Update: Meleka was kind enough to send over a copy of her {amazing} quiz! Download it here!
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Inspired by the joy of classic children’s books, Meleka of MMJ Events created a whole baby shower centered around a collection of everyone’s childhood favorites.
All the inspiration for the food, drinks, and desserts were taken from each children’s classic book ranging from Milk and Cookies (If You Give a Mouse a Cookie), Green Deviled Eggs (Green Eggs and Ham), Meatballs (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs), Pink Lemonade (Pinkalicious), Moon Pies (Goodnight Moon), just to name a few. Each table was cleverly decked out with it’s own book theme. I’m loving the “Corduroy” table which happens to be one of my favorite children’s books. As a gift, the guests were encouraged to bring their favorite childhood book to share with the mother-to-be and in lieu of a card to write an inscription in the book to both mother and baby.
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PARTY DETAILS, as told by Meleka…
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When I originally spoke with Megan, we knew we wanted to have the guest bring their favorite book as a child with their message inside instead of a card. When thinking about this, I decided to take it a step further and have the whole party be centered around children’s books.
I spend some time at the library going through all the books I enjoyed as a child. Seeing the cover of a book I haven’t thought about in 20 years brought a big smile to my face. I checked out 20+ books and went to work. The inspiration for the food and dessert table all came from details from these old school books. We tested the guests memory with a quiz from 20 of the all time best children’s book.
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VENDOR CREDITS:
– Styling: MMJ Events
– Photography: Henry Photography
– Paper: Top That Designs
– Cake: Enticing Icings
– Linens: Connie Duglin
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I love your blog post about this – it’s the same theme I’m doing for my girlfriend’s baby shower. Could I please get a copy of the quiz you used? Also can you tell me about the carrots you did. I’m intrigued!! Thanks!
MMJ Events SAYS:
Carrots and Hummus with a cut at the top with broccoli
Please email me a copy of the quiz. We are throwing a book themed baby shower and would love to use as a game…Thanks so much:)
Love it! Could you please share the place you ordered invitations from for the party or a PDF of the invitation if possible? Thank you! You could email it to me at kjdoherty1@yahoo.com
Im planning my baby shower around the same theme, but im stuck on a simple invitation idea, any suggestions?
Would you be so kind as to email me a copy of the quiz? Thanks!!
This is INCREDIBLE! Thank you for sharing. I wish I had seen this when I had my first baby. I would have loved my sister for throwing me this shower. :)
Hello, you have nailed this theme and I am so happy I found you. I was wondering where you got the the little pots for the carrots and hummus. Thanks for your time.
Being a cake decorator and on the library board; ideas are clicking.
Susan J Walker Haemker SAYS:
Fits right into the Summer Reading theme. Let me know what you will do, or share on here what you did!
Love this idea. Our cake maker would not do the cake due to copywrite, so how did you get around that? And where may I go to get a copy of the quiz? Any other game ideas that went over well at your party?
I love all of the ideas! Could you email me a copy of the quiz as well? Thanks!!
Can you email me a copy of the quiz? Thanks!
Loved this idea! Thank you for sharing. btw what book was used for the pasta salad?
Hi I love this theme! Where can I download or buy or whatever the tags for the food?
Great Idea! Could I have a copy of the quiz?
Please send me a copy of the quiz!! I love this idea and I want to have the same shower in August! Thanks