Baby Shower Ideas: Nursery Rhyme Shower
Are you having a hard time coming up with good baby shower ideas? Why not throw a nursery rhyme themed baby shower. Grab a well-loved book of nursery rhymes and start planning. You’ll soon find yourself with plenty of ideas for a great baby shower.
Play games such as Finish the Baby Rhyme, found on this great list of baby shower games. You could also play Nursery Rhyme Charades. Have each guest draw a name of a nursery rhyme out of a bag and act it out. This is sure to bring lots of laughter! Another fun idea would be to fill a jar with cotton balls and have the guest guess how many bags of wool “Baa Baa Black Sheep” has. The person who guesses the closest to the correct number would win a prize.
There are many great baby shower ideas you could use for decorations. Use pages from old nursery rhyme books. You could make a garland, a table runner, wall decorations or small framed table decorations with these pages. Borrow stuffed animals that are related to nursery rhymes, such as lambs, ducks or geese. Moons, stars, and flowers would also all complement the theme. Use an old nursery rhyme book as a guest book. Have each guest sign a different page and present it to the guest of honor. This will be a special memento of her baby shower.
More baby shower ideas for your Nursery Rhyme Shower:
You can easily serve food that relates to nursery rhymes. Serve “Humpty Dumpty” deviled eggs, “The Muffin Man’s” muffins, or cheese chunks for “Little Miss Muffet’s curds and whey”. You could serve star-shaped cookies to represent “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” and moon-shaped cookies to represent “Hey Diddle, Diddle”. For a drink, serve hot tea to represent “Polly Put the Kettle On”.
As favors, send your guest home with flower seeds or small potted flowers. Attach a tag with “Mary, Mary Quite Contrary” printed on it. Another option for favors or prizes would be tapered candles with tag that has “Jack Be Nimble” printed on it.
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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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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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Green Baby Shower Favors
Green Baby Shower Favors are replacing traditional party favors as people move to greener living. The following green baby shower favors are environmentally friendly and unique.
Green Baby Shower Favors
Green Baby Shower Favors Ideas:
Living Baby Shower Favors – A simple, economic and growing trend in baby shower favors is to give seed packets to represent new life and growth. A variation of this baby shower favor is to tie together 3 packages of seeds with a colorful ribbon, to represent Mom, Dad and the new baby. Tiny potted plants given away in personalized terra cotta pots are another fun baby shower favor.
Charitable Baby Shower Favors – Some new mothers wish to give to charities and non-profit organizations on behalf of their guests. One particular organization or a choice from a list of organizations on a card decorated with ribbon and custom labels is both elegant and practical.
Custom made stationary on handmade paper and soy candles look great on the tables and make great conversation pieces. Please send us your green baby shower favor ideas in order that we may share them with the rest of our readers.
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Toddler Birthday Games
Toddler birthday games are great for burning excess energy and encouraging social interactions between children at your child’s birthday party. Your toddler birthday games should not only be easy to play, but safe as well. A good safety rule is to make sure that your prizes or party favors do not fit through a paper towel tube in order to prevent choking hazards.
Toddler Birthday Games
Classic Toddler Birthday Games
Pin the tail on the donkey games are versatile because you can modify the pairings by the theme of your party: frog on the lilly pad, slipper on the ballerina, car on the finish line and so on. Instead of a pin, use tape on the back of each object to be “pinned” to the poster. The child who pins their object closest to the target is the winner.
Playing a “freeze” dance game is sure to remove some of that excess party energy. Play a lively children’s song and have all the children dance. When you stop the music and yell “freeze” everyone must stop dancing and freeze in that position until you say “unfreeze.” Start the music again and repeat.
Other Toddler Birthday Games Ideas
Let the children have a birthday party parade with musical instruments, streamers, ribbons, stuffed animals or whatever relates to the birthday party theme.
Active games like Hokey Pokey, Ring Around the Rosy, or just letting the children dance freestyle really keep children entertained. Blowing bubbles or holding coloring contests with theme inspired coloring pages are also great activities.
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