Baby Shower Activities
Well-planned baby shower activities can make your shower a success. Baby shower activities are exciting and help guests connect to one another. Baby shower guests become closer to the expectant mother as they share their own stories and group activities. Activities such as making keepsake items provide immediate fun and lasting memories. Personalize t-shirts, onesies, crib sheets or blankets; take photos of baby shower guests, print them out and put them in an album with advice or notes from each guest. Fun baby shower games can be less embarrassing when doing something like choosing a flower from a centerpiece, counting the number of petals on the flower, and offering that many pieces of advice to the mother to be.
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How to Wash Baby Clothes
While you are thinking about how to wash baby clothes, the first thing to keep in mind is the sensitivity of the baby’s skin. Your newborn may tend to break out in rashes during the first year. Take the following precautions to protect the condition of newborn clothes and to prevent unnecessary rashes.
Step by step directions on how to wash baby clothes
- Pre-wash all brand new clothing to remove any chemicals from packaging and storage.
- Purchase a laundry detergent that is free of dyes and fragrance or a laundry detergent that is designed specifically for babies clothing.
- Stay away from bleach or detergents that contain bleach when washing newborn clothing as bleach can cause irritation to your baby’s skin.
- Be careful to only use the suggested amount of soap per load to reduce the risk of leaving residual soap on clothing. Run the clothes through an extra rinse cycle if rinse water still contains soap.
- Wash baby clothes in cold water. Cold water will keep the clothes from fading and shrinking.
- Dryer sheets can be the cause of skin reactions as well. Wool dryer balls cut drying time and leave clothes soft, fluffy and static free without the use of chemicals.
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Retro Baby Shower
The Retro baby shower is the latest trend in baby shower planning. A Retro Shower has 50’s and 60’s stripes and color shades. Shower colors include combinations of pastel pinks & blues with kiwi greens, soft browns and ruddy earth tones. Bold patterns and dynamic colors are a union of traditional 1950’s ideals and 21st century imagination.
Retro Baby Shower
Retro Baby Shower Decorations
Decorate your shower with streamers, napkins and balloons in retro colors like pastel brown with light blue or pink. Hang a retro clothesline in the room with jumpers, blankets, sheets, sleepers and baby socks for that pre-dryer 1950’s look. Play retro background music and retro baby shower games to complete your trendy Retro Shower.
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Icebreaker Birthday Games
Icebreaker birthday games are a great way to start your child’s birthday party and let the guests meet and make new friends. Here are a few ideas that can be modified to fit the theme of your birthday party.
Icebreaker Birthday Games
Ideas for Icebreaker Birthday Games:
Cartoon Couples – Write the names of each cartoon character and their match on pieces of paper (for example: Sponge Bob and Patrick, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Scooby Do and Shaggy, etc.) Place the cartoon names in a bowl and have each birthday party guest choose a paper from the bowl as they arrive. Ask each guest to find the other half of the cartoon couple. This icebreaker game can be modified to many different matching themes.
Icebreaker Ball Game – Buy a large inflatable beach ball and in permanent marker write icebreaker questions all over it. Sample questions can be something like: If you were an animal what would you be, what is the scariest movie you ever saw, what is your favorite food, what is your favorite tv show, what three words best describe you, if you were invisible what would you do, etc. Have birthday guests gather in a circle and have a guest throw the icebreaker ball to another party guest. The person who catches the ball must answer the question closest to where their right thumb is touching.
Line up Icebreaker Game – Give each party guest a number and tell them not to tell the others what it is. The object of the game is to have them line up in order without talking or using their fingers.
M&M Icebreaker Game – For each color M&M assign a certain question or category in which each guest must share something about themselves. Skittles or other multicolored candies may be used.
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How to Organize Baby Clothes
New moms wonder how to organize baby clothes after the baby shower, sales and hand me downs picked up along the way. The question of how to organize baby clothes begins with size. Sort out sizes 3 to 6 months (or larger) and store them for later use or place them out of the way in lower drawers. Keep sizes 0-3 months handy in the top drawer for current use. It is good to wash new clothes and any other fabric-type gift that will come in contact with your new baby’s skin.
Organize the drawers of the baby’s dresser in sections: fold or roll onsies in one section, socks in another, and bibs, hats or burp towels in another. This will make it easier to find what you need during those late night feedings. Multiple piece outfits can be separated from other nursery staples with homemade or store-bought dividers. Sweaters or coats can be hung in closets or on the back of the nursery door to save space.
It is a good idea to rotate the newly washed baby clothes to the bottom to keep the outfits from getting worn out too quickly. As your baby grows, store outgrown clothing in boxes sorted and labeled by gender and size.
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