How to Host a Nursery Rhyme Baby Shower

A nursery rhyme theme is a classic for a baby shower. Just about everyone knows and loves the classic rhymes and stories of Mother Goose. These entertaining and soothing rhymes have been read to babies for years. A nursery rhyme baby shower is charming and reminds everyone of their favorite rhymes from childhood.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Mother Goose storybook
• Nursery rhyme themed invitations
• Mother Goose centerpieces

1. Make a guest list and select several dates that would be good for the baby shower. Once you have decided on both of these, you are ready to find a good location for the baby shower.
2. Choose where you would like to hold the baby shower. You could hold the baby shower at a popular restaurant in a private room, or perhaps at a friend’s house.
   
   
3. Select invitations that compliment the nursery rhyme theme. Send out invitations to your guests and consider making the inside of the invitation rhyme.
   
   
4. Decorate the room with pictures from your favorite storybooks. Get them blown up at your local copy center and hang them on poster board or foam core.
   
   
5. Centerpieces would be ideal as items that are popular from Mother Goose’s popular rhymes. One table could have a black sheep (for Ba Ba Black Sheep) and another table could have a plate and a spoon (for “and the plate went away with the spoon”).
   
   
6. Create a pretty chair for the mother-to-be to sit in while she opens gifts. A great idea is to put stuffed animals of some of the nursery rhyme characters at her feet of the chair.
7. Give out nursery rhyme themed favors for this baby shower. You could copy a quote from your favorite nursery rhyme and have it printed on coffee mugs, or potholders for everyone.

Tips & Warnings

• One idea is to focus on a specific nursery rhyme that you like the very best. That can be a lot of fun.
• You can also ask guests to share their favorite nursery rhymes with the group.
• A baby shower game you can play is to make a fun quiz about the nursery rhymes and see how much people know about them.

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