How to throw a Halloween baby shower?
Planning a baby shower is always a joyous occasion, but adding a Halloween twist for the upcoming spooky season can make it even more memorable and fun!
From spooky little pumpkins to friendly ghosts and whimsical witches, Halloween baby shower themes offer the perfect blend of festive fall elements and playful, eerie charm.
You’ll find some of the best Halloween baby shower ideas, complete with creative decorations, themed treats, and entertaining games to ensure your celebration is both enchanting and spooktacular.
Whether you prefer a cute atmosphere or a more mystical, magical vibe, these creative ideas will help you throw a Halloween baby shower that guests will remember long after the last piece of candy is gone and the expectant mom-to-be will really appreciate.
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What are the best Halloween baby shower themes?
Cute Halloween Baby Shower Themes
1. Spooky Little Pumpkin
Decorate your festive space with pumpkins, jack-o’-lanterns, and autumn leaves to create the feeling of fall. Use shades of orange, with black and white, as your color scheme. Use fall flowers and grasses as centerpieces.
Create a fall menu. Serve pumpkin-flavored dishes, along with pumpkin-shaped cookies. Have guests paint pie pumpkins as one of your baby shower games.
2. Boo-tiful Baby
Use ghost-themed decorations and soft pastel colors to create a spooky cute atmosphere. Use the tagline “a little boo is almost due” on your baby shower invitations and in your decor to tie the theme together.
Adorn tables with ghostly centerpieces. Make your own ghost-inspired meal: ghostly tea sandwiches and chocolate-covered ghost cookies.
3. Black Cat Bash
Dress up your space by adding some glitter and glam to your black cat decorations. Stick with black and orange (or gold) for your color scheme. Add some broomsticks or witch hats to complete the look.
Create a balloon arch with black balloons and top with ears and whiskers where mom can open her gifts or check out these cute balloon columns. Serve black cat cupcakes with milk.
4. Batty for Baby
Decorate with bats, stars, and moons. Use twinkle lights in your decor to set the mood. For a more somber atmosphere, choose other dark colors: dark purples or greens. For a lighter mood, use soft pastels: peach (or tan) and light gray for a more feminine touch for mom.
Turn chocolate-covered pretzels into bats by adding some candy eyeballs. Make bat candy treats from Reese’s cups and Oreos.
5. Trick-or-Treat
Use colorful decorations against an orange and white backdrop. Serve your food on candy corn paper plates. Make a colorful candy corn cheese snack. Set up a candy bar and offer trick-or-treat bags for guests to fill. Serve candy corn punch.
The trick-or-treat theme makes a great baby shower idea for moms who love sweets. It’s also a good kid-friendly baby shower theme.
6. Magical Baby
You could take this theme in two directions. One using wizards and potions, even having a Harry Potter-themed shower. Create an enchanting atmosphere with a gold, black, and white color scheme. Serve pumpkin juice with your meal.
Or you could create an enchanted forest full of magical creatures. Use dark green and tan as your color scheme and fairy lights to set the mood. Fill your world with dragons or unicorns.
7. Magic and Moonlight
Create a mystical atmosphere with this moonlight theme. Decorate your space with stars, moons, and bats. Use light purple, silver, and black as your color scheme for an elegant night theme. For a moodier atmosphere, use dark purple instead.
Place a balloon garland in front of flowing purple fabric with fairy lights for a special place for mom to open gifts or as a backdrop to the dessert table. Serve moon-shaped cookies and dark chocolate treats.
8. Eerie Elegance
This Halloween baby shower theme is perfect for the mom looking for a slightly more traditional theme, but with a bit of a Halloween twist. Decorate with black lace, black candles, and gothic decor to create an elegant space. Use these lanterns as table centerpieces.
This would make an excellent “tea party” theme as it gives very classy Halloween vibes. You can choose to serve a light meal in the afternoon or create a menu for a more elegant affair.
9. Dia de los Muertos
For a more colorful event, decorate with vibrant Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) decor, featuring colorful skulls and tablecloths, marigolds, and candles. Set up a taco bar and serve Mexican treats like sugar skull candies.
Why celebrate your baby shower with a Day of the Dead party? It’s a wonderful Mexican holiday (held on November 2) where families welcome back the souls of their deceased relatives. It would be the perfect way to celebrate your upcoming arrival with those that you have lost. Set out photos of your family members to honor them as you welcome your new baby.
10. Little Pumpkin Patch
Similar to the spooky little pumpkin theme above, you’ll want to incorporate lots of pumpkins into your decor. For this one, you can add haybales and scarecrows to your decorations. Serve pumpkin pie and apple cider.
Have extra pumpkins on hand for guests to carve as a fun baby shower activity. Set them up in teams and have the guest of honor judge the pumpkins.
11. Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Create a cozy fall baby shower theme using pumpkins, leaves, and fall colors. Use fall theme table runners and coffee cups as place settings.
Serve pumpkin spice treats and warm apple cider.
Spooky Halloween Baby Shower Themes
12. Witchy Wonderland
This spooky theme can be easily put together with witch hats, cauldrons, and broomsticks. Serve broomstick snacks, witch cupcakes, and witch’s brew punch from a cauldron to get everyone in the Halloween spirit.
Have mom wear this dress to beautifully fit in with the witch theme. Use the tagline “a baby is brewing” in your invitations and decor.
13. Hocus Pocus
For fans of the movie Hocus Pocus, take the witch theme to the next level. Decorate with cutouts of the Sanderson sisters, the spell book, brooms, and black cats. Use black candles for table centerpieces.
Serve Hocus Pocus-themed cookies and magical drinks. Use the tagline “I smell children” in your Halloween baby shower invitations and your decor.
14. Nightmare Before Christmas
Fans of Nightmare Before Christmas will love decorating for their Halloween baby shower with this theme. Use black, white, and even purple for your color scheme, adding Jack Skellington and Zero decor for a gender-neutral baby shower. For a baby girl, decorate in Sally’s colors: black, pink, teal, and yellow.
Serve spooky treats inspired by the film with deadly nightshade, worth’s wort, and frog’s breath punches.
15. Mummy’s Little Monster
Decorate with cheesecloth to create a fun shower space with a unique theme. Wrap the chairbacks and cross the cheesecloth across the tables to bring your mummy theme together.
Serve mummy-wrapped hot dogs and mummy jalapeno poppers as part of your meal. Use the tagline “mummy to be” on your invitations and on your baby shower welcome sign.
16. Monster Mash
This Halloween theme uses colorful monsters to brighten up your Halloween party. Whether you use your favorite characters from Monsters, Inc. or just a generic fun set of monsters, this Halloween baby shower theme is a fun way to celebrate the guest of honor.
Serve a variety of monster treats: monster brownies, cookies, Rice Krispie treats, and even monster donuts to match your theme. Set up a photo booth with a balloon arch so guests can take pictures with their favorite monsters.
17. Skeleton Crew
Use a black-and-white color scheme with skeleton and bone decorations. For an elegant setting, use white tablecloths with black lace table runners and white chairs with black tulle bows. Serve drinks from black water goblets.
Serve skeleton-themed treats: a skeleton veggie tray and chocolate-covered pretzel bones. Give vintage skeleton keys as party favors to your guests.
18. Tiny Terror
Decorate your baby shower space with your favorite characters from classic horror movies: Frankenstein, Dracula, and werewolves, but in baby form.
Serve finger foods and spooky treats inspired by all the great old Halloween movies.
19. Spooky Circus
For a creative idea, take the traditional baby shower theme of a fun circus and turn it spooky with some clown decorations, cobwebs, and a black and dark red color scheme.
Serve fun carnival foods with a Halloween twist: monster popcorn balls, mummy-wrapped hot dogs and meatballs, mini spider pizzas, and monster sliders.
20. Haunted Mansion
Create a spooky haunted mansion atmosphere with spider webs, gargoyles, and eerie lighting. Serve graveyard brownies and a spooky Halloween punch.
Create a Halloween-themed scavenger hunt around the room(s) as an icebreaker for guests. Ask guests to dress in their fanciest Halloween fashions to fit in with the elegant mansion theme.
FAQs for Halloween Baby Shower Themes
What makes a Halloween baby shower different than a traditional baby shower?
While most baby showers have the same basic components, a baby shower with a Halloween theme is slightly different.
First, is going to be what your date is for your baby shower. Most showers are held 2-3 months before mom’s due date, which would still be true for a Halloween-themed shower.
If mom is due in October, you could hold a Halloween-themed shower in July or August. Or if mom is due in December or January, you could have her shower anytime in October, making Halloween night extra special. Or if mom just loves Halloween, you can have a Halloween-themed shower any time of the year!
The other main difference between a traditional baby shower and a Halloween baby shower is the theme, which includes your decorations, possibly your foods, and even the games and music you choose to play. With just a little bit of creativity, you can follow the plan for a traditional shower and host an epic Halloween-themed baby shower for mom’s big day.
What are some fun Halloween baby shower games?
You can take any games for a traditional baby shower and make them suitable for your Halloween baby shower. However, not everyone likes traditional baby shower games. (I’m personally not a fan of sticking my nose in a diaper filled with chocolate to determine what type of chocolate it is.)
But that’s where the Halloween theme can make your baby shower even more fun. Change up your party games to match the theme of your shower. Try these great ideas for Halloween baby shower games:
- Pumpkin decorating contest. Have guests paint or carve pumpkins and have the expectant mom-to-be vote on her favorites for the funniest, scariest, and most creative.
- Halloween bingo. Create custom bingo cards related to Halloween or your specific theme.
- Scavenger hunt. Set up a Halloween-themed scavenger hunt throughout your party space.
- Mummy wrap. Put together teams to race to dress one team member as a mummy using a roll of toilet paper.
- Pumpkin bowling. Set up baby bottles and have guests use pumpkins to knock them down.
- Candy guess. Fill a large jar with candy corn and have guests guess how many pieces there are.
- Witch hat ring toss. Have teams race to toss rings around witch hats. Use cones and decorate them as witch hats (or have guests decorate them as a baby shower activity).
- Monster baby Pictionary. Make a list of baby-related words and Halloween-themed words. Split into teams and take turns drawing the words while the others guess.
- Monster baby trivia. Prepare a list of baby trivia questions and Halloween trivia questions. Split into teams and see who knows the most answers.
- Halloween word scramble. Create a list of scrambled words related to Halloween and baby items and have guests unscramble the words.
- Fortune tellers. This one is not a game but a fun activity. Hire someone to tell your guests’ fortunes as they wait for the party to get started.
- Halloween photo booth. This is another fun activity that also makes a great photo keepsake for the expectant parents.
Conclusion
There you have it: the spookiest Halloween baby shower themes for your fall baby shower. From adorable pumpkin patches to whimsical witchy wonderlands, these creative Halloween-themed baby shower ideas will ensure your celebration is memorable for all. Embrace the magic of Halloween and create lasting memories with your friends and family as you welcome your upcoming arrival with a touch of spooky charm. Happy haunting and congratulations on your new adventure!
Which of the Halloween baby shower themes will you be using? Let us know in the comments.
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