by Ctd 2005
Throwing a Sports Baby Shower for a couple who loves sports will put you in a league of your own. This shower theme works well for a couple or family baby shower.
1. Choose a location. Since this shower has an athletic twist to it, consider hosting the shower in a recreational facility or at a park. When planning the baby shower games, organize them using park or recreational equipment and sports areas, such as baseball field, tennis court, or basketball goal. Even if you don’t use the equipment, after the formalities of the Sports Baby Shower have ceased, your guests can play ball.
2. Create an invitation or purchase invitations. You can make personalized invitations on your computer, featuring a picture of the expectant couple at their favorite sporting event or engaging in an athletic activity. Also, invitations with a sports theme can be personalized and purchased online.
On the invitation, request that guests where sports team paraphernalia. Sports fans will love an opportunity to show off their team spirit by wearing their favorite jersey or baseball cap.
3. Decorate with sports and babies in mind. You can decorate the party area with sporting equipment. Place miniature footballs, baseballs, basketballs, soccer balls, and volleyballs around the room. You can place the balls in baby dolls laps or prop up the baby dolls on the balls. Various sports banners can be found at party stores, if you’d like to use these for more color.
4. Plan active games. You must have games at a baby shower, so why not make them athletic? You can plan Olympic style games. Have couples race to one end of the room or field to diaper a football or a baby doll. Have a partners from couples stand on opposite ends of the game area and try to squirt the contents of the beverage into their partner’s mouth. Award medals at the end of each event.
Sports fans will have a ball at this Sports Baby Shower. Use your imagination to blend the excitement of the future baby and the enthusiasm generated by sports to throw a fun-filled baby shower.
July 30th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Baby Showers, Party Planning | Comments (0)
by soapylovedeb
When a first baby is on its way, a baby shower is thrown to celebrate and prepare for its arrival. The family may be showered with baby booties, bibs, cribs, diaper bags, play yards, and more. However, when the second baby is on its way, a shower may not be necessary. Instead, the family may be sprinkled with gifts at a Baby Sprinkle.
A Baby Sprinkle allows friends and family members to celebrate a second or third baby, for instance, who may not be in need of a crib or a tub because the family still has major items from their first child’s birth. At a Baby Sprinkle, the family can be sprinkled with specific items like diapers and wipes. Grocery store gift certificates or cards make great sprinkle gifts, too. Once the baby arrives and the family learns of the child’s dietary needs, formula and water can be purchased using the gift cards, or the gift cards can be saved and used to purchase baby food when the child is older.
At a Baby Sprinkle, you can still play games, eat cake, and enjoy family and friends. Also, if a guestbook is used, your baby will have a memento of all the people who came out to celebrate his or her impending arrival.
July 28th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Baby Showers, Gift ideas | Comments (0)
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Baby showers aren’t just for the mother of the baby and female guests anymore. Many people are moving toward throwing baby showers for couples. Below are a few baby shower games for couples to play at the shower.
- Identify the Poop: The party host places different types of smashed candy bars in different diapers. You might smash up a Three Musketeers Bar in one and a Hershey’s chocolate bar in another. Couples have to go from diaper to diaper trying to identify the type of candy bar in each diaper. Make sure they have paper and pens to write down their answers.
- Diaper the Baby: You’ll need several baby dolls about the same size, cloth diapers, and diaper pins. Couples can race each other to see who will be the first to change their baby’s diaper.
- Feed the Baby: Couples are blindfolded, given spoons, and jars of baby food, preferably fruit. One of the pair must feed the other the baby food while blindfolded. The object is to be the first couple to eat the contents of their jar.
- Drink Your Bottle: The object of this game is to be the first couple to fill your baby bottle with a beverage. Then one of the two must be the first to drink the entire beverage from the bottle.
Make sure to have your camera recording and take plenty of pictures because these baby shower games for couples will make fantastic memories.
July 22nd, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Baby Showers | Comments (0)
by The Felt Mouse
Throwing a baby shower for someone is a tremendous gift in its own right. Doing this provides an opportunity for other friends and family members to assist the parents in providing essential items for the future newborn baby or babies. Designing a gift basket filled with useful items will be appreciated by the growing family.
- Bath Gift Basket: Using a baby tub as the basket, create a gift basket filled with baby soap, lotion, shampoo, bathrobe, washcloths, and towels. Also, include a rubber duck with the words hot on its bottom. The letters change color if the water is too hot for the baby.
- Diapers Gift Basket: Use a wicker storage basket, diaper genie, or plastic garbage can as the container. Fill the container with a pack of diapers of any size, cornstarch, diaper rash cream (preferably Boudreaux’s Butt Paste), and a pack of wipes.
- Book Gift Basket: Pick out a cute cloth bag for the container. Fill the bag with cloth and plastic children’s books. Make sure to include a teething book in the bag, too. Books that call for a picture of the baby make a nice addition to this gift bag.
Parents will enjoy any one of these gifts baskets because certain items are always a necessity when a baby is in the house.
July 21st, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Baby Showers, Gift ideas | Comments (0)
by rouvelee
Your family has been showered with presents for the future baby at a baby shower, and your due date is quickly approaching. Now it’s the time to send out thank you notes for the gifts. When the baby arrives, you won’t have time to write and send out notes of gratitude. Most of your time will be spent tending to your newborn’s need and trying to rest. While you have a few minutes, create an original, personalized baby shower thank you note on your computer.
1. Have someone take a picture of you and your family surrounded by the shower gifts and transfer it to the computer. Put the picture on the cover and type “Thank you!” on the inside of the card. Print them out and write personal messages to your family and friends.
2. Take a picture of the nursery and make that picture the cover of your thank you note.
3. Scan and transfer to your computer the latest ultrasound image of your baby and create memorable thank you notes and mementos of your pregnancy for others.
Creating your own thank you notes and filling them with personalized messages makes them extra special. Make sure you keep one for your baby’s scrapbook, so your child can see how you expressed your appreciation for his or her presents.
July 21st, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Baby Showers, Customs | Comments (0)
by cityflickr
After a woman has a baby, she and older members of her household may not have time to prepare meals. Many women don’t have the luxury of having someone come into the home to help prepare meals for her and her family. Consequently, an edible baby shower gift will make a significant contribution to providing meals to a family with a newborn in the home.
- Give restaurant gift certificates. These restaurants should not be fast-food restaurants, but restaurants that offer healthy dishes. If you can, give gift certificates that offer delivery service.
- Purchase meal packages for the family from businesses like Dinner by Design (dinnerbydesignkitchen.com). They will prepare the dishes, and the customer just has to cook them at home. Some of the locations offer delivery services.
- Commit to making and delivering a meal a week for one month or longer to the family. If you really want to be ambitious, you can organize a group of people to prepare meals for the family with the newborn.
- Give frozen entrees. Deliver frozen entrees or dishes to the family after the baby is born. They can put them in the freezer and pull them out when they’re ready to heat them.
If you’ve been in a home with a newborn, you know how difficult planning and preparing meals can be for families. So next time you’re invited to a baby shower consider giving an edible baby shower gift.
July 20th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Baby Showers, Gift ideas | Comments (0)
by clevercupcakes
Having a baby brings joy, excitement, and enthusiasm. When a couple announces their first pregnancy, many people begin thinking about celebrating the baby-to-be and couple with gifts. Consequently, the couple will find themselves registering their wish list of products at a favorite store or two. A baby shower will be planned, and friends and family members will shop for items to present to the mother-to-be, traditionally, before the baby is born. However, what happens when the couple announces their second or third pregnancy? Should they expect to be thrown a baby shower?
Some people believe a baby shower should be thrown for a couple to help defer the expenses of their first bundle of joy, with a few exceptions. A shower might be thrown for the couple again if their second child will be of a different sex than their first child. A second shower would be appropriate for a couple who had their first child in their twenties and, now, they’re expecting their second child when they’re in their forties.
Many people believe whenever a child is born, a shower should be thrown. According to the Emily Post Institute (www.emilypost.com), “It is perfectly fine to throw a baby shower for a mother’s second or third baby, as long as the guest list is limited to close relatives and very close friends and/or guests who did not attend a shower for the first child.” The site, also, includes some other reasons a second shower is acceptable.
What do you think? Should a baby shower be thrown for every pregnancy?
July 9th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Baby Showers, Customs | Comments (0)
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