BABY SHOWER IDEAS:

BABY SHOWER INVITATION IDEAS:

• Roll up an invite and place inside a baby bottle and mail the bottle to each guest

• Trim card stock into the shape of a baby’s bib with the invite info on the front of bib and the top of invite, tie a pink or blue ribbon

BABY SHOWER DECORATION IDEAS:

• Hang a clothesline and hang various things with clothespins like onesies, socks, clothing, bibs, gowns – or you could cut out in block letters to spell out the babies name and hang each letter on a clothespin and hang over the table

• Have each guest come dressed in pink (if a girl) or blue (if a boy) – it looks great in pictures!

• If the guest-of-honor already has their bassinet – use that as a focal point in the shower to hold all of the guests – place in a corner of the room and hang tulle from the ceiling wit gifts flowing out of it and pm the ground around it

• Float rubber duckies in the punch bowl

• Use pictures of the pregnant mom-to-be as decoration on your main table

• Set out a meal delivery sign-up sheet for any guests that are willing to bring a meal for the new mom – be sure to ask for phone #’s and you will need to call to schedule and organize with guest-of-honor

BABY SHOWER GAME IDEAS:

• Provide baby onesies for each guest along with cardboard to slide through the middle and provide fabric paints and have each guest decorate a onesie for the baby – whoever has the most creative – wins! Mom receives the onesies once they dry

• Have a purse scavenger hunt – have a list of items (the most odd has more points awarded) and everyone can dig through their purses to see how many points they can collect

• If the guest-of-honor is a scrapbooker, have small scraps of cute paper out at your table and have everyone write advice to the mom-to-be – or if she is not into scrapbooking, buy a nice journal and have everyone write in the journal. The guest-of-honor can read each person’s advice before opening each guests’ gift

• Pass around a spool of ribbon and have the guests cut a strip by guessing the amount of ribbon that will go around the pregnant belly – the person closest wins

• Don’t say Baby! – give everyone a clothespin (or 2 or 3) and if anyone says “Baby” during the shower and someone else catches them, then they have to give their clothespin to the person who caught them – whoever has the most pins by the end of the shower wins (Variation: Don’t cross anything on your body! – you can’t cross your arms, legs, hands or ankles and if anyone catches you, you have to give up your clothespin)

• Have each guest place a piece of paper on their heads and have each guest try to draw a picture of a baby and they have 30 seconds to do it! Whoever can draw the best baby picture wins!

• Purchase 6-8 jars of baby food and remove the labels off of each – label each jar with a # at the bottom and have a master sheet for the host to keep of each jar # and what the flavor is – have each guest try to guess by smelling each baby food jar – whoever gets the most correct wins

• Pass out blank cards to each guest with an envelope labeled 1 through …. (# of guests) and have each guest write a birthday card for the year on their envelope to the baby that is coming – the mom can keep as a keepsake and for the baby to open throughout their life

• Type out the ABC’s on a sheet of paper and have each guest write out a word that has to do with a baby and begins with that letter of the alphabet – whoever comes up with the most words within a designated time limit wins

• Play a celebrity baby name game – try to guess the baby name to the celebrity – whoever gets the most correct wins – you can find lists of celebrity baby names on numerous websites

• Split the shower up into groups and have each group write down as many songs that have the word “Baby” in it that they can

• Pass out fill-in-the-blank sheets with Baby Weight, Date of Birth, Time of Birth and Baby Length and keep until the baby’s birth and see who guessed the closest

• Tradition says the 7th gift the guest-of-honor opens is the next person to get pregnant!

• Take the babies name and type out on the top of a sheet of paper – have each guest come up with as many words as they can with the letters within the name – set a time limit

• Ask each guest to bring a baby picture of themselves, as the guests arrive, take the picture and lay out in a central location and have the guests try to guess the baby picture to the guest

• Pre-purchase the guest-of-honors thank-you cards and place the envelopes to the cards on the main table and have each guest write their name and address on each envelope and place in a basket, towards the end of the shower, have the guest-of-honor draw a name from the basket for a small door prize – after the shower, she will have all of thank you cards already addressed!

BABY SHOWER FAVOR IDEAS:

• Take a large, square cocktail napkin, fold in ½, corner to corner – then fold all 3 corners together and glue so the tips are slightly overlapping. Then use plastic pink or blue safety pins (found at your local craft store baby shower section) and hot glue to the front and it is a little diaper! You can put candies or Hershey kisses inside and give as favors

• Give out pink or blue bracelets and attach a tag on it to be a reminder to pray for the baby when the guest ever wears it

• Pass out packets of seeds like “Baby Blue Eyes”or “Baby’s Breath” with a tag attached noting that it symbolizes Life

• Wrap Hershey kisses in tulle rounds and tie off with a thank-you tag

• Give out small picture frames and print off the baby sono pic and place in each frame as a thank you

• Use empty baby food jars and fill with pink or blue m&m’s and hot glue an artificial flower to the lid