Plan A Baby Shower Around Teddy Bears!
In this lens, I give you tips and ideas for incorporating teddy bears into the baby shower invitations, party favors, gifts, decorations and even the postage stamps! Your guests will be 'beary' glad that they have such a creative hostess.
Image Credit: Teddy Bear Baby Shower Supplies
Teddy Bear Themed Invitations
For the baby shower invitations, you have several options including buying fully customized invites or making the invitations yourself. In the photo shown to the right, you can see that fully customized invitations with a teddy bear theme are available in the retail marketplace. These particular ones are available at Tiny Prints...just click on the pink banner below. These types of invites can cost up to $3 each so be sure that you consider your overall shower budget prior to ordering them.If you are on a tight budget, consider the FREE printable baby shower invitations shown in the photo to the right that you can download and print. You can get the template by clicking here. After printing, you simply fill-in all the shower details and mail them or hand them out to your guests.
Another option is to make a teddy bear out of foam or construction paper. There are so many great themed papers and scrapbooking supplies available that you can also make cards from cardstock and then dress them up with teddy-bear themed stickers, paper, cut-out, glitter, etc. Then just add a clever bear-themed verse such as:
We would be beary glad if you could join us for a beary delightful celebration of the new honey arriving to (father) and (mother).
Verse source was Creative Baby Shower Ideas.
For fully customized invitations, Tiny Prints has a wide selection for just about any theme or color scheme.
Teddy Bear Stationery on Amazon
Precious Bear Pink Invitations 8ct
Amazon Price: $3.99 (as of 12/29/2009) 
Precious Bear Blue Invitations 8ct
Amazon Price: $3.99 (as of 12/29/2009)
Baby Shower - 8 Invitations - Bedtime Bear Theme
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 12/29/2009)
Bear Themed Postage Stamps from Zazzle
Add these cuddly and adorable stamps to the envelopes of the thank you notes or invites!
Teddy Bear Shower Decorations
One fun idea for a teddy bear themed shower is to make guests feel like they are entering a bear den. On the sidewalk leading up to the front door for the party, make some paw prints out of chalk or washable paint. You can buy large bear print stencils at craft stores like Michaels. Then have a personalized shower banner printed or make your own banner that says something about 'Welcome to Mama Bear [mommy's name] Den'.Bears and bees and honey all go together so use these items as inspiration for the shower decorations. You can find bee-shaped mylar balloons at your local party supply shop or online. Decorate some terra cotta pots to look like honey pots by painting them with brown paint and then use yellow like honey-overflowing around the pots edge. Buy some fuzzy bumble bees for decorating or make your own from construction paper to hang on streamers from the ceiling. You can place stuffed plush teddy bears throughout the shower area too.
For the tabletop area, consider buying teddy bear themed plates and napkins. And don't forget a baby diaper cake topped with a teddy bear to use as the shower centerpiece as well as your gift to the mom-to-be.
Teddy Bear Shower Supplies on Amazon
Precious Bear Pink Decorating Kit 15pc
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/29/2009)
Precious Bear Pink Lunch Napkins 16ct
Amazon Price: $2.07 (as of 12/29/2009)
Precious Bear Pink Paper Cups 8ct
Amazon Price: $1.77 (as of 12/29/2009)
Precious Bear Pink Shaped Dinner Plates 8ct
Amazon Price: $2.92 (as of 12/29/2009)
Precious Bear Pink 7 1/2ft Banner
Amazon Price: $3.99 (as of 12/29/2009)
Teddy Bear Shower Food Ideas
No teddy bear themed shower would be complete without some honey! So make honey a central theme of your shower by making main dishes like honey chicken wings, honey glazed carrots, sticky honey buns and other honey-themed recipes.Bears like berries too so for the punch freeze some raspberries to act as the ice cubes to keep the punch cold. Opt for a berry-flavored punch and then right before the party, float the frozen raspberries in the punch.
You can make many different foods bear-themed by using a bear-shaped cookie cutter to cut-out sandwiches, cheese slices, jello and cut-out cookies.
Be sure to set out some bowls of gummy bears, honey roasted peanuts, honeycomb cereal, and teddy grahams for party snacks.
And last, but definitely not least, create a fun baby shower cake or set of cupcakes with a bear theme! Check out the great ideas from Wilson below.
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Teddy Bear Shower Cakes
The teddy bear themed cakes and cupcakes shown above were put together by the team at Wilton. You can get step by step Baby Bear cake instructions and many other ideas at Wilton.com
How To Make Teddy Bear Cake Decorations
How To make an Icing Teddy Bear cake decoration - easy
A silent video showing you how to make an.... Edible Icing Teddy Bear cake decoration out of sugarpaste icing or marzipan. If using Sugarpaste you may need to add something to make it stiffer like Gum Tragacanth or Tylo Powder / Tylose Powder. Both these products are available from our online store http://imaginativeicing.co.uk/store This is Suitable for a beginner or novice cake decorator to have a go at making. Have Fun! Cheers! P.S. Sugarpaste and Marzipan and all other cake decorating and sugarcraft modeling equipment is available online at http://imaginativeicing.co.uk
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Teddy Bear Cake Supplies on Amazon
Wilton Stackable Teddy Bear Cutter Set
Amazon Price: $9.08 (as of 12/29/2009)
Wilton Teddy Bear Cake Pan
Amazon Price: $17.10 (as of 12/29/2009)
Wilton Bear Silicone Fun Cups
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 12/29/2009)
Kaiser Bakeware Patisserie Bear Paper Baking Cups, Large
Amazon Price: $6.16 (as of 12/29/2009)
Teddy Bear 3 inch Pink Picks 18 pc
Amazon Price: $1.59 (as of 12/29/2009)
Teddy Bear Baby Shower Games
Beyond the classic baby shower games, consider a few of these ideas that are specially formulated for a teddy bear themed baby shower....FREE Printable Teddy Bear Trivia Game - You can print out this free game by clicking here. Test your guest knowledge of all things teddy bear with this fun little trivia test. There are 10 questions with answers and instructions available at the above link.
Famous Bears Game - Either make up your own game cards or print out the free game card here. Ask your guests to write down as many famous bears that they can think of in 5 minutes. The guest with the most correct answers wins the game. Some sample answers are Paddington Bear, Yogi Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, Care Bears, Smokey the Bear, Boo Boo, Briar Patch Bear, etc.
Teddy Bear Hot Potato - A twist on the classic hot potato game. Have your guests sit in a circle, start a timer, and have them pass around a stuffed teddy bear. The person holding the bear when the timer goes off is out of the game. Keep starting the timer again and passing around the bear until just one guest is left - the winner!
Hilarious Teddy Bear Kiss Activity - Pass a stuffed teddy bear around the room and have each baby shower guest kiss the bear. After everyone has finished kissing the bear, tell them they now must kiss the expectant mom in the exact same spot that they kissed the bear. It is quite funny to see where they end up kissing the Mom-to-be!
You can find tons of printable baby shower games by clicking on the link below.
Bear Themed Shower Favor Ideas
One of my favorite ideas for DIY favors are either jars of honey or teddy bear shaped honey that you buy at the grocery store. In either case, you can purchase ribbons or stickers that have a teddy bear theme along with the shower details to thank the guests for sharing in mom's special day. I also found an online resource where you can simply buy the teddy bear-shaped honey containers and then you can fill them with whatever you want (including honey). You can find them on sale at Freund Container.Another great party favor for bear-themed showers are Burt's Bees lip balms that incorporate honey in their formula. Most products come in their signature yellow containers with a bee motif.
Bee-shaped candle and soap favors are easily made by placing the candle or soap inside a bee-covered cellophane bag that is then tied with ribbon and a matching personalized favor hang tag.
Photo Credit: Baby Shower Favors from Baby Gifts & Gift Baskets
Teddy Bear Favor Stuff on Amazon
Gift Bags 10-1/2"X5-3/8"X13"-Baby Girl Teddy Bear
Amazon Price: (as of 12/29/2009)
TEDDY BEAR ASSORTED COLOR LOLLIPOPS
Amazon Price: (as of 12/29/2009)
Teddy Bear Shower Gift Ideas
Who wouldn't want a cuddly teddy bear?
Other great gift ideas are teddy bear shaped ceramic banks, baby gift baskets with a teddy bear theme, and baby diaper cakes that feature a teddy bear sitting on top. The fantastic thing about the diaper cake idea is that you can utilize it as both the centerpiece at the shower and as your gift to the expectant mom. Check out this fun beary ballerina diaper cake from Baby Gifts & Gift Baskets....
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Leave Your Teddy Bear Shower Tips or Comments!
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- aj2008 aj2008 Jun 10, 2009 @ 4:47 am
- We don't have Baby Showers in the UK but it seems like a nice idea.
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- a_willow a_willow Jun 5, 2009 @ 10:19 am
- Wow! They are so cute! My baby girl has few of them and she loves them!
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