michelle paige blogs: Baby Shower

Wednesday

Snow Themed Baby Boy Shower

It's time for a Baby Shower!
When the whole family enjoys skiing and the baby is due in January, you MUST have a snow shower, right? Of course! Take a look.
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The shower took place at our church. I used long folding tables and placed dividers covered with gray tablecloths behind them.
Light blue and gray balloons as well as a snowy garland was hung near the top.White foam snowflakes (affiliate link) were added to the tablecloth background with stick pins. No tape needed!

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Mini silver tinsel trees and mini flocked trees (affiliate links) lined the tables. Silver cake stands elevated the trees. A few glittery snowflakes on stands were set about, as well as fluffy snow, blue, white & silver ornaments and sparkly ribbon.
I also added these amazing soft snowballs. They are so fun for decorating and for playing with!

I did add a bit of real cedar greenery that was cut off from our tree. I LOVE having a cedar tree in our front yard!

Some ladies in the church helped with fruit platters and treats. A few of the items were labeled to go with the theme, such as...

I was really hoping to find some white cotton candy, but never did. I thought cups of it would have been the cutest 'snow drifts'! Next time!
If you've read my blog before, you'll recognize the donut hole tree.
I've made them for a few parties (like my brother's donut party and my daughter's Favorite Things party.) A stryofoam cone (aff link), covered in plastic wrap and donut holes stuck in the cone with toothpicks. It's always a showstopper!

On one side of the room I set up a 'diaper writing table'. This was a great activity for guests to do as they arrived.

Large galvanized buckets (affiliate links) held the diapers. One bucket labeled, Diapers, the other bucket labeled, Finished Diapers.
Guests were to take a marker and write an encouraging or humorous note on the front of a diaper, for the mom to read as she changes her baby.

After the ladies had wrote on diapers and had treats and drinks, we had a short devotion from our Youth and Family Pastor. She prayed over the mom and talked about what a joy it is to be a 'boy mom'. She also brought out an interesting scripture found in 2 Timothy 1:5 which encourages all moms and grandmas to pass on our 'sincere faith' to our children, just like Timothy's mom and grandmother did for him.

After the devotion we played the Left Right Game.
A paper sack filled with 4 chocolate kisses was stapled closed and given to each woman in the circle. Three of those bags had a winner ticket in them.

I wrote this Left Right Story last Mother's Day. I tweaked it just a bit, so it would work well with the shower.
Every time I said the word, 'Right', the ladies would pass their sacks to the right. Every time I said the word, 'Left', they passed their sacks to the left.
Lots of laughing and fun. When the story was over, the ladies opened their bags. Winners received blue gloves.

On the other side of the room was the gift table. Some church ladies donated money towards a group gift of diapers.

I made a diaper cake to go on the gift table--it's a 'cheater version' of a diaper cake. It's made with no rolled diapers...because no one has time for that! I may add a post with directions later, we'll see?
Everyone thought the cake was adorable. The puppy on top is a little gift for the baby's big sister.

And of course, every party has to have a photo shoot! For the backdrop I used a white sheet and light blue foam snowflakes. Skiing props made the pictures extra fun! I found these chalkboard speech bubbles at Target last year, but here is a similar one.

Congratulations, Leslie!

Here's another shower...
FROG Shower

Friday

FROG Baby Shower

It's a Frog Baby Shower!

Come take a look at this 'ribbiting' frog shower for a baby girl!

I made 'leaping' invitations with a 'pop out' frog on green floral wire. 'Boing'!

The 'toad-ally' cute decor was based around this chevron wrapping paper found at Target.
Hot pink, yellow and lime green worked perfectly.
A collection of paper lanterns were hung from the ceiling.
Stuffed frogs were scattered around the room.

All the treats were appropriately froggy labeled.
The 'green slime cups' were a hit!

The froggy cupcakes were taken from this site.

A 'frog-ulous' idea (are you 'croakin' over my puns, yet?)
was to have a frame for the guests to sign.
Each guest made their fingerprint look like a frog and signed their name.
The frame will hang in the baby's frog themed nursery.

Lots of activities took place at this church shower.
The mom-to-be is a youth leader, so all the youth girls attended.
Of course we had to have a long jump...because that's what frogs do, right?
Apparently tweens long jump, too.

We played, 'Guess What's In the Bag' game.
Each item was for a baby and started with the letter F, R, O, G.
The guests had to only look at the outside of the sack and guess the item.
(Fingernail clippers, Rattle, Onesie, Gerber Green Beans)

Lots of gifts were opened...and a few were appropriately themed!

A F.R.O.G. devotion was done by a special friend and youth leader, too.
No, the shower devotion was not based on the frog plagues of the Bible,
but on the acronym of F. R. O. G.
Fully Rely On God.
Many encouraging scriptures and stories were shared on how we can
Fully Rely On God as we parent our children.

And don't forget the most important part...