Five Baby Shower Games and Activities

In recent months I have been to several baby showers (including my own) all have been wonderfully organised by various family members and friends.

One of the fun parts of a baby shower is the games and activities you do so I thought I'd give you some insight into ones that I've particularly enjoyed:

1) Guess the baby poop: I've seen a couple of variations of this. At my baby shower my friends mixed together several store cupboard ingredients (mustard, raisins etc) and you had to guess all the ingredients by sight, smell and if you was brave enough taste!!

At the baby shower yesterday there was six different melted chocolate bars in six numbered nappies and you had to guess what chocolate bars they were!!

2) Guess the baby food: baby food comes in all sorts of posh flavours these days. At my baby shower my friends heated up several flavours of baby food and we had to try and guess the flavours!

3) Draw the mum-to-be's baby: this ones really funny. Give each guest five minutes to draw what they think the baby will look like. Give them all to the mum-to-be to judge. These could all be collected up afterwards and put into a book for the mum-to-be to keep!

4) A good old fashioned quiz: Appeals to my competitive nature! Could be done individually or pub quiz style in small groups! Rounds could include nursery rhyme questions, celebrity baby names, questions about the mum-to-bes pregnancy.

5) Decorate bibs and baby vests: I loved doing this one! It really appealed to my creative side! Buy some plain bibs and vests, along with some fabric pens and let the guests decorate these items for the new baby.

One nice idea is to buy vests in a range of sizes (0-3, 3-6, 6-9, 9-12) and allow each guest to decorate them with 'Month 1, Month 2 etc) so the mum to be can photograph her baby each month and document the baby's growth!

I hope these ideas inspire you if you're organising a babyshower yourself!

What fun games have you played at a baby shower?! Please leave a comment below!

REVIEW:Your Baby Shower Store Teddy RoseBud Box

Your Baby Shower Store is a one stop shop for all your baby shower supplies, ranging from baby shower decorations to gifts.

When Margaret from Your Baby Shower Store offered an item from their gift range for me to review it couldn't come at a more perfect time as I had been invited to my goof friend Iwona's baby shower!

The item they sent me was the beautiful Teddy Rosebud Bouquet Box. (RRP £45.95) Which Contains a gorgeous soft Baby Gund Teddy Bear holding a stunning bouquet of baby clothes, beautifully presented as a stylish boxed arrangement.

The Baby Gund teddy stands 10.0 inches tall and is suitable from birth.

Additional to the super soft teddybear the bouquet contains:

• 2 pairs of baby socks
• 2 bodysuits
• 2 bibs

This box of gifts is stunningly presented and is beautifully finished with floral wrap, paper flowers and silk folidage, wrapped in cellophane with organza ribbon, gift tag/contents and care swing tag.

I was so excited to take along the i gift to Iwona's baby shower and amongst the other gifts it most definitely had the wow factor!!

The mum-to-be was delighted with the gift:

All the guests oohed and aahed at the sight of the gift and even her hubby sneaked in to watch the opening of the gifts commented on how beautiful the gift looked, he said how it would be a shame to open the arrangement up it looked so lovely!

Your Baby Shower Store has a whole range of baby shower gift ideas to suit all price budgets, ranging from fab bouquet displays like this one to wonderful nappy cakes!

They also stock a whole range of other baby gifts that would be suitable for birthdays, Christmas and Christenings. The website is most definitely a one stop shop for buying all your baby related gifts so check them out today!

I received this item for free for the purpose of this review. All views expressed are my own and that of the mummy and daddy to be.

DIY Baby Announcement Cards

You may be aware (if you are a follower of my other blog: Crafty Thinker) that i'm a Stampin' Up demonstrator. Stampin' Up! is a catalogue based craft company which sells stampsets, punches, ribbons, card, beautiful scrapbook papers and other craft accessories. I love being a demonstrator and showing people how to create their own handmade cards, scrapbook pages, gift boxes etc.

Today i'd like to share with you an idea on how to make your own baby announcement cards:

These cards were super quick to make (which was just as well as i had to make quite a lot!!) and you will notice that i slightly altered the designs to make creating such large quantities more bearable!!

I started with 'Bashful Blue' cardbases (i managed to make 3 cards from every piece of A4 card) and embossed them using the 'Big Shot' and the 'Stripes Embossing Folder' to create texture and then placed three 'Basic Pearls' in the bottom corner of each card to add some bling!!

I then stamped the super cute baby feet from the 'Baby Prints' stampset onto some 'Whisper White' card using 'Bashful Blue' ink and then stamped the 'it's a boy' over the feet (also from the 'Baby Prints' stampset) using 'Pacific Point' ink and then ran it through the 'Big Shot' using a die from the 'Labels Collection Framelits Dies', using 'Dimensionals' to attach the image to the cardbase. Here's a close-up:

I finished these cards off by stamping the announcement image from the 'Little Additions' stampset using 'Pacific Point' ink:

I loved making these cards and sent them out to all our friends and family to announce the arrival of Xander.

If you're expecting your own little arrival why not consider making your own announcements. Alternatively why not make a batch of these to give as a practical baby shower/ new baby gift? - check out the catalogue for suitable materials and feel free to email me for advice and orders: amyjtidd@gmail.com

Baby Shower Gift Idea: Baby Sock Bouquet

Baby showers used to be an American phenomenon but they've recently become a standard part of the pregnancy experience in the UK. The first baby shower I actually went to was my own just a couple of months ago. My sister and two of my best friends hosted a wonderful day with lots of laughs and CAKE!

Now it seems all my friends are expecting and this of course means lots of baby showers in the upcoming months!! In fact I went to I've just this weekend been.

One of the customs of a baby shower is that you bring a gift for the mum to be and baby and being crafty I was keen to make a gift. I'd seen a few photos on twitter of baby sock bouquets and decided to give making one a go!

The mother to be opted not to find out the sex of the baby so I needed to make it neutral and opted to use mainly white socks and a pair of yellow and a pair of orange socks for a splash of colour (neutral baby socks were near on impossible to find and eventually found them in H&M kids)

I googled 'baby sock bouquets' and found this fab tutorial and after several attempts this is the final product!

The bouquet got a great response at the baby shower and was one of the most unique gifts there! I'd love to know what you think!

Are you going to a baby shower soon? Do you know someone who had just had a baby? Why not get crafty and make one of these. All you need is 6 pairs of baby socks, some floristry wire and green floristry tape, some foliage (which could be picked from your garden) and something to wrap the bouquet in or a vase!!

If i have inspires you to have a go at making one please tweet me a pic: @craftythinker