Gift baskets make a fantastic baby shower gift. If you have a friend or a family member who is about to welcome a baby boy or girl, a baby basket will make a very thoughtful and practical present. Once you have found the ideal baby boutique to shop from, be sure to explore your options. There are baby gift baskets that come in various color themes. These baskets feature many baby essentials and toys such as a stuffed teddy, baby’s body wash, a bib, baby booties and a picture frame for the baby’s first picture. Baby shower gift baskets are also no longer limited to your traditional basket. Some are designed as a flower bouquet, wheelbarrows and more.

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With all the emphasis on eco friendly living these days, it’s nice to know that there are ways you can raise your baby in a manner that’s non damaging to the environment. What’s more these methods are not just great for the ecology, but safe for baby too.

Organic unique baby gifts and baby shower favors and toys that are made of organically grown cotton and other toys that are made from sustainable sources like woof or recycled paper are all the rage in tree hugging families. The appeal isn’t hard to understand. With all the scandal over lead poisoning in toys, it makes sense to avoid toys that are brightly colored or made from PVC or other toxic materials. This is even more important when you consider that your little baby will in all likelihood put every toy that he grabs into his mouth, raising the possibility of ingesting harmful colors and chemicals.

With organic baby toys, you don’t have to worry about him swallowing residues of chemicals from the surface of the toys. Unlike a few years earlier when green families didn’t have that wide a choice of organic baby toys, nowadays parents have an extensive selection of wooden grasping toys, soft cotton baby toys and other toys made of cotton and wood that are eco friendly and 100 percent harmless to your baby. Plus eco friendly doesn’t have to mean boring – these organic baby toys are colorful and fun!

Organic cotton that’s used to produce soft stuffed animals and other playthings is also used to create exquisitely soft baby girl/baby clothes. These organic baby clothes are made of cotton that hasn’t been treated with chemicals. This makes the cotton not just stronger but chemical free ensuring that your baby’s tender skin is safe. As with organic toys, these clothes aren’t restricted to T-shirts and shorts. You can choose from a wide range of nightwear, outerwear, body suits, play wear and soft comfy pajamas. Your baby will love the soft snugness and you’ll love that it’s 100 percent organic and natural.

Organic baby girl clothes and baby boy clothes, and toys don’t have to be expensive or difficult to source. Every toy store worth its name has an organic toys section while online stores will offer organic toys and clothes that are gentle on baby’s skin and your wallet! Check out some of our organic baby gift baskets for some more ideas.

Planning a baby shower takes time, effort and money. However, having a theme makes everything easier and more fun! The Pitter Patter theme is a great idea if you are into handprint and footprint keepsakes!

Invitations

You can make your own handprint footprint invitation by simply searching online and finding a free stock image to use and then simply printing it on good quality paper. You can choose pink or blue ink if you know the gender of the baby or yellow if the gender is a surprise!

Decorations

You can purchase a footprint stamp at any craft store and a simple plain white tablecloth and then just stamp the white table cloth the the footprint stamp. You can customize your table cloth as well with other phrases or words of encouragement for the new mom as well.

Another great idea is to create a bouquet of baby booties for the new mom and make it look like rose centerpiece for each of your tables.

Baby Shower Favors

As a favor, you can purchase little soaps that are made to look like baby’s footprint or handprint to hand out as favors for your baby shower guests. This also a useful item that is sure to be favorite among your guests.

Baby Gifts for the Mom to Be

And since your theme is pitter patter, you can also suggest to your guests to bring gifts that match the theme. There are so many different items that are perfect:  Handprint Footprint Frames where you can create a mold of your baby hand  or foot and treature it forever. Or a handprint footprint keepsake box that will allow the mom-to-be to take an ink impression of the new baby! Any of these items are sure to be a hit as those tiny footprints are always great to remember later on in life. You can also create your own baby gift baskets to match your handprint footprint theme. Simply purchase frames, onesies, a bottle and some teddy bears, decorate your basket and it’s surely to bea hit!

Food

Another way to add on to your theme is to make cookies that look like little feet or hands! Simply purchase a cookie mold and you can bake the rest.

These are few great ideas to get you started on your way to planning a great baby shower for your friends or relatives. They are sure to enjoy and appreciate the gifts and all your hard work!

We just love stork baby shower themes all around. From the baby shower favors to the decorations to the menu and baby gifts themes and baby gift baskets, the stork is the most celebrated baby icon across the world. Here is a unique idea on how to create a stork baby shower cake:

The ingredients you will need:

Two 9-inch round cakes and one 13by9 ich cake, cooled.  Prepare the cakes from packaged mixes.
Three 16 ounce cans white forsting.
Yellow and red food coloring
1 Large marshmallow
1 Blue M&M
Fabric baby sling

Carefully remove the cakes from the pans. Wrap each cake in plastic wrap and freeze the cakes for 1 hour to  make for easier cutting and fewer crumbs. Remove the plastic wrap from the cakes. Cut the cakes in two circles, and other shapes to create the body parts of the stork. and place the pieces on a cake board that measures at least 32 by 22 inches. Mix yellow and red food coloring into 2 cups of frosting and use the orange frosting to color the stork’s beak, legs and feet. Decorate the rest of the stork’s body with white frosting. To make the eye, cut the marshmallow in half and nestle the M&M into the top of one half. Set the eye in place on the stork’s head. Complete the cake by positioning a fabric baby sling from the stork’s beak.

This recipe makes 24 servings.

Now go enjoy yourself and make sure you have a good time. Your guests and the mom to be are going to be in SHOCK when they see the beautiful baby shower cakes you’ve created in the new arrival’s honor.