Although I’ve often written about planning a green baby shower, I’ve never gotten to experience once firsthand.  Thanks to my incredible, intelligent, caring, physically fit, and highly attractive teaching colleagues I had the chance to attend one thrown in my baby’s honor. 

Now it’s quite humbling to have friends take the time to organize a baby shower, especially when those friends are all middle school teachers challenged with managing spring behaviors at the end of the school year.  It’s even more of a gift when said friends are thoughtful enough to take the time to make it green.

Here are some of the eco-friendly ideas they worked into the shower:

  • Cupcakes: These hand-held dessert devices didn’t require any utensils and were quite delicious.
  • Real dishes: We ate on decorative plastic plates and used an assortment of teacher mugs to swill our festive punch.
  • Heirloom gifts: The thoughtful presents we received included two homemade quilts, an adorable green (of course) sundress, a CD of kid-friendly music, a soft fabric soothie for baby and even a teddy bear for Roscoe.  All of them were carefully chosen and will be well used by our children and probably passed down to others as well.
  • Simple reusable décor: The “Welcome Baby” sign has become a tradition at our school and has now attended its third baby shower.  A fabric table cloth made our school library table appear quite classy when laden with cupcakes and punch.  Also perched on top was a money tree fashioned out of a fabric plant and decorated with bills clipped on with tiny ribboned barrettes.

Now that I’ve been on receiving end of a green baby shower, I have to say that the creativity and thoughtfulness of the green theme made it all the more fun.  Have you attended or thrown a green baby shower?  If you need ideas, check our posts here and here for some easy tips.  We’d love to hear about your experiences!