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Hi, any advise for throwing a co-ed baby shower?
Hi I have never posted here, but I have gotten excellent advise on other boards so I thought I would come here for some help. I am throwing my brother and his SO a shower, and they want a co-ed one. I think this is cool, and plan on having a co-ed shower when I have kids, but I never thought of how to throw one! I am having a much harder time than I thought I would. I was thinking a tropical "theme" since the party will be in mid June and I live in San Diego so the weather would be nice. Does anybody have any advise?
Re: Hi, any advise for throwing a co-ed baby shower?
The following are links to the coed baby showers we've had thrown for us recently:
I helped throw one for a friend last year. We did a "Survivor" themed baby shower. It was really fun! When everyone came in, they picked a bandana out of a bag. There were four different types (just made from jungle like fabric) and that determined the team they were on. Then we had two main games.
1. A relay race where everyone from the team did a different task. This ranged from everything to holding 3 things at once and hanging up clothes on a line, tasting baby food and guessing the type, and even chugging beer from a baby bottle. The final task was a baby themed word scramble, which evened out any problems from the earlier events.
2. A guessing game where all the questions were baby related, but the answers were all numbers (which made it easier on the guys). One person went up from each team at a time. They had to write down their number of a dry erase board. Then we scored it like price is right, closest without going over won.
The invitations looked like the survivor logo but said "Survivor Baby" instead of the destination. We also did an alcoholic and a non-alcoholic blue drink we served in martini glasses with little gummy animals on a toothpick in the drink. They looked really cute!
We're a competitive group (a lot of us run together)... so we enjoyed it. I know it won't work for every crowd, but maybe something in there might help.
Good luck!
- make sure you serve some hearty foods for the guys. It's ok to do some cutesy sandwiches or pinwheels but guys need something more like wings or meat of some kind
- Games. While I love games and my group of friends/family like them too, just make sure that mom and dad want games at their shower. And be prepared to have them be very optional. THose that don't play often will still have a good time laughing at everyone else
- serve some beer!
I co hosted a girlfriends shower last year. We kept the games to a minimum per the couples request...you know men have a short attention span:-) We also made sure we had game prizes for guys and girls.
HTH
Your showers were soooo cute! Congrats on your baby...I miss reading your post.
Lots of drinks!
The only contests/games I've actually enjoyed involved chugging wine (girls) or beer (boys) from a bottle to see who could finish the fastest.
A friend of mine had one last summer. Her MIL made it really simple, backyard BBQ. There wasn't a lot of pastel baby-like items, they didn't have typical baby games, but they did have lots of backyard bbq games (horse shoes, corn-in-the-hole, bocce ball, etc.
It was very relaxed...we ate and drank and they opened gifts. To me it was the perfect shower.