Baby Shower Theme - Going Green

Green would be a great color to use for an overall theme for the shower, especially if it's not known if baby is going to be a girl or a boy. However, when I suggest that you may like to have a green baby shower, I'm talking about holding a shower that reflects your love of the world and helping make it a beautiful place for the new arrival.

If you like this idea as a theme for your baby shower, then, from the moment you adopt it, you will see how easy it is to source products and produce that will support you in this. The following are just a few examples of some elements of your shower to which you can add the green touch:

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Invitations

Many adorable invitations, in both printed and print your own format, are available on paper and card made from recycled materials.

If you adopt the green theme this may even help you with the baby shower wording of your invitations. You could, perhaps, put something fun such as "Another branch is expected on our tree", or "Another bird is going to join our flock". Play around with the idea and take your inspiration from nature itself.

Decorations

Like invitations, made from recycled and recyclable material. If you are using bought flowers, then Fair Trade ones are available, as are organic and, of course, always shop locally if you can, to reduce your carbon footprint.

Feeling creative? How about spending a day foraging in nature and harvesting some of her gifts? Some of her gifts can be harvested without worry. If your baby shower is in the fall, then why not make use of pretty pine cones and fallen leaves?

Party Favors

If you are buying favors think about favors that are made from Fair Trade

and organic materials. Again, you could give small gifts made from "green" materials. How about making your own chocolate or baked goods to give away, all made with organic ingredients, or cuttings from plants that you have lovingly sown yourself? Giving plants or cuttings away would be a lovely symbolic act of the new life that has just been grown by the Universe.

By now you have probably realized that a Green baby shower can also be an economic one!

Menu Ideas

In this area, too, the emphasis should be on organic, Fair Trade, and locally sourced food & ingredients. Providing the catering yourself would be the most environmentally friendly option, and this would enable you to carry your green theme through to the decoration of the food in a fun way. How about making a cake in the shape of a favorite wild animal? A hedgehog would be ideal for this due to its simple rotund body!

Consider also using crockery plates, rather than disposable ones, but if you do want the ease of doing this, then those made from recycled materials are available.

Gifts for Mom

If you are the organizer, then the theme is your theme, and the whole point of a gift is that it should be given from the heart. It would be unfair to then stipulate what your guests should bring. However, there is nothing wrong in a gentle nudge in the right direction with baby shower wording on your invites such as, "The theme is Green, so a planet-friendly gift would be great. Let's help the new arrival have a cleaner, better world." If your guests do decide to go along with the spirit of the event, they will find a wealth of organic and fair trade goods available in all price ranges.

Giving Back

We now all know that our precious world is vulnerable, and needs to be treasured and cared for, just like a baby. It is not by chance that we refer to nature as "Mother Nature", for She nurtures and provides for us every day of our lives, and we live by the fruits of her labors. So how lovely to give something back to her at the end of your baby shower and plant a tree. What an beautiful way to remember the day that Mom was honored by her friends and family.

Baby Shower Theme - Going Green

Keira Forsyth has learnt just about everything there is to know about making any baby shower a big success, and now blogs regularly at http://babyshowerwordingandmore.com. Join her there to learn all about baby showers, and pick up some tips, insights and wonderful gift ideas.

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