Baby showers are fun and festive events, and they provide opportunities for expectant parents to be reunited with their families and close friends, as well as to be given with items that the baby will need at the time of birth. Whether the gifts are essential baby items or little treats or delights, make them an important part of the theme and decorations of the party. Creativity on thinking about baby shower planning ideas will make sure that it will going to be an unforgettable part of the expectant parents' lives.

If the baby will be born on the Christmas season, then it will be easy for you to think about baby shower planning ideas that will fit the time of the year. Simply adorn the baby shower venue with holiday decorations. Send out baby-sized Christmas stockings made of felt paper with the invitations slid inside. Make a paper chain in rainbow or pastel colors and form it as a makeshift Christmas three and pile the gifts under it. As the centerpiece for the party table, decorate the small three with tiny items that each guest brings on the shower. Serve a large bowl of punch with mulled fruit punch or mugs of hot chocolate with peppermint on them. Set up a buffet of holiday foods and include Christmas cookies, brownies, gingerbreads, cakes, and others that are usually served on Christmas. Play Christmas songs and holiday lullabies on the event.

You can also have a couture baby shower, especially if it will be a baby girl. This is ideal if the expectant parents want to have a huge collection of wardrobe for their baby. Specify the range of age and the type of clothing based on the baby's expected birthdate and gender. Set up a clothes line across the room where the shower will be held and use wooden clothes pins to hang the gifts on the line. This will double as decorations for the party. You can also make a string of quilted or knitted pieces of fabric with one letter each. Decorate these pieces of cloth as "Welcome (the name of the baby)", or just "Welcome Baby" if a name has not been decided yet.

This is one of the most charming baby shower planning ideas for the party, making it full of baby clothes that the baby can use and keep as he or she grows up. Create a centerpiece for the table with "flowers" made from baby booties, socks, shoes, and others. Have them fastened to florist's wire. Make sure that the sizes of the socks vary in order to be certain that the socks be used by the baby as he or she grows into a good child. You could also have the parents keep them, as they can last for a while as the baby going towards childhood. Set up a nursery laundry hamper as a gift and used it to pile the rest of the gifts, so that you can deliver them to the home of the expectant mother in no time.