Thanksgiving Baby Shower

Invitations

Decorate some baby bottles to "wear" those feather headdress that Native American Indians normally wear. Write down your invitation details in a piece of paper and place it inside the bottle. If you feel like filling the bottle up with some candy corns, that will also be perfect for a thanksgiving shower.

A cuter version of the previous idea is to use a rubber ducky instead of a feeding bottle. You can just tie your invitation details around your rubber ducky and voila, a cute and very thanksgiving-sy invitation right there.

If those didn't strike you as creative enough, how about decorating a feeding bottle to look like a corn cob? Of course you need to place some fake corn hair here and there and add some corn husk to make it more corn-like. Again, similar with the previous feeding bottle invitation idea, the inside of that bottle is the best location to place your invitation details.

As usual, we want to peddle the idea of a cookie invitation. A bunch of cookies with assorted shapes - from corn cob to pacifiers, will make a yummy invitation.

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

Pumpkin Shoot Out (Individual Activity)

You will need a number of pumpkin husks for this game. You can opt to use the real deal or toy ones.

The goal of this activity is to shoot certain baby articles inside your pumpkin. You could make this game more challenging by having different levels (pumpkin 2 is 2 feet farther than pumpkin 1, and so on), or you could just widen the distance of all pumpkins from the players, just to keep the game simple yet challenging. Either way, we know that your guests will really have lots of fun doing this since it's almost like going to a carnival and playing those fair games, right?

The person with the least number of misses will be declared your MVP, and will win a prize!

Photographs and Memories (Group Activity)

You will need dozens of photos of the mom or dad to be for this activity. Black and white photos are ideal, but if you don't have any, colored photos will suffice.

The idea is to organize the photos in chronological order. A combination of easy-to-arrange photos and of more challenging ones will make this game fun to play and at the same time, not boring.

The group who was able to set the order of these photos with the least mistakes definitely deserves a cool 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 pumpkin and/or cranberry juice) 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.

Fall Leaf Collage (Group Activity)

This is another activity that will challenge everybody's creativity. You will need to prepare lots of assorted leaves, pencils, pens, and glue.

The goal is to "draw" something related to babies, having a baby or mom-to-be by using the provided leaves. Choosing the right design is very critical and skill in placing the right leaf at the right place is also as important.

The group who was able to bring babies and leaves together beautifully, will be declared Fall Artists and will win a prize. Of course mom-to-be will be the esteemed judge.

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

Baby Shower Favor and Prizes

Solo picture of your guests (or with mom-to-be) - 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.

Candy corns - this is a great and timely present to those who love these and always look forward to this time of year to get a fresh batch.

Cranberry juice - after that drinking contest, your guests might be craving for more, which makes this favor idea perfect!

Autumn Leaf Keychain - there are great ones available via net and they're quite inexpensive.