GREEN BABY SHOWER

Baby shower party planners, go green by planning and hosting an environmentally friendly baby shower. Also, some green products can cost a lot of green, so also encourage guests to buy the mommy-to-be green gifts.

For starters, for invitations it’s easy to go paperless. Evite.com is great for baby shower invitations – it’s free and there are lots of designs or you can design your own. It will track your RSVPs and it’s really fun to see what people write when they respond. Staying online, many people use Facebook to setup baby showers, which also has the added benefit of everyone easily “friending” one another to stay in touch after the shower and sharing congratulations. If you’re really with the latest technology, you might even tweet about the baby shower on your Twitter account. Make sure your invite message mentions it’s a “green” baby shower!

If you decide to print or buy invitations, use recycled stock paper. You can find great designs to print your own and there are now tons of beautiful cards printed on recycled stock.

If you’re hosting the baby shower inside someone’s home, decorate the room with flowers and plants in small pots. They make great centerpieces and can be given to guests as game prizes and party favors. Use other natural, biodegradable materials. You can also decorate with soy candles placed inside baby food jars. Green M&Ms across the tables are sure to delight the guests. Alternative choices to the home for green baby showers include the beach, a park or someone’s backyard if they have a nice garden.

When it comes time to serving food, if you’re at a home do your best to not use paper products. This is pretty simple if you make it a tea and serve on China or nice dinnerware. Drinks can be served in glasses. If you must go with paper products, choose recycled. As for the food, choose organic fruits, vegetables and other ingredients. You may be able to make an outing with your co-hosts to a local Farmers Market to pickup salad, apples, fresh herbs and spices, etc.

For fun, use games printed on recycled paper. A fun game is to time guests while they try to list as many green celebrities as they can – bonus points for what the celebs do to help the environment.

The baby registry is obviously for the mommy-to-be to decide, but if she is environmentally conscious, chances are she will register for organic and eco-friendly gifts at stores like Babies R Us, Target and specialty baby boutique stores. Encourage guests to buy green wherever possible. Mommy-to-be can also register at online stores, and if she’s okay with including a registry note in the invite (see baby shower etiquette), you can make everyone happy by telling the guests they will save gas and their time by ordering online. Baby shower guests can buy organic cotton clothing, blankets, etc. and gifts made from recycled materials. Depending how mommy-to-be feels about hand me downs, these also make great green gifts since babies usually outgrown clothes before they look bad and most toys are good for hand me downs. Books are perhaps the best hand me down.

Ask guests to wrap gifts in recycled bags or boxes. Wrapping a present inside a baby blanket is a cute idea. You can also place baby shower gifts in pretty baskets and boxes that the mommy-to-be will be able to use in her nursery.

For baby shower thank you notes, party favors, or even invitations, you might consider new “plantable” paper. After they are used, this great paper can be planted to grow into plants or flowers.

When it comes time to clean up, remember to recycle! Enjoy your green baby shower!

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