Since there wasn't a ton of guests coming to our shower, I decided we didn't need a whole guest book, but I still wanted something.... so I took a canning jar, added a "baby" sticker and green ribbon, then glued baby scrapbooking paper on the lid. Then I cut out circles and squares of matching scrapbook paper, so everyone could write little notes of encouragement, love, jokes, and advice for the new Mom. Then she can keep them in the jar in the baby's room and read them when she needs a pick-me-up!
We also played 2 small games, just to liven things up a bit between eating and chatting. First was a little quiz game, which I edited in photoshop to customise and add duckies (of course), but all the credit for the quiz goes to
The Alexanders blog, who threw an amazing shower of their own.
The second game involved a roll of toilet paper. You pick off as many squares as you think would be the circumfrance of the mommy's pregnant belly. Just make sure that the guest of honour has a good sense of humour and isn't too sensitive about her tummy! It was pretty funny. I had little boxes of lindor chocolates for prizes, that I bought on sale at Sears.
Last thing I wanted to tell you about for this post is my favourite decoration: the clothesline. I used red ribbon I already had, plus wooden clothespins. If you noticed in the pictures, I used the wooden clothespins a lot throughout the shower, and the whole bag was only a dollar at the dollar store. The sleepers were also all ones my little guy has already outgrown, that I chose for their colour palette. I couldn't help buying the 2 ducky onesies though, but overall it was a cheap and easy gift/decoration for the shower.
There is one final post to go before the baby shower saga is over, and I will be showing you the 2 DIY gifts I made for the mommy-to-be.
