Being a sports fan, you undoubtedly have your favorite teams, team mascots, and types of sports that you enjoy watching or participating in most. It's only natural that you would want to combine your love of the game with the love of your lifetime; your newborn baby. By announcing the birth of your child using a sports theme, you can passionately express your joy by marrying an old love to your new one.
Soccer, basketball, baseball, football, hockey, volleyball, golf, tennis, swimming, cheerleading, and more all have the potential to make a wonderful starting point for any sports-themed birth announcement. By picking a favorite sport to use, you'll create a strong theme that will help to enhance your baby's birth announcement.
Whenever we think of birth announcements, our minds naturally think of retail cards with the handwritten addition of basic birth information: baby's full name, time and date of birth, length, weight, place of birth, and parents' names. While these announcements come in many designs and are relatively inexpensive, they are also lacking in creative interest and personalization. Other alternatives for sports announcement birth declarations exist, and are well worth considering.
Using the sport of baseball as an example, consider these options:
Personalized Sports Balls: A baseball with your baby's name and date of birth printed directly on the baseball. These can be done by promotions companies. Team logos or colors can be used to enhance the design. There is generally a minimum order of $250 for this service, but you can't beat the unique keepsake appeal. This type of announcement works well with any type of sports involving a ball, and can also be printed on a hockey puck or on pens shaped like a baseball bat or a hockey stick.
Trading Cards: Trading cards with the baby's photo, a team logo, and team colors on the front, and the baby's vital statistics on the back. Local printers and online retailers offer this service and it can be used with any sports theme. You can also find software for your home computer that will enable you to design and print trading cards. Downloadable clipart and borders are available to enhance your trading card design. Costs for this type of sports announcement vary widely dependent upon whether you have them made or make them yourself. The latter option is generally much less expensive, and fun to do!
Do-It-Yourself Announcements: You can use handmade, traditional greeting card-style birth announcements, using sports-themed clipart and borders, your baby's photograph, baseball-themed embellishments, and specialty craft papers to make a beautiful sports themed birth announcement to mail to friends and family. This can be done using any sports theme and can be as elaborate or as simple as you want it to be. Take a trip to a local craft store and, while gathering supplies, take a look at craft books and talk to other people in the store. Costs for this project are dependent upon how many birth announcements you are making and what supplies you decide to use. Also consider postage costs associated with this type of announcement.
Candy Bar Sports Theme: Consider a candy bar wrapper with a baseball theme, announcing your baby's birth. A photo of the baby, combined with a team logo, baseball clipart, the baby's vital statistics, and date of birth can all be printed on wrappers that you either purchase or make yourself from a template. Any sports theme will work for this type of announcement, and costs vary. For commercially produced labels, the minimum cost is generally $50 for 50 wrappers, and this does not include the candy that will be used with it. If you do it yourself, your costs are minimized and your design is one of a kind.
Sports Newspaper Page: A newspaper sports page, starring your baby! This type of announcement will also work with all other sports themes, and can be done on your home computer with the use of word processing and photo software. By using a template that looks like a newsletter or newspaper design, you can add your baby's photo, creative stories about the baby, baby clipart, and borders, then print or email the announcement to send to friends and family. Costs for this fun project are minimal.
For a unique way to share the thrill of your baby's birth with sports fans everywhere, consider a sports-themed birth announcement. Friends and family will let out a cheer, and they'll welcome the new player to the game with love, friendship and a joyous display of team spirit.