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8 Food Ideas for a Storybook Baby Shower – Kate Aspen

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Need a fun spin on a traditional baby shower? Throw a storybook baby shower where the possibilities are endless! One idea we absolutely love: a book-inspired menu. Spark your creativity with these eight ideas to whip up a variety of delicious eats! 1. If You Take a […]

1. If You Take a Mouse to the Movies

If you take a mouse to the movies, you definitely need popcorn! This book by Laura Numeroff, along with several other great stories by the same author, are fantastic inspirations for themed baby shower food. Go savory with traditional buttered popcorn or sweeten up the spread with dark chocolate caramel popcorn.

2. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Today’s forecast: cloudy with a chance of meatballs! Cook some delectable meatballs for an easy main course.

3. If You Give a Dog a Donut

Want to spend less time in the kitchen and more time hosting? Pick up several frosted and sprinkle-covered donuts for a sugar-coated snack.

4. Green Eggs and Ham

Green Eggs and Ham is a fun and classic children’s book! Instead of scrambled eggs, make deviled eggs with a touch of green food coloring and sprinkled bacon on the top.

Party Tip: Ask guests to bring a signed book instead of a card for the parents-to-be! The stories will be treasured for a long time to come.

5. Goodnight Moon

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.” This classic by Margaret Wise Brown is another fabulous classic. Create yummy sandwiches in the shape of crescent moons with croissants. Prefer a dessert? Arrange Moon Pies® either in or out of their wrappers on a pretty plate.

6. If You Give a Cat a Cupcake

“If you give a cat a cupcake, he’ll ask for some sprinkles to go with it.” Make all your guests happy with different flavored cupcakes (with or without sprinkles)! You can cheat with this treat and buy them from your local supermarket.

Party Tip: Elevate simple store-bought cupcakes with DIY cupcake wrappers or little party flags!

7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Add a few healthy options to the dessert table with a colorful fruit platter. Construct your own “Very Hungry Caterpillar” using half an apple for a head, blueberries on toothpicks for the antennae, almonds for feet, and multi-colored fruit for the body.

8. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is the original in the series of books by Laura Numeroff. Bake your favorite cookies for some homemade indulgences or purchase a crowd-pleasing flavor at the grocery store. We love these custom-made elephant-shaped cookies that double as favors!

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Photography: Alyssa Renee Photography | Cupcakes: Confections Cupcakery | Popcorn: The Popcorn Bag

Do you have more creative food ideas for a storybook-themed baby shower? Share it in the comments below!

Happy Planning!

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Book inspired baby shower - C.

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I did a version of this baby shower almost a year ago, and I called it B is for baby, book, bloggers and brunch! <—Click for deets! I utilized the same printables from Love the Day, but this time I really played up the book theme and got rid of the blogger thing! I also love that the book theme can inspire an entire menu!

Let’s start with food, here are some book inspired baby shower food ideas:

If You Give a Cat a Cupcake: Cupcakes
Green Eggs and Ham: Mini quiches with eggs and ham or deviled eggs with green food coloring or the super easy cookies in the picture above
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Fruit skewers
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Crock pot meatballs
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish : Rainbow goldfish and Swedish fish
Sylvia’s Spinach: Spinach artichoke dip and tortilla chips
If You Give a Moose a Muffin: Muffins (Store bought is A-ok!)

Psst: Those are Amazon Affiliate links to the kids books!

You can buy the kid books that go with the food and gift them to the mom to be or you can also just print out covers and frame! Either way, books make for fun, colorful decorations and a great baby shower menu. I used these little green egg and ham cookies as little treats on the coffee table.

As for decorations, I made a backdrop out of book pages! Y’all, this is super, super easy to make. Find a book you don’t mind destroying and rip 60 pages out of it. Use Scotch tape and tape 6 pages together to make a vertical strip. I used 6 pages per strip and made 10 strips. Then, I just taped each strip to the underside of the window molding. Easy peasy. You can see the full window view here. The B and BABY flags, the cupcake toppers, and the water bottle wrap arounds are all from this etsy store. I whipped up a “IS FOR” sign with some white printer paper and my handy dandy scissors.

I’m a fan of bottled water at parties. It’s easy!

The guest book we used for book baby shower is greatness! My friend, Amanda, makes guest books where each person can color in their own character! It worked out really well for our book theme. I had each guest write their favorite children’s book in the space provided. I was so impressed with how much time each guest took to color in the persons outfit, hair, and jewelry! It was a really fun activity to have and an awesome keep sake for the mama to be! (See all of Amanda’s creative guest books in her etsy shop, Forever Heyday!)

The other activity we did was the baby book quiz! You can download this free baby shower game and find the answers in this post.

As for favors, we kept it simple and book themed. I used Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

as inspiration!

What is your fave baby shower theme? Favorite baby shower game? If you’re looking for more fun baby shower ideas be sure to check out the beach baby shower, little man baby shower, a vintage bird baby shower, and 6 fun baby shower games that everyone will love.

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The 10 Best Cookbooks for Kids

Your child has already grown up - and you are thinking about interesting activities that you could do together? We invite you to go to the kitchen and try cooking. With any of the books below, you will not only be able to instill a new skill in your child, but also broaden your horizons, and most importantly, become even closer.

1. "Castor bakes a pie", Lars Klinting

Somebody, but Castor the beaver knows how to inspire. Following his example (and clear instructions), kids around the world are trying to grow beans on the windowsill and carefully work with paints. And in this book, a cute and good-natured beaver will teach us how to bake a pie. Here is a step-by-step recipe, and a description of how to organize the process, and beautiful illustrations. You will see, even a three-year-old kid resolutely goes to the kitchen to try himself as a cook.

2. “Cooking with Petson and Findus”, Sven Nordqvist

The stories about the distracted old man Petson and his mischievous kitten Findus are so charming that it is absolutely impossible not to fall in love with them. And so the book of recipes from their favorite characters, children will also like it. The recipes here are grouped by season, and each season begins with a short story about the adventures of Petson and Findus. Each recipe contains another small story from the life of heroes associated with this particular dish. There will even be an excerpt about the famous meatballs :) The instructions are all simple, the ingredients are available, the step-by-step description of the process is detailed. Older children will be able to cook on their own, and for those who are younger, join yourself, the process is exciting!

3. “Mom, give me an apron!”, “Mom, give me an apron! and pencil”, Katerina Dronova

Heartfelt recipe books that the author wrote especially for her son. She explains how to make scrambled eggs, vanilla pancakes and much more in a completely simple and understandable language. In the first book, the recipes are collected according to the principle “from simple to complex”: there is a section “Home Alone” with quick dishes, and there is a section “Attention: guests!” with more complex instructions that will have to tinker with.

The recipes in the second book are divided by season: in the summer we will learn how to bake a blueberry raspberry pie and make green lemonade, in the fall we will learn pumpkin waffles, in the winter we will make gingerbread cookies, and in the spring we will learn cottage cheese cake. In addition, in the book you can write, draw, color and even cut out: for example, a Nutcracker bookmark, with which we will later mark our favorite recipes. Both books have wonderful pencil illustrations.

4. “What's the neighbor having for lunch”, Felicita Sala

“We are all so different” is often heard around. Different nationalities, different traditions, different habits. But what does this mean for a child? The book by the Italian artist Felicita Sala will help to explain the charm of this diversity in a very visual and fascinating way - through food. Our world is a big house in which we live together with our neighbors. From the window of each of our neighbors comes a special smell - the smell of his favorite dish. Señora Leila cooks tomato spaghetti, Mr. Singh tastes his dal with coconut milk, and Mrs. Greenpie bakes delicious mini quiches. And now it's time to go downstairs and have dinner together... In general, a wonderful book that not only teaches you how to cook (and the recipes here are simple and interesting), but also respect a foreign culture and make friends with your neighbors.

5. Little Chef. Easy recipes for the whole family, by Teri Eleanor

A small but very beautiful book of simple recipes for young chefs. Do you want to have fun with your child and cook something unusual - something that we are used to, rather, order in a cafe? Croque Monsieur in Italian, for example, or chocolate mousse. "Little Chef" will help! Each recipe has notes which of the items the child can do on their own, and in which cases it is worth calling the parents for help.

6. “Pie Science for Children”, Irina Chadeeva

Is your child not eager to cook? Give him this book in his hands, and in half an hour he himself will lead you to the kitchen. After all, inside there are beautiful illustrations, entertaining puzzles and experiments, and most importantly, the secrets of cooking all the most delicious things in the world: truffles, muffins, Potato cake and real chocolate cake! The recipes are written in a simple and accessible language, besides, the book contains a lot of accompanying photographs, very lively and cheerful. An additional plus is a description of safety precautions in the kitchen, as well as many “technical” processes (why milk escapes, how dough is made from flour, etc.). In general, a wonderful book for a great evening with a child and an oven!

7. "We eat like in a fairy tale: Recipes for every day from your favorite children's books", Tatyana Alekseeva

We offer you to add some fabulous magic to the cooking process! Wouldn't the child want to cook the same meatballs that Little Carlson treated him to? And the same orange marmalade that Paddington Bear loves? Or even the gingerbread house from Hansel and Gretel? All the most delicious recipes from all the most beloved fairy tales are now collected in one book. A great tool for joint culinary creativity of children and parents.

8. “Alone at home. Cooking without Mom and Grandmother, Meshcheryakova Publishing House

Another excellent recipe book for young cooks with unpretentious, “homemade” dishes and simple recipes. An older child will be able to master many dishes on their own: various sandwiches, omelettes and cereals. Others will have to be mastered under supervision: there is chicken in the oven, and meatballs in sour cream sauce, and even herring under a fur coat - for true connoisseurs of the classics!

9. “How is the food? A Guide to Tasty and Healthy Food”, Maria Mazur, Alexandra Ulatovska

Not quite a cookbook, but rather an encyclopedia of food. Very accessible and humorous, she tells the younger generation about the principles of a healthy diet, about the delights of vegetables and fruits, and the important habit of drinking water. Such an actual manual will help to navigate the abundance of food not only for children, but also for many adults.

10. "The Secret Life of Vegetables: Funny Stories, Tasks and Experiments", Alena Vodopyanova

Surely you liked this book already by its title – after all, we are talking about funny stories and experiments with vegetables, but what better way to make a child fall in love with healthy foods? A very witty, very exciting, and even beautifully designed edition with a lot of useful information (for example, about proteins, vitamins and fiber) definitely deserves attention. Assess the titles of the parts of the book: "The Case of the Dying Vegetables (investigated by Cherry Holmes and Dr. Tomatson)" and "Vacation in Borschelon". What about experiments? Get ready to dye cabbage leaves and cook purple scrambled eggs!

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Children about food.

5 Best Children's Books on Nutrition

June 1 is International Children's Day. This holiday is intended to remind that children, like other people, have rights - to life, security, self-expression and others - and that it is the responsibility of adults to observe these rights. We, as the country's main organic publication, care most about preserving the health of the younger generation. And we propose to discuss how to form in children an idea of the relationship between health and food and proper eating habits - with the help of books.

Modern parents no longer agree to feed their children through I don't want products that the pediatrician "prescribed". There is a sea of information and opportunities today: pediatric or pedagogical complementary foods, cereals, juices, or - oh my God! - bone broth as a first food, at what age to add salt and sugar to food, whether to decide on intuitive nutrition and, reluctantly, wait for the child to eat rolls and intuitively reach for fish - and a million more questions in which responsibility again falls take over.

As always, personal example works best when parents themselves have a healthy relationship with food and eat high-quality fresh food at home. And in addition to this, it's great to read books with children about food - about where it comes from, how to cook properly, what actually happens inside us with a swallowed piece of carrot or a sip of milk, and how food affects well-being. From a wide variety, we have chosen 5 books - get acquainted!

"Meet the zucchini", Natalia Volkova, ed. "Walking into history"

The first book on the list so directly and calls to get acquainted with the most popular vegetables, fruits and berries. On each spread there is a history of origin, a mention in children's literature (from "Turnip" and "Chippolino" to "Cinderella" and "Snow White"), interesting facts (they learned to grow potatoes in space) and a portrait in verse. The next time you offer your child a previously unloved vegetable, try to trump with the information that the cucumber is a relative of the sweet melon - the chances that the child decides to try it increase significantly! The book can be read with children from the age of two.

Everything is delicious. About favorite and unloved food, the smell of pies, snacks and various yummy things, Anke Kuhl and Alexandra Maksiner, ed. "Melik-Pashayev"

My favorite! A sea of life facts from the world of edibles: why some people don’t eat beef, others don’t eat pork, and still others eat only plants, what Ayana from Northern Ethiopia and Elsa from southern Germany eat for breakfast, and even a comparison of the quality of products from an organic and ordinary farm. While reading, there are many reasons to talk about related topics - about geography, ecology, anatomy - and about the fact that all people are very different and there is food and company for everyone to their liking. We read from three years to infinity, delving into the question of interest.

“Tasty story. Journey of fruits and spices from distant lands, Dimitri Delma, Guillaume Reinard, Ed. Walking into History

Another food-related book from Walking into History for middle school children. It turns out that many of our favorite drinks and spices became available to us thanks to the first brave travelers, and because of them whole wars and upheavals unfolded! This book is an occasion to reflect on the value of familiar foods and try something more exotic for children like nutmeg or breadfruit. And as you know, the more varied the diet, the greater the health benefits.

"Tim's adventures in the world of bacteria", Masha Kosovskaya, Dima Alekseev, Alla Tyakht, Sasha Tyakht, ed. Clever

Strictly speaking, this book is not about food. This is the first book on today's trendy topic - the microbiome - addressed to children. Very clearly, with the help of infographics, children will learn what microorganisms are, where exactly and why they live inside our body, and how to improve their health with the help of friendly bacteria. Of course, we couldn’t get around the topic of nutrition, and it turned out that when choosing what to eat and what it’s better to stay away from, we should think not only about ourselves, but also about our many micro-inhabitants. More fiber, less sugar - these are no longer empty words that mom and dad repeat with enviable regularity, but valuable advice based on facts.

Cookbooks of favorite characters

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Finally, there are cookbook volumes in several book series at once. For example, this is the "Big Cookbook of Gorodok". Author and illustrator of popular Wimmelbuchs (books to look at) about Zimnyaya Gorodok. "Spring", "Summer" and "Autumn" books Suzanne Rotraut Berner co-wrote a cookbook with nutritionist Dagmar von Kramm. Familiar characters cook simple seasonal dishes from fresh ingredients, they don't always turn out perfectly, but they smile and keep experimenting! Very inspiring for kids to try their hand at the kitchen.

Several recipes that accompany exciting stories can also be found in the book "Karlchen Plays and Learns". Books about Karlchen the rabbit was my daughter's first favorite book series at 2 years old, the authority of familiar characters helps to persuade me to try something that without the "legend" the child would definitely refuse.