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| cmandle |
Posted - Jul 24 2006 : 4:16:50 PM
I'm having a baby shower brunch for my sister on Sunday and while the menu is all planned, I'm not so sure about games. I had a couple of things in mind:
1. Diaper pin game - everyone gets a diaper pin to wear when they come in and are told not to say the word "baby," lest they lose their pin! The one with the most pins wins!
2. Baby food ID - not the gross diaper one with chocolate bars, but the one where you take a bunch of baby food jars, remove the labels and pass them around on a tray for folks to identify, without tasting!
...but I'm not so into these anymore. We'll probably do the diaper pin thing with clothespins ('cause I have those), but I can't find a good variety of colors in the baby food jars that are not mixed foods (don't want to confuse folks!).
Any great ideas? My family is getting sick of games - so they say - but at each shower (there are a lot of us and a lot of bridal/baby showers each year!) we play them and everyone loves them! I want this one to be good...
Thanks!
Catherine
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 31 2006 : 9:37:31 PM
glad to read that you had a great time and that some of the ideas were of use to you.:0)
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| Buttercup |
Posted - Jul 30 2006 : 6:56:20 PM
Cathrine,
So happy it went so wonderfully!! It sounds like so much fun! And yes, I think you do keep the feelings of such a wonderful time around you for a bit!! Am so glad your home is still filled with echos of love and laughter!!!
Hugz!!!
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| cmandle |
Posted - Jul 30 2006 : 4:22:45 PM
Oh thank you, Farmgirls! These were all such great ideas!
We had the shower this morning/afternoon and it was so much fun. We did the clothespin game where you can't say "baby," (that was a hoot!). The guest with the most clothespins took home a small prize. I also put together a tray of baby items and the mom-to-be presented it to each guest for a few seconds. They were given a sheet of paper with numbers and lines and were told that they were going to be asked questions about what they saw. But instead of asking them about the tray, we asked them what the mom-to-be was wearing (while she hid in the kitchen)! That was also a hoot. The person with the most correct answers won a prize. So ours was sort of a hodgepodge of jpbluesky's and Tina's ideas!
We also did Meg's idea of birthday cards for the baby. I put out a small table in the dining room with colored paper, stickers, paper punches, ribbon, scissors, colored pencils and markers. Folks were invited to make a card for the little one for any birthday and put them all in a basket. As always, some folks claim to be "creatively-impaired" but about half of the guests loved it. We got some cute ones for the baby!
The old stand-by that I forgot about was the "there's something under your plate" game. It's not really a game, but you just put a sticker or something small under one of the plates in the buffet line. As guests are eating, you ask them all to check the bottom of their plates (don't forget to do this before they all end up in stacks in the kitchen!). The person with the sticker wins a small prize too!
It was really fun. The best part is...it's over! I love having parties but I also love, love, love the feeling of a clean house after a party. I mean, when do I ever clean the house this nicely? All of my nice dishes are put away, I have a ton of good "party food" leftovers to munch on and the house feels good. That's more from the good vibes that our friends and family bring in with them though....the good feelings linger on! I love parties!
Catherine
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| Hideaway Farmgirl |
Posted - Jul 26 2006 : 2:40:28 PM
Catherine, I hosted a baby shower for my cousin in November 2004 and had fun with the following:
Buying or making a pair of adult size booties for the expectant mom to wear during the shower. If you know the gender of the baby, use pink or blue; otherwise, multicolored or pastel.
Displaying the baby pictures of the expectant parents and having each guest try to guess who is who.
Baby foods - baby dills, baby carrots, baby cookies, baby back ribs...you get the picture...
Hand out pens or crayons and a piece of paper to each guest, who puts the paper on top of their own head and then "draws" a picture of the baby. Everyone signs their artwork and the expectant mom chooses the best picture.
Scavenger hunt: make a list of things and have everyone dig through their purse to find unusual stuff like unused stamps, airline ticket (good for those coming from out of town) photograph from recent vacation, love letter to or from yourself (one girl won using an "I Love You" text message on her cellphone from her boyfriend!) grocery list, any article of clothing, just silly stuff but whomever has the most items at the end of the game wins. I can email you a copy of the list we used if you want to make copies to pass out to guests.
Have several disposable camers out for guests to take turns getting candid photos. It is up to you if you want to develop the photos yourself and put them in an album for the mom, or just give her the cameras to get the film developed.
Recipe box with index cards - each guest writes their best advice for brining up baby (also could go in a baby book or guest book/baby journal)
Decorate the party room as a grown-up nursery - make a cardboard crib/playpen for the mom to sit in, and blankeys and large baby theme gift bags placed around the room with tissue paper fluffed up inside them. Play nursery rhymes or lullabies as background music.
If the baby's name has been selected, print the full name out on a piece of paper and give each guest a copy with a pen. Or use the first and last names of the parents. Guests have 4 minutes to make up as many words using the letters of the name(s). We had some real doozies with this one!
Get a "Class of "2024" teeshirt - baby-sized or for the mom to wear.
Hope that helps! Have fun!
Jo |
| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Jul 26 2006 : 10:23:19 AM
What a great idea!!!!
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Originally posted by Meg
We did a shower once, where we brought lots of markers and papers and fun craft supplies. Each guest was assigned an age of the baby and then made a birthday card for the little one for that year. For instance, I got 12 and made a birthday card that I thought would be fitting for a 12-year-old and when he/she turns 12, she'll/he'll receive a birthday card from me!
MaryJane's daughter,
Meg
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| Buttercup |
Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 8:13:42 PM
ummmm, well there is the race to drink apple juice from bottles, then the "things she said during conception" game where someone writes down everything the mom-to-be says when she opens her presents and then reads it back as what was said at the time of conception(very silly, hysterical, and not good for some crowds  ), there is a wish book (my fav) where you take gift card size envelopes and glue them address side down onto the pages of a blank journal or scrap book(could also be done with tags and pockets). All the guest write a message to the baby on a piece of card and insert it into an envelope to be saved and read later and then given to the baby when they turn 16 or 18 or whatever age you want to say. you can also do one for the mom for her to read on those hard days when a mom just wants to cry! This can be done up in a lovely way with the book decorated and different colored pens and stickers availible to the guests so they can create something small and special. This one is by far my very favorite and is so special to the mom cuz she can treasure and keep them always!
I think that is all I can think of over and beyond what has been said... good luck Cathrine, I hope it goes wonderfully!!!
Hugz!!!
Oh I forgot, there is the game where you put things(baby things) in a brown lunch bag and tape shut and pass around for people to feel and guess what they are, the one with the most correct wins. And the book I told you about can also be done with the theme "the best advice I recieved as a mom" where all the mom's there fill a little card with the best tips and/or advice they ever recieved themselves. At the end the cards are read off so everyone can hear some great tips, but the book is the momma's to treasure and keep. hope some of this helped!! Hugz again!!
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| Meg |
Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 4:22:43 PM
We did a shower once, where we brought lots of markers and papers and fun craft supplies. Each guest was assigned an age of the baby and then made a birthday card for the little one for that year. For instance, I got 12 and made a birthday card that I thought would be fitting for a 12-year-old and when he/she turns 12, she'll/he'll receive a birthday card from me!
MaryJane's daughter,
Meg
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jul 25 2006 : 12:22:49 AM
We did a shower game where the hostess brought out a basket filled with inexpensive baby items, such as wipes, binkie, bib, burp pad, baby powder, rash ointment, etc. She held it in front of everyone for like 30 seconds and then took it away. Then she came back and told everyone to list what they had seen in the basket. The person who could list the most got a small prize, and the mom-to-be got the basket as a gift.
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jul 24 2006 : 10:53:11 PM
I went to a baby shower once where the participants had to pretend to be waddling with a baby ..they were given a potato to hold between their knees and they had to waddle with it to a bowl and drop it in. The person that could do so without dropping the baby until it was "delivered" won.It's so hilarious to watch women waddling around like that I tell you!
Another game that was played was one gal would come out into the room dressed very outlandishly with all sorts of baubles, trinkets, hat, scarf, handbag, etc. whatever you can think of to outlandishly play "dress up" with..then everyone had a time limit to quickly write down as much as they could think of that she had on. The person that listed the most won a prize.
Another thing that was done was as the mom to be opens her gifts she is fitted with a paper plate "bonnet" with a ribbon tied under her chin..as each gift is unwrapped an assistant would attach all of the ribbons and bows taped to the "bonnet" . After the event..everything was displayed around her and a photo was taken with her outlandish bonnet and streamers and all of the gifts around her.
It makes for quite a fun memento.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 24 2006 : 10:19:29 PM
Oh..that reminds me of one! We did one one time where the husband and wife's first name were across the top of the page and you had the left side of the page numbered. It was timed and you had to see how many names you could make just using the letters in the mom and dad's names. You could say that it has to be a girl name or a boy or that it could be either. That one was fun. Then the people read off their lists..that part is pretty funny..some gals come up with some wacky names!!
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| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Jul 24 2006 : 10:15:35 PM
We did one game where a letter of the alphabet was picked by the mom-to-be and everyone tried to list (on their own sheet of paper) as many baby names as they could think of that start with that letter. The one with the most names wins.
We did two games - one with girl names, one for boys and picked different letters. If the mom has an idea of what letters she wants to use, you could make it even harder by using two letters for each - one for the first name, one for the second name.
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| lawsec03 |
Posted - Jul 24 2006 : 9:59:20 PM
What about a word scramble, all the words having to do with pregnancy or a new baby? How about a jar, filled with something, and everyone gets a chance to guess at how many pieces are in the jar. My mom did this at one of mine. I forget what she had in the jar, maybe jelly beans. Everyone had to pay a quarter a chance to guess, and write it on a piece of paper. The quarters went into a piggy bank for my son.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 24 2006 : 5:13:18 PM
We did one at the last shower i went to where we had a list (printed out) of animal names ..about 15 or so...Like:
1. Lion
2. Chicken
3. goat
4. cow
and like that..and then you set a timer and whoever gets the most amount of baby animal names that go with those animals in a set amount of time wins.
Also..the one where you have to guess how many squares of toilet tissue it takes to go around the pregnant gal's middle (if it is a before the baby is born type shower) I always guess way wrong on that one.
If you do the animal one it is fun to have a couple of really obscure baby animal names.
I have a baby shower idea book around here somewhere if no one else comes up with ideas you like.
Have fun!
Jenny in Utah
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