Many moms-to-be know the gender of their babies, making shopping for the perfect baby shower gift a little bit easier. You can eliminate all the flowered dresses, floppy kitten hats, and pink frilly socks if you know you are looking for a baby boy shower gift. Below is a list of boy baby shower gift ideas to help get your imagination going.
Outfits
Think about outfits with sports equipment, animal, or dinosaur prints. You might add in a few onesies or tee shirts in matching colors. Babies tend to dribble, so several color coordinated pieces will mean mom can peel off a messy shirt and replace it without having to completely change the baby. Also, a few pieces to layer under a special outfit are nice when the weather gets colder.
Dump truck gift basket
Use a large, yellow dump truck as the basket for a bunch of smaller goodies. Fill the bed with bath items, baby bottles, rattles or plush toys. You can follow a shower theme such as rocking horses or teddy bears with the items you choose. Mom can use the dump truck in the nursery as decoration until Junior is old enough to play with it.
Hats
Baseball style hats with or without designs are great and very necessary for a new baby. All major baseball, football, hockey, and basketball teams have their logo emblazoned on all kinds of baby hats and shirts. Ask the hostess for the family's favorite team and then jump online. Try to find one with ties so mom has a fighting chance of keeping it on baby's head.
Bathrobes
Cruise the internet for a few minutes and you will find tons of decorated bathrobes in boy themes. Hooded ones are the best for newborns and make bath time a snap. You have a wide choice of decorations from teddy bear ears to puppy faces on the hood and they are adorable.
Soft plush play sets
Several manufactures make sport bag play sets complete with matching soft balls. Totally safe for baby to chew on, these are great ways to let baby explore. Some examples of sets include farm animals in a barn bag and various sports balls in a gym bag. Check the tag or the listing to make sure they are made for babies and are without small parts that can be swallowed.
Bedding
Crib sheets are a great gift and they come in just about any design you can imagine. Try here to match the shower theme or the nursery. If that isn't possible, go with more masculine designs like balls, dogs, dinosaurs, or insects (cute ones, like inchworms). Babies stay in cribs for a few years, so crib sheets are a practical gift as well. You can also use these as wrapping for another gift.
Most of the traditional baby shower gifts like bottles, rattles, outfits, and blankets really aren't all that gender specific. For baby boy shower gift ideas, the same items that work for a little girl will be appropriate if purchased with a more masculine theme. Blue is the traditional color for baby boys, so a package of receiving blankets with blue, green and white is perfect. Some characters, like cowboys and puppies are considered more boyish. Adding a few items with these types of characters will give any gift a more boyish tone. Silver spoons, baby bath products, and diapers are all unisex and can be personalized with a single boy item that ties in with the shower theme.
Ask salespeople, relatives and friends what they would consider the ideal boy baby shower gift. Also check anywhere the new mom is registered. Then look online at all the choices you have. This could be a huge time saver if you aren't sure what you are looking for. Selecting a baby boy shower gift should be a ton of fun. There will probably be so many things to choose from that narrowing your choices will be the hardest part.
