When a good friend, sibling or relative is going to have their first child, you may be placed in charge of throwing them a baby shower. While not many people think money is no object when it comes to throwing a baby shower, there are many fun baby shower ideas for people on a budget, and they will look fabulous without looking as if you spent pennies or a fortune.

Use What You Have
If you have children, use a few of their stuffed animals, a mobile and any other toys or items that might make good decorations for a baby shower. There is no need to go overboard; a few well placed stuffed animals and other items will help set the tone in a room for the party.

Use Christmas lights – a string of colorful Christmas lights hung around the room will help to make the area festive, even a white set would give a nice cheerful glow to the room.

Make Your Own Cake
There are many different cake mixes and DIY type kits for baby shower sheet cakes or tower style cakes. They have simple directions and easy to follow patterns to make a great looking cake for your guests at half the costs.

Creative Centerpiece
One neat centerpiece is a grouping of glass baby bottles used as vases. These could be purchased at a thrift store and then filled with colorful marbles and a little water, then tie them all together with a large ribbon, making a bow and place various pink and blue carnations in the bottles.

Creative Game
The dirty diaper game is always a big hit at baby showers and very inexpensive. Show a fabric stores remnant section and purchase a large piece of white cotton or muslin. Either rip or cut the fabric into small triangles. Using safety pins, fold the triangle up to resemble a small diaper. The day of the party, put a dab of Dijon Mustard in a few of the small diapers – as many as you have prices or gifts for. Then lay the diapers on a tray and allow each guest to choose one and the guests who choose the ‘dirty diapers’ win the prizes.

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A sprinkle baby shower is a great alternative theme for your party. When a mother already has a child, family and friends shower the mom to be with gifts. Though a sprinkle shower is not exactly like an original shower, it can still be a blessing for the family.

A first time mother having a baby shower can greatly benefit from it, because she is new to motherhood and may need some help getting started. Mothers having a second, third, or fourth child can also benefit from a baby shower, but may only need certain gifts since she can repurpose many things she got for her first baby. If possible, a great idea would be to make the party a surprise. Like any other event, planning ahead of time is important so that the event can run smoothly.

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Choosing a theme for the sprinkle shower can be fun and helps keep things organized. Following are some sprinkle baby shower sayings that you can use on the invitations, banners, and all around your event:

Sprinkles with Love

Shower of Blessings

Showers of Love

Sprinkles of Joy

Sprinkle Blessings

One way of making the sprinkle baby shower entertaining is to have a sprinkle baby shower talent show or mini concert. You can invite family and friends to use their talents such as singing, dancing, mime, poetry readings, playing an instrument and even acting etc. Another way of entertaining is having game shows like ‘The Price Is Right’ and ‘Let’s Make A Deal’. Choose the game that you feel would be a perfect match for your loved ones.

The theme decorations are a creative way to make a wonderful environment at your baby shower. Place colorful balloons around the room and sprinkle confetti on tables. Use a nylon string to hang glittery paper stars from the ceiling. It’s good to choose a color scheme of three colors. For a boy you can use blue, yellow, and white as your base colors. For a girl you can use pink, yellow and white. Hang streamers from the ceiling and above the windows. Use paper cutouts for wall decorations.

As for gifts, here are a few ideas that are sure to make the mommy happy. Make a gift basket with baby food, formula, pacifiers, bibs, bottles, teethers, and especially diapers in it. As for clothes, if the baby is the same sex as the previous baby, the mommy won’t need a whole lot more clothing items. It’s always good to find out what she needs in order to buy really useful things for her. It’s never a fun task to trade gifts that weren’t useful. Here are a few baby clothing ideas: baby shirts, pants, baby boots, overalls, or dresses. If you don’t know whether the baby is a boy or a girl, buy neutral outfits. Other cute ideas for gifts are baby storybooks, musical CD’s for babies, or a mobile.