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Throwing a Halloween Baby Shower

James Livingood
5 min readOct 9, 2019

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Baby showers are times to gather around and celebrate the upcoming child about to enter the world. Many of these events are fairly generic and have the same rituals as a child’s birthday party. This includes cake, presents, and maybe some party games. For those who are having a child near Halloween, this may present an option to have both a Halloween party and baby shower in one. After all, expecting mothers can’t drink and probably don’t want to be around an adult drinking Halloween party. To help avoid that, and emphasize the cute, here are some Halloween baby shower ideas.

Two Cookies

One idea is to bake two sets of cookies. Bake one set of pumpkin cookies and bake another set of baby centric cookies. When these cookies are arranged on the plate, they can look like an adorable pumpkin baby (Or a baby with a pumpkin head if you go that route).

Halloween Cake

Another idea is to have a bakery prepare a fondant Halloween cake, like to the right, and then add extra stuff to after completed (such as bibs and pacifiers). These themes can then be tied together with some icing writing on the side about the baby shower.

Mystery Baby Food

A potential game to play is to get various small jars of baby food and remove the labels. After the labels are removed, add new cute…

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