I am just not that kind of Girl, Please help!!

Baby Showers take a lot of organising my friend, so you need to have some sort of a time schedule for planning different bits and bobs. I have found a website for you which gives you some good advice on just about everything you need to remember to do, right down to games. I hope you can sort something great out for your sister, from this... http://www.pregnancy-info.net/babyshowers.html Brightest Blessings and congratulations on being an expectant Aunt for the first time!

First of all congrats to your sister on her baby.... Baby showers can be fun, though sometimes a big headach in itself. If you know what your sister's baby is gonna be, go with that theme... If she's got a theme picked out for her baby's room, use that one. For decorations, easiest thing to do is just buy some cray paper, and twist it loosly and hang it around the room your gonna do the most activty in. Adding a few balloons and spice it up. The your local dollars store can be a very nice place to shop for cut outs if you want to add those. For the meal or snacks, just go with easy finger foods, they are the easiest and fastest. Chips, dips, fresh veggies, fruits, mints and nuts. Most of these can be found cheaply at your local dollar store. Also, you would want to have cake and punch, or your drinks of choice. For games, there are many of them out there. You can make word searchs. Some websites even have them for you to print. Can you name all the baby items. Place anywhere from 10 to 15 items on a tray and sit it in the middle of the room, where everyone can see it. Don't tell anyone why it's sitting there, or if you do, say decoration. Then later in the day, pick up the tray and go a quick walk around, and then hand everyone a piece of paper and set a timer for a minute and tell everyone to write down at many items as they can remember. Winner is the one with the most. When your guest arrive, have them tear off a piece of cray paper off and go on in. Then as everyone arrives have the mother to be, walk around to each person and see if the cray paper fits around here, and which ever one is the closest wins. How fast can you diaper a baby game... Get a good size baby doll, a pack of diapers and time each player as they change the baby. Fastest time wins. Name the baby game... Take mother to be and father to be's FULL names and have players make as many names for the baby out of their names. Guess the baby's size, winner will be determined after baby is born. But have everyone write down the weight, and lengh of the baby. You will be in charge of letting the winner know on the date of birth. For prizes, with all the baby showers I've ever given, attended and even at my own, the host always bought little rattles, butt balm, pacifiers and such to give a prizes, then the winners always gave the prizes to the mother to be. You can do favors if you want to, for your guest to leave with. The last baby shower I threw, I made cinnomon rolls, (the bake and serve kind) wrapped each one up, and attached a note saying thanks for showering our bun in the oven. I have also used premie diapers for favors, getting them and put them together as they would go on the baby, line the inside with tissue paper, make them cute, and then dropped in sugar baby candies. Attached a note, saying... Here's our sweet thanks for your generosity. Simple things go a long ways. Best of luck!

I went to my cousin's baby shower a few weeks ago, and we played a really neat game. Everyone had 1 clothes pin. Whenever someone heard someone else say the word BABY, the person would take the clothes pin of the person who said it, Once you were out, you were out. She who had the clothes pin won. We had all kinds of fun trying to make the other women say BABY. We had to keep on our toes and remember to say things lke "Kelly's new bundle of joy," or "the new little one," or "a child-to-be shower" or an "infant" stuff like that. Just don't say the word BABY. Aunt Nancy said BABY first, and since she lost her clothes pin, her joke was to try and make everyone else say BABY. haha Her teenaged daughter won, but I came in second place. She had 6 pins, I managed to collect 4. Another one we had was "guess the number of safety pins in the jar."

visit your local library and see if there are any books on giving baby showers. there are also websites that will be able to help you. i would also suggest, get someone to help you so you arent doing everything by yourself.

I am not that kind of girl either but when I was friends with a group of people I helped one of old friends throw a baby shower. I believe she went to a dollar store and got a baby shower games book, but you might even find something like that at wal*mart, I would suggest just having some appetizers, talk about the baby, and if it's just going to be all girls maybe a tear jerker movie. Even ask your sister what she might want to do at her shower, then again, most of the time things like that are surprises!

Hi! I've never thrown a baby shower by myself before but I did help my family out when they were throwing my Aunt a shower. For the food we had a potluck which made that part of the planning very easy. We also had a couple of games we played and here's what I can remember: 1. Guess mom's tummy size: We passed around a ball of yarn and each person would cut off the length of yarn that they thought would fit around the mom's belly. The person who was the closest got a prize. 2. Guess the baby food flavor: We had a bunch of baby food jars that we tore the labels off of so none of the guests knew what flavor it was. Each person tasted them and whoever got the most right won something. 3. Guess the due-date: Pretty self-explanatory although this would only work if your guests didn't already know the due-date. For party favors, if you have a bit of money to spend or if you're only throwing a small party, you could go to a party supply store and get mini-bottles and fill them up w/ jelly-beans. If you're lucky you might be able to find mini-bottles (or something similar like mini-baby booties) at a dollar store. That would certainly cut down on cost! I hope you have a fun time planning and at the shower! Congratulations to your sister!

Baby showers!! What fun!! I just gave one last summer, so maybe I can give a few ideas. If she knows whether it's a boy or a girl, then you have your color theme. If not, make it pastels of blue and pinks, or yellow and greens. If the mother to be knows what her nursery theme is going to be (animals, zoo, bears, etc) then use that theme for the party goods, and mention her theme in the invitations. One thing I did that was a huge hit at the party, was I bought a new blue (for a boy) baby bath tub and used it to serve the punch in. I made my punch and added some blue Kool-Aid to it so it looked like water, and then I bought those little bath-time rubber duckies and had them floating in the 'pond.' Baby shower games are always the hit of the party! Instead of describing a whole slew of them here, I'm just going to add a few of my favorite links. They let you print out (free) games, and the answer sheets, and then all you need is some pencils, a timer, and some little inexpensive gifties for the winners. This first link is baby shower central. You will love this one...it has supply lists for the shower, to-do lists, and a lot of real handy stuff! http://www.babyshowerscentral.com/checklists.shtml This is a free printable link to a baby word scramble game: http://www.babbee.com/baby_word_scramble/quiz.html More baby shower game ideas: http://101babyshowerideas.com/bsgames.htm

i got many of my games off this site...so check it out...http://www.babyshower101.com/i made my sis a diaper cake...it was a hit... u can go to the dollar tree for prizes like candles with candle holders...body lotions n washes n loofa's n picture frames...things like that.

Don't do it all by yourself. Ask help from others like friends and family members, I guess from there there are people who knows how things will go in a baby shower. I think you don't need to show your sister that you made everything for her just the thought that you made the initiative that you want to give her a baby shower is enough that your sister would be touch by the effort made by you.

Congratulations! We had a hawaiian baby shower for my daughter, it turned out really nice. Here is a link to see if you want to do the same. http://www.creative-baby-shower-ideas.com/hawaiian-baby-shower.html Here is a picture of all the cakes that I made including the diaper cake. We also had a watermelon basket. If you want I can show you that picture too. Good luck

Oh I just love parties and planning for one. Maybe you can start by thinking what your theme will be, like would it be like all pink or something. I planned a baby shower party before for my friend and I list down the things she need for her baby and then I had our friends choose what they can give her. blah-blah! Just think of a theme that you think will suit your sister and her baby. =)

Heres some great hints Favors: Make homemade soap and let it set in the shape of rattles or bottles . to set you can use cookie cutters. Invitations: If you need invitations you can get them at this site for free http://www.free-printable-party-invitation-online.com/baby-shower-invitation.html For tables and chairs ask a local church and places that would like to help.

This isn't so hard, okay I am the good host and good entertainer on hosting parties. All you gotta do is just invite people or your friends who are good at that. You can ask for help on these things, no one says you gotta do this alone. Ask a sister or a cousin or your mother or an aunt. Any relative that is a female or your closest female friends. Check online the kind of games that happens in these things on what to prepare and do. That should help you, make sure to have a checklist too and send out invitations at least a week prior to the occasion.

I have done a few baby showers so here are a few ideas that I have. You can do a game where your sister leaves the room and everybody has to write down what she was wearing. Then you give prizes to the person that guesses the closest. Another game is where everyone writes down the "baby" name for everykind of animal. Same thing, closest wins a prize. Also, pin the safety pin on the diaper(just like pin the tail on the donkey)! Good luck and hope this helps!!

[i]YOu can ask your friends to help you prepare for it. There are various games and activities you can watch at you tube, I did some research of this when I help a friend last may. I assure you, you can find different games at you tube! Then, start contacting your sisters' friends and ask them to bring any menu they want to contribute so that, more food, more fun! LOL! That's what we did last time![/i]

There are plenty of online sites with neat games. You can get your ideas from them. You can even "borrow" games from other showers you may have been too. Just remember, it is the thought that counts. Have fun with it. Here is a site with some printable games. http://www.babyshowergamesatoz.com

Well, you may have already gotten some good suggestions, here are a couple. Give every guest a safety pin when they arrive and then anybody caught saying the word 'baby' (or any other special word you decide) loses their pin to the person who caught them. At the end, whoever has the most pins gets a prize. At a shower I threw for a friend we had a blindfolded diaper race where each person who wanted to play was blindfolded and we used a life size baby doll. We'd put on the timer and your goal was to diaper the baby the fastest without being able to see. Most of us didn't do very well for a minute lol.. and that was with a doll who wasn't squirming and trying to pee on you! Anyway, it was lots of fun, I'd suggest videotaping it, still photos don't do it justice. We also did the baby food testing - which you can do one of two ways. You can either try to guess what they are by the color in the jars, or you can taste and try to guess that way. Have them all label-less and marked with numbers (so you can have a list that corresponds to the numbers with the actual contents set aside). I think we did about 10 jars. As far as a theme, is your sister having a boy or a girl? Has she chosen a theme for the nursery or anything like that? You can ask her, maybe she'll have some favorite colors or baby things that you can start with. OH! Another cool thing we did for my friend's shower was to enclose a little note with each invite informing the guests of the diaper drive. If you brought a package of diapers, you could enter your name in a drawing for a special prize - with the intent behind this to make sure the new mommy did not have to purchase diapers for awhile. Since she tends to have large babies, we asked for people to bring size 2 or larger, newborn diapers would have done her no good. Even my daughter was out of newborn diapers in less than 2 weeks.