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Hi S.,

I just had a baby of my own, and a lot of my friends are having babies these days. One thing I loved about my shower was that the guests were asked to give a book instead of a card. (Everyone is supposed to write on the book like it is their card.) I have so many books for my son now, it is GREAT!!! At my friends shower they did something else I loved. They had everyone pick a piece of paper with a number on it. There are as many numbers as guests, starting with one and going up. After everyone has picked their number they are to write a birthday card for that year. So if you pick the number 8, you write a card to the baby to be for their eighth birthday. Another thing that is nice, if you do not have too many guests and you are opening gifts at the shower, is to have the person, or people who gave the gift sit next to the guest of honor as she opens it. This way all the guest know who the gift is from, and you can get a good pic of them with their gift. Good luck and have fun planning :)

My mom did a casserole shower for my baby. Although he was a second child (there was a 4 yr gap between them). There was a cute saying on the invite about not having time once the baby was born. So everyone brought a homemade frozen dinner and the recipie. Some people brought gifts for the baby, but basically we had a stocked freezer for the 1st month after he was born. Everything, even my hubby could cook, just thaw and pop in the oven.

Let me know if you are interested and I will look for the invite, so you could have some direction on it.
A.

I have an idea for a couple games you could play at the baby shower.........my sisters and I had a baby shower for my brother and his wife. You first figure out how many tables you are going to have at the shower, and arrange to have at least 5 diapers per table for this game. Number the diapers 1-5. You will need 5 different chocolate bars per group of diapers too, ones that melt well. You melt each chocolate bar in the microwave and put it in a diaper. Then you close up the diaper, and on a seperate sheet of paper you put down which chocolate bar is in each diaper, (for example, diaper #1 -hershey bar, diaper #2-baby ruth bar, etc.). You could use any chocolate bars as long as they melt well.
It is so funny to see the guests checking the diapers trying to figure out what chocolate bar is in each diaper, they smell them, a couple even tried tasting them. They each have to write down what chocolate bar they think each diaper has in it. The person at each table that gets the most right wins a prize. Our guests loved this game.
Another game that you could play at the shower is the baby food game. you choose about 8-10 different baby food, and take the labels off of the jars, replacing them with a number on each jar, then you place the jars on the tables and ask the guests to figure out what each baby food is, just by looking at it. They have to write down what they think each of them is.
then the parents to be, have to open each jar and smell or taste each one to see if they could figure it out. Again the person at each table that gets the most right wins.
hope this helps.

If it's going to be a smaller afair have a spa day. Who says a baby shower has to be a bunch of games and opening gifts.

If you plan to open the gifts at the shower, this one may be fun. My assistant hostesses presented the gifts to the 'mommy of the hour'. Whoever gave the 7th gift that was opened, for example, was deemed the individual that was next in line for having a baby. I then adorned her with a pacifier on a string. It was a riot because the person in this case was 50 years old and, of course, had no plans to have any babies in the future!! If you have a smaller gathering, then you can designate some other arbitrary number as the one for receiving the pacifier.

I just attended a baby shower yesterday where we had to draw with fabric markers on a onesie. They put 2 paper plates between the sides so the pens didn't bleed through. Wwe put little sayings and decorated them. This is an Irish family so it was easy to come with ideas for the shirts.

My friends and I threw a really fun, small shower with a rubber ducky/bath theme. We did bought a large blow up duck tub (from target) and put a ton of baby items in the tub that mom got to take home... and the stuff you might forget as a mom to get like baby Tylenol or little spoons and bubble bath. Then we played the prices is right was our primary game. Good for fun and mom got a bunch of useful stuff she probably would have otherwise forgotten to get. For favors everyone got a little rubber ducky of their own and some bubble bath. The invitations, decorations and cake were easy... ducks are surprisingly easy to find.

Good luck!

I went to a shower and the ice breaker was this... Tiny litle newborn plastic babies were frozen in ice cubes trays with water and then put into small clear dixie cups and the person whose baby melts out of the ice get a specail prize. ("The baby that breaks the water first". Lots of fun, but there are rules, no blowing for heat or helping the ice to melt. The ice cubes melted in the hour time alloted for or the shower.

Hi S.

I am a consultant with Once Upon A Family! We have wonderful heirloom gifts that help create memories that will last forever. You could theme your baby shower around our collection.

An example of our products:
One of our products is the Dear Sweet Child Letter Box. Each year mom and dad secretly write the child a letter on the child's birthday and place it in the box. This can be started in any year but since we're talking about an infant, we'll assume the parents started from birthday one.

When the child's 21st birthday arrives, the letters are mailed or given one by one 20 days before the child's birthday. The 21st letter is given with the box on the actual birthday!

We also have a gift called "Wishes to the Newborn". Each guest receives a card to write the baby a message. At the end of the shower, mom is presented with the messages in a beautiful box tied with a bow for a keepsake.

Take a look at my website at www.creatememories.org, click on Products and look under Childhood Cherished. My contact info is listed on the site.

B.

I once threw a shower where we went to a psychic for readings and drank mocktails and cocktails (for the non-pg guests).

I don't know if you have tried this before but for my sisters shower we are going to put in the invitations for every1 who brings a pack of diapers they are entered in a drawing for the large door prize which will be... A basket with a dvd player (walmart has them for like 20 bux) with either 2 movies or a blockbuster gift card some candies and popcorn and other little movie night related stuff.

of course the dont say baby game... every1 has a necklace with 10 baby safety pins on it and everytime some1 says baby and you hear it you ask for 1 of their pins the 1 with thw most pins at the end wins a prize.

And my favorite is when shes opening her gifts i will be recording what she said about each one and to whom she said it. She will be completely unaware this is happening and when shes done I will read her comments back as a list of things she said to the dad the night the baby was conceived i.e Oh my gosh its so little lol. who evers gets the funniest reaction to their present wins a prize. I have many other ideas if you want just let me know.

Also if you go to Orientaltrading.com you can find many favors and games for REALLY cheap.