Nautical Baby Shower

Anchors away! Delight your guests and the mom-to-be with this nautical shower, featuring anchors, life perservers, and cheery blue and white decorations. Your guests can give their pregnant friend messages and tips in a bottle, and for desert, jello sailboats and swedish fish will be the perfect touch.

Guests can satisfy their sweet tooths with a simple bowl of swedish fish or other nautically themed candies.

Make blue Jell-O in clear plastic disposable glasses -- this will be the "water." Once the Jell-O is firm, use clementine sections, a toothpick, and "sails" made from white paper to create your boat.

Show off the gift collection with a treasure chest worthy of pirates.

The use of color alone will make your theme clear, but you can also create a banner, and use items like life preservers, lanterns, lighthouses, and anchors for more decorative touches. Who knows: you may even be able to locate some seafaring items like shells in your own home.

Get clear glass jars, and have guests write words of wisdom for the baby or advice for the mom-to-be on scraps of papers. Place the paper in jars.

What better favor for a nautical shower than a little pouch of lifesavers? You can personalize this with your label -- consider including the date or mom's name, as well as an image of an anchor, sailboat, or life preserver.