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Sprinkle Ice Cream Social Baby Shower

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A fun way to throw a simple backyard Ice Cream Social to “Sprinkle” the soon-to-be Mom, and baby, with gifts, ice cream treats, laughter, and of course L.O.V.E.!

Sprinkles Baby Shower

I love ANY excuse to throw a party! It’s a party for crying out loud! It means my little nest is going to be overflowing with people I love!

The minute I know I have an event that I’d like to plan a party for, my mind just takes off!  Like from zero to 150 mph! (It may be the only thing that works that fast anymore!)

How To Start Planning A Baby Shower

First thing I do for any event is to pick a theme. Picking a theme makes event planning much easier! It gives you direction. (Oh sure, you’re going to veer off the path!  I mean, sightseeing is part of the fun! Just remember, you’re going 150 mph so slooooow down!)

When our daughter told us she was pregnant, you had better believe I was at mach speed planning her baby shower! Zooooom!!!

I was forced to apply the breaks, so I could see if we were planning pink or blue! (Okay, I also had to apply the breaks because the hubs was going to have a heart attack with the thought of what it would cost him!) 

Once I knew pink was our color, the flag came down, and I knew exactly what I wanted to do!  Thankfully, I have a very easy-going daughter! I presented the idea of a “sprinkle” Ice Cream Social in our backyard! She loved the idea! Hooray!!! Zooom…

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To get started, I made these darling invitations (if I do say so myself!) to invite all of Taryn’s friends. I have a wonderful graphic design program called Print Master.

I found mine at Staples, it is also on Amazon. It’s a great program for creating all types of wonderful graphic design projects. I cut off the bottom for privacy reasons.

I think you can see how cute the theme worked for these invites. I put a small sticky rhinestone on top of the whipped cream! Every girl needs a little bling in her life!

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What to serve for refreshments at a Sprinkle Baby Shower!

I managed to stay on track with the theme for this party. I made banana split cupcakes from the wonderful blog, Your Cup of Cake. Click here to get the recipe. (Be careful, she has some amazing cupcake recipes on her site!) These turned out amazing! Super moist! The mix of banana, chocolate and strawberry flavor is wonderful! Plus, they’re just super fun! Don’t you want one? I know I do!

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I got my idea for the nutter butter cookies from Rose Bakes. To find the tutorial on her blog, just Click Here. They were so much fun to make and super easy. Who doesn’t love a fun, easy treat to serve to their guests?

I also made my famous red velvet cake balls (I like to think I’m more important than I am!) and turned them into mini ice cream cones. I have to be honest, these little gems were the STAR of this event! They were SO much fun to make! I felt like I was really dipping mini ice cream cones! (I promise to share the recipe really soon!)

 Last, of course, was the ice cream! We offered the option of making an ice cream sundae, an ice cream float or both! This WAS a PARTY!!

 We had a float station with old-fashioned bottled soda in a big bucket filled with ice.  Don’t forget the cute paper straws! There are so many adorable patterns and colors!  I just love them!

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We had an ice cream stand with all the condiments for ice cream sundaes. Who wouldn’t love to make a sundae with all those yummy options! I loved how festive it looked.

The best part of this shower was that all the food was prepared beforehand. I even pre-scooped all the ice cream. I placed the scoops on cookie sheets covered with wax paper, and put them back in the freezer.

When it was time to serve our guests, all we had to do was fill the buckets with the ice cream. It made it so much easier for everyone!  You don’t want to spend all your time in the kitchen, so don’t.

Sprinkle Baby Shower Ice Cream Bar Toppings

How to Decorate for a Sprinkle Baby Shower

I kept the centerpieces and the rest of the decor very simple.  I felt the ice cream bar was the focal point and everything else was just, well… “the cherry” on top!

For the centerpieces, I found glass sundae cups at a local thrift store. I filled them with fake paper pom-poms and a red pom-pom on top.  I used actual “sprinkles” on the tables and extra soda bottles.  

To make the baby shower banner I had a friend cut letters out with her cricket, then I glued them on white gift sacks and filled them with pink tissue paper. I bought some cute little baby girl clothes at the local thrift store. I glued bows onto clothes pins then hung everything on a line of jute.  I loved the way it turned out.

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I love when you are planning an event and everything comes together and turns out how you envisioned it.

We had a wonderful evening surrounded by so many of our friends and family!  I don’t think we could have asked for a more perfect evening.

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That evening when all the lights came on, and we were all gathered around watching Taryn open up her gifts, visiting and laughing, I just had to stand back and take it all in.  

I get all weepy, even now, just thinking about it. My backyard nest was just overflowing with love and laughter that night.  There is nothing better in this whole world!

If you throw a sprinkled baby shower please share it with me in the comment section below or on my Facebook page.  I’d love to hear from you. Happy Nesting!

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Carryl

Tuesday 4th of April 2023

Hi! Would you mind sharing your red velvet cake pop recipe? I love the ice cream cake pops!

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Wednesday 5th of April 2023

Hi Carryl! I don't mind at all...it's a really easy recipe. I use a Duncan Hines Red Velvet cake mix, make it according to the directions in a 9 x 13 pan. Let it cool. Crumble it all up in a large bowl. Then I place one container of store bought cream cheese frosting in the microwave for about 20-30 seconds, or until the frosting is melted and easy to pour. Pour that in the bowl with the cake crumbs. Form into balls (you may have to wash your hands a few times with warm water during this process) and place on a parchment lined baking sheet. Place in the freezer until frozen. You can dip them in white dipping melts OR you can place 1 cup of white chocolate chips and 1/2 a Tablespoon of vegetable oil in a microwave safe bowl in your microwave at 50% power for 60 seconds, check/stir, if needed do another 30 seconds until smooth and creamy. Then dip the frozen cake balls in the melted chocolate and place on top of mini ice-cream cones. Top with sprinkles and a red candy for the cherry. Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions. Norine

Betsy

Sunday 2nd of April 2023

I love this!! My daughter in law is pregnant with her second. I’m going to do this as her baby shower-“Sprinkle”. Where did you find the white ice bucket and the 2 pink buckets with the ice cream? Also, any list of where you found your supplies would be great!!!

Thank you!!!

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Monday 3rd of April 2023

Hi Betsy! I'm SO excited for you!! I found the white bucket at the Farm Store and spray painted it white. The pink buckets I found at a thrift store and spray painted them pink! I lined everything with plastic bags. The ice cream sundae glasses I found at the thrift store too for my condiments. I covered the whipped cream bottles with pink scrapbook paper found at JoAnn's. The mini ice cream cones I found at a local grocery store for the "cake pops". I found pink plates and pink glasses at the thrift store. I bought the fabric for the fun flag garland at JoAnn's and just created a pattern and sewed the flags and connected them with fabric binding. The old fashioned milk bottles with the caramel and fudge sauce were purchased at the dollar store. Hope this helps. This was my FAVORITE party of all time! I had so much fun with it. Congratulations to your family on the addition of your new little one. I hope you have a fun time celebrating! If I can help with anything else please let me know. Norine

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Thanks so much for the link-back to my Nutter Butter Ice Cream Treats tutorial! <3

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Tuesday 3rd of May 2016

You are so welcome! Thank you for the wonderful post and idea! The cookies were a huge success at our Sprinkles Baby Shower! Love your entire site and those CAKES! Wow!

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