I threw my pregnant book loving friend a book themed baby shower! Almost 10 years ago, I threw myself and a few other bloggers a version of the book baby shower and called it: B is for baby, book, bloggers and brunch. I love that the book baby shower theme can inspire an entire menu.
Book inspired baby shower food ideas
- If You Give a Cat a Cupcake
: Cupcakes - Green Eggs and Ham: Mini quiches with eggs and ham or deviled eggs with green food coloring or the super easy cookies in the picture above
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Fruit skewers
- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Crock pot meatballs
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish : Rainbow goldfish and Swedish fish
- Sylvia’s Spinach: Spinach artichoke dip and tortilla chips
- If You Give a Moose a Muffin: Muffins (Store bought is A-ok!)
: Cupcakes
: Mini quiches with eggs and ham or 
: Fruit skewers
: Crock pot meatballs
: Rainbow goldfish and Swedish fish
: Spinach artichoke dip and tortilla chips
: Muffins (Store bought is A-ok!)Psst: Those are Amazon Affiliate links to the kids books!
You can buy the kid books that go with the food and gift them to the mom to be or you can also just print out covers and frame! Either way, books make for fun, colorful decorations and a great baby shower menu. I used these little green egg and ham cookies as little treats on the coffee table.
Book inspired baby shower decorations
As for decorations, I made a backdrop out of book pages! Y’all, this is super, super easy to make. Find a book you don’t mind destroying and rip 60 pages out of it. Use Scotch tape and tape 6 pages together to make a vertical strip. I used 6 pages per strip and made 10 strips. Then, I taped each strip to the underside of the window molding. Easy peasy. The B and BABY flags, the cupcake toppers, and the water bottle wrap arounds are all from this etsy store. I whipped up a “IS FOR” sign with some white printer paper and my handy dandy scissors.
I’m a fan of bottled water at parties. It’s easy and the “B is for Baby” labels make them festive.
Book inspired baby shower guest book
My friend, Amanda, makes guest books where each person can color in their own character. It worked out really well for our book theme. I had each guest write their favorite children’s book in the space provided. I was so impressed with how much time each guest took to color in the persons outfit, hair, and jewelry. It was a really fun activity to have and an awesome keep sake for the mama to be! (Here are 27 more creative guest book ideas!)
Books for baby shower ideas
I love the idea of a favorite kids book for a baby shower guest book. Here are few of my favorite baby shower guest story book ideas:
- The Giving Tree
- Oh The Places You’ll Go
- Where the Wild Things Are
- The Wonderful Things You Will Be
- Guess How Much I Love You
Book inspired baby shower activities
The other baby shower activity we did was the baby book quiz. You can download this free baby shower game and find the answers in this post.
Book inspired baby shower favors
As for favors, we kept it simple and book themed. I used Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
as inspiration!
What is your fave baby shower theme? Favorite baby shower game? If you’re looking for more fun baby shower ideas. don’t miss:
Comments & Reviews
Great idea you have Jamie, it’s truly inspiring, may I have your permission to grab it?