Things You'll Need:
- Card stock
- Computer and printer
- Vellum
- Stuffed animals
- Baby clothing
- Ribbon or clothesline
- Balloons and streamers
- Bath fizzie recipe
- Dollar store favors
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Step 1
Purchase pre-made invitations with a Noah's ark theme, or create theme using your computer's printer, card stock and vellum. If you opt to make your own, use clip art to print up cute animal pictures on the cover of a folded piece of card stock. Print up the shower details on the vellum and attach it to the inside of the folded card.
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Step 2
Find gifts that will do double duty as decorations. Ask each guest to bring a pair of matching stuffed animals and set them around the room. This is especially cute if the shower is for the parents of twins. Create a diaper cake (find directions in the link listed in Resources) and decorate it to look like an ark. Purchase animal motif outfits for the new baby or babies and hang them on ribbon or clothesline around the room. Hang bright or pastel colored balloons and streamers. If you are feeling really creative, create a balloon arch to look like Noah's rainbow and place it in the doorway or other prominent spot.
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Step 3
Bake sugar cookies in animal shapes and decorate them in colors to match your décor. Put out bowls of animal crackers and goldfish crackers. Cut up a watermelon to look like an ark and fill it with melon balls and cut up fruit.
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Step 4
Use the stuffed animals pairs as an ice breaker game, especially if you have a large shower party with several people who don't know each other. Hand each person one stuffed animal as they walk in. Have them find their "mate" and ask them three to five specific questions. Then go around the room and have each person introduce their partner and tell what they learned about each other.
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Step 5
Print up a list of animals. Set a timer and ask all of the guests to write the names of a baby of each type of animal. For example, a baby fox is called a kit. The player with the most correct answers wins a prize.
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Step 6
Make bath fizzies using animal shaped cookie molds to give as favors. Find candles and other goodies with animal motifs or pictures on them. Attach a small card with the date of the party and mom's or baby's name to make it a nice keepsake item.
