spread them around the table so it won’t look bare. You can also have some confetti hanging from the ceiling to complete the effect. There are so many decorations that you can choose to have in a baby shower. You just have to mix and match them accordingly.
For table centerpieces, you can have other centerpieces that are not just flowers though that is a favorite for a lot of people. Since this is a baby shower, you can have some very unusual centerpieces made from totally surprising materials because anything really goes with babies. Any other time, these centerpieces would look absurd. You can create a baseball themed bonanza using hand towels and baby socks. You create a solid base with the rolled up towels and embellish it with some cute kiddie cutouts. You can then adorn the top with stuffed baby socks and more cutouts. The cake-like effect will look particularly adorable on top of your tables.
You can also use the hand towels as flowers like the picture above. Adding the stuffed animals complete the fluffy picture making it look so fluffy, perfect for baby showers.
You can also make creative wreaths from baby diapers. Since the intention is already very obvious, you don’t have to add much to embellish it further. These will make lovely wall decorations for your baby shower.
Balloons always make great decorations for all occasions. Add a playful twist to it by choosing balloons that are fun and colorful. The confetti effect would definitely add appeal to your party.
Decorating with fluffy pompoms and paper tissue balls are also very popular with baby showers. They add a very festive air to any party. To make your decorations look like it is meant for baby shower party for boys, you can add a small tie garland like the above picture. The intention is fairly obvious with the word baby spelled out on the ties.
You can also use toys meant for your little boy as decorations. They can be used as table decorations with other more traditional decorations like decorative banners.
Combining and mixing the different ideas can already create your dream baby shower. You just have to pick out the best ideas that work with you.
Baby Shower Themed Decorations
When decorating for parties, it is ideal that you choose a theme to follow. This makes decorating easier as well as ensures that your decorations look cohesive. Here are some of the cutest baby shower themes:
- Winter Wonderland
Image: Source The theme might sound feminine but the color palette is just perfect for baby boys. You will be using mostly blue, white and silver decorations for this theme. Since there are a lot of sweets served during baby showers, you can use blue and white colored sweets to grace your baby shower. You can also have a Christmas tree inspired centerpiece while keeping in the color scheme of the theme.
- Goodnight
Image: Source Just because the theme is goodnight doesn’t mean it is devoid of color. On the contrary, you can have very colorful interpretations of the different night elements like the moon, the stars and even the cow jumping over the moon.
- Safari
Image: Source This theme uses cartoonized animals to make it look child friendly. The most eminent color in this theme is the different shades of brown.
- Owl
Image: Source This theme allows you to have a very dynamic backdrop. Owls are super cute and you can actually use any color palette that works with you.
- Superhero
Image: Source This theme will surely be popular to unborn baby boy for many years to come. This theme has a very bright color palette of red, blue and yellow.
Cheap Baby Shower Decorations for Boys
Are you on a budget? Don’t worry, you can still throw a fantastic baby shower with these simple decoration ideas. All it takes is a little creativity and imagination and you can have your decorations on a budget.
You can use hand towels as centerpieces. They can be used later by your baby so the cost is hardly substantial. Just add some cutouts and ribbons, and you already have your centerpiece.
You can create colorful paper windmills to use as decorations. They are very simple to make and very budget friendly. Also they look super cute.
You can make colorful and simple garlands that can already do a lot to liven up a bare room. You can just have simple ball shapes in different shapes of blue and still the effect is very festive.
You can choose to have more baby appropriate cutouts to use for your garland however. They can come in the form of pacifiers, bibs, and hearts.
You actually don’t have to purchase anything for your decorations. You can use you baby’s clothes and hang them on a makeshift clothesline. This will already make beautiful wall and overhead decorations for your baby shower.
Paper tissue balls don’t cost so much. You can even make your own to save further. You can add little raindrops and hang them from the tissue balls. For utensils, you can just serve finger foods and use empty jars as your cups for drinks.
So are you ready to have your baby shower? Do share with us what you came up with!
