Baby showers are full of fun, food, gifts, and laughs, but you have to have a few good ideas of how to keep your guests having a good time. Traditionally, baby showers have a spread of food, a few games, a gift opening session, cake, and favors. If you want a few ideas of what to do for each of these things we have some time tested ones here.
The first thing you have to do is feed your guests. One idea is to get three different baby themed shapes in cookie cutters and make sugar cookies in these shapes. A few examples are ducks, rattles, bottles, baby carriages, booties, and small hand prints. These shapes are good whether you decorate them or not. Decorating these shapes does not have to be elaborate. Find a three tiered serving dish and serve the individual shapes on their own level. Scatter chocolate kisses all over the layers of cookies for some extra pizzazz.
The second major component of a good baby shower is games. One good one is to ask your guests to bring baby pictures of themselves. You will want to include this in the invitation. The crowd tries to guess who each baby is. You can place all the pictures on a table with numbers and hand out sheets of paper for everyone to write who is who by number. You can have a prize for whoever gets the most right. A Bath and body Works gift basket or gift card is a nice gift for any woman.
The main reason for the baby shower is the gifts. A good idea for your gift is to choose a theme. You can choose to give the mom to be gifts for her personally such as nursing clothing or a nursing cover. You can choose to do a bath time theme and buy a nice spread of bath accessories for the baby and make up a gift basket inside a baby bathtub. Hooded towels, a bath mat, bath toys, wash cloths, baby soap and shampoo, and a stool for mom are all ideas of things to put inside the bathtub.
Every shower ends with a cute keepsake party favor. Bath and body stores usually sell travel sizes in bath gels and sprays, varieties of flavored lip glosses, and all kinds of loofas, sponges, and body mitts. You could make up small cellophane bags each with a different scented theme. This way, women can choose a citrus or floral or vanilla theme depending on what their preference is.
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