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Personally, I’m all about the dessert so it was a pleasure doing some research to find some great looking stork-themed cakes that would be perfect for either a baby girl or baby boy shower.  I found all of the following cakes on Flickr.  It always amazes me just how talented some of the at-home bakers are when it comes to creating cakes.

What I love about the stork baby shower theme is that it is easily adaptable to a boy or a girl or even twins.  With the cakes, you can simply make the blanket hanging from the stork’s beak pink or blue with one or two babies inside.  The cakes shown in the photos appear to be a created with a combination of fondant and butter cream icing.  Check out the links underneath the photograph for more information on each cake.

Image Resources:
1. 2t fondant bbshower cake stork top, 2. baby shower – stork, 3. Stork Single Tier Diaper Cake With Custom Topper (front), 4. Stork Cake Topper, 5. Stork Baby Shower Cake, 6. stork shower 1, 7. Stork & Umbrella baby shower cake – creativecakesbykeekee@yahoo.com, 8. Stork Cake, 9. Stork’s Delivery

Guests will be introduced to the baby shower theme for the first time when they get your invitation in the mail.  Make it a memorable invitation with a few of these helpful tips:

If you have enough time and creativity, consider making an invitation out of cardstock, scrapbooking supplies and/or stamping materials.  Use shades of blue or pink on the invitation so guests can narrow down their gift choices if the mother-to-be knows the sex of her new baby.  Make sure your stork is carrying two bundles of joy if twins are on the way!

While custom made invitations are a great idea, they are also time-consuming and require a certain amount of creativity.  Luckily, we offer great personalized stork invitations that arrive ready to mail to your guests!  You can even include where the mother-to-be is registered to make shopping easier for your guests.  The invitations shown above are customized with the specific details of your shower.

Everyone knows where babies come from – the stork!  Incorporate a stork theme into your baby shower by announcing to your guests that a “special delivery” is on the way.  Storks can be portrayed as a girl or a boy, and can carry multiple bundles of joy, so it’s easy to use a stork theme for expectant mothers that know (or don’t know) the sex of the baby and mothers expecting more than 1.

To point guests in the right direction, erect an outdoor stork sign that announces “The Shower is Here!”  Greet guests with a pair of toy glasses like the stork wears, and see who can keep them on the longest (the one who wins gets a prize).  When sending out invitations, ask your guests to send you a photo of themselves as a baby, then tuck each photo into a baby “sack” that the stork carries in his beak.  Number the photos and pass them around for everyone to guess who the baby is – the person with the most correct answers wins!

Serve food at your stork-themed shower that can be wrapped in bundles or pouches – like cream cheese won tons, soft shell tacos, pita pocket sandwiches and fruit quesadillas.  Use a stork-themed diaper cake as your table centerpiece and serve your guests on stork themed tableware.

After the shower, your guest of honor will need to send thank you cards to everyone who attended.  Help her out by providing stork themed thank you cards.  Some shower hosts will even have guests list their address in a guest book so the new mom has all the information she needs at her fingertips!