See more at Halfpint Design. There's no need to serve a full meal at your celebration. A buffet of sweet treats—especially bite-size—will be satisfying. See more at Everyday Reading. See more at This Vivacious Life. Metallic balloons look much more sophisticated than the latex alternative. Plus, you can spell out anything you'd like. See more at Creative Wife and Joyful Worker. Sorry, this "dessert" actually isn't edible—but it doubles as a stunning centerpiece and a nice gift for the future mom!
See more at Hostess With the Mostess. You don't have to go overboard with the theme. This Minnie Mouse-inspired party features understated—and utterly stunning—items.
See more at 12th and White. Get the bubbly flowing with Champagne, various juices, and fruit for guests set some sparkling water aside for the mom-to-be!
Get the tutorial at Crisp Collective. Blue Kool-Aid gives this punch the look of bath water while a mix of sherbet and ginger ale ensures there are plenty of "bath bubbles. Get the tutorial at Tidy Mom. Get the tutorial at Grateful Prayer Thankful Heart. Create a "Ready To Pop" bar where guests can help themselves to butter, caramel, cheddar, and other fun toppings. Get the tutorial at Pretty Providence. Here's a finger-lickin' fun idea for a baby shower theme!
Courtney Whitmore, author, creative stylist and digital influencer at Pizzazzerie. See more of this adorable baby shower. An irresistibly sweet assortment of retro-inspired decor and containers serves up the most adorable baby shower theme. As either self-serve favors or a candy bar, elevate bulk candy by decanting it in handsome jars wearing old-school labels.
Download our PDF of six different labels, including this one, here. Print onto card stock and cut out the labels. Then use an X-Acto knife to create slits, as shown, and slide a ribbon through the slits for hanging. Bright centerpieces in varied shades of pink make a bold statement: It's a girl! A few budget-friendly blooms that come in shades of pink include lisianthus, carnations, and ranunculus. Hosting a shower for baby boy? Try casual arrangements of bluebonnets, hydrangeas, or blue sweet peas.
If the weather's nice, consider a backyard picnic decorated with paper lanterns. Green and blue dominate the color palette for an outdoor "boy" baby shower.
Sure, flat platters and trays will serve food, but they certainly won't display it. For a festive food spread, entertaining expert Amy Atlas ups the visual drama by varying heights, like the footed compote and cake stand at left. Keep the decor simple with fabric banners in playful colors and bouquets of flowers handpicked from the garden. Give cake stands get a new purpose by placing colored floral domes on them. Ask guests to write down a parenting saying or piece of advice that they associate with their mom or dad on a slip of paper.
It should be short. Then, put all the slips in a bowl, mix them up, and let everyone draw one making sure no one draws her own saying. Have fun guessing who wrote each saying, and whether she would say it to her own child. Ask your shower guests to decorate an egg to look like a baby, using paints, food coloring, or other decorations. The spoon can be held by hand or between the teeth, and the race can be a standard point-to-point race or a relay race.
This game may be best for outdoor baby showers but can be done indoors if you have a large indoor area that tolerates spills. Play with hardboiled eggs to avoid messy breaks! Small plastic babies, one for each guest you can get these from a party store. For a unique baby shower game, place the plastic babies in the ice tray, pour water over them, and freeze the night before. When the guests arrive, remove the babies from the ice tray and put an ice baby in each person's drink.
The first who calls it wins. Give everyone a baking cup and a few different colored pieces of dough, and set a timer for 15 minutes. The aim of the game is to see who can create the cutest dough baby in the given time.
You can make things fun by adding plastic knives, pencils, or anything else that can help your guests get artistic. Of course, mom decides the winner. Split the guests up into teams of four or five, and give each guest a balloon. Then, the second person must blow up a balloon and stick it under her shirt and so on until all the team members have balloons under their shirts. Then, using a pin, the first person must pop her own balloon through her shirt, and then the second person does the same, and so on.
The first team to pop all the balloons wins the game. Assemble your baby shower guests in teams of the same number, and have each team stand in line. Each team should begin with its baby doll wearing a diaper and wrapped in a receiving blanket.
When you give the word to start, the first person in line in each team changes the diaper, removing the blanket and diaper, wiping the doll's bottom with a baby wipe, putting another diaper on, and rewrapping the doll in the blanket.
Then the doll is handed to the next team member for changing, and the diaper changer goes to the back of the line. When everyone on a team has changed the doll's diaper once, that team has won. Have each participant blow up at least one balloon and place it under her shirt to make the "baby.
You can give prizes for the most twisted pose, most balloons carried under the shirt, and the least number of popped or dropped balloons. Let the mom-to-be sit in a chair and be the judge while enjoying the fun. Make two or three little clotheslines — you can either prop them up on sticks or have one or two members of each team hold the ends of the string.
Split your guests into competing teams, set a timer, and have them hang up as many diapers as possible. The team with the most diapers on the line wins. Cut down on the baby shower prep by downloading and printing our games here , but read on for more inspiration. Before the party, print out our baby bingo sheet and give one to each guest. Hand each guest a card, which should be unique for everyone with a different combination of gifts.
Then, as the mom-to-be opens her gifts, guests can mark off any items received with a sticker or cross it out with a pen. The first guest to complete a row, column, or diagonal wins!
Pictures of baby items cut from a catalogue or printed out — they can even be from the mom-to-be's registry wish list. Lay out the pictures of the baby-related items, and give your guests a pen and paper. You can pick up each item and give a description and have your guests write down a price as a guess. The guest to get the closest price without going over gets a gift. Include eco-friendly and skin-safe baby products such as Organic Hydrating Cream and Organic Micellar Water , both made with olive oil and aloe.
A baby shower is a celebration of life. By that definition, then, should you only celebrate the first-born child? Of course not. Maybe the second or third time around, you plan an intimate brunch with only the girls. The parents-to-be most likely have everything they need anyway, so just go and have fun. Remember, a baby shower is about two things: gifts and conversations.
So, to help you plan the best get-together possible, here are 19 ideas for an in-person baby shower. Keep scrolling down. In all honesty, a baby shower can be whatever the mommy-to-be and her friends find enjoyable. Use the baby shower ideas below to get your creativity flowing.
If you choose to go this route, consider things like:. If the weather is right, take the party outside. Fire up the grill and plan some outdoor-only games, like a water-balloon toss or frisbee golf course. Going the catering route can keep the event sophisticated but fun. Looking for a super simple way to throw a baby shower? Invite everyone to a buffet. In that case, throw a just-for-mom shower, focusing on gifts for her!
After all, pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting take a toll on a woman and her body. Every mom deserves some extra TLC! Tell guests the plan for the shower and ask them to bring a gift for the lady of the hour. These could be for her to use now like maternity pajamas or Soothing Moisturizing Balm or later like a gift certificate for house-cleaning services or Nursing Comfort Balm.
Sounds relaxing. Gather the girls and head out for a day at the salon, where everyone gets the full beauty treatment. Instead of choosing a theme that dictates decorations and dress, why not shake things up and pick a theme for the gifts?
Our favorites are diapers and skincare. Guests can bring gifts that fall under this theme. Things like:. Other themes we love include books every guest brings a book for the new baby , clothes, and pajamas. Remember the tea parties you held when you were a child? Now you can do one for real. Then bring out the china, tea sandwiches, and pretty teapots and teacups!
And if a tea party sounds like a great baby shower idea but the thought of planning one makes you nervous, have it catered. All you have to do is show up in your best tea dress and enjoy the festivities. No thanks! A few fun tips from moms and party experts:. Give everyone fabric paints and a plain white one-piece and bib to decorate.
The best part of this messy-but-brilliant baby-shower activity is that it's not only fun for guests, but the mom-to-be ends up with handmade keepsakes that she'll actually use. Leave it casual, or turn it into a contest by having guests vote on their favorite piece and giving the winner a bottle of wine.
Another option: Have each guest write a message or draw a picture with permanent markers or fabric paints on a square of fabric; then, post-party, Mom's craftiest friend can sew the squares together into a cute play blanket or quilt. Another matching game to try: Linking up weird celebrity baby names with their famous parents. Give little prizes to the winners of both. Anyone who knows that Bear Blu is Alicia Silverstone's son and Kal-El — Superman's real name — belongs to Nicolas Cage deserves some sort of reward for her trivia knowledge.
Yet another fun option from mom Tracy Saelinger, of Lake Oswego, Oregon: "At my shower someone made up a list of traits and had me write down in advance whether I wanted the baby to get those attributes from me or his dad.
The guests had to guess what I picked — eyes, dad; IQ, me, of course! It was hilarious, and we all had a good laugh about both my quirks and my husband's. September 28, Save Pin FB More.
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