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Planning a Baby Shower – What to Include

Baby showers are enjoyable gatherings usually consisting of 4 main activities : socializing, eating, playing games and the best one of all, opening all those baby gifts! Planning a baby shower is the first step.

Lasting about two to 3 hours, it’s usually a good idea for the host to outline a schedule of activities beforehand so the speed of the party remains steady.

Planning the Baby Shower Schedule: The start of the baby shower is a good time for socialization.

Cuisine is always expected at a baby shower and it need not be elaborate. Finger foods are simplest and guests can eat throughout the entire length of the shower, with a special time, often towards the end, devoted to eating the cake.

Perhaps the most popular activity in most baby showers is the game time. Baby shower games are fun and there’s no end to the game options, either. Practically any game can be remodeled to make it applicable for a baby shower.

If the guests are a fun group, plan on playing several different baby games. Just be certain to decide on the games about three weeks before the shower so you know what games that may be played as the host will have to make certain she has plenty of game pieces and obligatory supplies. And she’ll need a prize to award the game winners, too!

Guessing the circumference of the expectant mother’s belly is a conventional game that’s's played at many baby showers.

IShould games not appear acceptable for the group, for whatever reason, plan a group project instead.

Some project concepts include scrapbooking, covering, making a video documentary, or making something similar to a hand-painted floor mat or wall hanging the expectant mother can make use of in her home.

If you are inviting men, plan the baby shower as more of get-together, maybe an outdoors BBQ. The guys can cook the food and assemble the baby gifts as they’re opened as the girls chill and have fun!

Keeping the Best for Last: Opening the baby gifts is surely the high point of the baby showers (at least from the mother’s viewpoint).

Be certain someone is in charge of writing down an inventory of the baby gifts and the name of the guest who gave each. Save the bows, too so that when it’s all over, the honored guest can be topped with a silly bow hat!