For Soon-to-Be Parents: How to Host A Crafty Baby Shower

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Are you and your husband expecting your 1st baby and would like to get some of your close relatives and friends together for a baby shower? 

This blog article aims to serve as a comprehensive guide for your crafty baby shower to be a smashing success. 

Why Is It A Good Idea for Soon-to-Be Parents to Host A Crafty Baby Shower?

As an event, a crafty baby shower can still be fun, albeit low-key and intimate.

While there's nothing wrong with soon-to-be parents who go all out and spend a ton to hire an event organizer for their baby shower, such an occasion can be celebrated in a low-key and intimate way. 

Working on a baby-themed craft as the focal point of a baby shower lends uniqueness to the event. 

And if you have introverted friends, they'll feel more welcome and worry less about the burden of making small talk if they're focused on a baby-themed craft. 

Food and refreshments can be simple and fuss-free. 

As hosts, you don't need to come up with a lot of dishes to satisfy your guests. 

You only need to make sure that your guests are fueled with enough food so they have the energy for crafting. 

You can DIY the baby shower decorations. 

Craft materials like twine, construction paper, cardstock, and scrapbook paper are relatively inexpensive, especially when bought in bulk.

You can incorporate elements of the baby shower's theme into some of the crafts. 

As parents, you might be going the traditional route and incorporating pink or blue as your baby shower theme. 

Or, you might be deviating slightly and choosing colors like yellow, violet or lilac, or green. 

You can also choose cartoon or pop culture characters, like Barbie, Sanrio, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Marvel superheroes, BT21, or video game characters like the Super Mario Brothers. 

One of the advantages of hosting a crafty baby shower is you can incorporate certain elements of the baby shower theme into the crafts. 

To illustrate, if you chose a yellow-and-violet theme, you may provide yellow and violet fabric paint to decorate plain onesies or bibs.

You can omit giveaways or loot bags.

After working on a baby-themed craft, each of your guests will have something they can proudly call their own to take home. 

This alone will save you from the expense of placing an order for giveaways or contents for a loot bag.

And not having to worry about coming up with giveaways or what to put inside a loot bag can make you stress less when organizing your crafty baby shower.

Planning A Crafty Baby Shower

Come Up With A List of Negotiables and Non-Negotiables

Take a piece of paper and write down "Non-negotiables" and "Negotiables" on top, and decide accordingly.

Items among your list of "non-negotiables" might be "playlist of upbeat tunes," "baby-themed cake and pastry," and "baby shower games." 

On the other hand, your "Negotiables" might include "cutlery can be made of plastic," "food can be served on paper plates," "it's okay to use plain napkins," etc. 

The Venue 

For a low-key and intimate crafty baby shower, your home is the likeliest venue for you to host this event.

The Invitations 

You can cut back on costs by skipping the paper invitations and designing a digital invitation on the free feature of software like Canva. 

Make sure all information -- address, date and time, as well as contact information -- are accurate. Email the invitations to everyone on your guest list.

DIY Baby Shower Decorations

Ideal baby shower decorations are a bunting of onesies, a diaper cake as a centerpiece, and baby-themed cutouts. 

You can put baby-themed cutouts as well as the date of the baby shower inside a large picture frame, and place it on top of a long table filled with food for your guests.

The Menu 

As I have mentioned above, you can serve food and refreshments that are simple and fuss-free, since your guests only need to be fueled and satisfied to work on baby-themed crafts later. 

For starters, you can place bowls of nachos with several kinds of dips. Or, you can come up with a recipe for tuna spread for your guests to spread on soda crackers.

You can then serve a platter of finger sandwiches, pasta, and fried chicken.

Photo Booth Props

Your guests will not only have the privilege to take home a baby-themed craft. By providing photo booth props, they can also take plenty of photos (and make memories) using their phones.