Baby showers are joyful get-togethers usually including four main activities: socializing, playing games, eating, and the best one of all, opening all the baby gifts! Planning a baby shower is part of the fun.
Most baby showers last about 2-3 hours, so having an outline for the schedule of activities is a good idea so that the party does not lag at any time.
Planning Details: The beginning of the baby shower is a fun time for socializing. The majority of the guests will need to greet each other and talk with the mother-to-be to find out the details of her pregnancy.
Something to eat is always expected at a baby shower and it needn't be intricate. It's just got to be planned. Finger foods are simplest and guests can eat throughout the whole shower, with a special time, customarily towards the end, dedicated to serving the cake.
Perhaps the most popular activity in most baby showers is the game time. Baby shower games are fun and there is no end to the variety of games, either. Just about any game can be changed to make it suitable for a baby shower.
Plan on playing a variety of baby shower games if it is a fun group of people. Just be sure to decide on the games about 3 weeks prior to the shower so you know what games that may be played as the host will have to make certain she has lots of game pieces and mandatory supplies. And she'll need to get a prize to award the game winners, too!
Figuring out the rim of the expectant mother's belly is a standard game that's played at most baby showers. One simple game is filling a baby bottle with small items such as jelly beans or q-tips and asking each person to guess how many the bottle holds.
There is also baby Bingo, baby tic-tac-toe, pin the pacifier on the baby, and so many more.
If games don't appear appropriate for the group, for whatever reason, plan a group project instead. When the project is finished, it will be given to the honored guest as a way to remind her of this big day.
Project ideas include scrapbooking, quilting, making a video documentary, or making something similar to a hand-painted floor mat or wall hanging the expectant mother can make use of in her home.
Making an advice book is straightforward. Get a notebook full of blank pages and pass it around to each attendee. On a separate page, each guest writes down a little bit of parenting advice and signs the page.
If you are inviting men, plan the baby shower as more of get-together, perhaps an outside BBQ. The guys can cook the food and assemble the baby gifts as they're opened as the women sit back and have fun!
Keeping the Best for Last: Opening the baby gifts is definitely the highlight of the baby showers (at least from the mother's point of view).
Be sure someone is writing down each gift and the giver. Save the bows, too so that when it's all over, the guest of honor can be topped with a silly bow hat!
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