Need Advice on Throwing a Baby Shower!

Hi K.~
My Husband's Niece (and I say it that way because she is actually 3 months older than me, and it just feels weird calling her my Niece) had a shower in the end of September~ her Hostesses did a Baby Girl Onesie type theme. All of the rooms were decorated in Little Baby Girl onesies of all styles, shortsleeve, longsleeve.....They hung them in every room we were using, on lines with clothes pins, pretty covered hangers, and when the shower was over they gave them all to Julie for her baby. I thought that was the neatest ideas ever! And the invitation was even shaped like a little onesie.
Have fun~ you will enjoy whatever you do~~~~ who doesn't LOVE baby showers!?

My daughter was born in December 2006 and the ladies at my church threw us a "Pink Christmas" themed shower. There weren't really a lot of decorations but they did a tabletop fiberoptic christmas tree and the ornaments were pacifiers, hair bows and headbands, diaper pins and some minature Disney Princess ornaments. I got to keep everything on the tree and it looked so cute! The food was just a small variety of finger foods and they served a hot punch. I know it's after Christmas now, but since the baby was born two days after Christmas and it's not too far past, it might be a cute theme!

K.,

Hi there I'm so happy for your family to have a new baby. What is she going to use as the Theam of the babys room. If she has one you can use that and make that the Theam of your Shower. Like I used Teddybears So they had Teddyears all over the place. You can make alot of Party foods like to make Pink fudge make it like you would chocolate but use white Chocolate chips and food coloring. If its not going to be a suprise Shower let the New Mommy help you. Ask her what kinds of foods she would like to have. Also They did this at my Shower they had a little notebook and passed it around and had everyone to put some advice init. The one I like the best was Raise Your Child In Gods Eyes not in Anyones but His. Also a Game they played my Mom got a tray and she put all kinds of baby stuff on it and she covered it up with a blanket and when it was time for the games she passed it around and then covered it up and give everone a few mints to put down on paper what was on the tray who ever got the most got a prize and I got the stuff on the tray. Also one thing you can do is the prizes for the game make them stuff for the baby so the people will give them to the New Mommy. Another game that you can play is in the room where your going to be haveing the shower if you can tape a baby pen under a chair and the one that has that chair wins. Sence the baby is going to be at the Shower get some throw away Cameras and let people at the shower take some pics of the baby and stuff that is going on at the shower. Well I hope that this will help you in some way. May God Bless you and Your family and your husband's cousins family.

K.

Hi K.

I remember at my baby shower my sister did a ducky theme that was really cute. It is appropriate for either a boy or a girl. She also had these cute little baby bottles and but bath salts in them for the gifts. It was in the fall and she also put fall mums on the tables for decorations and the guests got to win them. If it is a girl you could do a princess pink theme.

hi i had a baby shower and the center piece of the table was a diaper cake they are really cute and real easy to make..i dont know about any themes..

How about a cabbage patch baby party. You could get cabbage patch doll for centerpiece. Look in birthday asile for cabbage patch decorations. Maybe have cabbage leaves decorated with candles. Go to kinkos and make birthcertificates for place settings. You could have alot of fun with this i think. Good luck and its just a suggestion.
Have fun.

One cute food thing is to make a baby buggy out of a watermelon. Imagine a watermelon; cut the top quarter away. (So you're left with three-quarters of the watermelon.) Scoop out the watermelon, an add it to other fruit to make a fruit salad. You use orange slices for wheels...it's really cute. Here's one version online with a picture:
http://www.showerherbaby.com/index.php?cPath=37_338

Have fun! :)

I have helped with throwing baby showers before. Here are a few web sites that I have gotten some cute ideas from:

http://www.babyshowertips.com/

http://babyshowergamesatoz.com/

http://www.bestbabyshower.com/

http://www.adultpartyideas.com/html/miscellaneous_parties...

Hope this helps!

I see someone already suggested a diaper cake. I made one for a shower in November. It was fairly inexpensive and so fun to make. They have lots of pictures online to get ideas from.

Hi K.,

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Hey K.. My godparents too adopted a korean child at a later time in their lives. We gave a family shower with husbands, children and of course the women. This made easier for everyone to meet the baby. We had games for the kids, the men and women. For the kids, pin the bottle in the baby's mouth or ducky in the tub. Men, the same game as the women. My favorite is tieing a string around their waste, let it hang from their back with something at the bottom, and they have to try to clip it to a mouse trap.For food everything was baby sized finger food. Men seem to like that. Our theme was the country the baby came from mixed with pink since it was a girl. Good luck.

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Something done for me that I thought was really unique was an advice book. The hostess took a cute photo album and but blue and yellow note cards (i had a boy) next to the door everyone came in. As they came in they had to write down advice on as many cards as they liked and then put them in the photo slots. It was so much fun for me to look back at all the advice when it was over. In the extra spaces I just put pictures so no need to worry about extra space. Good Luck and Have Fun!!!