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out of town baby shower gifts

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I'm planning a shower for a good friend, and it will be quite small because most of her friends and family live out of the state and out of the country. I'd like to find a way to include thoughts and messages from these people. I've heard of mailing quilt scraps out to make a quilt, but I'm not really a sewer. Does anyone have good (and cheap) ideas that will make a great personalized gift from far away well-wishers?
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Re: out of town baby shower gifts

  • sabriel1sabriel1 member
    I saw someone on pinterest post this https://www.lilsugar.com/Heirloom-Baby-Shower-Games-Activities-2960734 .

    Basically it's a shower "game" where you print these little cards out and people fill them out. On the cards are things like "I hope the baby likes... blank, I hope the baby grows up to be... blank... and at the bottom the guest signs their name and it can be turned into a scrapbook of sorts for the baby/mtb. 

    Perhaps you could email/send these cards out to family and friends from away and see if they would be interested in filling them out. Now as for the best/ most polite way to do it I don't know. 

     DD born Oct 2011 - DS#1 born Jan 2014 - DS#2 born Apr 2015 - DS#3 born Sept 2016 - LO#5 due Feb 7, 2018

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  • JLW0504JLW0504 member
    You could get a photo of everyone you want and go to your local Walgreens or even Shutterfly and make a "story book". Instead of it being an actual story, you can use well wishes from the OOT guests for baby/Mommy.
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  • wittyschaffywittyschaffy member
    One of my shower hosts very dear friends is a gifted artist and she drew 2 cartoon style animals in the theme of our nursery (an elephant an a giraffe).  They were framed and sitting at the party on a table.  Guests were asked to fill in a small circle of paper (green, orange, and tan) with a thought or wish for the baby and to sign their names to it.  After the shower, the host brought them home and arranged the little circles in cute clusters as balloons on the artwork and gave it back to me to hang on the nursery wall.  I thought it was adorable!  You could easily use a clip art animal if you aren't artistically inclined and you could send the balloons out in an invite or with a note to out of town family and friends explaining what you are doing with them (and include postage to send it back).  
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  • msyoonmsyoon
    I've had people send me recipe cards or blank scrapbook pages with paid shipping label back. My friend then took pictures of the completed scrapbook with all of the pages from all of the out of state friends and family.
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