How to Plan a Baby Shower

The first thing you should do is get a 3 ring binder that will be used solely for the purpose of the party. Using this binder will keep everything organized and in one place.
Knowing where everything is and being able to quickly access all of the information will bring you a calm and peaceful feeling while you work. The best part is that you can also cut out adorable magazine pictures of ideas that you would like to integrate into your baby shower plan and keep them structured in you binder.

Practicality & Creativity in Your Baby Shower Plan

Let’s say you found some unique baby shower cake ideas in a magazine. If you’d like to show your local bakery what kind of cake you want them to make, simply cut out the cake pictures and glue them onto white sheets of paper.

Staple these pictures together with other useful cake information. Things like the local bakery phone number and their working hours can go on these papers. How much money do you have to spend for your party? Write out the amount of money you want to use for the decorations, the food, the favors, etc. Here are some baby shower ideas on a budget to help you save. Place all of your planning papers in a plastic envelope and then into your 3 ring binder.
Label your plastic envelope so that you’ll easily identify what’s in it. Write out the words ‘baby shower cake’ on a tiny post it note. Post it notes make labeling a fast task. You can do this for each different section in your binder.

Visualizing Things to Plan the Perfect Baby Shower


Drawing out your party will help a lot. For example; if you come up with an artistic idea to embellish the favors table, you could draw your vision of what you want it to look like. Use pretty markers or glittery pens.
This can be done for several different parts of the event. Map out your perfect baby shower by creating a collage vision board of it.

Keep a camera with you and take pictures of different inspirational things that you see in your day to day. Add these photographs to your baby shower plan vision board. There are many cool baby shower themes to choose from. Decide which theme you’ll use first so that you can tie that into your invitations, decorations and even the foods that you’ll prepare.
Keep everything together with the necessary information that you’ll need to make every aspect of your dream party come true. Perhaps you’ll make the favors yourself? Or maybe you want to delegate the balloon decorations? In any case, you’ll need to create lists, and maps of what you’re doing.

How to Categorize in Your Baby Shower Binder

Each individual aspect of the baby shower event should have its own plastic envelope. Create different sections of your binder where similar items can be placed together. Make the ‘post it’ notes and the main divider tab color coded. That way you’ll quickly find what you’re looking for.

The colors in the binder don’t have to match the colors that you chose for your baby shower theme. They just have to be functional and practical for you.
Bright colors add joyful feelings. Pastels convey peace and calm. Choose colors that resonate with your soul. By assigning colors to different parts you will quickly identify the area you want to focus on. Colors really help you plan the perfect baby shower.

Delight Yourself in the Planning Process

Create a section at the back of your binder for ideas that have not yet been organized. This will make it easy for you to quickly place more ideas that you find, instead of having them stack up somewhere that you’ll forget and end up losing.
When you have a moment to rest, you can make your binder really cute by decorating it with stickers. This will help you memorize where each part is while having fun! It makes a world of difference to add beauty to the small tasks that we do.


I hope these ideas on how to plan a baby shower have helped you.

Blessings always,

Eren Mckay

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