Baby shower - help

[countthestars]

My sister's baby shower is this weekend and I think we need something to make it a little more special - we aren't planning games or fancy decorations.  It's loosely jungle themed (invitations and chocolate elephant favors). Her MIL is doing flower and jungle animal centerpieces.

At my shower they wrote me messages on diapers and had people guess boy or girl since I was team green.  What can we do to make it a little more fun/special without adding games really? I was thinking of having people offer name suggestions (not forced) since they are still undecided. What have you seen at showers that was easy/fun/optional?

Thanks!

[cricketwife]

Being surrounded by people who love you to celebrate your baby is special enough. I'm not being snarky, it seriously is.

[soozy87]

If you want to do the name thing you could have everyone suggest a name that begin with each of the letters of their initials.

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We were team green. They handed out notecards at the beginning and throughout the shower everyone wrote down when they thought the baby would come, how much would weigh, what gender would be, and what we should name him/her. We had a really good time going through the answers later, it was fun and not
really game-y.

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alcohol

[mandapanda18]

I was team green as well, so all the games but one revolved around what will baby be. We had a chart for people to be $1 on to guess the due date, we had a voting chalk board for boy or girl. We didn't really do any of the traditional games with the exception of the water broke game (toy babies in ice cubes, who's ever melted first won a prize after yelling their water broke). Which was a hit since it was a man at my co-ed shower .

I love my book of "tips" that they did at my work shower, each person wrote on a nice piece of cardstock their tip for momma and baby, then they put them in a nice photo album book for me.

[shellbear09]

You could get one of those big frames to have guests sign or pinterest has a lot of ideas to do a guest book tree or balloon as a keepsake to hang in baby's room.

[redheadk]

Non-game activities:

- write messages on diapers for late night changes
- name baby using the letters in parents names
- write some advice on a card for the parents to be

I would set these up as stations so that people can choose to participate or not. The diaper decorating is normally a hit, especially if any kids are attending. You just need a pack of diapers and some colored sharpies.

[redheadk]

Also, we normally have people write sign the inside cover of a hardback copy of On the Night You Were Born in lieu of a guest book but you could do that with a jungle themed book.

[spk926]

Not sure if you can find these in store but at my friend's shower the host got a set of Melissa and Doug's wooden blocks (I knew because we have the same set) and everyone wrote a message to baby on a block. Then the whole block set is a gift to mom for child to play with when older.

ETA Here's a picture I just took from her instagram.

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[6fsn]

The block idea is awesome