Baby Shower

This weekend was a very exciting event! Myself and a good friend of my sister-in-laws got to host a baby shower for my nephew and sister-in-law. I love to craft, decorate and plan so putting together this baby shower was super fun! I think she was really impressed with the decor, food and games we had planned so I would say it was a total success! Plus now that it is over my craft room is only half full (with Al's birthday party decor and food still piling up). 

The welcome table

Banana guessing game

 Picture frame mat for guests to put their well wishes for baby and mom

Envelopes for each guest to write out their name and address on. Makes it easier for mom to write out thank you cards, with pre-addressed envelopes to each of her guests

Box of favours for each guest to take on the way out

Box of Favors

In keeping with our monkey theme each guest received a bag of candy bananas as a thank you for attending the shower

Shower Game

Each guest put in one guess as to how many bananas were in the jar. And yes I counted every single one of those 1450 bananas.

Gift Table 

We took this picture before any guests had arrived. By the end of the shower this table was heaping with gifts for a very deserving mommy and baby.

Candy Buffet and Diaper Cake

Our candy buffet consisted of candy bananas, marshmallow bananas, yellow and brown reese's pieces, chocolate gummy monkeys, gummy bananas, and yellow and green jelly beans. Yum

Diaper Cake

Treena and I worked on the diaper cake together. We found a tutorial on youtube how to make it. It was very easy, basically roll each diaper and wrap an elastic band around it. When you have several rolled diapers, assemble them in a circle and put another elastic band around the collection of rolled diapers. Continue doing so until you have the desired size of diaper cake tier. No glue required so the diapers are usable afterward. After all that is the purpose of a diaper cake! We attached bows and ribbon using bobby pins to hold them in place. We chose to use size 5 diapers for the base, size 4 diapers for the second tier and size 3 diapers for the top tier. 

Monkey Cake

In keeping with our theme Treena produced a fabulous monkey cake!

Present Time

We also played a few other games but we kept it very simple. We wanted the shower to be relaxing and enjoyable and not have to follow a strict schedule. We played a baby picture guessing game. I had printed baby pictures of twelve guests in attendance at the shower and the game was to try and guess which baby picture belonged to which guest. It was definitely the hit of the shower in terms of games. The other game we played was a trivia game about mommy and daddy. It was fun but definitely challenging. I was hoping to bring together the two sides of the family and help each other get to know the other side of the family better. Hindsight I would make the quiz multiple choice as it was a little tough! We had another game to play but completely forgot about it. We made a tray of ice cubes with each cube containing a toy baby. The game was to see who's baby would break free of the ice cube or "break their water" first! But in all the commotion we totally forgot those poor babies in the freezer. Ah next time!

As usual we had a ton of food and everyone had a great time! Pinterest was definitely the source of a lot of inspiration for our games, food and decor! If you have any questions about our decorations or ideas feel free to send me a message! Now my friends need to hurry up and have babies so I can plan more showers!