Coed Baby Shower Themes
The key to hosting a coed shower is to make it fun and entertaining for both sexes. Incorporate games that will engage both your male and your female guests. Instead of serving dainty, ladylike food, offer food that's hearty and filling. Make sure that your theme carries through, from invitations to decorations. Throw a shower that will set a coed trend among your friends and family. Does this Spark an idea?
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Trading Places
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Have your male and female guests trade places with each other. Tell the guys to come dressed as pregnant women and the women to come as dads-to-be. Take a picture of the guests of honor in their role-reversal costumes, and use it on the invitation. Order a custom cake featuring a pregnant father and a cigar-smoking mother. At the party, take pictures of the guests in their role-reversal costumes, and create a special photo album that captures all the fun.
Pinks vs. Blues
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Plan a big shower that family, friends, neighbors and children can attend. Have the shower in the backyard if weather permits, and serve grilled foods. Ask the men to wear something blue to the shower and the ladies to wear something pink. Have a pinks vs. blues one-handed baby-diapering contest, with the men and boys on one team and the women and girls on the opposing team. Get two baby dolls, large diaper pins and one pink bandanna and one blue bandanna to use as the diapers. Have each team pick three members to represent its side. Give each contestant 30 seconds to diaper the doll. Tally the time totals to determine the winner. If the guys win, they serve the food to the ladies, and vice versa.
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You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby!
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Use baby pictures of guests as the central idea for this theme. Design the invitation with a blank picture frame as the main visual. Ask each guest to bring a picture of herself as a baby or toddler. Collect the pictures as your guests arrive, and then put the pictures on a large poster board while no one is watching. Put a number under each picture, and have pre-printed slips made with the names of the guests. Have guests guess whose baby picture belongs to whom. Give a prize like a nice picture frame to the winner. Place baby pictures of the mom and dad-to-be in frames around the cake and food table.
How I Met Your Mom and Dad
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How I Met Your Mom and Dad can be a heartwarming theme for a small and intimate gathering of close friends and family members. The idea centers on having the invitees write letters to the baby-to-be about how they met his mom and dad, how much they mean as family members and friends and how they felt when they learned about the pregnancy. No doubt the stories will range from outright hilarious to poignant. Have each guest read his letter aloud while food and cake are served. Collect all the letters and present them to the parents in a special box for a keepsake.
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