My sister is having a baby, a new nephew for me, which is very exciting. I, with a lot of help from friends, threw her an alphabet themed baby shower. This is an easy theme and can be used for either a boy or a girl.
1st the invitations, these could be done several ways but since my printer was down at the time, I ordered mine from Vista Print, the design is called Alphabet Soup. They were very budget friendly. I blurred out a lot of the info but they come printed with envelopes and were delivered within a week.
For decorations I bought cardboard letters from a craft store and spray painted them, then I hot glued a painted wooden shape that started with that letter, A-apple, B-bee, C-car. Mom got to take these home to use in the new baby’s room.
We also made boxes out of 8×8 colored paper folded into fourths, make a vertical cut in the top fold to the center.
Fold the paper in half horizontally and criss cross the cut pieces to form a half cube.
Repeat with 2nd paper and then tape two halves together to form one cube.
Decorate with paper cutouts and letters
We also taped cut out letters to long bamboo skewers and inserted into a Styrofoam cone then cut scrapbook paper to look like a vase around it for a food table decoration.
The food place cards were also made to fit with our alphabet theme.
The table had a white table-cloth with a runner of brown craft paper adorned with alphabet stickers.
Favors were made from small chinese style boxes with puffy alphabet stickers and filled with candy
For a game we played Baby themed scatergories.
and each party guest made a page for the new baby’s “Alphabet Book”
I placed out 8×8 sheets of colored paper, each one had a different letter of the alphabet on it. I did this ahead of time with scrapbook stickers. I put out markers, crayons and alphabet flashcards for ideas, or the guests who felt they weren’t artistic could just paste the card on their page. Then each guest signed their masterpiece, and some wrote a message to the new baby.
I placed them all into an 8×8 scrapbook with plastic sleeved pages, along with a copy of the shower invite for a great keepsake for baby and mom.
The shower was a success and as easy as ABC.
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