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I'm having a baby shower for a friend in two weeks and need ideas for games, decorations, food, anything. I have a few thoughts but thought I'd ask here. You ladies are sure to have some wonderful suggestions.
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You can stuff sleepers with newspaper or tissue paper (softer) and bend them in different postitions and place them around the room as decor. We did this once and it was really fun.
Making a diaper "cake" which is 3-tiered is fun and easy (picture a wedding cake). You roll disposable diapers up like you would do a sleeping bag-keep adding another one until you reached a desired size. Each tier will be smaller. Tie ribbon around the tier to keep in place. Then place a wooden dowel down the conter to keep the tier on top of each other. Adorn the cake with curling ribbon. You can also wrap the outside of the tier with blankets, burp rags. etc. Pin baby items to the outside-rattles, etc. My directions arne't the greatest. You may find better online.
We once had a "Rosary Shower" where we showered the new mother in prayers and then ate! Also appropriate for a mother with several children who may not need or want lots of gifts. We took up a small collection beforehand for a gift certificate to a dept. store to surprise her with since she didn't want presents.
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My girlfriend is hosting a baby shower this weekend for another friend who is adopting. She told me when she googled baby showers she got the best ideas.
Just my 2 cents since I am not very creative!
Marybeth
PS Have fun at the shower! 
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Patty....is it a first time mom? If so then it's fun to get all the traditional layette stuff. If not, she might appreciate a food shower.
The homeschool moms in my old neighborhood have a frozen meal shower for each other. We bring pot-luck to eat and a frozen meal for the mom to take home.
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One of my favorite ideas is to hang up a clothesline and pin different baby garments or items along the line. Easy decorating and the baby items are also gifts on display.
My sisters and I came up with an idea for party favors for a baby (and/or wedding shower). We ordered "newborn" colored twine from FNT Industries to make decade rosaries in baby theme patterns. We also did this with my future sil's shower this month...they were such a big hit she's decided to make them for her wedding favors.
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I get practibility from my mom  and always buy a sack of diapers. Now I plan to include a copy of Regina Doman's book Angel in the Waters. It makes a lovely baby shower gift.
And a meal for the new family is always a wonderful excuse to see the new baby.
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Jenn, can you tell us how to make the decade rosaries? Do you have a set of instructions for those of us who like to be shown step by step?
Great idea!
Mary Alice in Kansas
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Cay Gibson wrote:
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I second this as a gift idea. I haven't been to a baby shower for a first baby in forever, and usually the showers stop after the first. So, my friends and I have started having "diaper showers" for each other! Everyone brings a different size pack of diapers and a pack of wipes.
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wamegomom wrote:
| Jenn, can you tell us how to make the decade rosaries? Do you have a set of instructions for those of us who like to be shown step by step? |
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A priest friend showed us these knotted rosaries. He makes them in the confessional and prays a rosary on them before he gives them away.
Knotted Rosary Instructions .pdf file and Knotted Cross Instructions. I don't have exact directions for a decade...I kind of started making a whole rosary and decided to shorten it to a decade...So I make one decade, make a centerpiece knot and then make a knotted cross at the end. I prefer making the rosary big enough to slip over my wrist, more like a bracelet, but others we made were smaller than that.
I can try to be a bit more clearer or find some other directions if this isn't clear as mud. 
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If you need game ideas, a really simple one is doing baby food jars...take the labels off and have people identify what is in the jar...it's harder than you think. So much of that mush looks the same. Without being able to smell or taste it makes it harder.
One shower we had races on how fast could you diaper a "baby" with the cloth diapers and pins.
One thing that is so in vogue and seems so easy to do (yet people are charging an awful lot) is taking the burp/cloth diapers and sewing decorative bands on the edges, like bias tape.
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Thanks for the ideas and keep 'em coming!
No, the shower is not for a new mom. This is her sixth baby but there are five years between the youngest child and this baby, so they did get rid of some stuff. I was mostly wondering about games and food for the shower. My friend did give me a list of things she could use so I could tell people if they ask. This will be Boy #4, so lots of things they have are worn out I'm sure.
God bless,
Patty
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Does anyone have any new baby games to add?
Thanks!
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JennGM wrote:
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Patty,
A hilarious suggestion along these lines. My sister went to a baby shower last week and told me about the best game  Hang a clothes line, now you time each party goer as they have to hang the washing (baby singlets) with the baby in their arms (a doll) and talk on the phone at the same time. Now the phone is not just pretense they actually had one of the mums in the room also talking to her. So she had to carry on a real conversation.
I'll email my sister and ask for the other games they did. She said they had some great ones.
Regards presents, baby number six my friends gave me a baby shower. They bought a nappy bucket (I use cloth) and but all the presents in it By baby number six many of your clothes are starting to look tired, anyway its nice to have something for that baby, each one is special. I think its lovely your hosting one.
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Back in August, we held a baby shower for a friend who had her 8th.
One of the things her sisters did was to have scrapbooking materials on hand. Everyone was asked pre-party to think of their favorite Catholic quote to write down and that would be part of the baby's scrapbook.
Mine was, "To evangelize is to teach the art of living." Pope Benedict XVI.
Most people chose something from their favorite saint...
Just another idea....
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Another idea, since she has older children is to have an Usborne book shower...
That way her other children get some gifts, too...
Don't forget...Donna Marie sells them, too!
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Erin wrote:
My sister went to a baby shower last week and told me about the best game Hang a clothes line, now you time each party goer as they have to hang the washing (baby singlets) with the baby in their arms (a doll) and talk on the phone at the same time. Now the phone is not just pretense they actually had one of the mums in the room also talking to her. So she had to carry on a real conversation.
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You could make this game even better by having a bunch of littles dance around the party goer shouting, "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!"
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I hosted a baby shower last spring. I made up a big batch of homemade play dough in the new mom's favorite color (orange) and passed around plastic bags with a chunk of dough, a small paper plate and a toothpick. The idea was to sculpt a baby from the dough, and then the new mom chose the winner. It was amazing how creative people got!
Another game I filled about 10 lunch size paper bags with different baby items, numbered and stapled the bags shut. The bags were passed around, and people had to try & guess what was in the bag and write it down. The most correct answers won - and nobody got all 10 correct! I used things like safety door stoppers, a diaper, travel size baby shampoo, pacifier, etc.
I also made a diaper cake (as someone mentioned earlier - a link to the one I made should be here: http://mellyspix.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_archive.html Scroll past the boomerang post and you should see the cake) I had the cake out as a decoration when everyone was arriving, then carefully removed it from the room when the party was getting started. The first game was to list everything they could remember that was on the cake - and also guess how many diapers it took to make it.
Also, my prizes were all in small baby-themed boxes in a basket. They were all different things - and nobody knew what they would get until they chose their box. I had travel sized lotion & soap from Bath & Body Works, a $5 Starbucks card, bath salts, small candles, mini picture frames.
For favors, I handed out tealights in small glass holders, wrapped in tulle with a small poem about lighting a candle and saying a prayer when the baby was born.
Hope that gave you some ideas!
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Patty,
Another fun game is to melt chocolate bars in disposable diapers, then pass them around and have everyone guess what kind of chocolate bar is in each diaper. When I hosted a baby shower, I also made up a basket of chocolate bars to give to the mom-to-be w/ a quote from a friend of mine (actually, I think you know Lorna W.) "Woman cannot live by chocolate alone...but almost."
For food, I served a fruit tray w/ yogurt dip (just plain old vanilla yogurt), a veggie tray w/ dip, cookies, canape bread w/ cream cheese spread (cream cheese mixed w/ a little maple syrup), and an apple twist appetizer from a Pampered Chef cookbook. I also served punch to drink. I went a little overboard on that one. I've since found that people are just as happy w/ less choices, like just cake and punch. If you have the shower in the afternoon, just about any finger food will do.
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Thanks for the ideas!
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