30+ Girl Baby Shower Themes & Ideas

Ladybugs are an adorable theme for a baby shower. Not to mention, they’re considered good luck! You can be very literal with this theme by including ladybugs everywhere in your decor or you can allude to them with the color scheme.

• Decor: You can string paper lady bugs from a backdrop and have cut outs on tables. Have a sign that says “Welcome Ladybug.” Put lots of fresh flowers on the tables to create a garden feel. Find napkins or table cloths with ladybugs on them. If you can’t find those, look for table decor that is red.
• Food: Have a ladybug cake or ladybug frosted sugar cookies.
• Favors: Individually wrapped bags of black and red candies.

This cheery theme makes for a festive baby shower. It’s especially perfect if your shower will take place in the spring or the summer. But everyone can use a little sunshine, no matter the time of year!

• Decor: You’ll want lots of yellow at this shower (think yellow balloons, yellow table decor, yellow flowers). Have a welcome sign that reads “Welcome Sunshine!” You can also feature a cardboard cut out of a sun near your gift or cake table
• Food: Yellow cupcakes and picnic foods
• Favors: Sunscreen or sunglasses

Choose a favorite nursery rhyme and let it inspire your baby girl shower. A few classics to consider that work especially well with baby girl showers: Little Bo Peep, Mother Goose, Mary had a Little Lamb, Five Little Ducks

• Decor: Based on the nursery rhyme you chose, place stuffed animals around your event space that relate to the nursery rhyme. Alternatively, you could find a backdrop that features all of them. You can also use books of nursery rhymes in the decor. Pastel colored balloons will heighten the cozy nursery effect.
• Food: Label your dishes with nursery rhyme names. For example, “The cow jumped over the moon pie” or “Deviled Humpty Dumpties,” or “Mother Gooseberry pie.” Get creative!
• Games: Have a nursery rhyme quiz where your guests have to guess the nursery rhymes based on clues. These are easily found online.

The baby girl will be the star of this show. A star themed baby shower makes for a glitzy and fun event.

• Decor: Decorate tables with star confetti. Have star balloons around your gift or dessert table. Hang sparkly cut out stars around your event space
• Food: Serve tea sandwiches in a star shape. You can also serve star shaped cookies. On a fruit plate, don’t forget to include star fruit!
• Favors: Candles in mason jars with personalized stickers

Childhood is all about color. Having a rainbow themed baby girl shower is a festive way to celebrate that.

• Decor: Have a rainbow colored balloon archway. Get colorful with your tableware and any other decor.
• Food: A fruit plate with all colors from the rainbow. For desert, serve rainbow colored cupcakes in the shape of a rainbow.
• Favors: Bags of individually wrapped brightly colored candies, rainbow-shaped cookies.

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This sweet theme is perfect for a summer baby girl shower. You can allude to this theme with the color scheme, but also by including bee imagery in your decor.

• Decor: Include a “Welcome Honey!” sign and have yellow balloons and some cut out bees around the event space. Have lots of fresh cut flowers. If you’re having a seated meal, mark the parents’ spot with a “Parents to Bee” sign.
• Food: A cheese plate with a real honeycomb. For drinks, serve a honey lemon drink.
• Favors: Locally sourced honey, honey spoons.

This is a bright and cheery way to welcome this little cutie. A shower that features Cuties (or clementines) will allow you to play with fun shades of orange.

• Decor: Orange balloons, tables with bowls of clementines, add cut out paper cuties on drink straws and around your event space.
• Food: Orange juice based drinks (mimosa bar or just straight fresh squeezed orange juice). An orange olive oil cake for dessert.
• Games: Play baby shower bingo (where each square is a different baby item). Have small paper cutouts of clementines to cover marked squares.

Nothing says childhood like bubbles. Kids love them, but they make any party festive and fun.

• Decor: Create a whimsical feel with a discreetly placed bubble blower. You’ll also want lots of balloons (you could even get translucent ones that look like bubbles).
• Drinks: Have a “bubble bar.” Serve champagne for those who will be drinking alcohol. For those who won’t be, you can serve sparkling cider or any high end sparkling water.
• Favors: Send everyone home with mini bottles of champagne.

Girl baby showers used to be all “pretty in pink,” but we live in the modern world now. If this baby girl is being born into an adventurous family, chances are she’ll be adventurous too. You’ll want an exciting shower theme to match.

• Decor: Have a photo backdrop with all kinds of symbols of adventure: planes, hiking boots, mountains, binoculars, canoes, trains, maps or other travel symbols. Tables can be rustic with “woodland” inspired decor like pinecones and berries. Have a “Welcome Little Wanderer” sign.
• Activities: Create an “adventure book” for the baby by asking guests to suggest adventures for the baby. They can suggest far off and nearby areas to explore!
• Favors: Trail maps of the family’s favorite hiking location.

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At a shower celebrating the arrival of a baby girl you want to celebrate all the wonderful things girls bring to this world. A girl power themed shower is an empowering way to set the tone.

• Decor: Have a girl power sign near your balloons. If you’re having a seated meal, name each table after a different powerful woman. Some people choose to stick to pinks for this theme, while others go for less traditionally girl colors.
• Games: Play girl power trivia where all the answers are different powerful women.
• Favors: Girl power t-shirts or tote bags.

Ask the mom-to-be about her favorite children’s storybook and use it to inspire this baby girl shower. Think Madeline, Eloise, Hungry Hungry Caterpillar, Pippi Longstocking, Goodnight Moon, or Runaway Bunny. Or don’t pick one and let them all inspire you!

• Decor: Based on the book you choose, you’ll want to include stuffed animals or paper cut outs of characters and scenery from the books. You can also feature the books themselves as decor. Include a sign that says “Welcome bookworm!” Your color scheme for the shower should be inspired by the book.
• Food: Label your food with titles like “If you give a mouse cookie cookies” or call a fruit plate “Hungry hungry caterpillar food.” Bowls of chips could be “Wild thing snacks” and your cake could be “Night kitchen cake” or “Runaway bunny food.” The possibilities are endless.
• Favor: A book mark with a custom design that includes the date of the baby shower

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This classic story sets the tone for a fantastical baby girl shower. Best of all, there’s a tea party at the center of the story.

• Food: The food should be modeled off of the Mad Hatter’s tea party. You’ll want to serve tea and a bountiful table of tea cakes, cookies, and other snacks. Include a label with your drink that reads “shrinking potion.”
• Decor: Think classic English tea tea pots and cups. For the sandwiches and other snacks, you'll want tiered sandwich and cookie trays. Put individual playing cards out face up around the table. If there is a main serving area, put a top hat and a stuffed rabbit on the table.
• Favors: Playing card, boxes of tea, cute little tea cups

• Decor: You’ll want to get colorful with this one. White table clothes with rainbow streamers (unicorn tails). Give everyone colorful unicorn horns (party hats). Have a neon colored balloon archway and a unicorn cut out.
• Food: Cupcakes with unicorn-shaped frosting, unicorn-shaped cookies with sprinkles, rainbow cakes
• Games: A unicorn pinata.
• Favors: Rainbow-colored candies, unicorn journals

This baby girl will be a dream come true. Create a dreamy baby shower to match.

• Decor: Have a “Dreams come true” sign and lots of white balloons that will look like clouds. Sprinkle star glitter on the tables and have a runner of bunched cotton (symbolizing clouds). Table clothes can be dark blue to symbolize the night sky.
• Games: Play a trivia game where all the answers are movies that feature dreams or sleep. Field of Dreams, Sleepless in Seattle, While You Were Sleeping, the Big Sleep. There are many more!
• Favors: Cute sleep masks, or pillows

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Little girls are sugar and spice and everything nice. So have a sugar and spice themed baby girl shower. A big part of this theme comes out in the food. Yum!

• Decor: This theme pairs well with an earth tone Boho color scheme (spice colors!). Near your balloons, have a sign that reads “Sugar and Spice.”
• Food: Serve sweet and spicy foods. For drinks, instead of coffee and tea, serve chai tea. You could serve Indian or Thai food for the main course since they are foods that highlight sweet and spice together. For dessert you could serve ginger snap cookies or a spice cake.
• Favors: Serve your favorite high end spices in attractive tins. They can have a sticker with the date of your shower on it.

Bunnies are one of the most beloved animals of childhood. That’s why they’re in so many children’s books. This classic theme is a crowd pleaser.

• Decor: Put stuffed animal bunnies around the tables and event space. The color theme can be orange and green (orange will conjure carrots, green will create a garden feel).
• Food: Serve a carrot cake. The crudite platter can be labeled “bunny food.”
• Favors: Carrot seed packs so your guests can plant their own.

Flowers are a classic way to symbolize all the hope of new life. Not to mention, highlighting floral arrangements makes for a gorgeous event.

• Decor: This is a simple one. Put floral arrangements everywhere!
• Food: You can even incorporate flowers into your food. Put nasturtiums in the salad. Serve flower cakes, cupcakes, or cookies.
• Favor: Let everyone leave with their own flower bouquet.

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Mary Poppins is one of the most beloved childhood characters and the story makes for a fantastic theme.

• Decor: Have a sign that reads “Practically Perfect in Every Way.” Include an open black umbrella, a large black bag, and a tophat with a flower on the brim near the signage. At mom’s seat, include a sign that says “she’s poppin’.” At the food table, include a sign that says “Feed the birds.”
• Games: Play Bingo where all the squares are Mary Poppins related.
• Favors: Send everyone home with their own adorable umbrella.

This theme is ideal for a morning shower when your guests have a hankering for scones, donuts, cinnamon rolls, and more, but any time of day is a great time to indulge in baked goods

• Decor: The food is the decor at this event. Have a donut display (see above). You can also put mini donuts in jars and on platters. Make your serving tables elaborate.
• Activities/Games: Fill a jar with donut holes and have guests guess how many holes there are. The winner gets to take the jar home. You can also do a donut decorating contest.
• Favor: A wrapped cookie to-go

Sometimes, you just want to stick with the classics. Nothing says a baby girl shower like an all pink day. You can choose to be more subtle with this theme, just featuring splashes or pink here and there, or go big and make everything pink.

• Decor: This one’s easy, choose pink for your table settings, flower arrangements, balloons, and signage. If that’s too much pink for you, you can choose a neutral color to accent it with like a cream, pale yellow, blue, or green. Alternatively, you can highlight as many shades of pink as you can imagine.
• Food: Strawberry shortcake, bagels with strawberry cream cheese, strawberry mimosas, and strawberry lemonade.
• Favors: Pink tote bags or pouches (You will love this personalized one!), succulents in pink cups.

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Think of this as a magical garden party with butterflies everywhere.

• Decor: Place small paper butterflies around your event space. They can be of varying sizes. You can even place them around your food or have them hanging from a string. Create a sweetheart table with lots of flowers in the center so butterflies can “land” on your centerpieces.
• Activities: Have a “butterfly wall” with cutouts of butterflies. Have your guests write hopes and dreams for the baby on the back of the butterflies. You can save them for her. They’ll mean a lot to the parents-to-be.
• Favors: Send everyone home with their own butterfly bush plant.

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She’s making her big debut, so celebrate with a movie star themed girl baby shower.

• Decor: Have Hollywood stars hanging around your event space. If you know what her name will be, you can have a star with her name on it. Otherwise just stick with “Mom”, “Dad” and “Baby Girl.”
• Food: Have a “ready to pop” popcorn station with a popcorn machine and all the toppings.
• Favors: Movie star sunglasses for everyone.

This rustic baby shower makes for a stylish and modern yet earthy event.

• Decor: Earthy shades of pink, orange, and beige for your balloons and table decor. Include dried, earth-toned flowers and feathers for centerpieces.
• Boho conjures the Southwest with it’s color scheme so serve Southwest cuisine. A make your own taco bar is a lot of fun.
• Favor: Lavender bundles, dream-catcher, succulents

Everyone loves an under the sea theme and including mermaids can make your shower magical.

• Decor: Include mermaid cut outs near your balloons and on your tables. Lots of blue balloons will signify the ocean. Tablecloths can also be blue. Add underwater sea creature figurines.
• Food: Mermaid tail cupcakes, seafood platters, clam chowder
• Activity: Have a mermaid photo booth. Have an under the sea backdrop and have mermaid tails, wigs, and shell bikinis for guests to wear.

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A baby girl shower makes for a perfect tea party. This is a timeless theme.

• Decor: Pastel colored balloons and other decorations. Flowers on your serving and seating tables.
• Food: Tea cakes, cookies, and other finger food snacks. And tea of course.
• Favors: Boxes of your favorite tea

A fruit themed baby girl shower is so colorful and lively. Choose your favorite fruit or feature a wide variety!

• Decor: Have cut outs of your favorite fruit around the event. You can also include bowls of fruit as table centerpieces.
• Food: You guessed it–fruit! You can also serve fruit pies for dessert.
• Favors: Send everyone home with fruit scented candles, hand lotions, or bar soaps.

If you don’t know the wonderful Dr. Seuss book Oh the Places You Will Go, stop what you’re doing and check it out. This can also be interpreted as a travel theme

• Decor: Feature planes, and luggage in your decor. You could have a map as a backdrop. Encourage guests to put pins in the map to represent places they’ve been. If you’re having a seated event, name each table after a favorite place you hope your daughter will travel.
• Food: Serve food from around the world. You can even have different stations from different countries.
• Favor: Give your guests monogrammed passport holders or their own copy of Dr. Seuss’s Oh the Places You Will Go.

Everyone loves summer, so this theme is a crowd-pleaser. It’s perfect if you’re having the baby girl shower in the summer. But it also works if mom’s having a summer baby, but your shower is in winter when everyone misses the warm sun. You can treat it like a vacation theme or like a backyard summer barbeque. Or both!

• Decor: Hang little kid bikinis from a clothing line and place brightly colored balloons on either side. If children will be present you could have a baby pool for them.
• Food: Serve cookies in the shape of little polka dot bikinis and beach balls. Put umbrellas in your guest’s drinks. You can also fire up the grill for the main course.
• Favor: beach towels, canvas tote bags, sunglasses

Safari is a gender-neutral party theme for your girl baby shower. Welcome your little brave girl with some cute jungle animals.

• Decor: Add some pampas grass and big leaves to the centerpieces. Choose earthy colored balloons for the photo backdrop.
• Food: Cake with small animal figurines
• Favor: Safari hats for guests

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If your family enjoys beer, local bar hopping, or hanging out in a sports bar, this theme to welcome your little one to your team will be fun for everyone. If there’s one sport in particular that you anticipate playing as a family, you can keep the theme to just that sport.

• Decor: Have signage that reads “Baby Brewing’s In Progress”, “Welcome to the team, baby!” Have balls or sports equipment around your event space. For example, if you’re having a tennis themed event, have rackets and balls on your tables. Hang a small uniform from a clothesline near where you will display your cake.
• Food: Serve hot dogs, chicken wings, fries, chips, pizza, and of course, beer.
• Games: Bet on the stats for the “new player.” Have guests guess your baby girl's height, weight, and eye and hair color.

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