We had a baby shower for a friend at a local tea room. One of the girls helping to give the shower came up with the best idea for "place cards". She bought plastic baby bottles and filled them with pastel M&M's. Then she typed the names on the computer, put them on the bottles and these were our "place cards". Everyone had a nice chocolate treat to take home. The key is to find the pastel M & M's around Easter. Also she tied a cute then ribbon around the top!!

I didn't have a baby shower but my best friend sent me a box of individually wrapped baby presents. The ribbons on the presents contained cute baby decorations like little baby bottles and pacifiers. She also inflated balloons and added that and confetti to the box. Make sure you use priority mail because during shipping time the balloons will deflate.

Also for my mother's baby shower this same friend of mine baked her a cake and used similar baby decorations to put on the cake (little baby bottles and pacifiers).

Cherlynn Harle

For my baby shower, my sisters gave me a Noah's Ark themed party. They made arches of pastel colored balloons into a large rainbow and hung light blue curling ribbon from each balloon to resemble rain. This was hung over the back of the gift table and then the ends of the curling ribbon was trimmed even with the table. It looked great when the table was empty as well as full and also made a great backdrop for the usually awkward looking gift table pictures. The tables were decorated with frosted cookies in animal shapes that were attached to a base cookie so they stood up on their own. These made great favors and would also work well as name cards. Snacks for the kids were animal crackers and they each took home a bundle of balloons from the gift table. There punch was blue and ice had been frozen into the bottom of a toy ark that floated around the top of the punch bowl.

For my sisters baby shower we did a light blue gingham theme. She was decorating the baby's nursery in light blue gingham and eyelet and was going to make the curtains and bedding her self. We decorated the food table with white eyelet that hung to the floor and then covered all of the tables in blue gingham that we had cut into table cloths and hemmed. The tables looked cute and she had the fabric she needed to make the items she wanted to also. The gifts were placed in the antique crib she was going to use that was made up with a white bedding set borrowed from a friend. For an activity, we had a neighbor cut and sand blocks from 2x2 stock lumber. We primed them with different non toxic pastel paints and then set out paint markers. The guests each decorated one for the baby and then signed one side. These all were sealed after the party and went into a wooden box the neighbor had made. He was delighted to help and was happy to give his gift of his labor when he wanted to do something special for the family. The shower was given after the baby was born so for favors, a block was given to each person. Two sides were white, two light blue, and two painted in white and light blue stripes to make a gingham pattern. On one white side was the baby's name, the other side his birthday. The blue sides had his weight and height. This could also be done on just a plain block and then have the desired items written on, or a hand and foot print, or other baby items added. A permanent, small point, black "Sharpie" works well for this and also signing the blocks. The tables were decorated with light blue and white balloons attached to blocks that had a hole drilled through the corner for the curling ribbon to be tied to and the food table was decorated with pitchers of daises. The mother had a special seat in a rocking chair that her mother had used for her.

I am co-hosting my daughter's baby shower, in April. We plan to use the clothesline (my husband's father called it Ma's dryer), place little candies in a bottle, find safety pins in rice, take labels off 15 baby food jars and number them; guests have to guess what's in what.

We saved our kids baby hamper (son is now 31 & daughter is 28). We're going to use the hamper as a focal point and will it with gifts from her Dad and me. Glad we saved it!!

A wonderful suggestion came from my friend saying I should move the couch to the back of the room that way it will open up a large area for chairs, gifts on the coffee table and TV trays. It sounds so simple and am I ever grateful!. I will make sure each guest has a "surface" to set their plate or beverage on.

I do a lot of amateur desktop publishing with my computer. I designed napkins rings, 15 ft. banner across the front of the house, giant poster in the living room window and have designed and packaged all occasion greeting cards (12 per set) and my co-host is making a darling stork decoration to affix on the cards.

The prizes for the games were chosen so the winner could use it when they got home, (bottles of Honeysuckle-Peach hand lotion from Melaleuca, Idaho Falls, ID).

This is our first grandchild and the dad-to-be's parents also. The kids are "WORRIED" about us going ballistic.

At my sisters shower we made a baby sock bouquet for the centerpiece. I purchased a bunch of fake flowers (carnations) and then I pulled the fake flower off of the stem. I then rolled up baby socks (in colors to match decorations) from the toe to the top. Then fold the top of the sock over the roll (The socks look like rose buds when rolled this way). With thin wire I attached the sock rose buds to the stems. It turns into a beautiful centerpiece and the mom to be can take the bouquet home and have bunches of socks for her little one!

-Marci

I'm hosting the baby shower for my sister due in June with her first. And I wanted to do something really special and something she can relate to so I picked the theme "Ladies High Tea Party" which U know she loves. My idea for the seating arrangements are taking small tea cups painting them and adding guests name. This U thought would be something more personal and fun to take home with them.....

Angie

For a centerpiece next to the punch bowl was a "balloon baby".

Supplies:

• one big white balloon
• five smaller one's
• a marker
• a diaper of hostess' choice

Caroline

I did a baby shower theme in bears, and for favors I made bears out of marshmallows. You use two big marshmallows 1 for the body and 1 for the head, then use 6 miniature marshmallows two for ears, shape into ears, 4 for paws. Use markers to make paw prints and face, add a pink or blue bow under the neck, make bows yourself out of thin ribbon. You can even buy tiny bottles and rattles at a carnival supply shop and Elmer's glue one to the paw. Then lay little white cups in between bears legs filled with mints. Theses make adorable favors

Renilda

Go and get a large package of diapers and take the 1st diaper and roll it, take the 2nd diaper and roll it on top of the first one, take the 3rd diaper and roll it on top of the others, and so on and so on. You then will get a big roll or wheel of baby diapers. Tie it with ribbon and then do it 2 or 3 more time, different amount. It will soon then make a cake of diapers, which can be used a present or decoration.

Karen