Today was a very eventful day as I got to help host and throw one of my best friend's a babe shower for their "Little Peanut" baby Jax expected to be due in vi weeks! The theme was chosen past the mamahoped-for, Angela'southward maid-of-honor Sara and it was a perfect theme for the location called for the new parents' baby shower! The co-ed shower was held at a puddle clubhouse in the Anaheim area and was already gear up in a blueish color theme and tone, which worked out nifty for this bluish, grayness, and white party palette!

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Happily put in charge of hosting the game segments of the shower, I started scouring Pinterest and various websites for fun 'co-ed friendly' games. Although there were so many wonderful game ideas, I specially gravitated to the funny ones like "Pin the Sperm on the Uterus" merely decided to forgo those types of games since I didn't feel they suited the couple and their guests at this baby shower. I took a few notes and came up with the best five games that would work for this issue, assuming that we wouldn't go through all of them. Luckily, the games went fairly quickly and the wonderfully competitive guests were excited to start the side by side game equally each one ended. Here are the list of games I put together:

one. "Tinkle in the Pot" – For every expecting mama there comes an array of pregnancy related symptoms and struggles, 1 those may include needing to run to the potty as fast every bit you can without peeing your pants! The object of the game is to "tinkle in the pot" without peeing on the flooring! We had 6 players stand in a row parallel to to six wide-rima oris large mason jars the "potty". The players all donned pregnant bellies (using blown-upwards balloons) and held a ping-pong ball betwixt in that location knees and waddled across to the potty (bricklayer jars). Offset ane to "tinkle in the pot" won.

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2. "Change the Baby" – When I researched games, I liked two dissimilar ideas of this "change the baby" game and decided to combine some of the ideas together while likewise adding my own ideas into the mix. The thought of the game is to come out with a clean baby with a clean diaper and the diaper must be on correctly! This was another six player game and came with a few surprises forth the way! I had gear up vi balloons (diddled-up) with 'dirty' diapers on them and faces drawn on the airship and then yous know what direction to put the diaper on. The stations included individual wipes, talc powder, and a 'clean' diaper. First one with the diaper on correctly, make clean and powdered won the game. And then hither's how it went. Each participating invitee, the "parent" stood in forepart of their babes and on your marking, get set up, go – change your baby! The guests opened the diapers and were surprised to find that infant pooped (smeared peanut butter) eww – surprise number i! Be careful – don't drop or pop baby, newborn babies are fragile! The guest then opened their wipes only to notice that, surprise number two, you lot've only got 1 wipe left so y'all must get all the poop off with only one wipe! The game was lots of fun to watch! The winner's baby was checked to see if at that place were traces of poop (there shouldn't be) and fresh powder and the management of the diaper was correct!

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three. "My Water Broke!" – This was a simple and fun traditional kind of game. I pre-cleaned and froze some plastic political party favor babies in some big ice cube tray and had twelve guests play at the same fourth dimension. The object of the game was to melt the water ice using only your mouth (non your teeth, considering babies are fragile and you accept to be gentle with them) and come out holding a clean water ice free babe. First 1 to go the baby out of the ice yells "My water broke!" Wins!


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four. "Babe Bottle Beer Chug" – This is some other simple and fun game and perfect for the non-traditional guests and beer drinkers. Of course y'all can make this more family unit friendly and child oriented with juice or milk, but we decided to have this be an adult-just game. I found 6 bottles that were a dollar each and with past trials on this game, I took a scissor to the nipple and added a slit to brand it easier to chug. Nosotros filled the bottles with beer and handed them to our babies (volunteered guests). The object of the game is to cease the canteen equally fast as you tin, kickoff ane to finish wins!

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5. "Feed the Baby" – Each baby is different, but feeding babe solids and getting to see their reactions for the beginning time is e'er an exciting moment in mama and baby's life! I wasn't likewise sure about how this game would go, but turned out to exist a crowd pleaser with the guests. Nosotros had three teams of 2 (be sure to have 2 prizes for this game). I cut out holes at the bottom of three garbage numberless to use as bibs. Nosotros had one squad member stand up behind the other who sat in a chair. The team member that stood behind the chair would play mom or dad and was blindfolded. The team member in the chair would play baby with a bib on. I handed each parent an open container of applesauce and a spoon. The object of the game was to have baby finish the applesauce and then quickly switch roles. On your marks, get gear up, go! First team to finish both cups of applesauce wins!

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