Halloween Themed Baby Shower!

I can't wait to share this with you! After months of planning and pinning, my friend and I threw the best Halloween-themed baby shower for one of our good friends!

First, the decor. The mama loves Halloween, so we wanted to make sure it resembled an actual Halloween Party. We did tulle wrapped pumpkins, wiry spooky trees that I got off of Zulily for $10 a piece, spider web tablecloths, plus odds and ends from Dollar Tree. The picture above was a black tablecloth wrapped around a picture frame, with spider web all over. I took 2 long sections of black tulle and draped it across, and then I used a hot glue gun to get the letters on it. After we were done, it was easy to pull off and discard!

However, it is a baby shower! We wanted to celebrate the baby and play all the typical shower games. We did 4 in all. One was a short game where the guests matched the "animal" with the number of days of gestation. Because its Halloween, we did bats, cats, spiders, humans, and owls. The second game was The Price Is Right, which had our guests match prices with different baby items. The decor surrounding this was Halloween themed, but the game itself was not. It was awesome that the mama got to keep all the items afterward, so I highly recommend this game! The third game involved 4 couples/pairs. One person fed the other person baby food, and the latter had to guess what it was. The first team to get all 4 right won! The last game was pregnancy bingo, where the guests all wrote down what they thought the mama would receive, and as she was opening presents, we played Bingo! For all the games, the winners got to choose between fall scented candles or Halloween decorated tumblers.

Now for the food! We did pizza and ribs for the main dish, but the extras are where you could see the theme shine through. I made fruit cups that looked like candy corn out of pineapple, mandarin oranges, and whip cream. We had cupcakes and a veggie platter (just standard things!), and for the main appetizer/dessert, we had a caramel apple bar! We served slices of apples on toothpicks that looked like pumpkins, spiders, bats, and ghosts (Thanks, Amazon!), and we had caramel dip in my crock-pot. There were 4 cups with assorted toppings, and this was by far my favorite! For drinks, I looked up some easy punch recipes on Pinterest. Honestly, the Apple Spider Punch was gross. The Dragon's Blood punch was delicious! It consisted of 1 container of Simply Mixed Berry, 1 2L of Sprite, and a bag of frozen mixed berries. Delicious!

For added effect, I filled the mason jars pictured above with candy corn, and added the letters to spell "Peek a Boo", which was probably the only true crossover touch of the evening!

I hope this article can assist anyone planning a Halloween-themed baby shower. Happy Halloween!

-Kristin