Christmas Baby Shower

Invitations

Rubber duckies or baby bottles wearing Santa's hat are pretty obvious invitation choices for someone throwing a Christmas baby shower. Just tie your invitations around the rubber ducky's neck or place it inside the feeding bottle (you can choose to place candies inside as well if you prefer), and they're ready to be delivered!

Another invitation idea is to place three baby socks in a string to appear as if in a clothesline. Some candies inside, plus your invitation instructions, will make you a cute and very Christmas-like baby shower invitation.

If you prefer edible invitations, some candy canes with special baby designs is quite easy to prepare. Or you can bake some cookies shaped like one or two of the special Christmas elements, and those can make a yummy invitation ala gift for your guests.

Free Baby Shower Invitation

Our MUST-SEE and FREE Printables for this theme, from invitation, thank you, and announcement cards, are all available here. Want to make your own cards? These free baby shower cliparts are the very thing you need!

Baby Shower Decoration

Fantastic decorations are a MUST HAVE in a successful theme-based baby shower! The wall hangings, balloons, centerpiece and the like, will work together with the other components of your shower, so as to display your theme to the fullest! Theme-based decoration and centerpiece ideas are available right here.

Baby Shower Menu

Who says your chosen theme will not be present in your menu? When we say it's everywhere, we mean it's everywhere! Here's our baby shower menu for this theme.

Baby Shower Game Ideas

Playing Santa (Group Activity)

You will need lots of baby socks hanging in a string. The "clothesline" should be low enough that each player can reach it without difficulty.

This game is a race to play Santa by distributing a bunch of candies. However, Santa cannot just disburse candies as she pleases. Instead, each sock includes a "wish list" that indicates how many candies should each baby sock contain.

The group with the most number of correctly filled socks wins the game. If there's a tie, the faster group of Santas should take home the gift.

Tree Race (Group Activity)

You need a lot of baby items for this activity. You can opt to get the real thing or just procure images that represent each. Since each of the item/picture will be hanged in a tree, each should have a loop for that purpose.

You also need a number of trees. No need to get those elaborate trees, since you just need some branches where each baby item should be hanged. The number of trees will depend on how many groups you will have.

To make this game more interesting, each branch should indicate what baby item should hang there. The group who was able to finish first with the least mistakes will win a tree and a prize.

Drinking Contest (Individual Activity)

This is another variation of the popular game trip to Jerusalem. However, instead of chairs and music, what will happen is that two baby bottles (full of eggnog) will get passed around..

Once the music stops, whoever have the baby bottles need to finish the contents fast. The person who finishes last is out of the game. Before game resumes, the bottles get refilled (or new bottles will be made available), the music starts, and the passing of the bottles starts all over again.

Wrap Me (Individual Activity)

You will need a set of baby items for this game. Be sure to get different baby items since they will also make a wonderful Christmas present for mom-to-be after the party.

The idea is for each player to gift wrap each of the baby item that they got via drawlots. The catch - your guests will do so with only one hand!

You can choose whether to get Christmas wrappers or just some old newspapers for your guests' use.

The player who was able to come up with the most decent-looking gift in the shortest amount of time, will win the game. Mom-to-be is the esteemed judge, of course.

Want more baby shower games? More games available on this page.

Baby Shower Favor and Prizes

Family pictures - since this is most likely a family event, be sure to take a lot of pictures during the party, and have your printer ready, since you want to send your guests home with their very own kodak moment.

Fruit cake - what is a Christmas celebration without some fruit cake? You can choose to make some or just buy them off the shelf, either way, it's a perfect Christmas favor.

Socks - whether you get wool or just plain ones, your guests could definitely use another pair to protect their feet from the cold weather.

Snowflake favors - they come in all shapes and sizes, from wine stopper to bookmarks. What can we say, they're pretty and useful too.