First off, have pumpkins galore. You can bring in little pumpkin gourds and set them at everyone’s place or make a cornucopia of pumpkins, gourds, and dried corn. To make it baby-themed, place it all in a baby doll carriage or a toy wooden crib as the centerpiece.

Decorate little pumpkins with baby bonnets. Get a bunch of bonnets either as doll clothes or for real babies. You can find these cheaply at discount stores or thrift stores. Place them on top of pumpkins and decorate with baby faces. You can do this with markers or paint.

Another idea is to send out baby shower invitations that have a pumpkin theme. You can make adorable pumpkins out of orange felt and print out your details on the back using computer paper. You can write the theme, “Help welcome Jane’s little pumpkin” or something like that.

Ask everyone to bring a pumpkin themed food for the little pumpkin-to-be. You can have guests bring pumpkin pie, little pumpkin muffins, or decorated cupcakes that look like pumpkins. If you’d rather handle all the food yourself, ask everyone to bring baby food jars of orange foods like carrots and squash. They’ll look cute all stacked together in a big plastic pumpkin.

You can get as spooky or as cute as you want with this theme. You can go with spiders and witches and ghoulish foods, or you can just use Halloween as a jumping off point for color schemes and ideas.

Go with pumpkin orange and black streamers and table toppers and then decide how funky you want to get with the rest of the décor. You can do a cauldron with punch in it and fun “baby finger” appetizers made of bread dough.

Really, the Halloween theme can be anything you would like it to be. You can create a baby shower towel cake with all orange towels tied with black ribbon. You can burn harvest candles and have cinnamon cider mulling.

For baby shower favors, you could do little scented pumpkin candles, lotions, or soaps. You could also bake each guest a plate of pumpkin muffins or bread.

You can sit around telling “scary” baby stories…like how mom will be up all night, never get a chance to shower, and never be able to just run into the grocery store alone again. Ask seasoned mothers to come up with advice to combat these “terrifying” things. It will be really fun and amusing.

Everyone can also come in costume and that will add to the merriment. If you’re having your shower on Halloween, it’s even more fun. If you want, you can hand out masks or costume hats when guests arrive if you don’t want to ask them to invest in their own costumes. Or ask everyone to dress up as a pregnant woman just for fun. It will add to the levity of the festivities.

Make your Halloween shower a day to remember for the mom-to-be by adding lovely touches she won’t soon be likely to forget.

Want more? Try this article for more Halloween Baby Shower Ideas.

First, think young and modern, and what could be more modern than a throwback to your mom’s day? That’s right, vintage is the new hip baby shower theme. So pull out those photos of your mom’s baby shower and steal some ideas.

Bring on the pink in argyle, stripes or polka dots. When you look back to some of those 1960s and 1970s baby shower photos, you’ll find that they look ultra-stylish now. Major stores are now offering more and more funky vintage paper goods, wrapping paper and decorations. Check online or at the big box or discount stores for baby shower decorations that have that retro chic feel.

Browns and pinks are very current. Anything you want to set out in shades of pink or chocolate brown will look very modern. Say you have a pink table cloth. Don’t go with a set of pink paper napkins. Go with a contrasting chocolate brown for the napkins, cups and cutlery (plastic is fine).

Your balloons can be several shades of pink from hot pink to the lightest hue of ice pink. Put some brown balloons in with the mix and carry your theme through.

Why not do a baby girl tree in pink? You can find these online especially at Christmas time. A pink faux tabletop Christmas tree (you can find them all year online) decorated with cute little baby items will look charming and very unique. When you send out your invitations, request that everyone bring a small ornament or baby item for the tree. Then give the whole tree to the mom to be. Items can be anything from a little glass baby rattle ornament to a set of nail clippers on a string. You could even tie a string around travel sized baby products and tie them on to the tree as well. It’s such a lovely centerpiece and very different from what everyone will be used to.

Set up a chair where the mom to be can open her presents. Make it special by placing a pink polka dot fleece blanket over the chair and a giant brown bow. Mom can then take the blanket home for baby. Go big with your accent touches. Give out pink candles in little brown polka dot votive holders. Have pink and brown M&Ms on hand and bowls of pink foods like Jell-O or ambrosia.

Your cake can be a masterpiece tower of pinks and browns, or you could have a bakery create cupcakes that feature chocolate frosting with pink fondant circle accents. If you’re doing cupcakes, you can place them on cake stands stacked one on top of another, pink glass, of course. When you stack the cake stands the result will look like a several-layer cake.

There are so many ways to do a 'it's a girl' shower without being overly cutesy.

You can really have fun with a zoo-themed baby shower. Many companies make paper products with this theme in pastel or bold colors. So it’s easy to get your party theme started. Head out to a dollar store and find some small animal stuffed toys to add to your table display. Include elephants, lions, tigers, monkeys, zebras and giraffes. Place them around a diaper cake that uses zoo-themed diapers and you’ve got yourself an instant centerpiece.

When thinking about invitations, decide whether you want to make them yourself or if you want to design them online. A third option is to buy the cards in a party store and hand-write the information. Any way you decide to do it, make sure your zoo animals are prominent on the front of the invitation. If you are doing them yourself, you could cut out a giraffe and fold his neck down so he’ll fit in an envelope. When guests open their invitations, they will find the information written on the giraffe’s neck. Very cute.

You may want to write a note in your invitation asking guests to bring a small zoo-themed item. This could be a baby blanket with an elephant on it or a onesie with a monkey on it. When guests arrive, have them put their little gift into a “cage” that you have ready. It can be made of out of cardboard box, or you can use a dog crate. Tie it up with a big bow.

Carry the theme throughout the room. You can hang paper or silk palm leaves from walls and the ceiling to mimic jungle plants. Have monkey sounds playing or play animal tunes from a children’s cd. Anything you can do to add to the ambience will make it fun.

Serve foods you might eat at the zoo including popcorn, whole peanuts and ice cream bars. You can make a cake in the shape of an elephant or lion. Wilton Cake Decorating Company has pans available online or at craft stores that are already formed in the shape of many zoo animals. All you have to do is frost it. Consider placing your cake on a tray that has a layer of toasted coconut on it so it will look like you animal is resting on hay.

Another cute option is to make cupcakes with the features of animals on them. It’s easy to pipe frosting to look like a lion’s mane or add banana shaped candies to a monkey’s face to make him look more authentic.

Zoo themed balloons can be fun to add to the festive atmosphere. You can also make signs pointing to things you might see at a zoo. Put signs on the powder room door that look like the man or woman rest room signs in public places. Hand out a map. The map can double as a fun scavenger hunt starting point. Hide things around the room or outdoors if the weather allows. Then head out to find them all. Great fun!

Of course, blue is the color that most people associate with baby boys. You can use blue in your design scheme but it doesn’t have to be the plain old powder blue everyone’s going to expect. Make your shower come alive with shades of navy blue, teal, electric blue, or even a faint ice blue. Layer colors in different hues of blue and your party will look more grown up and chic.

One fun way to add blue is to do polka dots. You can do navy blue polka dots against a brown or grey background for a sophisticated look. This color scheme is especially appropriate for a modern shower for a very hip and young mom. Keeping the colors from veering off into pastel land will mean that you can do a lot more with the décor.

Hang navy and silver or gray streamers, use navy napkins with the new plastic “silverware” that’s silver colored. It looks just like the real thing, so much so that everyone will be asking you where they should put the silverware instead of throwing it away. Also, you could float some silver balloons.

For invites, send a navy blue coaster (make them out of paper or buy paper ones) and stamp the face of a baby or a silhouette of a pregnant woman. Stamp the image off center and then write your details on the side or on the back. Punch a hole and string a silky ribbon through it.

Keep your high-end blue theme going with a silk table cloth. No, you don’t have to go out and buy an expensive table covering. Instead, head to a fabric store and buy a long piece of synthetic silk (shiny) fabric. These fabrics are cheap and when you drape it across the food table, it will look very festive. Have some mercury glass silver candle sticks at varying heights. Bring in silver candles that are very chunky and different thicknesses. There’s your tablescape right there.

When it comes time to plan the foods and beverages, go with a blueberry mocktail. Since the mom to be won’t be drinking, invent a cocktail that focuses on blueberries and serve in plastic or real martini glasses. You can combine yogurt and berries to make smoothies or berries and ice cream for decadent ice cream drinks. Add a splash of clear soda and you can have blueberry floats. Get creative with the accents on the glasses. You can do a sparkly blue and silver star on a toothpick or a cute baby face.

Play jazz or blues or classical music to set the mood for a funky good time. Do the unexpected with little touches. Wrap up a bunch of small boxes that each contain gourmet cookies for your guests to take home. Use blue and silver polka dot paper so your wrapped favors will look elegant on the table.

Depart from the usual and expected little boy baby shower. You don’t have to go with just one shade of blue, remember. Set the tone for a mod and hip baby shower that everyone can really enjoy.

Know a mom-to-be who is having a boy? Why not throw her a truck  or construction-themed baby shower? This theme lends itself well to all kinds of baby shower fun.

Start off with the invitations. You can send out little Matchbox trucks with a tag attached to them with the shower details. Or use store bought shower invitations.

Plan on having a construction zone in your home the day of the shower. Get plastic hard hats from a party supply store. Small hammers or a kid’s tool box and tool set are great additions. You can find orange construction cones in the toy aisle, too.

Make a runner that looks like a road. You can do this with black fabric and yellow paint. Lay a long length of fabric down and paint yellow dotted lines on it to look like the middle of the road. When it dries, lay it down on the floor from the door to the snack table so guests will start walking right into where they are supposed to gather.

Get a bunch of toy dump trucks to hold the snacks. You can wash them out, dry them, and fill them with M&Ms, popcorn, peanuts, and other snack foods. Use one big toy dump truck as a centerpiece. You can fill it with favors, or fill it with flowers.

Ask everyone on your invitations to bring a small gift with a construction theme. It can be a onesie with a truck on it, a stuffed construction toy, a small hammer, or a framed photo of a truck for baby’s room. Anything is fine and the gifts don’t have to be expensive. Have a clean used tire in the room and fill it with the toys and gifts.

If you can, bring in an old seat from a car. If you know someone in the car repair business, maybe you can borrow a truck bench seat or an old car seat. Tie balloons to it and your guest of honor can sit there while she opens the presents.

Go as far as you like with the theme. Have little gummy candies in the shape of trucks. Have little pint-sized work boots on the table that the new mom can take home for her son to wear some day. Make fun signs like “Baby on Board” or “Caution: Baby Zone.” Add to the festivities with construction-type lunch boxes. You can fill them with finger sandwiches and bags of chips and juice boxes.

The theme of a construction baby shower with trucks really can be done well on a budget. Look for stickers, toys, and other truck memorabilia that will add to the fun of the party. You might bring in faux Styrofoam rocks for guests to sit on as part of a dig site. Or you could have a toy crane lifting a baby doll. Think cute and get your imagination pumping.

When it’s all up and decorated, you’ll be so delighted and so will your guests and mom-to-be. Be sure to have a big jug of Gatorade on hand for your thirsty guests to sip out of plastic cups. Get into construction zone mode and you’ll all have a fantastic time welcoming the newest little construction worker to the job.

Cowboy hats can be the attire of the day. Make sure there’s one for each guest as well as the mom to be. Bring in a baby-sized one as well just because it looks so cute.

Your invitations can be purchased with little cowgirls (you can find them online) or you can make them yourself. Try using cardboard or heavy card stock and cutting them out in the shape of cowboy hats. Cover with real denim cut from jeans or use a denim wrapping or craft paper. Write your details on the back. Ask everyone to come in jeans and white shirts. If they have cowboy boots, ask them to wear those as well. But any boots will do. The mom to be will chuckle when she sees everyone dressed in cowgirl attire.

Have bandanas as your napkins. Lay them out in triangles on the food table and have them spread out under platters. Use different colors or go with all red or another color to keep a theme color throughout. It’s up to you. These are simple ways to add the cowgirl touch. If you really want to do it up for the little cowgirl, do only pink bandanas.

Now the fun really begins. Find stuffed cows and horses, the bigger the better, and rope them up with some yarn or twine. Bring in some country music CDs and if you dare, spread hay on the floor. Anything you can do to make the theme more authentic will make it more fun.

You can bring in a wagon wheel or any decorations you might have that lend themselves well to a country barn atmosphere. You can even make a faux barn door out of cardboard, paint it, and prop it up behind the food table or make the guest of honor walk through it when she comes in.

Your foods can be finger foods that you might find at a ranch or campfire. Pigs in a blanket, hot dogs or corn dogs, hamburgers, or corn on the cob all work well. Make up your own version of Cowgirl Punch. It can have ice cubes in the shape of horses (molds are found at craft stores) or any other jazzy way to spice it up for your theme. Just be sure to label it Cowgirl Punch so guests get the idea. Bring in a guitar shaped cake or have horse cupcakes. Either use plastic horses from a toy store to decorate, or have a bakery design horses in icing for you.

Buy fun plastic cups (online or through a specialty party shop) that are in the shape of cowgirl boots or horses or some other barnyard theme. It will look cute when everyone is carrying them around the party. Arrange flowers in clean cowboy boots. Just be sure to put a container inside to hold the water first! Then go wild with roses or wildflowers.

You can play baby shower games that revolve around western themes or cowgirl trivia. Play old cowgirl movies or the Dixie Chicks CDs. Anything you do to keep the theme going will be really fun.

Many sites online that sell baby shower favors and décor will have this theme, but you can also do a lot of it yourself.

The invitation should reflect the theme. You can draw two baby faces in a pea pod, color the pod green, and copy the design on a color copier for your invitations. Or, order a pea pod invite online. Write a cute poem about twins if you’re good with a pen. A site called baby-shower.com offers this poem by Jennifer Williamson that you can also include inside:

Two peas in a pod, just as snug as a bug
Two babies to cuddle, to kiss and to hug
We couldn’t be happier, for we’re aware
The best of all things in the world come in pairs.

Serve foods like, you guessed it, snap peas so that guests can get a chuckle out of the cuteness factor. Serve other foods that go together like pigs in a blanket. The cake should definitely carry the theme as it will be the centerpiece of your table. Ask a bakery to create pea pods out of fondant icing. A good baker will have heard of this theme and may even have a photo of a cake she’s done to show you. She can roll fondant icing to make two baby faces to put on the cake. The rest of the cake can be green with round polka dots of fondant in a coordinating color. You can also have cookies made that are decorated with pods and baby faces done in royal icing.

For the color scheme, go with green. Have green balloons that will simulate peas and plates and cups in green. You can sometimes find the pea pod theme, especially if you shop online.

Games you can play include any games where you have to double up with a partner such as feeding your partner a jar of baby food faster than the other team. Think up pair races or other fun games that include doubles like listing famous couples and their children’s names. You’ll get a good laugh at what everyone comes up with.

If you want, make a pea pod hat out of felt for the mom to be to wear. If she’s a good sport, she’ll love it and it will make for cute photos.

For baby shower favors, give out creams or candies that have pea pod labels on them. You can make them off a computer with clip art of peas or you can order them pre-made online. Or double up gifts like two packs of mints or a pretty pen and pad. You can also give those cookies in pea pod design as your favors if you wrap them in tulle or cellophane.

One thing to note is that if you are attending a pea pod shower, you should bring two gifts—one for each baby unless you are opting for a larger gift like a crib or playpen. Any clothing you buy should be given in two sets, especially if you know the sex of the twins.

Start with the invitations. You can create them yourself or buy them preprinted in a monkey theme. Go with a banana if you are making them yourself. Cut out yellow paper and glue it to cardstock in the shape of a banana. Print your invitation details on the back. There are many really cute monkey invitations already designed for you, so this is one theme you can definitely find lots of help with especially online.

Ask guests to come in monkey attire. This can be monkey slippers, monkey pjs or robes, or any monkey clothing they might have. Designer Paul Frank does a line for Target stores that has a huge monkey face on it. You can find this design in handbags, pjs, robes, tee shirts, and more. So go out and grab a piece of Paul Frank attire for the mom to be as well.

The sock monkey is an over-the-top charmer. Include sock monkeys throughout your décor. You can now find the sock monkey at any craft or big box store as they have recently come back into popularity. You can set sock monkey dolls on your food table around bunches of bananas for a simply charming tablescape. Use yellow tablecloths with brown accented plastic ware and cups to keep the jungle monkey feel going.

You can set a jungle baby shower table that features banana themed foods. Have banana bread, frozen chocolate dipped bananas on sticks, and banana cupcakes. You can even make a gelatin that has bananas floating in it. Just be sure you leave yourself enough time so it can set. Pour it into individual glass cups or a fancy mold before hand so you save yourself some time.

Next on your list are the decorations. String lights and palm trees or fronds you can find in paper or silk at a party store. Make it a little jungle room with monkeys that hang from the ceiling. Or tie on some small monkey stuffed toys to streamers so they look like they’re swinging through the room.

Your cake can be a sock monkey face or have cupcakes that are designed to look like cartoon monkey heads.

You can have sock monkey-making supplies as a craft for the ladies to do during the shower. Kits are now available for small monkeys that can be finished in little time and with little crafting know-how. It will be really cute for each guest to take home a little sock monkey they made themselves. Or they can donate them to the mom to be for the nursery or bring them to a hospital for children.

It can be really fun to have a monkey themed baby shower. You can keep it light and fun and everyone will have a great time. Send everyone home with “monkey mix” which can be as simple as Chex mix with some chocolate chips thrown in. Or go with bags of dried banana snacking chips.

Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, and Christopher Robin are all part of the clan that lives in Hundred Acre Woods. You can make your own woodsy haven at your baby shower. Start with lots of honey bees. Pooh loves honey and all things related to honey or bees will make the party more fun. Get giant cut-out bees from a party or craft store or make them yourself with yellow and black paper. Hang them from the ceiling and on walls. Fill a jar with toy bees that you can find at dollar or craft stores, and set them out on tables. You can have people guess how many are inside a jar and offer a prize at the end of the party.

Bring in a potted tree or draw one on giant paper. Tape it to the wall. Find stuffed dolls of Pooh and his friends and gather them around the base of the tree.

You’ll want to center your food around honey and foods that a pudgy bear would love. Find recipes that include honey as the main ingredient. Print out labels for each dish so everyone gets it that it’s a honey cake or bub. Offer honey for tea, and have a few jars of honey around. Use beeswax candles that look like honeycombs. Berries and nuts are also favorites of bears. Why not include bear claw pastries or honeydew melon?

Have little snippets from the Pooh books on pretty cards around the room. Or use clip art of vintage Pooh and friends to decorate walls and tables. Create a walkway with brown paper that makes it look like a journey through the Hundred Acre Woods. Bring in branches or hang leaves from the ceiling to give a forest roof feel.

Play games that relate to the Pooh stories or movies. Make up questions and have them on index cards so guests can answer the questions for prizes.

If you have little children coming to the shower, they may want to dress up as a character from the books. It’s easy to find Pooh costume items at baby stores year round. They love to dress up and you’ll have adorable little helpers to run around and entertain everyone.

It's a really fun day when the theme of your shower is as light and airy as Pooh. He gets into so many adventures and has so many mishaps that you can find one that’s right to display at the party. Have a stuffed Pooh in a honey pot or show him getting stuck in a tree hole because his belly’s so big.

Wrap baby shower favors like small bear candles or Pooh notebooks or stickers in Pooh wrapping paper. Don’t worry about overdoing it as the theme lends itself to over the top fun.

There are plenty of cute baby shower themes for twins, and you could also opt for a more general twin theme for the entire party.  Let's take a look at two popular themes to get your creative juices flowing.

Peas-in-a-Pod. It's very easy to do peas-in-a-pod.  Your baby shower favors, for instance, can be several green jelly beans wrapped in green cellophane.  Twist and tie at the end, and you have an adorable pea pod.  For decorations, you can get balloons and green cellophane.  Wrap an inflated balloon in the cellophane and make little twists at both ends to resemble a pea.  For twins, simply do two balloons – or two peas in the pod!  You can do this with triplets as well.  You can also:

• Bake sugar cookies and frost them with green icing for peas.

• Make several small round cakes and ice them with green frosting, adding a bit of darker green icing for cute vines and leaves.

• Find peas-in-a-pod salt and pepper shakers for your decorations or favors.

• Make peas-in-a-pod with bath bombs and green cellophane.  Just as with the green jelly beans, place two bath bombs in green cellophane and twist the ends and secure with ribbons.  This is a cute, fun favor for guests.

• Look online for sales on favors and decorations. You can find cute pea candles, green streamers and balloons, and much more to add to the theme of your baby shower.

Thing 1 and Thing 2. Another very fun baby shower theme, this Dr. Seuss-inspired party is sure to be a success.  Again, this is a fairly popular theme – and rightly so! Because of this, you will be able to find premade supplies.  You will also be able to make a great deal of the decorations, favors, and food on your own.  When decorating for a Thing 1 and Thing 2 baby shower, use lots of red, blue, and aqua balloons – not pale shades, but bold, bright colors.  Find tablecloths or napkins featuring bold red and white stripes; dishes and flatware can be bright red, blue, bright yellow or green.  Very Dr. Seussian.

• Make Thing 1 and Thing 2 cupcakes.  These are adorable and simple to make.  Make red velvet cupcakes in red liners.  When cool, frost them with white frosting and add blue cotton candy for their hair (you can buy bags of cotton candy at many stores and online). You can make little labels to stick on the liners that say Thing 1 for some cupcakes and Thing 2 for others. Delicious and mischievous.

• For decorations, simply Google “Dr. Seuss pictures.”  You will find printable coloring pages, which may be a fun party activity, especially if there will be children there.  Otherwise, you can color these yourself and hang them around your room, framed with red, blue, yellow, or green ribbon or dangling from ribbons suspended from the ceiling.  You can also buy big wall decals or signs online.

• Find inexpensive white, blue, and red paper lanterns and hang them around the room.
• Prop Dr. Seuss books around the room.
• Make green eggs and ham.  Really!  You could make deviled eggs and splash a drop of green food coloring in the mixture.
• You must get Thing 1 and Thing 2 onesies for the twins.

Twin baby showers are all about double the fun.  Make sure to acknowledge and welcome two babies in all of your decorations and details: twice-baked potatoes, double cheeseburgers, twin pops, two flavors of drinks or ice cream, sets of two stuffed animals, and, hopefully, two sets of great baby gifts!