Since the shower was a few days after Christmas, we still had all of our decorations up, but I did decorate the cake table area with baby boy decor.
I kept the games pretty low-key. I'm not really big on the embarrassing shower games and didn't want to inflict that on my new sister-in-law:). When the guests arrived they each were given 3 clothespins (which I had already painted for an wedding shower earlier in the year). This was part of the Never Say Baby game. Each time you caught someone else saying the word "Baby" then you got to take one of their clothes pins. Our winner ended up with over 20 clothespins!
We also had the guests sign into a notebook and write in their birthdays and anniversaries. This served a dual purpose. It gave the guest of honor a list of family dates as well as provided another game. The winner of this game was the one whose birthday or anniversary was closest to the baby's due date.
We wrote up a quiz about the new mom and dad for the next game. Since they are newlyweds and expecting a baby, not all of the shower guests knew very much about the guest of honor. The quiz consisted of questions about the expected mom and dads as babies and as adults. It was a good way to get to know them better.
In place of another game, the final activity was a gift for the new baby. We had each of the guests color a page with a letter from the alphabet. They colored the page and drew pictures of items that started with the particular letter. We will now laminate and bind the pages together to form an alphabet book that he can keep.
The prizes for the games were more of the sugar scrub that I had made for Strawberry Shortcake party earlier in the month.
We made a guest book page that they can keep for the new baby's room. Each of the guests signed a 1 1/2 inch diameter circle that I will make into a balloon bouquet.
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