Dollar Free Baby Shower Ideas for a Boy

My sister-in-police force and I had the laurels of hosting our sis's babe shower. You won't believe where we did our shopping…the dollar shop.I'thou excited to share with y'all my tips and secrets on how to create a gorgeous Baby Shower on a Budget.

Infant Shower on a Budget

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DECOR

Here's where our frugal shopping paid off! Yup! You guessed information technology, nosotros bought well-nigh ALL of our decorations at the dollar store .

Await at the finished product! None of our guests would've believed that we decorated this shower on a dollar store upkeep.

Streamer and Tissue Paper Creations

After creatively decorating my staircase for my son'south Superhero party, I knew we HAD to exercise a similar idea for the baby shower.

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We decided on pink and white with a hint of light-green for the shower colors. Using pink, white and green streamers , we twisted them along the banister. Then, nosotros used tissue paper to create these ambrosial tissue newspaper flowers.

Please excuse the lovely ninety'south brass fixtures.

That'southward a homemade burlap wreath that mom made! How cute is that?!

Streamer Waterfall

Using streamers we decided to create a "streamer waterfall" in ane of the windows. Simple pink balloons at the top to consummate the cute window streamer feature.

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Balloon Garland

Amazing tip for how to hang balloons at the top of the window. The last time I did this I used record and it was a mess! I was never fully satisfied at the outcome.

This time I used a long slice of ribbon and tied the balloons individually in a direct line. Attach the strand of balloons to a pall rod with some tape.

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Here are some pictures that my son took of me while I was putting together the balloons. Please excuse the babe crash-land…

This picture reminds me I need to do more bicep/tricep exercises. Oye.

Plastic Tablecloth Creations

Using dollar store tablecloths our talented mom turned my ugly brown chair into this!

She cut a pink and white tablecloth in half and and then tied these huge bows around the back of the chair. She even tied them on the chair legs to make information technology more beautiful!

Nosotros idea this was the perfect look for the guest of honor'due south gift opening chair.

Using tablecloths equally a backdrop for the wall where our sister would be sitting to open up her gifts, created the all-time photo opp!

Expect at these dollar store banners used to top off the beautiful wall backdrop! Of form we couldn't stop there. Using smaller tissue paper flowers to accent the top of our vertical banners, we created this adorable backdrop!

The other two windows were busy with balloons, paper banners and tissue paper flowers ( dollar store ).

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Opting to non do helium balloons to go on the costs down, we instead decided to hang balloons in the entryway with ribbon. A contrary helium airship, if you will!

This was my ONE splurge for the decor. I found these adorable, pink, lantern balls to hang from my chandelier with a 40% off coupon at Hobby Lobby. You can also notice them on Amazon.

Babe Clothesline

Year ago, I once attended a baby shower where they displayed cute babe dress on a clothesline as office of the decor. We decided to do the same with some cute, new outfits for infant girl!

SET UP

Tables

Because of the size of our shower we decided on 2- vi foot long fold out tables (I also apply these regularly every bit my garage sale tables!). Mom rented chairs for but $1 each which was totally worth it since none of u.s. collectively had enough matching chairs.

Using our dollars store plastic tablecloths, we layered them to create a beautiful bow and "pick up."

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Later that nosotros laid down our place mats. Mom decided on these cute card stock, scalloped paper pages for our place mats.

Can you believe that we about didn't use a identify mat merely then last-minute, my sister discovered these in Mom's craft pile and thought they were perfect! Here's a really cool tool that cuts pretty scalloped edges on paper.

Entryway

In the entryway, we placed a table with our political party favors, advice jar, candy guessing jar and an ambrosial pregnancy progression scrapbook mom made for our sister.

My girl LOVED helping out! Ane of her jobs was to make sure each person placed a note of advice in the jar.

What nosotros hadn't planned on, and was a nice surprise, was our invitee of honor reading the pieces of advice out loud at the end of the shower so all the guests could hear. It was so sweet and some were just hilarious!

Mom used her Cricut and cut these cute little onesies out of newspaper for the communication jar.

Final minute, we displayed our guessing jar game on this table so that our guests could identify their guess in the jar as they arrived. What worked out even improve was to have my girl walk effectually and collect the guesses from each guest after they were seated and chatting.

These were cute picayune feet that were cut from mom's Cricut. The guests wrote their proper name and guess on them.

Table Summit Ready Upward

Mason jars, pink burlap, pink doily and pink ribbon were used to dazzle upwardly our flower system jars.

Here's a peek at the ambrosial napkins that mom made. To make the napkins, she used a tutorial on Pinterest and and then embossed the napkins with her Cuttlebug and then pink ribbon tied in a bow!

We found the plasticware that looks like silverware at the dollar store too!

Most of the guests commented that the napkins were also pretty to use. I, on the other paw, thought that not only should they exist used, merely they're great for a petty fun too!

Vintage Glass

Deciding to use beautiful vintage glassware for our table settings was the accented best thought that had the biggest impact! Our mom is queen of garage sales and has nerveless vintage glassware for years. She'south also queen of tea parties also and often uses this glassware for her parties. Some day soon I will web log about i of her fabulous tea parties!

Look at these adorable glass plates, and water goblets.

Vintage water pitchers were also used and we placed them on guest tables with either cucumber or lemon infused water.

We sought the help from fellow Frappuccino drinkers and asked that they help united states collect their empty glass frap bottles. We then done, and peeled off the labels of the bottles.

Using a white doily, pink yarn and baby shower themed buttons, we created the most adorable glass drinking jars yous've ever seen! Mom found these cute, pink straws at Hobby Antechamber!

BABY SHOE FAVOR TUTORIAL

Our party favors were in the making LONG earlier whatsoever other plans had been fabricated. It was partly inspired by something on Pinterest and mostly inspired by mom.

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GAMES/PRIZES

To keep our costs down, we went to our closets to find what was new only unused that we could re-purpose for our prizes. It'south amazing what you can find at home that you've never used!

I also put together a gift bag full of stationary items from the bins at my local craft shop. I've as well seen practical, cost-effective items that would make perfect prizes at local big box stores!

Oops! My Water Broke!

My SIL purchased these beautiful little babies from her local arts and crafts store. We then placed them in ice-cube trays and froze them iv days earlier the shower to make sure they were good and frozen. We dropped one cube in each of our guests h2o goblet to get the game started! Here is the actual game set from Amazon if you and then want to purchase the game set. Nosotros were surprised at how long it took for those babies to break complimentary! This was a fun game and some of the gals were trying to get artistic in figuring out how to brand their ice-cube cook faster!

Baby Bottle Bottoms Upward!

We filled pink baby bottles (4 oz. size) half way up with apple juice. The object of the game is to come across who can suck information technology all down the fastest. I would've LOVE to have posted some of the pictures of the super competitive ladies we had but out of respect for them, I won't. The pictures are less than flattering. This game was fun to watch!

We of course, couldn't JUST take a pink baby bottle. Nosotros had to add some white tulle, tied in a bow to make information technology pretty.

Hither I am making certain that the bottle levels are equal. It would've been smart to simply await at the ounce marks on the side. Oh well! This was more fun!

How Large is Mom-to-Be?

Using some pink ribbon that I had on manus we measured our guest of honor'due south waist. Hither's the official Baby Shower Tum Measure game. We kept information technology a secret as to how "big" her belly was. We walked around the room with ribbon and asked each approximate to cut off their "guess" as to how "round" mom-to-be is. This was fun too! Most people were very generous and some were well… let'due south just say, way off!

Candy Guessing Jar Game

As I previously mentioned, we had a candy guessing jar. This was a quick easy game that is ever fun to see how well people can estimate!

Nutrient

Keeping it elementary however delicious we gear up out to our local Costco and constitute an astonishing chicken salad that we paired with croissants and yummy turkey pin wheel wraps.

Nosotros added a side pasta salad, fruit salad in a waffle cone and veggies in a baguette. Our guests loved the food and went back for seconds!

We scooped out the center of cucumbers and filled them with the chicken salad.

We used these pretty vintage drinking glass cups to serve the pasta salad.

Our fruit salad was a mix of strawberries, grapes, melon and pineapple. Nosotros scooped our fruit into yummy waffle cones that we dressed up with some scrapbook paper.

Merely scoop out the center of the baguette and dropped in spinach dip. Here, we used carrot, celery and cucumber sticks for our veggies.

DESSERTS

Our dessert/coffee/tea bar was prepare up in the kitchen on the island.

We chose some homemade brownies that my sweet daughter cut out with a heart-shaped cutter, and mom made some yummy saccharide frosted cookies.

Our cute tea cupsouth were displayed in these darling holders that mom has collected through the years.

Cake

My SIL has a very talented friend that makes cakes! She did an astonishing chore for us. Not only was the cake super cute information technology was DElicious!

Here's a quick peek at how to turn a simple white cake stand into a "pretty in pink tulle" cake stand!

This cake stand has little holes/slots in it for threading either ribbon or tulle through it. Here'southward a shot of mom dressing information technology up!

Thank you and then much for reading! Non only was it important to me to share our journey to a beautiful baby shower for our sister but I wanted to pigment a picture of how to create an adorable baby shower on a upkeep!

Happy baby shower planning to all!

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