A BABY SHOWER TEA

For a Baby Shower tea, think about other showers you have attended.  Were they small gatherings in a home, or the local firehouse, or did you go to a restaurant or catering facility?  The options are endless really.  You can even have an outdoor party or book your local tea room or host a tea at your own home.

First put your list together of people to invite.  Once you have your total number of attendees, determine the type of party and a location large enough to comfortably fit everyone with room to move around and socialize and play games and open gifts.

If you decide to host a tea themed baby shower, you can still decorate accordingly with pink and/or blue decorations, but make your foods and games and party favors tea related.  Tea party foods include finger sandwiches, scones, sweets, and tea of course.  This type of food is fine whether you decide to host a sit-down affair or a banquet style casual dining experience.

A tea party baby shower is such a nice treat for the ladies.  Adding pretty and dainty details that go along with an afternoon tea experience make a tea party baby shower extra special.  Use fresh flowers on the tables.  Use your finest dishes and teacups.  If you don’t have anything suitable, visit your local antique shop or go to ebay.com to find some inexpensive but beautiful options for serving.  If you are not having a sit down area, consider those lovely luncheon dishes that come with a teacup.  The plate has a spot on it for the cup.  So you can socialize and eat and have your teacup nicely balanced altogether.

I’m sure you have played games at a baby shower.  The games are very similar to the games we have here at our website except the usual baby shower games are baby related and our games are tea themed.  Try our tea party bingo and the tea party word scramble.  Just print them off and you are ready.  If you are including children at the party, print off the cootie catchers/fortune tellers too, they love it.  You must register and log in at our home page to access the free games.

For favors ideas visit our tea party planner page, but the best ideas are an issue of The Tea House Times rolled up and tied with pretty ribbon, or small cellophane bags with several teabags inside, or a teacup made into a small flower vase (just use a little of the florist foam and add water and flowers-beautiful!).  We sell teapot shaped gift bags and we also have beautiful ribbon printed tea ribbon.

If you don’t want to purchase enough teacups for your party, have everyone bring one from home.  You can even have a teacup exchange if you want.