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When it comes to invitations there are plenty of choices. You can have the anchors or life preserver, under the water themes, even boats. You can look through the choices and inspirations and pick the ones that go best with everything else you have planned and which nautical aspect you are focusing on. If you don’t have a particular focus and want to just go general nautical than any water themed invites will work just fine.
When it comes to the cake, you have some options as well. If you know a bakery that does great work and that you trust, you can just go in and tell them you would like a cake for a nautical themed baby shower. If you don’t have a bakery that you have that much trust in than you have some real options here. For example, you can make the cake different shades of blue in wavy shapes with fondant boats on the sides if you want to go with boats. Also you could have a blue cake with a string of colored flags all around the sides and have a boat right on top. You can pick a toy boat out and place it there if you want to save money. If you want it to be edible then you have to have them make it out of fondant and place it on top.
You could also go with a life preserver or anchor or both on the cake. You can do as many as you want and be as creative as you want. The cake is an important aspect so take your time and think about what the mommy-to-be would like best and what would look best with the theme for the rest of the decor.
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When decorating, you have the same amount of leeway with options! Easiest way to ensure you have the theme set would be to stick to anything blue, white and red color schemes. Little sailboats are easy enough to make yourself out of construction paper to hang on the walls. So are anchors. I am sure an actual life preserver hanging on a rope over the cake table with the rope secured tightly to the wall at one end on the table, loop the rope through the life preserver and secure the other end well, then you’ll have the perfect nautical decoration to make the cake table stand out and draw everyone’s attention to. You could use a string of flags over the gift table if you wanted to as well.
For food, you could bake sailboat cookies and have chips with a tiny toy boat in the dip for the chips. You could make your own cookies using sailboat cookie cutter. The cutest things by far would be little clear cups filled with blue Jell-O. Once the jelly is set, you can put boats in some and fish candies in the others. It would be very adorable. If you wanted to you could put the candy in before it sets so that the fish are swimming in the Jell-O as well. You could even put out a bowl of life savers on the table as a little joke too. You could also make origami sailboats. It's might be a big challenge if you are not a crafy type but have a go as it will look amazing with so little cost! There are so many cute little things that go with this theme so you shouldn’t have any problem finding the right way to do it for your party.
How to Make Origami SailBoat
video by guiainfantilUS via youtube
If you want a theme party game, I would suggest blow up pool life savers and a pole. Whoever gets the most on the pole or whoever gets the closest wins the game. Adapting an existing game to your theme can be the best way to come up with theme games. The best thing about this theme is how much you have to work with. You have so many options with this one. There is no shortage of cute ways to pull this off in your own way. Just make sure to remember to have fun!
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