Baby ShowerDo You Plan A Perfect Baby Shower?

Baby Shower Games For Couples

Do you know an outdoorsy couple who’s about to add a new hunter to the family? Help them celebrate their new bundle of joy with a camo Baby Shower!

There are five major things that you have to determine before the shower, though: who’s going to come, what you’re going to do, where it’s going to be, when it’s going to be, and how you’re going to decorate.

Don’t worry, though! Here are some tips for planning a great camo Baby Shower.

Getting Started – When’s it going to be?

You’ve decided to plan a baby shower. Congratulations! The first step is to decide when you’re going to have it. This will determine who will be able to come, and when you need to send out the invitations (about six to seven weeks before the event).

If you want to have the camo baby shower before the baby is born, then generally the best time is four to eight weeks before the baby’s due date. However, if you’d rather wait until the baby has joined us on the planet and has a name and a sex, then a “welcome baby” shower may be right on the money. These are held after the baby is born and Mommy has recovered enough to handle being around a lot of guests at once.

Setting the Scene – Where’s it going to be?

Well, if you’re going to have a camo baby shower, you might as well go all-out and have it outdoors! A backyard barbecue or a lakeside picnic would be a lot of fun, and something very different from the typical baby shower.

However, if you’re worried about the weather, or you’d just rather have it somewhere else, there are several options. If you’ve got a smaller group, or you’re having a come-and-go shower, then somebody’s house would be a good location. If you have a larger group (and a larger budget), then you could rent a place like a restaurant or a reception area in a hotel or church.

The Guest List – Who’s coming?

Ah, one of the most “fun” jobs in the planning of any event: making the guest list. With a camo baby shower, you have a theme that will appeal to both men and women, making it very easy for you to have a couples shower instead of women-only, if you so desire.

Be sure to invite people who get along, and beware any decades-long grudges. Nobody wants to be at a tense party. The number of guests will also help you determine where to have the shower, so if you’re stuck on that, figure out the guest list first.

Food and Games – What are you going to do?

Are you going to have simple appetizers at the shower, or a full meal? Are you going to play Baby Shower Games, or just let everybody talk and mingle? Are you going to open the gifts during the shower, or wait until everybody’s gone home?

These are just some of the questions you need to ask yourself when you’re planning for the “what” part of the camo baby shower. For example, men will probably be bored watching somebody unwrap cute baby gifts, so if you’re having a coed shower, it would be best to have another activity for the men when the wrapping paper starts to come off.

Camo Love – How are you going to decorate?

And now for the fun part of any baby shower: decorating! Plates, cups, and napkins are all necessities, and you can probably find them in a camo theme at your local party store. If not, there are plenty of places online that have camo party or picnic sets. You could also see about doing natural decorations, like plants, rocks, and twigs, to keep with the outdoorsy theme.

If you’re having the camo baby shower at a restaurant or somewhere other than a home or outdoors, check and see if there are any limitations on the kinds of decorations that you can use.

Whenever you’re doing a themed party, whether it’s a camo baby shower or something else, it’s very easy to let the theme overwhelm to the point that it becomes gaudy. So, try to balance it by including some decorative items that match, but aren’t themed. For example, if you have camo plates, then complement them with some solid green or tan napkins.

Plan your camo baby shower and have some fun!

Remember: this is all about the celebration of new life. Don’t sweat the small stuff, and have a lot of fun preparing to welcome a new baby into the world!

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Baby Shower Ideas?

I’ve been given the task of hosting a Couples Baby Shower.
They do not know what they are having and they are thinking of going with the theme “down on the farm” for their nursery.
I’m looking for ideas to help make it unique and fun.
I’m open to suggestions…any suggestions.
Theme?? Games?? Something other than, eat food and watch the couple open gifts.
Thanks for all of you great ideas… I really appreciate it…I only have a few weeks to put this together.

Since the theme is down on the farm, you can go to the dollar store and get some inexpensive small stuffed animals that you find on a farm and put them around the party, ducks, cows, sheep, etc, and use those as decorations.

For the centerpieces you can either ask a florist for a square piece of wood that looks like a picket fence and then have floral foam in the middle with the flowers in the middle, or you can make it yourself. Just fine something square and then make the picket fence yourself. Most florists do make arrangements that way though. You can just ask them to buy the base and you do the rest. Put the foam in and then have the flowers coming out.

You could also decorate in the colors of what she’s having, if you know if the baby is a boy or girl, or if you don’t know go yellow and green, but I LOVE the idea of decorating in the theme of the nursery, but you have to make sure that they’re sure that’s the theme of the nursery before you go ahead with all the hard work you’re going to do.

You can get a cake done and have it decorated with a barn and some animals on it.

You can also get a farm coloring book or look for some clip art online and enlarge it and have that as decorations, check party stores to see if they have any decorations to match the theme of the party.

You can get streamers and balloons in red and white, being the barn is red and the fence is white. The animals add to the color and they can be added around as accents with the stuffed animals. You can do Ty beanie babies and get the ones you would find on a farm etc.

You can even go to a toy store and buy the Little People farm set, it’s by Playschool and set that up, which would also double as a gift for when the baby’s older. It would be a very cute addition to the decorations and it’s not expensive. You can also look around for what they have in farm themes, usually Toys R’ Us has plenty of farm theme things for parties and toys, you can even get little toy John Deere tractors and put them on the tables, just one or two. All these things can go home with the parents at the end of the party as part of the present.

For games, you can do what you would find on a farm. List a bunch of different things you would find a farm and then ask your guests to come up with their own lists and the person with the most, wins, and listing the individual animals is counted as one thing, instead of just saying animals.

You can also do a game of what would the baby farm animal be called, like a baby cow is a calf and and a baby duck is a duckling, and go on and on with the different farm animals, and whoever gets the most right, wins.

If you do an online search of Baby Shower Games, you will come up with tons of websites and you can just change it up to a farm theme.

You can even do the tablecloths in a white and red checkered so it looks like a picnic on the farm and then have red napkins to go with it. You can even do just a plain red tablecloth and have red or red napkins and white napkins.

You can also cut a picket fence out of foam board and have it go around the food table, so you have the red and white tablecloth and then the picket fence around the table.

You can have baskets to hold the flatware, being on a farm, they colllect eggs and things in baskets, you can put the flatware in the napkins, roll them up and tie them together with a piece of twine and put them in a basket. When the guests get their food, they can take their flatware out of the basket which is rolled in their napkin. You can also keep rolls in baskets.

If you have a big red flyer wagon or if you can borrow one, put the gifts that people give in there, As the gifts come in, put them in there and those that don’t fit, put thm around the wagon and pile them around the wagon. Then when it’s time for gifts, you can hand her the ones on the floor and wheel the wagon to her with the ones in the wagon!

They also make small red flyer wagons, ones that can be used as centerpieces. they’re the size that a doll or stuffed animal can fit in. You can one or two of them and put that on the table with the food and make that hold the flatware. You can even put that where the drinks are and have the cups piled in it, etc.

I hope these helped and that you have a great shower!

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