Ladybug Fancy Baby Shower Decorations

Hints, Tips, & Ideas for a Ladybug Themed Baby Shower

• Incorporate red food into the buffet table. Red punch in a punchbowl (something sweet like one half 7-up, and one half fruit punch) gives you a great start. Strawberries, watermelon, and red grapes make a great fruit salad. Salad Caprese is a great matching option – use cherry tomatoes and Ciliegine sized mozzarella balls. Combine the cherry tomatoes with the mozzarella cheese balls on a 2:1 ratio, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, and fold in some fresh chopped basic. Add a bit of salt & pepper to taste. With both of them being round, they will pick-up on the polka dot shapes in the decorations. Serving salmon (like lox and bagels) makes a perfect red accompaniment! Strawberries dipped in chocolate, and then decorated with white chocolate make a perfect red/white/black treat at the end of the buffet line.
• Cupcakes and cakes are the perfect canvas for ladybug themed baby shower treats. For a cake, you can take a sheet cake, frost it white, and use red fondant or icing to draw the shape of a ladybug. Use a black sandwich cookie to make the dots on the back of the ladybug. You can do something similar on the cupcakes, but use chocolate chips or jelly beans to make the black dots.
• We are excited to offer a great selection of ladybug favor options including magnets, candy jars, lollipops and more. One of the best ideas we’ve seen is to take the personalized lady bug candy jars (where the label can per personalized with the details of your shower) and fill it with black, red, and white jelly beans. If you want to do something more handmade, select some black favor boxes, put a custom crafted treat inside, and wrap it with a red and white polka dot ribbon.
• You can help create that garden environment that ladybugs thrive in by using green craft items (like the grass used in Easter baskets) and silk flowers in a scale that relate well to the decorations in this theme. Laying out the buffet or favors table with green artificial grass carpeting and using large vases with big flowers (like dahlias or hydrangeas) are a perfect place for your little bugs to find a home!
• If you are looking for an unusual gift for the mom to be, think about decorating your event with a Ladybug Diaper Cake. The colors match perfectly, it's a fantastic decoration, and a wonderful gift to give to the expectant mother at the end of the event. She'll love it!