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Invitations

Here are some "beary" invitatoin ideas for teddy bear baby shower.

Make diapers out of remnants of pastel flannelette ( you can get them at dollar store). Pin the diapers onto small stuffed bear and any stuffed animals. Write the shower details on the inside of tags (made out of small pieces of card stock foled in half)or any cheap greeting cards(pick up at discount store), then tie it around the bear's neck. Or even attach small tags to bear's wrist, and tie the RSVP (already in its return envelope) to the other hand.

And hand deliver or mail them out in small carboard box mailers.

You can also cut out teddy bear shapes from card stock and put pink or blue ribbon for a bow on the top of the teddy bear, and draw in the bear's features.

Write the shower details on a square of heavy paper and attach it to the hand of the teddy bear shape.

Encourage everyone(even grandparetns-to-be) to bring their uniquely dressed teddy bear to add to the effect. Have them place a tag on their teddy’s neck saying who donated it. When the shower is over, the mom-to-be will adopt all of the teddy bears.

In the teddy bear baby shower invitations, write something like:

"A 'beary' special baby is on the way...Join us for some teddy bear fun!". Or " The little baby bear invites you for a lovely picnic at (shower date and time)in the wood of (shower place). It's all about rainbows, sunshine, hearts, and fun! Come to our cave to celebrate the arrival of the little bear-to-come!"

And add a small sticker to the outside of the envelopes that reads, "Quiet, baby’s sleeping," or "Fragile: Baby Bear Inside."

Your guests will be delighted when they open the box and find the delightful bear invitations inside.

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Decorations

Use rainbow colors to setup a Care Bear atmosphere: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, hot pink and red.

If the mom-to-be want to reflect the baby's sex in color scheme, use blue for boy and pink for girl is fine enough.

Hint: Some parents-to-be don't want to know about the baby's sex before the little one comes to the world. So rainbow color scheme is a perfect choice for their baby shower.

Care bears are colorful theme ideas for baby showers.

To start a "beary" special setting, buy dozens of helium balloons in different colors(must be one of the rainbow colors) and made rainbow balloon arches. For example, you can use 8 yellow, 8 orange and 8 red. Then tie the balloon arch to a few teddy bears and place it in the outside entry way to the front door.

Scatter the teddy bears contributed by guests around the shower place.

Tie different colored bows around their necks and attach colorful balloons to their wrists. And group them on chairs, on window sills, in baskets, and on tables. Then attach them with flowers such as daisies or chrysanthemums for a teddy bear baby shower.

Some "beary" cute scene-setting for teddy bear baby shower can include honey jars scattered around the shower area and buzzing paper bees hanging from the ceiling(with clear fishing line).

For the table decoration, use care bear tablecloths, napkins and placecards. Or go to a fabric store and buy enough teddy bear fabric to make a tablecloth especially for the shower.

Place a bunch of teddy bears or any other small stuffed animals (such as ducks, lambs, kittens, butterflies, and puppies) in baby itmes such as a bassinet, stroller, or a crib. Arrange them in a circle around the shower gift table or use them as a centerpiece. And put diapers on some teddy bears using large colorful diaper pins to fasten them.

You can also cut out different sized teddy bears, punched holes in the top and hang them from the ceiling with finshing line.

Or even draw some paw prints a few steps on the pathway before the front door, using colored chalk.

To create a more caring-and-colorful teddy bear baby shower effect, drap streamers from the center of the ceiling to the walls on each side of the room. Place two different colored streamers back to back and twist them a unique look. They also look terrific hanging from doorframes or cascading vertically down walls.

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Foods and Drinks

Cake Ideas For Teddy Bear Baby Shower

You can make a 3-D teddy bear cake using this teddy bear cake pan.

If you like more personalized ideas for baby showers, then make your own bear cake using two round cake, one for the head and another for the body. Use 6 cupcakes (2 for ears, 2 for hands and 2 for feet).

And frost everything with chocolate frosting. Then add a black licorice stick for the semi-circle mouth and two rasins or any other found candy for the eye.

Food Ideas For Teddy Bear Baby Shower

Prepare a variety of finger foods, appetizers and snacks, as well as drinks in bottles and cans.

* Peanut-Bear and Jelly sandwiches: Cut finger sandwiches using a teddy bear cookie cutter(first cut the bread and then spread the peanut and jelly so yo don't get a misshaped blob).

* Teddy Bear Baby Shower Sundaes: Place a scoop of any flavor ice cream on a plate for the Teddy's head. Use M&M's or small candies for eys and mouth. And push small round chcoloate or vanilla wafers into the ice cream as the ears. Sprinkle a little taosted coconut or chcolate sprinkles on top for hair.

* Teddy Bear Carousel: Cut apples crosswise into 1/4" slices to form circles. Discard or eat top and bottom of apple. Spread two circles with peanut butter. Stick four toothpicks, equal distances apart, around the edge of apple circle, peanut butter side up. Top with second apple circle, peanut butter side up, and secure to tops of toothpicks to form a carousel. Stand four teddy grahams in the peanut butter between the toothpicks. Place a gummi bear in the center of the carousel roof.

* Teddy Bear Cookie: For each bear, form three oat balls(two 1/2 inch and one 1 1/2 inch) with any flavor cookie recipe. Spread a baking sheet with vegetable spray and set each big ball on it and place smaller ones on top to form ears. Flatten ough slightly and crimp the edges with fork. Repeat the process for the remaining dough placing large balls of dough 3 inches apart on baking sheets. Bake them at 375*F for 7 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Set aside and cool for 2 minutes, then remove from baking sheets. When the dough is completely cooled, pipe brown icing on each cookie for eyes and mouth. And secure red M&M's on cookie for nose. Let icing set before store in lightly covered container.

Hint: The mom-to-be will be very pleased to recieve a teddy bear baby shower gift filled with these oatmeal bears. You can even tuck a little stuffed bear holding the cookie recipe into the basket along with the teddy bear cookies!

Drink Ideas For Teddy Bear Baby Shower

* Coffee
* Lemonade
* Apple cider
* Berry and Honey Tea: Pour the honey, orange juice concentrate and frozen strawberries into your blender and blend on slow until it is well mixed. Add this to the ice tea in a punch bowl. Serve the tea over ice and add fresh strawberries if desired. (This recipe makes 8 servings and can be doubled or tripled, depending on how many guests will be present.)

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Gifts

Challenge guests to give gifts that either are bare essentials/necessities or are bear related, such as baby bottles, diapers, wipes, bath toys and hooded bath towels. Sometimes, buy mom-to-be a "teddy" to wear after baby's arrival is one of the perfect gift ideas for baby showers.

Here is the complete collectoin of coolest teddy bears for new baby, such as a sleeper with a bear motif, teddy bear for the baby, or a sexy teddy for the mom-to-be.

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Games

How Many Honey Bees

One of the "beary" cool ideas for baby showers is having guests guess how many "honey bees" in a baby bottle. To do this, fill a baby bottle with yellow jelly beans and add a few black ones. Shake the bottle to make sure that not all of the black jelly beans(the honey bees) can be seen and keep track of how many black jelly beans are in the baby bottle. The guest whose guess is the closest wins a prize - a big stuffed teddy bear!

Baby Diapering Race

For this game, you will need one large teddy bear, a cloth diaper and two diaper pins, a pair of mittens, and a stopwatch or timer. Your guests take turns diapering the doll or the teddy bear — but they are wearing mittens! If the diaper falls off when the doll or the teddy bear is held up and shaken, then that guest is disqualified from the game. The guest with the fast diapering time wins the game.

Busy Mom

Experienced mothers will have an advantage in this teddy bear baby shower game. You may even want to test dads to see how well they can care for a fussy baby and still do the chores.

The materials for this game are stuffed teddy bear, a cordless or cellular phone, baby or doll clothes, clothes pins, and a clothes line that is held by two people or tied up someplace. Each guest takes a turn holding the teddy bear in one arm, while taking on the phone and hanging up the baby clothes. The person who hangs the most clothes in one minute without dropping the teddy bear wins.

A Berry Good Time

Bear like berries, so why not have strawberries as your ideas for baby showers? Seperate your guests into two teams and have them form a straight line across the shower area from the mom-to-be. Blindfold the first person and give each team a teapoon. They have to carry pints of strawberries and place them in a bowl that the mom-to-be is holding without dropping it.

The first team to get all of their berries in the bowl wins a prize - Oh, have all the guests get to enjoy the strawberries!

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Favors

The "beary" cute favor ideas for baby showers are bear shaped cookies, chocolates or candies wrapped in cellophane and tie with a pink or blue ribbon.

Oh, how about give each guest something to "hibernate" if your baby shower is in winter? Any small bath products like bath salts, aromatherapy body lotions, bath oils work perfectly. Or even give various tea, mint or tea light candles will all make the winter months fly by.

If the teddy bear baby shower is in summer, the guests will enjoy instant ice, flavor tea bags or packages of lemonade crystals, or even small bear garden ornaments all are wonderful favor ideas for baby showers.

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