Mother Goose and nursery rhymes are almost a rite of passage, but they are certainly a children’s tradition. Nursery rhymes can be recited in different languages and vary from country to country around the world, but there is some type of nursery rhyme present in every country and culture. There is no better theme with which to welcome a new baby into the world than a nursery rhyme baby shower!
For an easy nursery rhyme-themed invitation for your baby shower, purchase plain cardstock from an online source, computer store, party supply store, or department store. Using your home computer, print out the cards with graphic cows jumping over the moon and print: “Hey, diddle, diddle, the cat and the violin, and the cow jumped over the moon! Someone you know is going to have a Baby soon! Little Jack Horner stuck his thumb in, pulled out a plum, we’re having a baby shower with nursery rhymes, and it’d be a shame if you didn’t come!” Then include all the relevant information and send or personally deliver the invitation. You could also do something very similar and send the invites via email!
National Mother Goose Day is May 1, but Mother Goose is timeless, and you can host your own nursery rhyme baby shower any time of year! It’s easy to play nursery rhyme charades or Jeopardy, or have a nursery rhyme contest. Do you remember what happened to Jack Sprat? What about little Miss Muffet? The winner can receive prizes for knowing the most trivia and nursery rhyme facts.
A cute and practical decoration for a nursery rhyme-themed baby shower is to open disposable diapers, arrange them in a round shape, and tie them with wire-edged ribbon to form the base layer of a diaper “cake.” The second level should be the smallest and the third level should be the smallest. Stacked one on top of the other, each tied with the wire-edged ribbon (blue for a boy, pink for a girl, or bright yellow for either) to form bows, it looks like a pretend cake, and it’s functional too. Every newcomer needs diapers! You can hang printed nursery rhymes or tuck nursery rhyme pictures into the folded diapers, letting them peek through, to add to the nursery rhyme theme.
You can use a baby bathtub as a punch bowl. You can float a Styrofoam cup with three tiny figures on it to “Rub a dub, dub, three men in a tub.” Serve a cake marked with a “B” and “Pat a Cake, Pat a Cake” written across the top.
When it comes to creating a baby shower with a nursery rhyme theme, be creative and use characters from as many rhymes as you can. Everyone present will enjoy remembering the nursery rhymes of their childhood.
