Baby Shower ideas

Hi all!! Could you share some of your baby shower ideas. Games, decorations, themes, activities, etc....

TIA!

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I dont think id be much help. I dont like games and im not into themes. Im doing an ordinary shower although my mom has something up her sleeve having to do w/ the centerpieces which i think may have a theme to them

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I heard a rumor that they are going to measure my belly and have everyone take guesses at how big I am!

I'm horrified and really hope it isn't true.


I think baby shower bingo is more than enough. It keeps guests entertained during all the present opening.

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I think the white onsie decorating idea is a great one. Will probably do "measure the belly" and BINGO of course!

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I went ot a really cute shower and the theme was farm animals. She had a different stuffed animal in a straw basket at each table. She gave out cookie cutter placecards with animals attached, it was really cute. Oh and her favor was an about to hatch egg timer.

I've heard of doing a nusery rhyme theme too!

Have fun planning

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Everyone had fun playing this game, so of the guess where crying from laughing so much. I got on e-bay
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Personally, I am not into themes or games for myself, but I have thrown baby showers at work with games.

We had a smallish shower at work and we did a game called Pin the Diaper on the Baby-it was pretty funny to watch adults do this one! Also trying to guess how big the mommy to be's belly is with ribbon is a cute game. One shower I went to (an LIF'er!) had a game where they froze little plastic babies in ice cubes and whomever got their baby out first won.

HTH!

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This is what my mom is planning for my shower in Sept. She played it at a friend's daughters shower and said everyone loved it. They passed around a stuffed Teddy Bear. Basically it s listening game and everytime you hear left/ right as a direction you pass the bear in that direction. You don't pass it when you hear Wright as a name.


LEFT RIGHT BABY SHOWER GAME STORY:
Mrs. WRIGHT went into labor. Mr. WRIGHT prepared to take Mrs. WRIGHT RIGHT to the hospital. He was in such a hurry that he put his RIGHT shoe on his LEFT foot. Obviously, he was not in his RIGHT frame of mind. Mrs. WRIGHT grabbed her sweater from the LEFT hand side of the closet and they quickly LEFT the house for the hospital.

As Mr. WRIGHT approached the hospital, he noticed a detour sign. The LEFT turning lane was blocked so he turned RIGHT instead. Mr. WRIGHT drove RIGHT in front of the hospital entrance and helped Mrs. WRIGHT inside. As soon as they got inside the hospital he realized that he had LEFT the car running. He had to go RIGHT back outside to turn off the engine.
He LEFT the car parked in front of the hospital and headed RIGHT back for the reception desk. As he approached the desk, he realized that he had LEFT the keys in the ignition. Panicked, he went RIGHT back to the car, but noticed that the LEFT driver side door was locked. Luckily Mrs. WRIGHT hadn't locked the RIGHT side door.

Mr. WRIGHT ran RIGHT back into the hospital again. Mrs. WRIGHT had been taken to the labor and delivery. The nurse instructed him to go down the blue hall and turn LEFT, RIGHT just passed the water fountain. By the time Mr. WRIGHT got to the room, Mrs. Wright was already pushing, so the Dr. asked Mr. WRIGHT to stand on the RIGHT side of Mrs. Wright’s bed and hold her RIGHT hand.

Mrs. WRIGHT looked RIGHT into Mr. WRIGHT’s eyes and asked, Where is the video camera? Oh no, said Mr. WRIGHT, I LEFT it at home! Mrs. WRIGHT closed her eyes and said, RIGHT now, you are not my favorite person. It might be better if you just LEFT the room.
LEFT? Ask Mr. WRIGHT. That wouldn't be RIGHT at all. I'm staying here with you. RIGHT then, Mrs. WRIGHT screamed and squeezed Mr. WRIGHT’s LEFT hand really tight.

Mrs. WRIGHT had the baby!
Mr. WRIGHT passed out. The nurses ran RIGHT over to him and placed him in a chair.
When he came to, he saw Mrs. WRIGHT holding twins. A baby boy was on her LEFT arm and a baby girl was on her RIGHT. Mrs. WRIGHT was smiling and Mr. WRIGHT was too. Not only had they been blessed to have one WRIGHT baby, now they had two.

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my shower is a surprise, but i am thinking my mom, mil and sister are doing a monkwy theme, since thats our theme for the babys room.

Plus i heard my mom tell my sister about cute monkey inviations she saw,

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Posted by SJ-GIRL

my shower is a surprise, but i am thinking my mom, mil and sister are doing a monkwy theme, since thats our theme for the babys room.

Plus i heard my mom tell my sister about cute monkey inviations she saw,

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my shower is going to be a surprise but I did see this idea of having a themed-wishing well. The one I loved was for books

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Something we did for my sister's baby shower, which they in turn did for mine:

Price is Right Game:
My sisters bought a bunch of small necessities off my registry, such as A&D ointment, q-tips, nail files, spoons, pacifiers, rattles, bibs, etc. They separated them into two baskets, which I also registered for. They listed out what was in each basket, and made the guests guess the cost of all the items in the basket. The closest to the actual cost without going over won a prize. The game benefitted me too because it was all stuff I needed and registered for!

Guess the Number of Diapers:
They put a whole bunch of newborn diapers in a basket. They actually used more than one package of diapers, because the younger, savvy moms knew the quantity of diapers in a package, and they didn’t want to make it too easy. The closest guess without going over won a prize. Once again, another game that benefitted me because I got to keep the diapers.

Baby scratch off lottery tickets:
No trick to this one. They bought them online. I think they come in a package of 10, with one winning ticket. The key is to try to space out the winning tickets amongst the guests so someone at each table wins.

For prizes my sister went to Bath & Body works and bought several different hand soaps, shower gels, and lotions. She packaged them up nicely in gift bags. She made sure to have 2 extra prizes in case there were some ties, which there were.

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My mom put book poem in my invites

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My baby shower was a duck theme. I did everything in blue and yellow. I had balloon centerpieces as well as stuffed animal ducks. The favors were floating duck candles and duck shaped chocolate chip cookies.
The only games we did were to set a timer during the gift opening and whoever's gift I was opening at that time got a prize. I did a giess how many jelly beans in the baby bottle. And the string thing. Everyone cut string as big as they thought I was around. Whoever was closest got a prize.

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Posted by JennB

my shower is going to be a surprise but I did see this idea of having a themed-wishing well. The one I loved was for books

I'm hoping for a baby book wishing well too!

girls who are doing "book wishing wells"

this was the poem I used for my sister's shower, placed an insert inside with envelope with the invite. I got a ton of great feedback and baby Sophia got a ton of great books with special notes inside!!

I want to be a smart child
As bright as I can be!
This is why I am hoping
My mom and dad will read to me

If you plan to bring a card
Please take another look.
I would like to learn my ABC's
From your favorite storybook

Please sign your name
As your personal touch.
Baby (last name) thanks you
Very, very much!

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We did the onesie decorating thing at mine and it was a big hit. My sister bought packs of plain onesies in different sizes, fabric narkers and stencils...people could do their own design or use the stencils if they needed more help being creative. Some of the ideas were really cute and everyone liked doing it!

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Posted by sleepie76

I heard a rumor that they are going to measure my belly and have everyone take guesses at how big I am!

I'm horrified and really hope it isn't true.


I think baby shower bingo is more than enough. It keeps guests entertained during all the present opening.

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Posted by MrsAT

Posted by sleepie76

I heard a rumor that they are going to measure my belly and have everyone take guesses at how big I am!

I'm horrified and really hope it isn't true.


I think baby shower bingo is more than enough. It keeps guests entertained during all the present opening.

OMG I would die...

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For my SIL's shower, I was in charge of games. Since she was on team, we did a garden party theme (it was a summer shower). The colors were orange, purple, green and yellow.

We held a baby shower game olympics (in honor of last summer's olympics). We divided the guests in to 4 teams - each was one of the party colors. Each member of the team participated in one of the games. We had a cardboard scoreboard to keep track of each teams stats. The games were:

-Baby bottle drinking contest (we filled 2 oz. of apple juice in the bottles)
-Baby food guessing game (with labels removed, they had to guess the falvor - we kept it nice)
-Baby dipaering contest (we just used stuffed animals - they had to change a diaper as fast as possible)
-Pinata contest (we had 4 pinatas from a baby shower website strung up - it was hilarious)
-Relay race (which consisted of: (a) walking to one end of the yard with a pillow strapped to your belly, (b) taking off the pillow and bringing baby home - just carrying a decorated hard-boiled egg on a spoon to the other end), (c) answering 3 trivia questions correctly and (d) singing 2 verses of hush little baby.

It was a fun day and hysterical to watch!

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We are having a book themed shower. Saw it at a friends and loved it.