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Here are some fun & trendy ideas for a baby shower. There is a real trend toward being eco-friendly with these parties, and so take note of ways to reduce, reuse and recycle while baby shower planning!
If you know what gender the baby will be, then try the following colors to bring your baby shower theme together:
Girl: Fuchsia, Pink, and Lime Green
Boy: Aqua, Blue, Yellow, and Lime Green
If neutral (i.e. you don’t know the sex of the baby): Yellow, Aqua, and Lime Green will work well.
Invitation Tips:
Send out your baby shower invitation, and request that guests bring a small book instead of a card to the shower to begin baby’s first library.
In order to cut down on paper waste, ask guests to wrap their gifts in nursery themed fabric…cute, useful and eco-friendly.
For the Decor:
Check out the party supplies at Celebrate Express.
Hang bright colored onesies off of a clothes line ~ these can be given to the mom-to-be as an additional shower gift. Use one of these onesies as a guest book for the guests, providing fabric pens for them to sign their names and a special message to the Mom-to-be and baby.
To reduce waste, use ceramic dishes, drinking glasses, silverware, and plates instead of disposables.
Fill Baby Bottles with bright color candies and use around the party tables, side tables, and gift table.
Use pacifiers of all colors as confetti around the party room.
For your centerpiece, use brightly colored floating candles placed in a large bowl of water to add festive color and light to your party table.
For Games:
Guess the Baby
In your invitation, ask each guest to bring a picture of herself as a baby. (You may want to remind the guests before the shower to bring the photo with them, because without the photo they can’t be involved in the game.) Take the picture from each guest as she arrives and lightly pencil a number on the back, being careful not to damage the photo. Make a list so you can tell later which photograph corresponds with which guest. Then give each guest a piece of paper and pencil, show all the guests a photograph and tell them the number. The guests write down whose photograph they think it is. Do the same with the next photograph. The guest who identifies the most photographs is the winner.
Don’t Say “Baby”
The object of the game is not to say the word “baby” at any time during the shower. Give each guest a diaper pin when she arrives and ask her to pin it to her clothing. If one guest hears another guest say the word “baby,” the hearer can claim the speaker’s diaper pin. The guest who collects the most pins is the winner. (If you want, you can set a time limit of 30 minutes so that people can relax after that!)
Mom Trivia
Ask the mom to give you a total of 20 interesting pieces of information about herself. These questions may revolve around anything, but facts about the mom when she was a baby or a kid would be particularly fun! Use these answers to create a quiz for the guests to take. Whoever gets the most questions right wins!
The Price Is Right
Get 10 to 20 items relating to babies and list exactly how much each item costs. Number these items and lay them around the party room with price tags attached to each one. The price tags can either be the exact price, or a mock higher or lower price. Guests browse the table of items with a pen and paper and place the numbers that correspond to the items on the paper. They then have to decide if the “price is right” or if it is lower or higher. They mark their guess next to each number. After everyone has reviewed the items and listed if the price is right, higher, or lower, go through each item to learn the correct prices. Whoever gets the most prices right wins!
TIP: It may help the guests figure out the price if you tell them the names of the stores from which each item was bought.
Baby Bingo:
Materials needed: Pens and preprinted bingo cards that use the numbers of how many people attend the baby shower. (i.e., if you know that 10 people will be attending your shower, preprint bingo cards with the numbers one through 10 and randomly place them on 10 cards.) Prior to opening the baby shower gifts, number each gift starting with the number one. When the mom decides to open the presents, she grabs the present she wants to open and reads the number out loud. As soon as someone gets a bingo, she wins!
For the Menu:
One of the best and easiest ways to create snacks that are in line with a baby shower theme is to purchase cookie cutters in the shape of a baby carriage, a teddy bear, a baby bottle, baby rattle, etc. and use them to cut out small tea sandwiches filled with, for instance, smoked salmon, cucumber and dill, egg salad or chicken salad. They will be very cute. The cookie cutters can be used to make darling iced sugar cookies, as well.
Other snacks to serve at a baby shower include:
Chips and dips: French onion dip with chips, salsa and guacamole with tortilla chips or spinach or hot artichoke dip with pita bread cut into small baby shapes using the cookie cutters.
Cheese and crackers: Serve a variety of crackers along with a blend of hard and creamy cheeses.
An assortment of fresh-cut vegetables with a ranch dip
Chicken skewers served with teriyaki or peanut sauce
Shrimp served with cocktail sauce
Mini quiches
Fruit salad made up of whatever is seasonal
Deviled eggs
Olives and sweet pickles for a relish tray
Nuts
Chocolate truffles
Personalized M&M’s
Mini Fruit Tarts served with a small scoop of raspberry sorbet
Place the nuts and candies around the party room to get people who don’t necessarily know one another mingling!
For a parting favor, send the guests home
Send them off with personalized mint tins …so cute and a great remembrance of the event…also quite useful!
