Gender Reveal Duck Baby Shower: Waddle It Be?

When I was pregnant with my first child we decided to have a gender reveal baby shower when I was almost seven months pregnant (October 6, 2013). We had it early for several reasons but the main ones being that all my siblings birthdays and holidays were coming up so we didn't want to interfere with them, oh yea and everybody was dying to find out the gender of the baby. My mom threw the baby shower for us but I pretty much planned it out, designed the images and told her what I wanted and she took care of it for me. I think it turned out pretty great myself!

I had been to several Baby Showers where all the parents to be got was clothing because everybody loves to buy baby clothing since it is so small and cute so being a young couple, first time parents and my husband (then fiancé) still in college we decided to have a combined gender reveal baby shower. This way we would actually get things we needed like a car seat, stroller, bath supplies, baby swing, etc... instead of just clothing.

Since we found out the gender ahead of time, we had been buying clothes on sale and at consignments shops (church consignments, $5 bag sale, Once Upon a Child) for cheap. But anyways back to the baby shower. Our main theme for the Baby Shower was Waddle It Be?. We also used chocolate Hershey Bars and a "Ready to Pop" section to go with our  Pregnancy Announcement pictures.

The Games:

As people arrived we had several things for them to participate in if they chose to:

• Clothespin Game: Please grab a clothes pin and if you hear someone say BABY then snatch up their clothespin and the one with the most at the end wins!

• Guess how many Jelly Beans are in the baby bottle, closest guess wins the bottle of jelly beans!

• Words for the Wee hours / Late night diapers: Grab a diaper and write a word of encouragement or something to make them chuckle on the booty  to help take their mind off the doody. 

Check out some Late Night Diaper saying ideas HERE! 

• Guest Book: sign the big Rubber Ducky

• Leave your Address on an Envelope; this way we have everybody who attended the baby shower's address available to make it easier to send out thank you cards.

• Baby BINGO: I had blank bingo boards at every seat for the guest to fill out with items they thought the mom-to-be would receive. I put a list of items we registered for just incase they needed help thinking of things. As we opened our gifts they would cross off the item if it was on their Bingo sheet. The first one to get five in a row wins!

• Take a Quack at it" board where people guessed if they thought we were having a boy or a girl.

                      

PRIZES where given at the end of the baby shower. Since a little boy won Bingo, we gave him the giant Hershey bar we used to reveal the gender on social media *see below. The other prizes where Sweat Pea hand soaps with the saying "Thank you for celebrating the Mother-to-be and her little Sweat Pea!"

The Decorations:

The decorations consisted of:

• Pink and Blue table clothes on every table
• Pink and Blue streamers
• Pink and Blue Balloons
• Rubber Ducks on food table and cake
• Hanging duck decorations
• A poster of my husband and I as kids with all our baby information (height, weight, time) on it.

Cake Table:

• Cake
• Rubber Ducks
• Sign that said: "He or She Waddle It Be?"

Table Centerpieces:

•   Baby girl and boy ducks floating in water with blue food coloring in it
•   Table confetti that consisted of yellow ducks, umbrellas, and pink dots

The Cake:

For the gender reveal, we used a cake to reveal the gender of the baby. We cut into the top square of the cake to reveal strawberry cake and announced we were pregnant with a little girl due to join us Christmas Eve 2013.

A former teacher of mine baked and decorated our cake. I sketched a few pictures of what I wanted and she did the rest, making it come to life. I wanted the cake to represent rubber duckies in a bath tub, hence all the bubbles, with our theme saying on it, "He or She... Waddle it be?". I was very pleased with how the cake turned out. She also baked another small cake and wrote Congratulations on it just incase we didn't have enough fo everyone.

The Food:

We wanted a bunch of finger foods for the baby shower and tried to stick with the themes of our baby shower. Here is what we came up with:                                                            

A "Ready to Pop" section to go with the picture we used to announce our pregnancy. Everything in this section had to do with the word POP. We had pop rocks, blow pops, tootsie pops, bubble gum, and a popcorn mixture which has always been a hit at our parties.

The Ducky Food section consisted of a bunch of finger foods. These foods include:

• Gold Fish
• Chips and Dip
• Nuts
• Cheese and Crackers
• Salami Rolls
• Cheese Puffs

The Chocolate section:

• My mother in law made some pink and blue chocolate covered pretzel sticks.

• My mom made a bunch of chocolates in the shapes of baby bottles, ducks, bears and ones that said boy and girl on them.

• We colored in the "He" and "She" on  Hershey bars with blue and pink sharpies.  We also used a giant Hershey bar to reveal the gender of our baby on social media.

You can check out this gender reveal along with our pregnancy announcements HERE!

The Punch: 

The punch was pink and blue with rubber ducks floating in them to match the theme. We used pink and blue cool aid, 7-Up and pink and yellow sherbet to make the punch.

Our Waddle It Be? baby shower/gender reveal party turned out to be pretty cute. Everything came together perfectly and we were blessed with several wonderful gifts and people. I love the rubber ducky Waddle It Be? theme, I think it is a perfect theme to use for any baby shower or gender reveal party. Below are some of my favorite pictures from the baby shower!