BABY SHOWER DECEMBER HOLIDAY THEMES

A great decoration idea in December will depend on what religion you are celebrating:

Christmas: If you want to tie the theme of Christmas into your baby shower, paint bells, mini trees, stars with blue or pink (if you know the gender of the baby). The room can look like a winter wonderland (use cotton with glitter) and the food can be festive for the season. Gingerbread and candy canes can say "It's a boy" or "It's a girl".

Hanukah: If you want to tie Hanukah into the shower, use the blue and white colors as well as make festive foods like latkes and brisket. Decorate the room with blue or pink dreidels (if you know the gender of the baby). The room can be festive with lights since it is the festival of lights.

Kwanzaa: If you want to tie Kwanzaa into the theme, use the colors black, red and green for the room. Tie the seven principals into the theme in how it relates to the baby. People can dress in festive clothing as well as the seven light Kinara placed at the party. Kwanzaa is a family holiday and focus can be given to family values. Vegetables can be served at the party since it coincides with what is symbolic of Kwanzaa. I hope these ideas help you in planning your December party.

HOLIDAY RECIPE
A great Christmas, Kwanza, Hanukah baby shower dessert recipe is our highly addictive baby shower butter cake:

1 pkg yellow cake mix
2 sticks of butter (separately melted)
4 eggs
1 16oz box of confectioner's sugar
1 8oz pkg. cream cheese (softened)
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Preheat Oven to 350. You will need to mixing bowls to mix two different things (the cake and the topping):

In one mixing bowl, beat the baby shower cake mix, 1 stick of melted butter and 2 eggs until well blended. This will be fairly stiff. Press into a 9x13 cake pan.

In another mixing bowl, beat the other stick of melted butter, 2 eggs, sugar, softened cream cheese and vanilla extract until well blended. Pour this baby shower butter topping mixture over the bottom layer and bake for 40 minutes (or until golden brown top and a little jiggly in the center). Let it cool and place the baby shower butter cake in a container or in saran-wrap. You can decorate the top of the cake with frosting and make your favorite holiday picture with the baby shower theme! You will have your baby shower guests talking on how good it is! Click here for more baby shower recipes for the holidays.

If you are one of the lucky ones planning a baby shower during the Christmas and holiday season, there are many great baby shower ideas you can do to tie Winter holidays into the festive event. As for baby shower decorations create snow flakes out of construction paper and hang them up around the room (possibly even threading them and hanging them from the ceiling). Make a pregnant snow-woman for laughs. You can even get crushed ice and make a mommy snow woman for a centerpiece around the baby shower food. Speaking of food, serve festive finger food sandwiches that may include winter vegetables, turkey, cranberries, and don't forget the eggnog.

Use the winter wonderland as a baby shower theme and dress up a tree with little words of wisdom from the baby shower guests. If you celebrate Hanukah or Kwanza, use your traditions to tie in the fun shower with symbols (menorah, blue and white colors or red, green and black). Play a dreidel baby shower game with diapers instead of gelt.

This is the season for giving gifts, baby shower gifts that is. A great gift this season for new parents is the newborn care video giving parents the most frequently asked questions they will take to their pediatrician. It also has a manual of most common questions. A great stocking stuffer!

Tie in the baby shower party favors in with the Winter season. You also need to make sure and do the baby shower planning in advance since there are many other events that occur (i.e., holiday business parties) that tie up resources. Another great idea is to give to those in need (besides the new parents) and donate to a favorite charity of the mommy-to-be.

There are so many ways to tie in the Christmas season to the baby shower theme. We also have tons of other ideas throughout the site and hope you enjoy our information. Have a great time at the upcoming party and we hope to help out in your planning with babyshower101.com. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

If you have your baby shower right before or after New Years, it can work out very well as a baby shower New Years theme. A few ideas are to use the theme of "New Year", by having everyone say what their resolutions are. It is also a great time to give by having everyone donate to a charity of less fortunate people, especially to a single mother's or children's organization. A cute baby shower idea is to have everyone sign a 2010 or Baby Time theme board (i.e., in the shape of a clock or baby with a clock). Another idea is to have "Father" or "Mother" Time on sheets of paper with a text bubble next to them or on a big poster board and give the parent's to be some ideas that would be helpful for their preparing for their little "Baby Time".

Symbolic candy, including candy clocks and miniature new years candies are great to place on tables of the baby shower. Serving finger food out of clocks or things with Happy 2010 as well as spreading colorful decorations and shredded paper/tinsel on tables is a nice touch for the new year celebration. The Baby Shower New Years theme is still cute and works for the beginning of January as well as the days prior to New Years. Decorations can be little baby plastic dolls in diapers with clocks with a 2008 on their diaper, signifying baby time, are symbolic along with a mother or father time doll or decoration.

Baby shower decorations can be purchased at any party store that sells new years decorations or created for the New Year as well as cups, place settings and other items. The use of black, white, gold, and silver are festive for the Dec/Jan season. Balloons and Poppers can also be used and Champaign can be given as a drink! Party hats with "It's a Boy" or "It's a Girl" with 2010 can be a party favor and festive with the theme. Baby Blocks can spell out Happy New Years 2010 which can be given as a gift after the party is over but used as decorations.

Wall decorations can be New Years related, with the use of streamers, balloons, and firework art to bring in the new year. A game can be played to guess when the baby is coming in 2010 which can be emailed to everyone when the baby actually comes. A time capsule can be created with pictures of the baby shower event as well as writings from the baby shower guests for the little one to open when they are older (a shoe box can be used or a small box which will be tapped up and put away for the baby to open when they are older. Everyone can contribute by placing words of wisdom, funny little sayings along with money if they want to. It will be a memorable box to open when the child is a teenager or young adult.

There are so many ways to tie in New Years to the baby shower theme. We also have tons of other ideas throughout the site and hope you enjoy our information. Have a great time at the upcoming party and we hope to help out in your planning with babyshower101.com. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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