How To Make Jungle Animal Decorations Out Of Onesies

Recently I received a reader request for suggestions for a jungle themed baby shower! I was really excited by this asking, considering not just do I love jungle animals {as evidenced by our nursery}, but also considering I have always wanted to host a jungle themed shower. This gave me a bang-up opportunity to share a lot of the ideas that I've had floating around in my head for a long time.

I'1000 a very visual person and I enjoy the process of putting my ideas down on paper, so I created a quick jungle themed babe shower mood board that includes ideas for decorations, activities, and favors. In putting together this mood board, I took the same approach that I take any time I entertain – I strive to strike a residuum by create events that are stylish and memorable without being also over the top in terms of price or prep time. I love Pinterest as much as the next person, but let'south be existent – the corporeality of time and expense invested in some of the uber-elaborate Pinterest parties out there tin go out you lot feeling inadequate. But I firmly believe that yous can create an amazing event without breaking the banking concern by creating a cohesive theme and focusing on special details.

So, without further ado, here are some fun suggestions for a jungle themed baby shower…

{mood board image credits are noted inside the descriptions below}

Now let's break downward the details:

(ane) CUPCAKES.I beloved a cute cupcake, simply I'm not ane for making something actually complicated because I just never have enough fourth dimension in the days/hours leading up to a party. Withal, these monkey cupcakes are so stinkin' cute and look actually easy to make. They but require 2 dissimilar sizes of Nilla Wafers and candy eyes, which tin be purchased from Michael's on the baking aisle. Details on how to make these cupcakes can exist constitute on this web log.

(2) ANIMAL Impress DECOATIONS. It's like shooting fish in a barrel to notice lots of decoration in the typical fauna print colors (browns and blacks), only I like the idea of using brighter, fun colors for a babe shower – like these vibrant balloons with the zebra stripes and leopard spots, which tin exist purchased from Oriental Trading Company. Political party City also has lots of beautiful decorations in different colors of zebra stripes, including napkins and plates, every bit well as newspaper lanterns.

(iii) MONKEYS HANGING AROUND. I accept e'er thought it would be fun to incorporate the monkeys from the Barrel of Monkey's game into a political party. Because of their claw-similar arms, in that location are lots of ways that the monkeys could be used to decorate. I retrieve they would exist cute hanging from a chandelier in a higher place a food table, and with but a quick glaze of spray paint the monkeys could be made to friction match whatever colour of party decor. Information technology would be really fun to paint each monkey a dissimilar color and to have each guest hang a monkey from their drink cup as a marker of sorts (so that you lot would know which cup was yours by the color of the monkey hanging from the rim).

(4) COLLECTING Communication & WISHES IN A BANK. I really similar to contain items into a baby shower that the mom tin keep and use in the nursery after the shower is over. I think that an fauna banking company, similar the silver elephant pictured, would be a great identify to collect notes with advice for the mom-to-exist or wishes for the baby. The bank pictured in the mood board is from here, and the communication cards tin can be purchased for download here. The key would be printing the advice/wishes forms on light weight newspaper and minor enough that they can be folded and slipped through the depository financial institution slot.

(v) DECOR THAT BUILDS BABY'South WARDROBE. Rather than a standard gift table, I like to apply a cradle or basinet to corral all of the gifts. The photo on the mood board is from this shower that I hosted, where I used my boys' cradle and hung onesies from the front. I put a big letter on the forepart of each onesie to spell out gifts (the letters were printed and cut out of sticker paper), but for a jungle themed shower I recall it would exist ambrosial to cord up onesies with animals on them. Even if you don't have a cradle that you tin can use, the onesies would be just every bit cute strung along the front of, or in a higher place, a standard gift table. Best of all, subsequently the shower, the onesies tin became part of the new baby's wardrobe. The precious jungle animal onesies on the mood board are from this Etsy shop.

(6) ALPHABET FLASHCARDS. Keeing with the theme of deocating with items that mom and baby tin keep – I dear the idea of stringing up beast alphabet flashcards {like to the way I strung upwards Seattle alphabet flashcards in my kitchen for the rain shower themed baby shower I hosted for a friend last year}. There are a lot of neat fauna alphabet flashcards available, but my favorite are those pictured on the mood board, which are available here. I likewise like this pick from Barnes & Noble.

(7) SHOWER FAVORS. I always think that ane of the biggest challenges to hosting a babe shower is coming upward with a favor to send home with all the guests. For party favor ideas, I often turn to Pinterest, and ane of the best ideas I came across was to put large cookies within of CD envelopes with cute coordinating stickers on the front of each. The inspiration photo on the mood board has elephant stickers, but I remember it would be just as beautiful to use a variety of jungle animals and you could hands find cute sticers at Michael's or any other craft store.

(8) PAINTED PLASTIC ANIMALS ARE ALL THE RAGE. Painting fiddling plastic animals from the dollar store is a huge tendency right at present. People are using them in all sorts of ways, including to concur jewlery. But I call back it would be a great idea to incorporate them into a jungle themed infant shower. You could paint them in coordinating colors {or in gilt – which is all the rage right now} and utilise them in any number of means. I constitute an awesome idea on Pinterest to paint the animals and glue them to the lids of inexensive jars. This blogger used them to create a dessert buffet at a baby shower, which is a dandy idea, considering then the mom-to-exist can utilise the jars in the plant nursery subsequently the shower is over.

Alternatively, yous could pigment animals and simply sit down them effectually on the buffet table or whatsoever other place you want to decorate, like this example.

Painted animals would also make great cupcake toppers – and The Entertaining Shoppe {a new favorite notice of mine} makes information technology easy for yous by selling ambrosial gold animals on food safe sticks perfect for cupcakes or a block.

(9) Invitee BOOK. I love to give books equally gifts, and often ask babe shower guests to bring a signed book instead of a menu to help mom build infant's library {I usually put language on the invitation that says: "One pocket-sized request that won't be too hard, bring a signed book instead of a card"}. Alternatively, I call back information technology'south fun to use a kids book as a guest book. For a jungle themed shower, sit out The Jungle Book and ask all of the guests to write a annotation to mom and infant in the forepart and back covers of the book.

(x) DECORATING WITH STUFFED ANIMALS. Lastly, a simple simply ambrosial fashion to decorate for a jungle themed shower would be to sit down out lots of blimp animals. These could be stuffed animals borrowed from your own kiddos, or stuffed animals that you desire to gift to the new baby. I peculiarly love the Cordy Roy stuffed animals from Jellycat, similar the lion, elephant and rhino featured on the mood board.

So at that place you take it – my vision for a fashionable but uncomplicated jungle themed baby shower. If you lot've hosted a jungle themed shower, I'd dear to see the photos and hear about the special details y'all incorporated!