Ideas for Spilling the Gender

WifeyMommy2011 · June 2011

We find out the sex in 3 weeks and we are planning on telling DH's side at his family reunion at the end of July. Just wondering some ideas on how we should tell...ie: Should we do the gender 'cake' thing...or something else creative?

We live 17 hours away from all family and this is the first time we will be able to announce anything face to face to the families pertaining to our PG...plus it's our first LO so we want to make it special.

What are some cute ways you announced your babies gender?

lageorgiapaperie · June 2011

Get a vanilla cake mix, dye it pink or blue and then frost it! Everyone will find out when they cut in to the cake.

kle+spd · June 2011

lageorgiapaperie:
Get a vanilla cake mix, dye it pink or blue and then frost it! Everyone will find out when they cut in to the cake.

this is what we did! the grandparents LOVED it as they had never seen it before! they still talk about it!

christinaramirez08 · June 2011

I love the cake idea and wish I could have done but it just didn't work out with our family - everyone lives in separate parts of California and would have been impossible to get everyone together.

My friend did it and it looked like a lot of fun.

charshman · June 2011

I've heard of a cute one where you fill black balloons with pink or blue confetti. Everyone pops their balloon together to see what color the confetti is.

I made cards for the grandparents to be announcing what we are having. I included the ultra sound pictures too.

kateanddj · June 2011

We just found out today what we are having... we were going to put the results in an envelope and take it to a bakery without even knowing the results ourselves and have our family come out for dinner and then reveal it. But my husband wanted to know right then and I was not going to say no because that is his choice... well if he was going to know I had to know and I can't keep my own secrets so I blabbed it to everyone already and so did he lolol

Qmommy · June 2011

This is what I'm doing... I gave the boxes to my parents over the weekend. Now it's just a waiting game until my birthday!

https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/54896248.aspx

varkeyr · June 2011

Depends on what you want to do and how many will be there. You can go to a local bakery there and have them bake a cake. I also like the pp idea with the balloons. You can also "play" pictionary and draw "I am having a Boy or Girl ."

ErinBella879 · June 2011

The day of our anatomy scan we are having our parents and DH s siblings over for coffee and cake to announce the sex of the baby. We have two ideas If its a girl... We are putting a box of sugar, some spices, and a card that says "everything nice" in a gift bag that my DH little sister will open. ( sugar, spice, and everything nice that's what little girls are made of). If its a boy ... We will probably do the cake thing. I will bake a cake ahead of time and then ice it when we get home from the scan. Both DH and I think it's a boy so we will see. We are also making a big chart with the names ofnsiblings and parents and they will all take guesses about the sex, birthday, weight, length, hair, etc. We will bring it to the hospital with us when LO is born. Just for fun,

memali26 · June 2011

I was going to order a onesie from cafepress.com to tell everyone, but it was backordered, so I made it on my own. Since we had a girl, it was pink and it said "Boy" and "Girl" with boxes next to them. I check the box for "Girl." For family we saw in person, I just held up the onesie with no warning and got some pretty funny reactions. For those we didn't see in person I just sent them a picture of the onesie.

This time I was not so creative and just texted everyone that is a girl.

xoTanyaMarie · June 2011

I did the gender reveal cake. We had a family dinner with grandparents and soon to be aunts/auncles. I dyed a vanilla cake blue and iced it with a gender neutral color. After dinner we had one of the grandparents cut into the cake..surrrpriseee!

The best part was that my sister couldnt be there, so we set her up at the kitchen table on our laptop and Skyped her so she could be part of it!

P.s I LOVE the balloon idea too.

Nichie2 · June 2011

lageorgiapaperie:
Get a vanilla cake mix, dye it pink or blue and then frost it! Everyone will find out when they cut in to the cake.

This is exactly what I was thinking! This is what we are planning on doing to announce to our family!

nfisher23 · June 2011

We did very similar to the cake thing but we did cupcakes so that everyone saw, not just the person cutting the cake. And I also got vanilla frosting - dyed half pink, half blue and frosted each cupcake half and half with a white question mark on it. Make sure to use foil cupcake wrappers so they can't see through though.

micahwatson · June 2011

I'm another who did the cake! It was alot of fun. We were having a family barbeque and my cake said "It's a..." on the top. When people saw that they asked what was up and I said you will have to cut into it to see. They were all excited and demanded to cut the cake! We had DH's grandma cut it. When she pulled out the knife, everyone saw blue. She started to cry right away and had to stop cutting!

J8Cash · June 2011

We have 4 nieces and I wanted to make the reveal something fun for them. So, I got a bag for each of them and wrote a note on the outside that said, "Your new baby cousin is going to be a...???" and tied a white star balloon to the handles to keep the bags closed.

Inside the bags there were tons of blue candy. When the girls started to pull the candy out the adults were already getting excited putting the pieces together but I really wanted to give the girls a chance to figure it out. It took a min but, when all the blue candy clicked "boy" they were so happy!

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