Use a rubber duck theme for the baby shower you're hosting.
Ducks, typically rubber ducks, make an ideal baby shower theme if you don't know the gender of the baby, a boy and girl are expected or just because rubber ducks are often associated with babies. A duck baby shower theme is ideal if the baby's nursery or bathroom has the same theme. Does this Spark an idea?
Location
Host your duck baby shower at a park, near the lake or in your yard if possible. Decorate with a small kiddie pool filled with water and rubber ducks or set out larger rubber ducks all around, particularly a mommy and baby duck. If weather or space doesn't permit, transform the shower room into a duck bathroom or garden.
Stationery
Send out invitations with images of ducks or use duck-shaped invitations. They can show a bathtub with bubbles and rubber ducks or a mother and baby duck walking near a pond. Include duck-friendly wording on the invitations, such as "waddle on over," "celebrate the arrival of their little duckling" or advise guests to come prepared for bath time with shower caps and bathrobes. Give the parents-to-be duck-themed thank you cards to send out after the shower to keep everything related to the theme.
Decorations
Decorate with duck shower accessories, such as hanging a clear shower curtain with images of blue bubbles and yellow rubber ducks. Use blue or yellow bathmats like table runners under centerpieces. Fill a large clear vase, oversized martini glass or fishbowl with Styrofoam balls and clear bubble balls of varying sizes to look like bath bubbles. Add small rubber ducks. Fill baby baths or galvanized buckets with water and rubber ducks. Roll blue, yellow and white towels or washcloths inside of baskets filled with bath stuff, such as lotion, baby shampoo, baby powder and rubber ducks. Glass vases, jars or oversized baby bottles can hold water, glass bubbles or blue bath crystals with rubber ducks on top. Diaper or towel cakes featuring duck items and stuffed ducks are ideal centerpieces as well. Use blue and yellow streamers and balloons if you need more decorations. Any baby items can serve as extra gifts for the expecting parents.
Activities
Duck related games can break the ice and garner a few laughs. For example, fill water balloons to play "don't break the water." Ask guests to hold the water balloons between their knees and pass the balloons to the next guest without using any hands. Whoever breaks their water is out. Fill a bucket or kiddie pool with water and float numbered rubber ducks on the surface. Number the ducks with permanent markers so the numbers don't show. Give each guest a raffle ticket when they arrive with numbers that correspond to the rubber ducks. Randomly pull out a couple of ducks throughout the party to award door prizes.
Refreshments
A large bowl of blue punch, cranberry juice, lime soda and vanilla ice cream will mimic a bubbly bath. Float clean rubber ducks in the punch as a finishing detail. Serve yellow food or duck food. For example, egg salad and bread, cheese and "quackers" or gold fish in yellow and blue bowls. Make signs that say "duck food" or "please don't feed the ducks."
Favors
Give your guests duck-related favors, such as duck-shaped soap, key chains, candles, bath salts or edible goodies. For example, blue and yellow candies, duck-shaped cookies, suckers or chocolates. Give away all of the rubber ducks, as well, unless you want to keep a multitude of them.
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