Ask guests to wear pink or blue for your Noah's ark shower.
Create a baby shower reminiscent of Bible times by featuring the story of Noah as the main theme. This type of shower works well for a boy or girl because you can add more pink or blue decorations in addition to the Noah's ark decor. Play soothing Hebrew music or a nature sounds CD featuring sounds of the ocean or animals. Does this Spark an idea?
Food and Beverages
Create a food table showcasing chicken salad finger sandwiches and animal-shaped sugar cookies and desserts. Carve a watermelon in the shape of a boat, and fill it with fruit. Surround the watermelon with plastic farm animals.
Serve guests blue punch as the beverage of choice. Decorate the border of the punch bowl with plush animals and trees. Fill the punch bowl with ice and continually add more punch throughout the party. Place a miniature floating Noah's ark in the middle of the blue punch.
Decorations
Adorn the house with balloons with animals printed on the front. Find foil balloons that have the entire Noah's ark scene on them. Mix these balloons with leopard, zebra and giraffe print balloons and animal faces such as an elephant. Place large stuffed monkeys, zebras and other animals throughout the rooms where guests will be and on the food or present table.
Wrap plastic ivy vines around the posts of the table to give the shower a nature-like feel. Find small wooden blocks with animals printed on them and place these on coffee or end tables. Use twine string to hang a few stuffed monkeys from the ceiling and set out decorations such as a handmade baby bird's nest with small blue eggs and a few birds inside. Make a ceramic or plush hanging dove the focus by the door or in the main room since a dove brought a branch to Noah as the waters were receding.
Gifts
Present the mother with a few Noah's ark gifts such as a baby blanket featuring a scripture along with a scene showing the ark, Noah and some of the animals. She may also enjoy a Noah's ark outfit with matching shoes and a hat for the baby. A Noah's ark play set is also appropriate for the baby when he gets older. If you want to take things one step further, buy the mom-to-be a Noah's ark charm bracelet featuring animals such as an elephant, tiger and monkey. Buy charms online, or look for them at jewelry stores.
Cake Options
Order a cake with Noah's ark and animals such as an elephant, lion, bird and tiger on the front. Surround the cake with cut daisy flower heads. Or decorate cupcakes with monkey, tiger, lion and elephant faces. Include a few cupcakes featuring miniature rainbows, since God presented a rainbow to Noah as a promise that he would never flood the entire earth again.
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