Safari Baby Shower

I hosted a baby shower for my friend and had the most fun preparing for it! I used a color scheme of black, gold and green to achieve the safari theme! Below are pictures from the Safari Baby Shower Luncheon.

Menu:
- Caprese Salad
- Fruit Salad
- Croissant Sandwiches (Make-Your-Own with lunch meats and cheese)
- Flatbread pizza - 2 types
- Hummus and veggie cups
- Naked white cake with buttercream frosting
- Cookies
- Prosecco and La Croix

Gold Safari Animals and Treat Boxes

 Plastic Safari Animals on cardboard

 Spray painted animals gold

 Purchased clear boxes from Hobby Lobby and hot-glued an animal to the top and put ribbon with a "thank you" sticker around the box

 Cookie Treat Box

Royal Icing with hand painted gold frosting by friend made for the shower!

 Cookie Favors

Cookie Box Favor

Games

 Children's Guest Book Signing

Safari Baby Animals Match Game

Decor/Table Setting

 "Boy" Balloon on the front door

 Gold charger plate, green plate and black/white napkin with a gold animal table setting

 Set Table

Lunch is ready!

The Food

 Prosecco and La Croix sparkling water

 Homemade "naked" cake with flowers and custom cake topper from Etsy

Food Table

 Fruit and Caprese Salads

 Hummus and Veggie Cups

 Flatbread Pizzas

Make-Your-Own-Sandwich

Oh Boy!!!

Enjoy!

Brittney

DIY Balloon Garland

This past weekend I hosted a baby shower for a very close friend of mine who is expecting another boy this September. His nursery is themed lions and skiing - so I decided on a safari theme for the baby shower! I made a balloon garland as the focal point for the party and it was pretty easy to do! It took me about an hour and a half total! Below is my Balloon Garland How-to.

Supplies:
- balloons in different colors you want to use for the party, at least 50 (depends on how big you want garland to be)
- string
- tacks
- low-temperature glue gun
- garland extras (I used faux monstera leaves and palm leaves)

1. Blow up balloons in different sizes.
2. Attach 3 or 4 balloons together at their base with string.
3. Cut a long piece of string to use as your main string for your garland shape.
4. Attach string from group of balloons to your main string, tying a knot as close to the middle of your balloon grouping as you can get. Keep adding your balloon groupings to your string until you have your desired length. Tie a good knot on your end balloon groupings to your main string so the balloons do not slip off.
5. To hang your garland use tacks in the wall your will use. I used 3 tacks for mine, the garland was extremely light and did not need a lot of support. I used a tack on the ends and one in the middle. I placed a tack through one of the small pieces of string from the balloon groupings and pushed it in the wall where I wanted the garland to hang.
6. Once you have your garland secured to the wall you can blow up more balloons to fill in the spots that need to be fuller. I used a low-temperature glue gun to glue these balloons to the garland.
7. Add garland extras as you wish with the glue gun as well.

 Supplies: balloons in 4 colors, fake leaves, string, tacks, and Glue Dots (used to put up mylar balloons that say "Oh Boy")

 Balloon grouping with string (4 balloons)

 Balloon groupings on the main string at my desired length

 Balloon garland attached to the wall with tacks - 

extra balloons and leaves glued on with glue gun

DIY Balloon Garland

Enjoy!

Brittney