Simple Baby Shower Decorations

When it came to decorating for the shower I wanted to be very careful to find balance between fun and unique, and using what I had.  While I certainly could have asked for donations for the decorations I felt very strongly that I did not want to ask for them!

What happened to just say yes?

It met logic!  This is a first time mom and I did not want any money that could be going to items she needed to be going to decorations!  I kept sending people to shop her registry!

So that left decorations.

I went through all our toys pulling out cars, trucks, and construction vehicles.

My theme became Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go

I put a copy of this well loved book on the piano with some other construction themed books we borrowed from friends.

When you came up the front steps you were greeted by a Tonka Truck Crane borrowed from friends and our friendly stork sitting on the bench that was given to us at Miss Pear's baby shower.

Inside was the welcome table.  I asked that attendees write their address on a thank you note and put it in the large Tonka dump truck that was borrowed from friends.  The table was a card table covered with a white sheet and one of our receiving blankets.  The cards were ones I had leftover from my babies, but all the same.

The girls' art table was covered with the blanket I made for our gift and was the gift table...and there were some of our lego cars and trucks around it and on the window ledge.

The meal was served on the island in our kitchen.  For a table cloth I used receiving blankets (also on the kitchen table), knives and forks were in the Little People School bus that was lined with a napkin, and the spoons were in the Little People Minivan that was lined with a napkin.  I used my collection of everyday blue cloth napkins for the occasion, rolling them up and placing them in our dump truck.

It was all using things we had in creative ways, and everyone seemed to comment on the napkins in the dump truck!  

It was fun, it was unique, and it was very frugal because it was all stuff we had, so all funds went to gifts!

Simple Baby Shower

We had the great joy of hosting a church baby shower this past weekend.  Everyone said they had a great time, I had lots of fun, the mommy got spoiled, in fact, I think she was overwhelmed!

So I wanted to share her what I did, not only to encourage you, but so I remember for next time!

To everyone else it looked like there was tons of work in the shower, and there was, but it was spread out. 

The first thing I did was make a list of everything I could easily delegate.   I decided to have a brunch, so the list of things we needed were:

1.  Paper products

2.  4 hot brunch dishes

3.  4 breakfast bread dishes

4.  2 fruit

5.  Juice

6.  Volunteers to help set up

7.  Volunteers to help tear down

8.  Chairs from church

9.  Someone to do the evite who has all the addresses set up.

If figured I would do whatever was left.

There was nothing left.  I ended up doing decorations, cleaning the house, hot beverages, and all the planning.

I also asked a lady at church to bring a devotion for the morning and it was wonderful.

What I found was that everyone wanted to help!  And when people called and emailed asking if they could help, I just kept saying yes!  People want to serve, and saying no is not helpful, it denies them that chance!  so JUST SAY YES!

Would you have delegated all this or done it all yourself?