Baby Showers can be so much fun and serve as a great way to share in the excitement of a new baby with everyone, while getting lots of gifts. A traditional baby shower brings up images of white and pastel, very calming influences for the mother to be, but you can experiment with your color scheme. Sunflower yellow may be a good color to use for a baby due in the summer. Or if you know the gender you can add liberal amounts of blue and pink. Green is a good earthy color and symbolizes fertility. An easy game for everyone at the party can be, 'Name the Baby.' Pass a hat around and let guests put in one or more slips of paper with their suggestions of what to name the baby. The suggestions can be traditional or outrageous. Then the expectant parents can pick out the slips one at a time and if they don't like the name they have to come up with good reason for rejecting it. This will get a good laugh out of everyone and hopefully expand the list of possible names for parents to think about. Gifts given at baby showers are usually geared towards the baby and the mom. Don't worry about what you're going to get them and remember it's more than okay to think extremely practical. If all you can think to give is a caseload of diapers the parents will be extremely grateful, especially at two a.m. when they're changing what seems like the fiftieth diaper that day. Food at a baby shower can probably be appetizers and drinks. The focus is on celebrating with the soon-to-be-mom, not making her get up and cook for twenty people. If you want you can turn it into a potluck party and have guests bring you dinner, while all you provide is the plates, cups and silverware. |
