One Week before the Baby Shower
6 Days Before the Baby Shower
Begin
by gathering your babyshower items in a big box. Go up in the attic, look in the
closets, and go through everything to see what you can use. Ribbons, tinsel, gift
bags, craft supplies, markers, etc.I fortunately found a Winnie the Pooh bear in the attic, so I'll put that on the entry table instead of pink carnations.
1. Then choose your games and begin thinking what kind of winners' gifts you can get, that could be for a man or woman. Searching the Internet for coed gifts didn't help us.See the Prizes we wound up getting on the Prize Ideas Page
2. Make sure the food preparations are arranged. A close friend of the mommy is preparing fried chicken and Ziti. (What a relief.)3. Make sure favors are being made. Another friend is making some Baby Bottle Favors. Neat idea!
4. Another friend wrapped the plastic
forks in napkins, and tied them with pink ribbon and put them in a decorated basket.
See the picture.
5. Someone is also making Diaper
Cake Centerpieces. So we have been real lucky with the babyshower preparations
so far.
5 Days before the Baby Shower
I decided to check out
Party World. They had baby stuff all right, but it was not what I was looking
for, specifically a Baby Shower Banner. So I decided to hit a couple Dollar
stores. The Dollar Store had a ton of stuff, like the plastic tablecloths, plates
and cups, (but we had already bought them at Walmart.) So if you are not stuck
on a theme for your Baby Shower, then definitely save some money and get your
stuff at the Dollar Store. See the Shopping Checklist
Then I stopped at a new Job Lot they just built in town and found a bobble head "Winnie the Pooh" for $1.99. (I couldn't believe it.) So, that's what I will put on the babyshowercake.
I also stopped at the florist to make arragements to have 30 balloons blown up, but should I have made arrangements with a store nearby for a cheap 25 cents each? What's .25 X 30? $7.50? (But... we already bought the balloons)Note to self: Get your helium balloons at a Dollar Store on the day of the babyshower! (I noticed too late that they had helium)