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Baby Shower ideas?
Any ideas for a baby shower for someone who hates traditional shower games? The party will be 3 hours long so my mother is insisting we have something for people to ‘do’ – i don’t mind some sort of activity but hate the traditional shower games. Any ideas? TIA!
Torin
Jenga? Washers? Whatever other game you might play in a group if the party had nothing to do with babies?
potato
Is it warm where you are? How about lawn games like bocce, croquet, etc.
FP
The only shower game I have ever participated in and enjoyed was: during gift opening, set an egg timer for random intervals. If the timer goes off when the mom is opening your gift, you get a prize – like a nail polish, a wrapped up cupcake, etc. Small trinkets. It made the gift opening speed up and actually had people paying attention to that portion of the party.
Kk
I liked baby shower bingo for the same reason- each person filled out a 5×5 square card with gifts they thought the mom might receive (writing your own gift on the free center square) and there was a pile of dove chocolates to use as markers. The winner received a small prize, and it got everyone to focus on the gift experience.
MJ
If you want something for people to do, buy a bunch of plain bibs or onesies and put out a decorating station (paints or pens, depending on your mess tolerance).
Rainbow Hair
I love this. Even the people who do a ‘bad’ job have made a cute onesie for the newborn!
coffee cake
The only activity I’ve ever enjoyed was where the guests made a book for the new baby. Everyone got to pick a letter of the alphabet (lots of guests so the whole alphabet got taken) and had to draw a picture on a book page that started with that letter. So, draw apples for the letter A, that type of thing. It ended up being really cute, and logistically was nice because I was at a table of strangers and we ended up making conversation easily about what we were drawing and our lack of art skills (lol). At the end, the pages were combined in order as a “gift” to mom and baby.
Godzilla
This might be terrible or awesome but a powerpoint party. People have to make a 3 min powerpoint on a topic. Maybe the theme could be focused on babies.
SH DC
The best baby shower I’ve ever been to started with a backyard bbq and ended at the casino/racetrack (Mom came too!). It was awesome. A change of venue may provide the “activities-but-not-baby-shower-games” that you’re looking for.