Planning a baby shower? Need a few ideas? Here are a few things I did to celebrate my sister-in-law having her first bubs.
HELLO BABY MINI ALBUM...
Essentially, I prepared the whole album before the day... including the names etc of attendees >>>> so all they needed to do on the day was to add their little blessing note, well wishes, advice... however you would like to refer to these special little notes to "Mum to Be" and Bubba.
On the day I took a photo of each person, and a few of the party itself. I then just needed to develop the photos and stick them in. Everything else was done.I added a few ribbons. Viola. A great little keepsake. Here it is all finished.
The cover:
And a few middle pages:
You can take a look at all the pages over at my Flickr.
I love this mini album - I adore the range of October Afternoon, Thrift Shop Range that I used... so versatile... suits either for girl or boy. Simply cute as.
TAKE A GUESS...
Another fun part we did was to guess the baby's birth details, include a table with information such as Date, Time, Weight, Length, Gender and Guessed by. It's fun to see who came closest to the actual birth details afterwards.
GAME - BABY BINGO...
Guests emailed me a photograph of themselves as a bubba... I put them together on a large sheet of cardboard. On the day try and match the adults to the photos. We had one of the "Mum to Be" also, and it was a fun game to surprise her with.
CELEBRITY MUM AND BABY MATCH...
I know my "Mum to Be" loves her trash mags... so I knew she would find this fun. Not everyone did tho, as it was a bit tough... I know I wouldn't have gotten many correct.
Here is a link for you to download the game Download Celebrity Baby Game.docx
And answers Download Celebrity Baby ANSWERS.docx
OTHER GAMES...
We played a few other games... A-Z of names, points for a name no one else had put down. Word scramble I got from here, you can download the question and answer sheet there. Easy peasy!
Matching pairs of socks... we got about 14 pairs of socks together, various sizes, colours, patterns. The idea is to mix them up and throw them onto the floor... time each person to see who can put them into pairs the quickest. Afterwards the socks are given to the "Mum to Be" as another little gift for Bubs.
I had lots of other games planned too, but we ran out of time.
BOOK FOR BABY...
Each guest bought a book that meant something special to them for the bubba. We then sat in a circle and took turns to present the book to the "Mum to Be" and explain to her why the book was special to us. I also got people to introduce themselves and explain how it was that they knew "Mum to Be"... this was a really good icebreaker. And especially nice for Mum and Dad to go through the books together and marvel at the instant library they had before them!
DECORATIONS...
We had a baby shower at a great cafe that had a separate room out back, which was perfect!
"Mum to Be" got the bunting, banner and some napkins from on online store, unfortunately the banner was incorrectly spelt... but it didnt matter. "Mum to Be" also arranged for some balloons. We got the green and blue tissue pom poms from here.
I found this site really useful BabyShower101.
So if you are planning a baby shower I hope that helps some.
And if you can find yourself a nine year old to record EVERY SINGLE SECOND without any editing whatsoever... I highly recommend it. Especially if they refuse to move out of photos and you can be heard on said video at least 12 times asking for them to do so... before giving up and taking the shot anyways!
We had a great time. Whose next in line for a baby shower I wonder? I am ready, let me just say that!!!
Love out...
Bx