Suggestions for Baby Shower themes and games?
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Here's a list of 82 baby shower games:
http://pregnancy.about.com/cs/babyshower...
Here's a link with a quiz to help with the "style" of baby shower the momma to be would enjoy:
http://pregnancy.about.com/library/quiz/...
Finally Baby Shower Food:
http://pregnancy.about.com/od/babyshower...
Hope this helps! Obviously if it's your first grandchild, it is her first baby. Just have her favorite foods, good friends, and spoil her! A neat idea is to "rent" a masseuse for an hour and have her perform foot or shoulder massages on the mommy-to-be and guests.
Play the yarn game! Get some yarn and pass it around and have people cut it to the lenght they think is around the pregnant womans belly!
Dirty diaper game you smear foods(peanut butter, melted candy bar, pickle juice) in the diaper and people have to guess buy smelling or sometimes tasting what is in the diaper. Gross but so fun!!
Baby food guessing game
Take lines from nursery rhymes and see if anyone can get the titles of them all.
Do lots of finger foods, dips, and simple things so that you can enjoy the shower yourself. Themes there are many but most people do baby boy/girl parties. Prizes vary when I had mine they gave away a toaster oven and a box filled with candy, and gag gifts. You should go with what you like.
You should have an empirer size shower for her .Like all around(I think japanese style"WITH SUSHI"is best .)A JAPANESE WINTER.
Game idea- when everyone walks in the door, hand them each a rattle (a cheap raddle, or maybe even a cut-out paper one). You may want to have one rattle per family if you are going to have a lot of guests. Have one of them have a sticker, marking, or anything else on it to signify its difference. Then in about the middle of the shower, announce that whoever has the lion sticker (or whatever you used) on their rattle wins a prize! The prize should be something like a small picture frame, dishtowels, or even better: something you used to decorate the baby shower (good way to get rid of it).
Foods should be snack foods, of course. Pretzels and chips are always a winner. Foods that people often have allergic reactions to (such as peanut foods) should be avoided. Small sandwiches are also neat. You may want to have small jars of baby food set on the table (unopened), as well as a baby bottle laid next to the drinks to be cute. As far as drinks, punch is the best way to go. Carbonated or not, it doesn't matter. You can find some great recipes online.
Hope I helped!
We played the baby food game. You go buy different kinds of baby food and put a little bit on a paper plate for everyone, and they have to try and guess what the food is. Really gross but really fun! Be sure to have little Dollar Tree prizes for the winners!
Congrats on your new grandchild!!
games:
~put a bunch of cotton balls in a bowl and have someone take a spoon and try to spoon as many cotton balls into a bowl on the top of their head as they can in a certain time limit. the catch is, they have to be blindfolded. my mother did this when she was pregnant with me.
~clip out baby pictures and give everyone that shows up a picture with a safety pin and tell them that the word baby is offlimits, if you hear someone say it that has a picture they can steal that picture from the person, the person with the most pictures of babies on them wins.
~put a bunch of baby q-tips or diaper saftey pins in a jar and have ppl guess how many are inside the jar, closest wins.
~the never failing yard game, have ppl cut a piece of yarn as big as they think the mother is at that time and whoever guesses closest wins
prizes:
usually bathroom tolietries like handsoaps and lotions are good. just little things will work well. just make sure they're the cutesy things though : )
food:
finger foods work well with baby showers, because you're going to be giving gifts to the mother, you don't want your fingers to be too messy. so like a taco salads, fruit and veggie trays are good to have.
themes:
just make the whole room be pastels, very soft colors are really good to have around
Food -- go with the finger foods. Fruit, veggies, chips & dip, and cracker and cheese. Sandwhiches are also good as they are little bit more filling. Just be sure to stick to the basics, like ham and cheese, or turkey.
Themes are usually just based on whether it's a girl or a boy. Don't really need to be more specific than that.
Games -- there are a variety of games. The bottle game-fill baby bottles with some sort of juice and see who can finish first.
For the guys-see who can change a diaper the quickest and most accurate-be sure to use dolls and have the wipes and baby powder on hand-makes it that much more fun when the powder gets flying :).
Prizes -- that's up to you, usually just simple party favors will work. Got to your local party supply store as they should have some baby shower specific ones. Such as baby bottle shaped chocolates or rattles filled with candy. Depending on the size of the guest list, you could also do gift certificates to a local store or resturant if you wanted. Just make sure that the gifts will be appropriate no matter who wins. Nothing like a man winning a pair of pink slippers or something like that :). Have fun.
here are some good games for showers:
put a plastic clothespin on every guest as they arrive.(pink for girl babies and blue for boys) tell the guests if they say the word "baby" and someone catches them, the person who caught them gets their clothes pin. do this for the first hour or so while guests mingle and eat. who ever has the most clothespins wins a prize. while your daughter opens gifts, set a timer to go of at a certain time frame (3 minutes or so) who ever's present she is opening wins a prize! ask guests to unroll a piece of toilet paper to the size of your daughters belly. whoever is the closest to her size is the winner. then you wrap your daughter up in toilet paper and take a picture of the "new mummy" for her photo album. prizes can be anything in your budget. for food do alot of snack type foods and don't forget a cake.
My favorite thing at my 2nd baby shower was Future Birthday Cards
The hostess brought blank note cards and each one had a number on the envelope. One for each guest. And each person got a card and had to write a birthday card for my son. (we gave them out at the begining of the shower and asked that they be returned at the end--I suggest mailing the card with the invite OR at least write a note in the invite that you request that each person fills one out--people were a little thrown by the idea and didn't really know what to write)
We gave the youngest (a 4 year old) person card #1-for his 1st birthday and the oldest person in attendance the largest number (in our case it was 34) and that way when my son turns 34 he will get a birthday card from his uncle Howard who will most likely not be around then (see as how he's 80 now)
Very sweet idea.
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