Baby Shower Games

Some expecting mothers are very self conscience when they are pregnant, especially towards the end of their pregnancy. Unfortunately this is also around the time when you would be having the baby shower. Therefore you need to consider this when organizing their baby shower as the last thing you would want to do is make them feel uncomfortable or embarrassed at their own baby shower. For example, some mothers would not like it if you play games where people have to touch them or dress them up in an embarrassing outfit like a giant diaper etc. But I suppose if you were asked to arrange the baby shower you would be a really close friend of the expecting mom so you would know what she likes and doesn’t like. 

Game No. 1: Dirty Potty

I have played this game at several baby showers and it is always extremely entertaining. For the non participants of course! J

What you will need is a new, UNUSED potty, nutty chocolate (lunch bar usually works best), yellow liquid (pine nut, soda and passion fruit ect.), another bowl filled with NON SELF-RAISING FLOUR (if you use self raising flour the yeast in the flour can give her heartburn) and chuckles/tumbles (anything big enough to get out by just using your mouth). You ask everyone to attach a baby picture of themselves on their present. The mother-to-be then has to guess who belongs to which picture. If she gets it wrong she first has to take a bite of the lunch bar, which is floating in the yellow liquid in the potty, and then try find a chuckle in the bowl of flour. It can get quite messy if she guesses wrong often! Of course you can do the baby picture on the presents without having to do the punishment game with it.

Game No. 2: Guess the Gerber

Another fun game is getting the mommy-to-be to taste different types of purity and guessing which each flavour is. If you want to let her suffer buy the grosser flavours. The dessert flavours are quite nice and she will easily guess what they are. Try not to have too many different flavours as once they are opened they have to be used or thrown away.

Game No. 3: Myth vs. Fact

This game works quite well when there is a mixture of experienced mothers and ladies who aren’t mothers at the baby shower. Get everyone to write down either a myth or a fact about babies and/or motherhood. You can make some of them blatantly incorrect. Then score the mommy-to-be on her factual knowledge of motherhood.

Game No. 4: Dirty Diaper

Take about 4 diapers and melt four different types of chocolates in each diaper. Go around the group with one nappy at a time and get everyone to write down what they think the chocolate is that is inside. Try and get difficult chocolates that are maybe not that popular. Chocolates like Bar-One is very easily guessed. This is a really fun game to get everyone involved and it does like quite off putting at first! J

Game No. 5: Measure the belly

If the mom is not self conscience and doesn’t find being touched this is quite a nice game. Get everyone to guess what the diameter of her belly is. After everyone has guessed measure it. If you want you can organize a small gift for the winner.

Game No. 6: Down-down

Buy a bunch of cheap baby bottles at a place like the Crazy Store. Get everyone to fill it with their beverage of choice and have a down-down competition. Once again you can organize a little prize for the winner if you wish too.

Game No. 7: Belly race

This game is to give everyone else that is not pregnant an idea of what it is like waddling like a duck instead of walking like a normal person. J Everyone stuffs as many balloons as they can under their tops. Then you all have a little foot race outside. The one to cross the finish line first without loosing any balloons wins!!

This is just a few games. There are still plenty more. The main thing is to try and make this day as special as possible so she can remember it forever.

Yours in fun & games,

Elly D

Baby Shower Cupcakes

Themed cupcakes are always a very nice idea for baby showers. If you only have a limited budget to work with it is not always the most economical to go out and buy them from a bakery. If you are creative enough and have a lot of patience you can try and make the ornaments yourself, otherwise they can be bought at baking supply shops. If the gender of the baby is unknown you can make cupcakes with blue and pink icing or choose a neutral colour like yellow or green for the icing. 

Something else which is a nice idea is labelled cookies. The cookies can either be in baby related shapes (i.e. baby grows, booties, dummies) or it can be a normal gingerbread man/girl shape. With icing you can write baby related comments on it as well like Mother Sucker etc. If you are having a sit down baby shower the biscuits can be used as place settings or thank you “cards”.

Please feel free to contact me if you get stuck while making your themed cupcakes/cookies or if you would like some made for you. Enjoy! :-)

Yours in fun & cupcakes,

Elly D

Diaper Cakes

A friend of mine was having her first baby and she didn’t really want a baby shower. But after asking her nicely a few times she finally agreed for me to organize her one. I figured seeing as I have never organized a baby shower before I would first talk to all the new mothers I know to ask what they liked or didn’t like about their own baby showers. One of my friends suggested I make a diaper cake. When she said this I was slightly grossed out! When I think of diapers I think of number 2’s and when I think of cake I think of nice gooey chocolate icing. Now put these two thoughts in one image and you will see where I was at!! Needless to say I googled (when in doubt) it and I was pleasantly surprised.

It is a much nicer way in which to give the mommy to be some diapers. When you start making the cake it is quite hard because you can’t do anything to the diapers themselves seeing as they become useless once damaged. You also don’t want to make the cake too far in advance seeing as diapers are very absorbent and will absorb flavours if they are out of the packaging for too long.

The first thing you need is a solid base on which to mount the cake. I used a circular cake board that you can purchase at any baking supplies shop. Seeing as you can’t glue the diapers to the board itself you will need another way in which to secure the cake onto the board. This is where the core of the cake comes into play. Try finding as tall a bottle as possible. Make sure it is 100% clean and dry. The more tiers you want the cake to have the longer the bottle needs to be. My cakes generally have three tiers. You can glue the bottle to the board and build the cake around it, which will secure the cake. In order to extend the core, I cut off the top of a bottle and turned it upside down on the first bottle and glued these two together. If you can find a bottle long enough to reach to the third tier you wont have to make use of two bottles.

You can decorate the cake with whatever you want. It is nice to have different coloured and sized ribbons to wrap around the layers. I used a soft toy as the “cherry” on top of the cake and some baby products around the base of the cake. As you can see from the picture I also glued the baby’s new surname onto the cake. This present makes a nice centre piece for the presents or treats table. Please feel free to contact me if you get stuck while making your diaper cake or if you would like one made for you. Enjoy!! :-)

Yours in fun & diaper cakes,

Elly D