Purple Baby Shower Themes

Purple baby shower themes are on the rise, with more parents-to-be choosing to use this color than ever before. After all, purple is a powerful color associated with nobility, beauty, and elegance. It can also be gender-neutral, meaning it’s sometimes an appropriate color option for a baby of either gender. 

In this article, we’ll go through six awesome purple baby shower themes for boys and girls. If you are looking for exciting and original gender-neutral baby shower themes that aren’t overdone, these purple-inspired ideas will certainly not disappoint! 

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Lilac 

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Lilacs are beautiful pinkish-purple flowers known for their incredible scent. They are the perfect baby shower theme for parents who want a nature-inspired look that’s beautiful, fresh, and understated. This lovely purple baby shower theme could also be perfect for a little one born in spring.  

For decor, you’ll want to fill the baby shower venue with plenty of fresh lilac flowers. Try putting them in vases on the gifts table, dining tables, and more. 

For a sweet-smelling touch, try adding lilac-scented candles around the room. You can also get lilac soaps and lotions for the bathroom. 

Next, incorporate the pinkish-purple color of lilac flowers into your decor. You can use the color for your tablecloths, napkins, backdrop, and more. 

You can also use lilac-colored frosting on your desserts. To make your treats even more on-theme, consider getting a lilac-infused dessert, such as lilac donuts, ice cream, or cheesecake. Once you’ve selected your lilac dessert, add fresh flowers on top to create elegant baby shower treats

Another way to incorporate lilac into your baby shower is with lilac-themed drinks. Non-pregnant guests can partake in lilac cocktails, while the mom-to-be can drink delicious lilac lemonade. 

Koala Nighttime 

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Koala nighttime is an original purple baby shower theme perfect for animal lovers. Width a darker purple color palette and accents of grey, this theme leans more toward a gender-neutral aesthetic, meaning you could pick it for either a girl or a boy’s shower (or if you’re keeping the gender a surprise). It could also be ideal for someone hosting a party in the evening, who wants to create more of a nighttime theme.

Buy a purple backdrop, then add cutouts of stars and a moon to create a nighttime feel. You can also add cute images of sleeping koalas.

Next, decorate your home with koala-themed banners, table toppers, balloons, or any other adorable koala decorations you can find. 

You can also use koala stuffed animals as decorations. Stuffed koalas are adorable, cuddly, and super soft. They are both excellent decor items and cute gifts for your baby-to-be. Bonus points if you can find a purple stuffed koala!

Use purple icing on your cake and cupcakes to add more purple to your baby shower. Add cupcake toppers shaped like stars and sleeping koalas to make your nighttime koala theme really hit home.

Butterfly 

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Your little one is about to leave their “cocoon” and enter the real world. What better way to honor their metamorphosis than with a purple butterfly theme? 

You should start by getting a purple butterfly-themed backdrop. You can purchase one online or make your own by buying a plain purple backdrop and then adding butterfly cutouts. You can also hang a banner of butterflies across the top to make it look as though they are flying across the backdrop

Another beautiful decor idea is “butterflies in a jar.” To do this, you’ll add suspended purple butterflies or butterfly stickers and fairy lights inside a mason jar to create a magical centerpiece

For food, you can make purple butterfly-shaped cookies or add butterfly toppers to your cake and cupcakes to help your desserts “take flight.”  

Although butterflies are often associated with girls, you can easily make this theme unisex by incorporating lights, greenery, moss, and other natural decor items to give the shower a more woodland feel

Lavender 

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Lavender is a beautiful plant known for its fragrant purple blossoms. It’s also the inspiration for the color lavender – the beautiful light purple color that is elegant and calming. 

You can use the plant and the color as part of your baby shower decor to create a dreamy purple baby shower. 

Try placing lavender flowers in vases on your dessert, dining, and gifts table to make your baby shower smell amazing. You can also buy lavender-scented candles to make your house smell as wonderful as a field of lavender flowers. 

Next, buy lavender-colored tablecloths, backdrops, and balloons. If you don’t want a fully lavender-colored shower, feel free to incorporate light-colored accents that still feel fresh and natural, such as white or gray. 

If you want to give your guests a little thank-you gift for attending your baby shower, consider giving them lavender-scented candles, soaps, or lotions.

Royalty 

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Historically, purple dye was incredibly difficult to produce, so only people such as royals and the nobility could afford it. This is one of the reasons why purple is now associated with royalty and elegance. 

Hosting a royal purple baby shower for your little one could make them feel like a prince or princess from the day they are born! 

You can use royal purple tablecloths, napkins, and backdrops to make your baby shower feel luxurious. 

Another fun idea is to ask your party-goers to wear crowns. Make sure to get special crowns for the future parents-to-be. 

Gold accents look amazing with royal purple. So, feel free to add gold-colored plates, forks, cups, and table runners to bring your baby shower to the next level. 

For centerpieces, consider getting elegant vases filled with deep purple flowers. You can also add tall candles on elegant gold candle holders to make the centerpieces feel more rich and luxurious. 

Grape 

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Another cute, gender-neutral theme that revolves all around the color purple! Your little grape will feel like the sweetest in the bunch with this adorable purple baby shower theme. 

Fruit-themed baby showers are always sweet but can be overdone. A but a grape-themed shower is one of the lesser explored themes (unlike more popular choices like strawberries and cherries). This makes it a great choice for parents who are looking for something a little out of the ordinary. 

You can make grapes the centerpiece of your baby shower’s appetizer platter, along with cheeses, dried meats, and other fruits. You can incorporate grapes into your main courses, such as grape chicken salad, grape salad, or roasted chicken with grapes and rosemary. 

Your guests can drink grape-related drinks like red wine, a grape juice spritz, or some other form of grape mocktail. 

For decor, you can incorporate grape-colored balloons and tablecloths. Feel free to add grapes as part of your gift table’s centerpiece too! You can put them in baskets, bowls, or vases along with purple flowers. 

Do you love ancient Greek mythology? Then, you can give your grape theme a mythological spin by including white statues, golden leaves, togas, and Greek headbands. Purple really is an enchanting color, making for equally magical baby shower themes. But if you’d rather check out something different, we have a ton of inspiration in our theme gallery.

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Chelsea previously worked with special needs children before transitioning to her current passion, freelance writing. She’s written on a plethora of topics and enjoys the diversity of her work. In her free time, Chelsea enjoys hiking, creating artwork, and reading true crime.

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