With new baby shower favors on the market, there are tons of new baby shower theme ideas to match!  Our “As Cute as a Button” Scented Soap is one of our best sellers here at Little Things, and we’re proud to now introduce a coordinating place card frame and candle votives to match!  While admiring these favors, Alecia came up with a brilliant and adorable baby shower theme idea – a “cute as a button” theme!  So, here are a couple of ideas for planning this sweet baby shower:

Centerpieces - Fill up large vases with buttons of all shapes and sizes, and tie the tops with big bows.  You can use remaining buttons to sprinkle on your table settings.

Games - Fill a jar with buttons, and have guests guess how many.  Winner gets a door prize!  You can also play bingo with buttons as chips.  Fun!

Food - Decorate cookies, cupcakes and your cake to look like buttons.  They’ll be too cute to eat!

If you’re sticking to a particular color scheme, like blue or pink, try to find buttons in different shades of the color.  But I love the mixing and matching of different pastel colors, like the ones on the place card frame mentioned above.  It works for both a boy and a girl!  I know if I ever have to host a baby shower, this theme will definitely be considered.

Happy planning!  All my love <3 Kelsey

So I’ll admit:  I’ve been a little stumped on blog ideas for Little Things Baby.  While searching the internet for something interesting today, I came across something I’ve never heard of before:  a fruit stroller!  Now I’ve seen people cut the watermelon in half and fill it up with fruit, but I was completely impressed by this!  I have to say, I’m also a little upset I didn’t come across it sooner.  We just had a baby sprinkle for my sister this past weekend!  Oh well, I guess I’ll have to create one the next time someone gets pregnant.  Anyway, here’s how to make one:

Ingredients
- Watermelon (look for one in a more oval shape)
- Oranges
- Grapes
- Any other fresh fruit you prefer
- Toothpicks or wooden skewers
- You may also want to wear an apron; Alecia has made one and says the watermelon tends to spray when you hollow it out.

1.  Wash & dry the watermelon, then use permanent marker to draw the outline of a stroller on it.  Draw a large arch on one half of the longer side of the watermelon.  Instead of closing it with a line, draw humps (it reminds me of a curtain).

2.  Cut out the stroller using a sharp knife.  Some people like to create a handle for the stroller using this extra piece of watermelon.  It is optional.

3.  Hollow out the watermelon with a melon baller or spoon (judging by the size of most melon ballers, you’re probably better off using the spoon).  Save the fruit you hollowed!

4.  Cut the handle out of the extra piece of watermelon if you choose and attach it using skewers (not toothpicks, as the handle is heavy).  Cut four thin slices from an orange and attach them with toothpicks as wheels.  Place a grape on the edge of each toothpick in the center of each wheel.

5.  Slice up the rest of your fruit and any edible watermelon you have left over and fill it up!  You can even take an orange or mango and draw a sleeping baby face on it, so it looks like there is a baby inside!

I wish I would have had time to actually make a fruit stroller and take pictures for a better how-to, but I unfortunately blogged shortly after learning about a fruit stroller.  I will try to get around to making one and posting an article on our baby shower favors website featuring the pictures.

All my love <3 Kelsey