As your due date approaches, it’s time to start thinking about your baby shower to celebrate the upcoming arrival of your bundle of joy. Traditionally, a close family member plans the party, but today, the best friend of the expectant mom may take charge of the event or team up with other family members to make the planning and execution stages quicker and easier. Usually, the baby shower is held anywhere between four to six weeks prior to the mother’s due date, and if your baby’s expected arrival lands around Easter, you may want to consider throwing an entire Easter-oriented event to make the day more memorable with a special theme.
Send the Invitations Out Early
Because many people travel to visit family during Easter weekend, it’s a good idea to send invitations out early, allowing potential guests plenty of time to make their holiday plans around the event. Designing the baby shower invitations is another opportunity you have to emphasize the spring and Easter theme. Select a classy, sturdy paper to print your invitations on and decorate them with bunnies, colorful Easter eggs or other cute symbols of the holiday. Some Easter baby shower invitation ideas include images of Peter Rabbit, beautiful spring flowers, a rainbow of the popular Easter treat Peeps and a group of adorable chicks hatching from their eggs.
Host a Brunch Celebration
One of the most common ways to observe the Easter holiday is with a lavish brunch party. Recreate this cherished tradition at your baby shower by planning to host the party earlier in the day and include staple brunch items like waffles with a variety of toppings, a bagel bar, eggs and bacon, hash browns and non-alcoholic mimosas. Typically, no alcohol is served at a baby shower because the event is intended to celebrate mother (and sometimes the father at a co-ed baby shower) and baby.
Serving something that mom can’t indulge in would be ill-advised, but you can re-imagine classic brunch drinks for everyone to enjoy. Mimosas are perfect for mocktails. Purchase plastic champagne flutes and fill a pitcher with orange juice, a splash of grenadine, ginger ale and top each glass with a slice of orange. Another refreshing spring drink you can offer guests at an Easter baby shower is a delicious serving of strawberry hibiscus tea lemonade. Simply mix water, hibiscus tea, lemon juice, sugar and freshly cut strawberries into a large pitcher and serve.
For additional food ideas, there are dozens of great brunch-related items you can serve for guests that make excellent finger food. To match the Easter theme, bring a tray of traditional deviled eggs, mini quiches filled with ingredients of your choice and goat cheese tarts. The bagel bar is a common idea for brunch-themed baby showers because you can lay out items such as cream cheese, lox, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and other types of cheeses.
Organize a Crafting Table
Pre-planned activities are a vital part of any baby shower. While most people tend to coordinate group games related to the expectant mother and newborn, offering guests a more engaging activity, such as a craft table, can create a unique atmosphere and result in special new gifts for the mom-to-be to take home with her. One of our favorite baby shower activities is decorating onesies for the newborn.
Purchase a pack of Gerber Onesies® Brand bodysuits or Gerber White Essentials line in a variety of sizes to provide the baby with one-of-kind clothing items for months to come. Then you can choose to offer guests a variety of fun materials to decorate their clothing items with such as fabric markers, paints and toxic-free dyes.
Baby Shower Easter Egg Hunt
Along with your crafting table and food stations, you’ll likely want to incorporate some games into the party as well. For an Easter-themed event, it’s a great idea to celebrate with a baby-centric Easter egg hunt. Hide colorful eggs throughout the venue, but you can easily replace classic children’s prizes with adult-centric items like small beauty products (nail polish, lipstick, etc.), lottery tickets, costume jewelry or even tickets for larger prizes. While an Easter egg hunt is always an exciting, different game to play at an Easter-themed baby shower, you can switch up the activity by allowing guests to decorate their own eggs with provided materials and hosting an Easter egg decorating competition.
Other Easter-Related Games to Play
Keep the fun going throughout the baby shower with even more exciting games for adults. Use the Easter theme for inspiration and be sure to bring small but desirable prizes for the winners of each competition. A common and fitting game is the Guess the Jelly Bean Count activity. Fill a jar with different colored jelly beans and leave them next to a stack of papers and a bucket, allowing guests to take a crack at guessing how many jelly beans are contained in the jar. The trick with this game is to fill the container with enough beans that it would be difficult for guests to count every bean, but be sure that there are few enough candies for you to count prior to the game so a proper winner can be announced. Another easy, fun game for an Easter baby shower is Easter bunny bingo.
Serve Themed Dessert Treats
No baby shower would be complete without a table of tasty desserts for guests to enjoy during the festivities. For an Easter shower, there are tons of great recipes to match the theme, including carrot cake (mini carrot cakes work great as well), cupcakes decorated to look like Easter baskets and Easter egg cookies. Feel free to get creative with the desserts and add in traditional spring colors or decorations.
Give Guests Personalized Favors
To tie up the whole Easter-themed event, give your guests something to leave with and remember the special day. Party favors are a traditional aspect of a baby shower, and you can find adorable ideas for an Easter party. Give each guest a personalized Easter egg with their name and a cute cosmetic product inside or pass out mini Easter baskets engraved to commemorate the day and fill each with candies and treats.