Shower suggestion help please!

mandikins27

Hi everyone! hope everyone is having a great day. I m having a shower for a friend on Saturday (last minute thing) who is due in 3 weeks. shes never had a shower before... baby # 4 and final . I think she may be too uncomfortable to do games and tired. and of course gifts and food will be present but what else can I do for her or to fill time rather than just eating and staring at each other. I have thought of a belly mould... but have looked and cant find one in my city. so thanks in advance any suggestions would be appreciated

mandikins27

oh good idea!! never thought of it!! ty!

Milagros315

I know everyone is different, but there is no way in hell I would want to do a belly mold. I think food, gifts and conversation sounds perfect! Is there a reason you think people will just sit and stare at each other? Do most of the guests not really know each other or something?

mandikins27

yea a lot do not know each other but a few know everyone

mandikins27

good suggestions ty I would have never thought of them!

honeybeee3

I was going to suggest decorating onsies like said in PP. We did that at my shower and I also don't like shower games but it was really fun! You can use paint or tie dye or both. And all those cute, one-of-a-kind onsies make a really special gift to give to the expecting mom

LaBellaVida

You can still do games. They are not tiresome or anything. If the guest will be sitting, just pass stuff along.

For example, get 5 different candy bars, and 5 diapers. Melt a candy bar in the diaper and have the guest take a wiff of the diaper and write down what kinda candy bar is melted. The one who comes closest to the correct order gets a door prize.

Another game would be word scrabble. Think of 10 to 15 (or more) baby items, things, ect and have them unscramble the words.

I mean there are tons of games, and maybe only do 5 or so. It helps break the ice between strangers. They don't have to be very long games.

Baby shower games are fun.

nmrd

Low key thing we did at a shower is host handed out papers with a list of sentences to fill out "I hope you...." "your parents...." Etc with messages for the baby. If it's something you're interested there are probably pre-made sheets you could google online somewhere.

mandikins27

nursesouder said:

I like the Alphabet idea, but I think decorating letters sounds good.  You could buy the letters, paints and other supplies at a craft store....or even ask guests to bring a letter?

we do know the baby's name so maybe we could do her name and onsies ... thanks for the ideas ladies!!

southernyankeegirl

We did one for a friend where everyone cut lengths of ribbon to guess how big the Mom's belly was. Winner got a toy bottle full of mini Baby Ruth's (Mom's name was Ruth, but you could pick any kind of candy or prize).

And wtf is a belly mold?

mandikins27

Its like a cast of your belly

NatureLovers

Anyone else LOL @ "A is for ___"? I would be strongly tempted to be creative with mine.

Disneygeek77

I personally would stay away from any games involving measuring the MTB's belly.  Some woman don't mind but others can find it humiliating, so I would err on the side of caution and not do it.

lavet22

I hate shower games.  So when I have hosted showers for my girlfriends, I typically limit it to 1 or 2 GTKY kind of games about the MTB and do a onesie making station and a scrapbook making station.  I bring the puff paint and the plain onesies for everyone to decorate and also a big supply of scrapbook materials (pages, stickers, pens, markers, all kinds of stuff).  That way at the end of the shower the MTB has onesies decorated by her closest friends and a scrapbook she just needs to add pics to.  Both of these have gone over very well.

For the record, I am NOT a scrapbooker.  I received a scrapbook at my shower for DS1 and felt like I needed to complete it.  I actually really love it.  It chronicled his first year of "firsts" and I displayed it at his first birthday party.  I have made one for each of my other boys as well because it was just such a great way to keep all the "big" memories in one book that we save and look at from time to time.

banana2020

They did shower games at my baby shower but nothing overly exhausting and I didn't take part anyway.

Something my hosts did at my bridal shower years ago was fill out index cards with marriage advice. I LOVE looking at them all these years later.  They are awesome!  What if you had guests fill out parenting advice?  That is, as long as the mom-to-be isn't too sensitive to that (and she clearly has 3 kids already so she knows plenty!). But it would still be fun (IMO) to read how other people think you should raise your kid (most of my friends/family at my bridal shower offered funny anecdotes vs. actual advice which was so fun to read).

SheHulk723

Ah, thank you mommy-mush-brain... I clicked on this post thinking, 'why does someone need help taking a shower?' Yeah, I feel dumb now lmao.  I am really anti-games at parties, but I think the onesie decorating sounds cute!

KnitPixy

I would go the route of decorating onesies or get some diapers and have all the guests write a message for mom/dad to read at 3 in the morning when they go the change them.  Have mom select her favourite and give a prize.  The scrapbook idea is a cool one too.

Personally a big fan of a lot of games but doing one or two things can help stimulate conversation.

reyrey2014

I'm not a fan of the traditional baby shower games or arts & crafts. Although decorating the onesies is a cool idea. The only game we are having at our baby shower is Apples to Apples. I recommend asking the mom to be if she has any favorite games or activities she would like to do.

leeleesmomma15

I threw a shower once and we kept games simple....one game we bought some baby food and took the labels off the party guests had to guess what was in each jar with tasting it or taking the lid off....not an easy game....but it was fun

leeleesmomma15

That should say WITHOUT tasting it or tanning the lids off!! Hehe oops

leeleesmomma15

I hate auto correct

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TiffanyJill

You could have a baby prediction sheet for everyone to fill out. Guests get to write down their guess on weight, height, gender "if it isn't known, hair color, birthday, and write a piece of advice or well wishes comment to mom and baby.

We also played shower bingo. You hand out a blank bingo card to everyone and they fill it in based on the gifts they expect her to open. Then the game goes on while gifts are being opened rather than extending the length of the shower with lots of games.

Plus both of these options are very easy on the host Best of luck!

mandikins27

ty Tiffany your very helpful

stephchris0321

We made an ABC baby book for DS at my shower. Each guest was assigned a letter of the alphabet and was able to decorate and sign their page. It was a fun & memorable activity. My sister went to the Goodwill to buy used ABC books and we cut up the pages and designed the keepsake book for my son. For instance, you cut up pictures of cats, carrots and cars for the letter C. Or you can just draw the pictures too. When you're finished, I would laminate the book for your friend. I'm sure that she & the baby will love it!   

mandikins27

good idea thank you Steph

loveburgers

I threw a bridal shower and did what
banana2020@ did but I cut hearts out of construction paper and put bamboo sticks taped to the back and put them all in a pretty vase so she had a vase of hearts at the end and could read the cute antidotes and advice people gave, my friend still has them. You could do that with the hearts in pink or blue depending. We also read them out loud at the shower which was really cute and funny.

TXUltraRunner

When I am a guest at a shower, I hate shower games. Give the guests some booze and they will talk to each other.