Since the two months before Luke was born were taken up with Christmas and Logan’s superhero party, my friend Sarah waited until after Luke was born to have a baby shower. We aptly named it a ‘meet the baby’ shower instead and set a light dinner for friends with a storybook theme.
What a fun theme this was to plan! There were tons of ideas on the internet and I had plenty of my own to share, being a children’s book lover. At first I scoured my shelves and picked all of our favorite books and scanned them into my computer. Then I planned a menu around food named books that I knew. I looked for the books I didn’t already own at the library and scanned them as well. (It wasn’t until I had scanned at least 20 books into the computer that I realized that I could just look on Google Images for the book covers I wanted! Silly me. So if you do this theme for a party of your own, save yourself the trouble and just use Google Images.)
I printed all of the book cover images on to cardstock, matted it with a second piece of card stock and Sarah put together block and clothespin place markers for our buffet style meal.
Our menu for our Storybook themed dinner consisted of:
Main Courses:
- The Little Red Hen – Bread and butter
- Eat Your Alphabet A to Z – Vegetable platter
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Fruit bowls
- Pete’s a Pizza – Pizza bites
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Meatballs
- Stinky Cheese Man – Cheese and cracker platter
- Green Eggs and Ham – Spinach Quiche
- Three Little Pigs – Pigs in a blanket
Snacks:
- Pumpkin Baby – Mini pumpkin muffins
- One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish – Rainbow goldfish
- Rain Makes Applesauce – Applesauce
To Drink:
- Blueberries for Sal – Blueberry punch
Dessert:
- Jellybeans for Breakfast – Jellybeans (tis the season, after all.)
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Cookie favors to take home
- Cakepops (not on theme, but a friend of mine made them and they were incredible! So good!)
The décor was simple:
My favorite children’s books along with some blocks and some storybook characters we had on hand. Sarah had Pooh Bear, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and Curious George.
I had the entire cast of Where the Wild Things Are:
I made a banner that said “Once Upon A Time” printed on simple cardstock that we hung from Sarah’s great room arch.
Favors were also on theme with two cookies in each bag and a sticker that read “and they lived happily ever after” on the front.
We played a game of word scramble that I made up with “Natural Mama” words such as doula, waterbirth, breastfeeding, sling, and cloth diaper.
The rest of the time we hung out and got to know Luke a little bit. Although he spent much of the party like this:
We had a lovely time! Thank you Sarah for everything!!
9 comments
What a lovely party!! The theme and its application is so thoughtful and well done.
Looks like it was a great party...its made me hungry (after having eaten breakfast). ksp
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Looks like a lovely party! Beautiful set up.
What a wonderful idea! It looks like a fantastic time. Thanks for sharing!
cute, cute, CUTE!! i wish i lived closer so i could come celebrate with you <3
xo,
erika
Thank you! I really loved it, and it was so easy to put together! We saved all the pieces so that our church could do a quick baby shower anytime they want to with this theme. :)
Blessings,
Val
What a brilliant party. I love the idea of it being a meet the baby party since everyone wants to see the new baby anyway and the idea of it being a children's book theme. Well done!
Wondering what the blueberry punch recipe is...
@Jenah Myers
It was 5 years ago. I don't really remember! lol!
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