Hot Air Balloon Baby Shower

If you are looking for a unique baby shower theme, you can't go wrong with a Hot Air Balloon baby shower! Any mom-to-be will love this boy baby shower with fun DIY decorations and favors! 

Bringing a new baby into the world is so exciting, who doesn't love to celebrate a new babe? We have such an an occasion coming up for my friend. While brainstorming, I came up with some reeeally fun boy baby shower themes and baby boy shower decorations. I decided that A Hot Air Balloon baby shower would be awesome.

We have a vintage hot air balloon decoration in my girls' room and that served as the inspiration. I borrowed it for the party, and made all of the other decorations with my Cricut Maker. I used mainly card stock and felt to make them, super inexpensive materials! 

Hot Air Balloon Baby Shower

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The 3D hot air balloon decorations were actually a project I found in Cricut Design Space, it's all ready to go for you. I love them so much. (Keep reading for full instructions.)

I also made the felt banner using the rotary blade! Then the last thing I made were the baby shower favors - hot air balloon lollipops. Obsessed is an understatement. 

I feel like hot air balloons and travel sort of go hand-in-hand so I thought the globe would be a good touch for a table decoration. These would be a nice touch for a travel themed baby shower, or a 'hello world' shower, it all works! 

Baby Shower Food

For party food, I always try to find cheap ways to feed a crowd. Donuts! Everyone likes donuts, they look amazing on a party table, and they are super inexpensive. I also love popcorn for the same reason. Have you seen this popcorn topping bar idea? It's a good one. 

Hot Air Balloon Decorations

As I mentioned, these 3D Hot Air Balloons are a Cricut Design Space project. When you open the project, the basic instructions are there. I am sharing the details, plus some further tips after some trial and error. 

One thing that the tutorial in Design Space doesn't specify, is that you will need a Scoring Wheel (only for the Cricut Maker) or a scoring stylus to score the paper in the right place. I also recommend using a LightGrip mat instead of a Standard Grip. It's easier on the card stock. 

Materials:

• Cardstock in 3 to 6 different colors
• Tacky glue
• String
• Wood skewers

Cricut Tools:

• LightGrip mat
• Scoring wheel or stylus

How to Make Hot Air Balloon Baby Shower Favors 

I found blue lollipops (similar to these) at the party store, and immediately had a VISION. I am so glad I figured out how to make them look like hot air balloons. It is really simple, you make paper pouches and glue a balloon basket onto it. Washi tape and baker's twine were added for extra detail. I just love how they turned out. 

For this project, I used the Scoring Wheel in the Cricut Maker. 

The pocket is #ME0EF1C  in Design Space. 

Quick note: The pocket image has a tag attached to it too. I just cut those too and plan to use them for gifts as needed. The hot air balloon basket is actually a full hot air balloon image that I cut the balloon off of. It works, haha! That image is actually a set, too, but for this I just used the bigger one, making it about 3 inches wide. 

Materials: 

• Cardstock in black and white
• Washi tape
• Baker's twine
• Lollipops
• Tacky Glue

Cricut Tools: 

• LightGrip mat
• Scoring wheel or stylus

Instructions: 

• Load card stock onto a LightGrip mat and cut envelopes. 
• Fold envelope on scoring lines and glue it with tacky glue.  
• Embellish with washi tape (if you want.)

• Next, cut the hot air balloon image - it's #M7931A5A in Design Space. Make the balloon diameter about the same size as your lollipop. Mine was 3 inches. 

• Cut the balloon part off of the basket, and glue the basket to the envelope.
• Slip the lollipop into the envelope, and add baker's twine around to finish it off!  

So easy, and I don't think I have ever seen a cuter baby shower favor! 

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I hope this inspires you for the next baby shower you get to host!