Lion King Safari Baby Shower

Looking to throw a Lion King baby shower?  Well, Hakuna Matata.  No worries.  You'll find lots of inspiration, ideas (and free printables!) here.

 

 

 

Feel free to my invitation layout.  Add your own text to make it all your own.

Include, with your invitation, a diaper raffle ticket.  Ask guests bring a package of diapers for Mom & Baby and raffle a prize for those that do. 

 

I wrapped a box in themed paper and used it for the tickets.  For prizes we had a fruit basket and BaByQ Grill kit.  I got the zebra print box at Hobby Lobby.  We supplied extra tickets for those that forgot theirs.

 

 

 

 For a guest book we used a hard cover copy of the Lion King.

 

The gift table was decorated with kraft paper vines and a "welcome baby" banner available FOR FREE over at the Disney Baby website.

The vines were made by twisting strips from a roll of kraft paper, then attaching cardstock leaves.  leaf.svg   leaf.png

Mommy and Daddy-To-Be got fancy chairs to sit in while opening their gifts.

 

 

The guest tables were each decorated with animal print table runners (8' tablecloths cut into strips) and a small diaper cake topped with Lion King characters and animal print balloons.

           

 

 Guests enjoyed fruit from under our pineapple palm tree.  A PVC tube, attached to a piece of plywood, was covered with corded pineapples.  The top pineapple was garnished with artificial palm leaves.

Behind the main food table I'd cut silhouettes from the famous Simba presentation scene from The Lion King.  They were placed over orange paper I'd purchased in a large roll.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The larger items, the rock, tree and sunset, were cut by hand.  The animals were cut with my Cricut.

Feel free to save the images to cut by hand or download the .svg file below the image.



Zebra.svg                                        Zebra2.svg

 

 Giraffe2.svg                                         Giraffe.svg


Elephant.svg                                  Elephants.svg

 

Birds.svg                                                                             Rafiki.svg

 

Little Debbie Zebra Cakes on lollipop sticks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hershey Hugs melted on pretzels, topped with orange M&Ms.  Animal crackers with frosting dip.

Cheese popcorn in animal print paper cones.  The animal print paper was purchased from Oriental Trading.  Visit Wiki How to learn how to make your own cones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For favors, everyone got boxes of animal crackers with cute Simba tags and colorful ribbons.  The  3"x3"x3" acrylic boxes were purchased on eBay. 

 

Favor label

 

 

 

 The adorable cake was made by a local bakery.

 

 

And this adorable diaper cake was made by me.

 

   

Got a couple extra minutes?  I'd love for you to be one of my "100 people surveyed"!

Frog Party

My bestie's birthday was coming and I was thrilled when her hubby asked me to help plan a froggy birthday party for her.  Have a look.

 

 

To make these lily pad cookies, I cut a wedge out of round, green sugar cookies before baking them.  They were inspired by these.

 

Oh, yum.  Just thinking about this delicious Strawberry Puppy Chow makes my mouth water.  As a matter of fact, I think I'll go make some right now....

 

Ok... I'm back.  The jars are filled with green malted milk balls and Canada Mints.  The small plates have Peppermint Patties, drizzled with green and pink chocolate, to match the theme.  The pink cookies are chocolate chip cookies, tinted with pink food coloring.

Our Frogs on Logs are Little Debbie Swiss Rolls, drizzled with melted chocolate and topped with Gummy Frogs.  They were inspired by Gourmet Mom on the Go.

To drink, we enjoyed pink lemonade and green Hawaiian Punch.  The frogs on the front of the dispensers were cut on my Cricut.  Feel free to use them for yourself.  Frog.svg

 

 

These adorable pudding cups were inspired by Bird's Party.  I cut the lily pad on my Cricut.  The cups are 5oz tumblers.  The frog stickers came from Michaels.

 

  

 I found this adorable frog planter at Michaels, in their summer clearance.  His bucket is filled with pink and green rock candy.

 

  

 Mmm, cake!  The cake was frosted with an ombre style and topped with fondant lily pads and cattails.  It was inspired by Building Butter Cream.  The cake pops were topped with Wilton candy eyes and 1/2 a Wilton candy heart used at the tongue.  They were inspired by pops I saw on Cakepops.org.

 

 

just for fun

 

We had a blast playing with the party blowouts made to look like frog tongues.  Want to make your own?

 

If you have a Cricut, you can use this file Frog Blowouts.svg.  Be sure to add a 1/2" circle for the blowout before cutting.

 

If you don't have a Cricut, print this frog face 5" wide.  Once printed, cut out and use a 1/2" hole punch in the center of the smile for the blowout.  Add 2 large google eyes.

 

 Guests brought her a copy of their favorite book, as a gift.  Check it out here.