• Use a wicker basket and fill it with baby items. You could put a cloth diaper, diaper pins, baby bottles, bibs, baby socks, pacifiers and other small baby items. Surround the basket with small candles or put a couple of helium balloons tied to the handle.
  
  
• If using a beach theme, use a beach bucket and place a flower arrangement inside, with candles around the outside. Or put small tools for the beach inside the bucket.
  
  
• Fill a small goldfish bowl with water and fill it with floating candles and flower buds. Or you might even add a goldfish to the water.
  
  
• Use votive holders and candles that match your theme. They will provide a soft type of illumination to the event.
  
  
• Go to a craft section or a craft store and purchase small pink and blue gemstones. You could
  
  
  place these in votive holders, or small glass vases of different sizes. Add shredded tissue to the mix and you will have another lovely baby shower centerpiece.
  
  
• You could get different glass figurines of a stork, swan, castle, teddy bear, or whatever would fit with the theme. Put them in a box filled with colored shredded paper and put the figurine on top. Any of these would be a great addition to your baby shower.
  
  
• Hang an umbrella from the ceiling filled with stuffed animals. Or you could put flowers inside and add balloons, dolls and/or ribbons.
  
  
• Fill a bucket, bowl, or basket with candy, small stuffed animals, or flowers.
  
  
• If the baby shower is in the fall or winter. Use small pumpkins, headstones, or leaves of different colors. Pumpkins could be made of tissue, or small figures of pumpkins.
  
  
• Tropical Themes could use many different items to make your baby shower center piece. Pineapples, tiki lights, small palm trees, hula dancer center piece, or a flamingo.
  
  
• Nautical themes could use small boats, ships, sailboats, anchors, or a treasure chest.
  
  
• Spring themes could include items such as hearts, leprechauns, or bunnies.
  
  
• Western themes could use straw, cowboy hats, cowboy boots, western badges and rope.
  

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