Library & Storybook Book Baby Shower Ideas
Great party idea! Help the new parents build their child’s library.
Give a gift of reading and sparks baby’s imagination.
DECORATING & PARTY IDEAS
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| Book Page Flower Cupcake – Use a foam ball in a cupcake liner. Then stick flowers (cut from old book pages) into the ball with pearl topped pins. Would be cute on a candlestick too. | Make a garland from old book pages. | |
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| Make a caterpillar out of tissue paper for Very Hungry Caterpillar | ||
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| A book – without a cover – becomes a flower for your table | Book Pages turned into a banner | Print out a bunch of book quotes and turn them into a banner |
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| Make a festive garland/banner from old scraps of material. | Setup a Favor Station for when guests leave the party. | String pom poms (found at a craft store) and use as a party garland. |
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| Use book pages to make hanging decorations, table runners, and garlands. Dress up your creations with crystals or glue on butterflies, book worms, and small flowers. | ||
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| Place inspirational book quotes around the party area | A wreath from pages of old books – children’s books are more colorful | Display your party elements with the rhyme they depict. |
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| Stack books to make a pedestal table | Just because you are using paper napkins, doesn’t mean they cannot be attractively displayed. | Children’s Book Page Pinwheels |
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| Book Page Wheels | Cover any books with scrapbook paper and list your menu on the splines. | Decoupage story book pictures onto wooden blocks |
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| Vintage sheet music and nursery rhyme framed as decoration and/or centerpieces. | Use old book pages and silhouettes to make a festive banner. | Make oversized book and decorate it with various storybook quotes. |
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| Start with paper lanterns and glue on overlapping circle-cut book pages or newspaper. | Instead of cards for the new mom, have everyone bring a book for baby’s library. | Using construction paper and old magazine pages, make a book garland. |
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| Get wooden letters from the dollar or craft store and let guests paint them for the nursery walls. | Library Card Invitation | Get blank baby blocks from a craft or dollar store and have the guests paint them. |
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| Hang letters of the alphabet as decorations. | Using floral wire ( or similar product) glue it between paint washed book page squares. When dry trim the squares into leaves and twine several single leaves into trios. | Make hanging book art with old books or cardboard covered with fabric and discarded papers. Loop the pages into an waterfall design and glue together. |
