How To Throw A Baby Shower
For The Soon-To-Be-Parents
Who Are Chinese?

How to throw a baby shower if the soon-to-be-mommy is Chinese?

How about throw her a "East meets West" baby shower?

Uh...asian amercian, fusion or not. What ever you call it, let's have some extra speical fun created from two different cultures.

Before planning your chinese baby shower, talk to your friend's family and finding out about Chinese customs and traditions. If her family is not available, you can also look online. Here are some quite useful ideas that came to mind when I looked online: Chinese customs, superstitions and traditions.

And here is the coolest party supply makes the Chinese soon-to-be-mommy know that you really put some thought into the baby shower planning.

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Inviting Your Guests

In China, it is customary to celebrate a new arrival in the family by holding a "Red Egg and Ginger Party," when the child is between one to three months old. If you want to respect their traditions, a chinese baby calendar can help you a lot to make an appropriate schedule before you get started with the rest of this page of "How to throw a baby shower".

You can still go for a normal baby shower before the big day, here are some creative chinese baby shower invitations that all the guests can't wait for attending your party.

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Chinese Baby Shower Decorations and Crafts

Set An Asian or Zen Party Atmosphere

Use red and orange as your color scheme and stay away from white (In china, people use white color only on the funeral). You can replace white with light blue (for boy) or light pink for girl. A better choice is using austere colors such as black, red, dark brown, and tan for a zen party. To embrace the Asian energy, decorate with dragons and buddhas. Put printed poetry and brush painting around the room for guests to read and enjoy. Light incense and play oriental music to set the mood.

Here are some witty and practical gifts, great decorations and anything we thought was just too good to pass up for a special celebration for a Chinese parents-to-be (or adoptive parents of chinese babies).

If you want to know more about how to throw a baby shower for chinese family, here are some original ideas I learned from my readers and the internet.

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Chinese Banner

Celebrate the baby-to-come in your home with this version of the popular decorations. You'll need colored paper, scisscors, and glue.

Start it from cutting at least a dozen or more large circles from colored paper. Fold each circle in half, then in half again, and finally in half a third time (it will resemble a wedge of pizza). Perforate each wedge by making a series of snips from both sides toward the center. Then unfold the snipped circles. Apply a few drops of glue along the edge of one open circle. Place a second circle on top of the first, so that the edges stick together. Next, apply glue to the center of the second circle and place a third circle on top of it. Continue adding the remaining circles, alternately gluing the edges and the centers. When the glue is dry, gently pull the top and bottom circle in opposite directions and hang the garland.

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Orange and Wishing Tree.

Get the parents-to-be and guests in a conversation about the parents-to-be's big dreams for baby while you have them write on a note card what their dreams were, and where they're at now. Ask them something like what did they want to be when they grew up, or what kind of car did they want to drive when they grew up. When everyone is finished, collect the cards. Pull out the Christmas Tree from your store room and hang the cards attached to oranges onto branches, and read them aloud. For some added fun, don’t reveal the identity of the card’s author, and have your guests guess the author.

Note: If you have no idea why are Chinese people doing with orange and wishing trees, here are some life examples.

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Parents-Tips-Scrapbooking

Bring supplies for making scrapbook pages so guests can decorate a page with their picture and some thoughtful messages for parents and baby. You can also find a blank page book and have each guest write something about Chinese tradition, culture or raising babies. Maybe even include a traditional Chinese recipe for Mom & Dad. From home-remedies about how to cure a baby's hiccups or "Old Wives Tale" predicting if baby is a boy or girl, guests will really have some fun with this one.

Come here to learn more about how to throw a baby shower for chinese family with some cool activities...uh, here are some very delicious chinese baby shower recipe to serve the soont-to-be-mommy and the guests as well.