Dr. Seuss Baby Shower

I threw a class baby shower for my son's teacher last week. I just love Dr. Seuss, so I used that theme for the shower. I would have done more with the decorations, but there just wasn't time.

I found this cute Horton onesie. I love Horton holding his little clover.

I had all the kids sign a copy of Oh, the Places You'll Go! for the baby, including their future advice for the baby. Kids come up with the best things. One girl wrote, "Always stay close to your mother." I think I need to tell her mother what a good girl she is. Another wrote "Try not to drool too much." I guess he didn't hear the "future" part.

This picture is a little brighter than the actual table was. The lanterns had battery tea lights in them, and looked great. I usually use real flowers but I liked the way these dollar store flowers went with everything.

I did a few games with them. I didn't know how they would play along, but they had a blast. The game I thought would be a complete flop was baby bottle relays. Basically, you fill baby bottles with juice or water and they race to see who can drink the most. I didn't think any of them would do this. Thy ALL wanted to do it, and had I known I would have bought 24 bottles just to see the entire class drinking from baby bottles.

We played the don't say "baby" game, and I gave them all necklaces with little pacifiers. If they caught someone saying "baby", they could take their necklace.

Then I gave each of them a paper plate. They had to put it on their head and draw a baby. The teacher picked the best one.

And I gave them a baby animals matching page, where they had to match the name of the baby to the name of the mother. The had gotten pretty wild and this had them all sitting quietly within 1 minute. Priceless.

I like decorating with feather boas, too. Here, I found some cheap boas that were more fluffy than feathery and looked Suessian. I just crammed them in the bottles.

Here is another example of using boas. At this baby shower, I just stuck some big boas right on the table.
To see more feathers used to decorate a party, you really should stop by Brooklyn Limestone's christening party. It's absolutely gorgeous!