Nautical Baby Shower Theme
If you're hosting a baby shower, a nautical baby shower is the perfect way to go. This theme works wonderfully, no matter
the gender of the baby. From lighthouses to sea critters, there are so many different ways to turn when you choose this
type of a theme.
Maybe you're not sure where to begin when planning a nautical baby shower. No need to worry. Here is your one-stop guide
of all things nautical.
You'll find everything you need to throw a fun and exciting shower for the new mom.
Follow these great tips and ideas to throw this themed shower without a hitch.
Invitations for a Nautical Baby Shower
The very first step for any baby shower is to start picking and planning the invitations. After all, you'll definitely
want the invitations to reflect your under the sea theme. It will give all your guests a great preview of the shower.
Of course, you have a couple of options when you're choosing your shower invitations.
One option is to purchase pre-made
bought invitations, which are easy to find and use. Usually you simply fill out these invitations and send them for hassle
free planning.
Another great idea is to use some of the printable ocean baby shower invitations that we offer here. You can print them out and have them
done in a jiffy, making planning easy as well.
Ocean Baby Shower Poems
Sometimes it's fun to add some cute invitation poems as well. You can find some great wording ideas and beautiful poems
for your invitations by visiting our pages of ocean baby shower poems.
Activities and Games
Don't forget to plan out some fun for the nautical baby shower as well. You'll want to plan some activities and games
for the baby shower to keep the party moving.
Sometimes the best way to break the ice in the beginning is to play a fun game that allows everyone to get to know each other.
Sea Critters Word Scramble
One fun game idea you can use is a sea critters word scramble. You can use our free printable game or you can come up with
your own. This game simply uses various ocean and nautical related words, but they are all scrambled up. Set a timer and
see who can unscramble them correctly the fastest.
Nautical Animal Game
You may be familiar with the alphabet animals game, which involves coming up with the names of animals for every letter
in the alphabet. You can use this game with a bit of a twist for a nautical baby shower.
Simply change it to sea alphabet animals, requiring everyone to come up with the name of a sea animal to go with each
letter of the alphabet. The person who fills in the most letters wins a prize.
Underwater Coloring Pages
Another fun idea is to offer some nice coloring pages. You'll find that ocean coloring pages can be used for shower
activities or you may even want to use these pages to help you with your shower decorations as well.
Decorating for the Nautical Baby Shower
To carry out your baby shower theme, you're going to want to decorate the place where you're having the shower with
nautical themed decorations.
Set the stage by incorporating colors like navy and white together or try other shades of blue.
Some great items you can use for decorations include sailor hats, rope, seashells, plastic anchors, life preservers, and
more.
Consider making a centerpiece with a plastic boat, which you can fill with baby goods or with various food items you
want to serve.
Adding sailboats or even wrapped messages in a bottle are also great ideas that can compliment the theme.
You can also look for cute under the sea products to use as decorations for the shower. They can even double as favors
at the end of the party.
Tasty Ideas for Food
When it comes to choosing the food for your nautical baby shower, you have many great choices that will go well with this
theme. Of course, you can serve up any type of seafood.
Consider going with tuna or crab salad served up with crackers or perhaps some cocktail shrimp. Fish and chips can be a
nice choice if you're serving a meal.
For the punch for the shower, go with something blue. Try finding cute gummy fish that you can allow to float around in the
punch.
Consider using cutouts to help you make food to go with the nautical theme. You can cutout sandwiches in starfish shapes,
fish shapes, or even boat shapes to add some fun to the food. Even cookies can be cutout into fun nautical shapes.
No doubt, you'll be serving up a nice cake as well. See if you can have a lighthouse shaped cake or a boat shaped cake made.
Try to make sure that everything carries out your theme to make the party even more exciting for everyone.
Nautical Baby Shower Favor Ideas
At the end of the nautical baby shower, it's definitely a nice touch to have some baby shower favors to hand out to everyone.
You can find nautical themed favor bags and fill them with candy or even baked goods for a nice favor.
Another idea is to go with sailboat candles. Small lighthouse candles, crystal sailboats, sailboat magnets, and even
starfish shaped soaps all are wonderful options.
Don't forget, in addition to favors, it's nice to have some nautical themed gifts to have on hand as well so you can give
out prizes to the winners of your games.
You may also like this fun collection
of under the sea favor bags too.
Nautical Theme Ideas
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