Help from the Baby Shower Queen
A baby shower is marking a day with a celebration of new life, the baby, your baby coming.
The intention of a baby shower is to literally shower the mother with blessings, gifts and the good will of her loved ones. A baby shower is not religious, although in the forties and fifties, showers were thrown in along with a baptism or a christening.
Your Baby Shower Cake; Creating Unique Experiences and Memories with Your Ideas
Let’s get creative with your baby shower cake… your very own home made cake or from your local bakery. If you’d like to save some money and blow the roof off your baby shower you can do it with your creatively… it all starts with your will and your imagination.
Picture this; put yourself at your party and imagine the faces of your friends and family…
See them Happy, delighted and beside themselves with joy from the experience of your amazing baby shower and your terrific cake. Now ask yourself; “How did I do it”? Yes, this is an exercise. AND it has real power. You can tap into pure creativity and the answer you’re about to get can be very useful. This is real.
Now, let’s think about the cake recipes for a second and in the back of your mind think about the theme of your shower, of your cake plus the presentation of your cake and food and your decorations.
Good cake recipes (and ideas) are worth their weight in gold, with little focus and your time you get to discover the very best ones. Look for cookbooks at your library, book store, yard sales and then do a web search, ask around AND something will surely spark your mind.
You may use baby ornaments, baby stuff and baby toys as your cake decorations, such as umbrellas, pacifiers, bottles, little knick knacks and baby dolls.
Pick a traditional chocolate cake, yellow cake or a carrot cake. Or think about orange-chocolate, almond or mocha cake served with delicious vanilla filling or butter cream frosting.
Match your cake decorations with the theme of your baby shower.
Use a tiny stuffed bear to decorate your cake and use Teddy Bear shaped candles on your cake.
Be creative Engage your mind and…
Make Fun with Baby Shower Cake
Hide a tiny plastic baby somewhere in the cake’s frosting – be sure to let guests know someone has it in their piece of cake so they don’t eat it! The guest who finds the little baby wins a prize and make it special , very special:o)
Fun Fun FUN, Baby Shower Games
If you are planning to have a baby shower, then you can make it fun and exciting by throwing in some fun filled baby games. These games set the mood for the shower and help the guest to interact with each other. There are a variety of games you could choose from.’ The name game’ promises to be fun. In this game you have to ask your guests to select two names for the baby.
Now within a limited span of time they have to construct minimum three letter words from the two chosen words. The fun starts when the guests try to figure out the original names listening to the constructed words!
Example if the chosen is Richard Gere.The constructed words can be Rich,hard,rare etc.Be prepared to hear a lot of innovative and unique names during this game!
Another game which will make your shower exciting is called ‘Feeding time’. In this game you have place a large bowl filled with cotton balls and anther empty bowl next to it. Next blindfold your guests and ask them to try their hand at removing cotton balls from one bowl to another.
Sounds simple? Here is the twist; the transfer is to be done using spoons! The person to transfer the maximum cotton balls wins!
The game ‘Rice bowl’ is another difficult game but is no less fun. In this you have to mix closed safety pins in a bowl which is half filled with uncooked rice. The task for the blindfolded guests is to transfer as many pins as possible within a time limit of 30 seconds. As pins feel almost like rice the task becomes difficult and all the more exciting!
You can also arrange for a game by asking guests to bring their own baby photographs along with them. To play this game a little preparation is required. A secretary will need to label the photograph by placing a removable name tag at the back of them .After the labels are done you are to show the photographs to the guests and ask them to identify the pictures.
The guests are to write down the name of people of whom they think the photograph actually is. The person who gets the maximum number correct is declared to be the winner. This game brings back fond memories of earlier times and promises to be quite a hit at the baby shower celebration.
The above mentioned are just a few of the many baby games you can try out. All you have to keep in mind while choosing a game is that it should be hassle free and fun to play. So make sure you plan some great games to make your “big day” truly BIG!
Have you ever hosted or planned a baby shower before?
Baby showers are memorable parties that celebrate a most exciting time for the new family-to-be.
But where to begin?
That’s where I come in. I love to plan baby showers and want to help you. I promise to make this a fun experience for everyone. Whether you are looking for baby shower games, baby shower invitations or thank you cards, baby shower poems or cakes, the details are all here!
Baby shower poems offer people like me…average…to create a unique and special message of love for a dear friend and her baby. Sure, we all spend a lot of money to show our esteem and lord knows that babies need lots of stuff but giving your time and creative energy just shows so much more of your true inner feelings…and your friends will notice. Like you, I searched all over the net for unique and heartfelt poetry that I could just copy or buy but was very disappointed, especially in the so called “free” stuff. So, being the researched I am I found a few good, reasonably priced books to help me learn how to write my own…quickly and easily. Take rhyming poetry for instance. Author Jack Prelutsky wrote a helpful little book called “Read A Rhyme, Write A Rhyme”. Check it out. It helped me write a beautiful poem for a friend.