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Free Baby Shower Ideas Bring You Back The Basic of ABC and 123!Here Comes The Most Educable Baby Shower! Let's start planning the special baby shower from A to Z! ~ free baby shower ideas ~ Invitations There are many baby shower ideas out there to create your personal invitations, and the use of velum is becoming more and more popular in these day. You can buy sheets of ABC, 123 or school theme paper and several pieces of velum in your local craft or scrap-booking store. Open your computer, type any baby shower invitation wording you like and print it onto the velum. Here is an example: "A - Aren't you happy for "guest of honor"? B - Be here at "give party details." C - Come with a gift. Bring a package of any size of diapers, and your name will be entered in a drawing for a "pamper yourself" gift basket. Celebrate an ABC's Baby Shower for [Mom's Name]" You can also assign each guest a letter of the alphabet inside the invitation and encourage them to buy gifts that start with that letter. So the mom-to-be won't receive any duplicate gift. But wait! Before you start printing on your sheets of vellum, don't forget adjust the printer seetings to get it just how you want it(use blank white paper to test). Then print off as many as you need and cut the vellum out in 3" by 5" with the invitatin verse centered in the middle. Then attach the velum on top of the scrapbook paper and fasten it at the top with two brads. Another free baby shower idea is to punch two holes in the vellum and the paper. Then loop come ribbon through both the paper and the vellum. Finish it by tying the ribbon in a cute bow on top. ~ free baby shower ideas ~ Decorations You don't have to be an expert to decorate the ABC's baby shower. Anything has the name started with A-B-C can be the part of your free baby shower ideas! First, use lots of flowers. For example, Alstroemeria for A, Baby's Breath for B, and Carnations for C. Then tie colorful balloons with bunches of flowers for a great centerpiece. Tips: Pick up balloons that spell the Baby's name, A-B-C, B-A-B-Y and 1-2-3. Baby shower diaper cakes decorated with ABC's and 123's garnishing woule be very loveable. If you're a "hands-on" person and decide to make diaper cake on your own, you can fill the cake with baby necessities that have names started with ABC, like Crib for C and Bassinet for B. One of the free baby shower ideas is hanging big cutout of alphabets and numbers on the wall. Then scatter and pile alphabet accessories, including wooden alphabet blocks and alphabet magnets artfully in the center of the guest tables or anywhere your guests will be. Also tape place cards to these blocks. And cut lengths of colorful ribbons, and scatter around and intertwine with the blocks. To create a more "baby" setting, write out messages on diapers, like "A-B-C B-A-B-Y S-H-O-W-E". Then hang a clothesline up in the house and hang from it apples(a), books(b), cardboard letters(c), diapers(d) and other baby items etc. If you're having kids at the shower, or your own children are available to help out, have them color in these animal picture and hang it on the wall for decoration, use as placemats, or have each child color and sign their own picture for Baby. Click here. ~ free baby shower ideas ~ Eat and Drink Baby Shower Cake In fact, this type of baby shower cake is very easy to bake. So I'm going to tell you more about how to frost it like a pro. Here is what you need to frost the cake: * 1 tube prepared white icing with screw-on plastic star tip In a mixing bowl, place a generous amount of the white frosting. Start the mixer and add the food coloring one drop a time. Before adding the next, make sure each drop blend in completely. When the frosting reaches the color you like, scoop it back into the container, and refrigerate it. Prepare three packages of your favorite cake mix prepared in 8 1/2- x 4 1/2-inch loaf pans. And pop the mix cake into the freezer until it is firm.
Fill the glass with hot water, dip the knife in the water long enough to heat it. DRY it thoroughly and begin frosting your cubes. Each cube should be a different color. Using the tube of white icing with the star tip, draw a letter, number, or design on one side of each block cake. The mom-to-be is going to love it! And here come more free baby shower ideas to serve your guests' stomach, :-) Food that start with A * Apple Pie Food that start with B * Baked Ziti Food that start with C * Cookie Bars Drink that start with A-B-C * Apricot Orange Tea ~ free baby shower ideas ~ Games and Activities Let's test how your guests are good at the basics of ABC and 123, :-) Pick a Number This is one of the free baby shower ideas that always fun and easy. Just put multiple baby items in a jar by the door. When the guests arrive your shower, have them write their name and the number they think is there on a piece of paper. The person guessing closest to the correct number wins the door prize. You can use baby items such as: 1. Cotton balls Add-On Alphabet Memory Game Are you looking for free baby shower ideas that almost always lead to laughter? Memory games are your must-be choices and this one is no exception. How could you stop laughing at the guests when they have to stretch their imaginations and try to come up with unique baby items for each letter of the alphabet? To play, have everyone in a circle. The first person names a baby item or something pertaining to babies and small children that begin with the letter A. The next person says the A-word and then adds a baby item starting with the letter B and so on. If any one mess up, she is out. And the game resumes. The last person remaining or the first person to name the items A through Z without a mistake wins. I'm giving your an example: A is for all night feedings, B is for bib, C is for cradle, D is for diaper, E is for earaches, etc. ABC-VIP This is one of the coolest and free baby shower ideas about models, historical figures, actors, and the famous mom-to-be! Breaking off into 2 teams, each team selects a clue-giver to look at the VIP name. When you’re ready, each team gets one chance to guess the VIP from a single-word clue – but the clues have to follow the order of the alphabet! The first team’s clue-giver gives a one-word clue beginning with A. If their team doesn’t guess it, it goes to the next team and their cluegiver gives a different one-word clue – this time beginning with B. If they don’t get it, it’s back to the first team for a clue beginning with C. The winning team is the one that can guess the most VIPs. And here comes one of the most challenging free baby shower ideas... Baby Babble Make a list of 15 - 20 words of baby related items. Then scramble up the letters of each word. Make copies of the list for each guest. Give each guest a copy of the list and a pen or pencil. They must unscramble all of the words. Give them 5 - 6 minutes to unscramble the words, or play until someone unscrambles all of the words. The first one to unscramble all of the words or unscramble the most words is the winner! Here is an example of scrambled words.
~ free baby shower ideas ~ Homemade Baby Shower Gifts Let me tell you how to turn 2 pacakges wooden children alphabet blocks into a wonderful baby shower frame - it's personalized with name or initials! To star this free baby shower idea, prepare a wooden 5x7 picture frame with flat-faced frame(for easier gluing). Next, remove the glass from the frame and place it face-side up on the table. Then lightly sand the frame surface (use small piececoarse-grit sandpaper)to help the glue adhere well. Use craft glue (E-6000 dries clear) to put wooden children's alphabet blocks around the frame either in alphabet order or just in spell phrases such as "baby", "it's a boy", or the baby's name. Set a large book on top of the frame and blocks to hold them in place unitl all glue is dry. Once dry, use blue or pink ribbon to glue small bows at the corners for decoration. VARIATIONS: You could also use wood cut-outs, flat-back beads, lace ribbon or anything else small enough to fit on the frame border. Or use small wooden or plastic cut-outs of the child's favorite cartoon character, beautiful wire-rimmed metallic ribbon as a border, mosaic ceramic tiles or just about any theme you can think of to "personalize" this baby shower craft! ~ free baby shower ideas ~ Favors You can send guests off with custom-made bracelets or necklaces made from the same kind of beads they use to make baby identification bracelets in hospitals. Other free baby shower ideas include fill-able plastic baby blocks with a handful of your favorite sweets wrapped in tulle and set inside the baby block. Or, you can do anything involving the alphabet, like alphabet cookie cutters tied with a pretty ribbon, or even alphabet magnets - where you glue the letters of each guests' initials together. ~ free baby shower ideas ~ Please subscribe to my Coolest Baby Shower RSS Feed if you are in need of coolest baby shower ideas (or an entire theme-full of ideas)! This RSS feed will let you know whenever any new or changed Web pages appear on my coolest baby shower themes collection.
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Then using a sharp bread knife, cut two three-inch-long slices of cake and stack them. Trim the edges as best you can to create a cube that's three-inches on each side(see the graphic at the left). Repeat this to create three baby blocks.
