I am throwing a baby shower with a halloween theme any idea's?

Question

I need some decoration ideas as well as ideas for creative games that incorporate both halloween and babies. So far i have a trivia game all about babies and kids in horror flicks, and bobbing for plastic baby heads? i want this to be both fun and spooky.

Answer 1

well there is the string game that you could transform a little. usually in this game the shower thrower (you), pass around a ball of yarn that they each cut a piece from about how big they think the mother to be is. then one by one each person wraps the string of yarn around her belly to see how close or how far off they were. but you could maybe get a pumpkin and have the party goers INSTEAD wrap the yarn around the pumpkin as many times as they think is as big as the mother to be's belly. then have her stand up and everyone at the party in turn take their yarn off the pumpkin and wrap around her to see who wins.

Answer 2

Why not have them bob for pacifiers instead of plastic baby heads? The plastic baby heads would be great for a regular halloween party but seeing as how it's also a baby shower, it seems a bit TOO freaky... You could also bake baby shaped cookies that people could "dress" (decorate) as they please.

Answer 3

Find decorations of all the horror characters as babies, like baby Frankenstein. Or maybe you could have everyone dress up as their fave horror characters

Answer 4

Well you could have bottles filled with halloween candy. Sorry not many ideas ive never heard of this before.

Answer 5

You should put like baby pumpkins in diapers and put pacifiers in there mouth

Answer 6

ask everyone to dress up as if they are pregnant especially if there are going to be men. (funny )- have a gypsy there to tell people their futures -let the gypsy tell the pregnant woman she is having triplets

Answer 7

Don't. It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Bobbing for babies heads?. I wouldn't want someone doing that to me. She's having a miracle growing in her. Treat it as such, sister.

Answer 8

To me this sounds terribly strange, you should rather be trying to shelter babies from all that horror going on in todays world. Or they might just add to it.How do you think you will raise a child with those motives?

Answer 9

I'd introduce light brown teddy bears with masks on as part of the theme to "baby it up". You could have a big one or two in strategic locations and have some mini ones as part of the favors (or as favors).

Doing something like using a lot of white balloons (with or without orange balloons) would make things look more baby-shower like and less straight-Halloween-ish.

It might be nicer to use a white or cream-colored tablecloth and use orange dishes (rather than the orange or black tablecloth often used for Halloween parties). This would baby it up too. You could find orange or orange and black center piece items to Halloween-it-up.

I think bunches of small orange flowers with lots and lots of Baby's Breath ( or some other tiny, white, flower) would be shower-ish but would go with Halloween.

You could fold orange paper napkins in a fancy way, tie them with a white ribbon and add something like rose, blue, and orange cluters of beads as ornaments for the tied napkins. (Of course, you could use your own ideas too).

You could add those tiny "pumpkin" ghourds that are sold in grocery store produce departments - the ones that about 3 and a half inches in diameter. You could make cute, baby-looking, faces on them in light pink, light blue and/or black marker and tie ribbons around their stems.

These things are obviously a matter of opinion, but if you go with a Halloween theme I think it would be shower-ish if you keep the tablecloth, much of the tissue paper you may use to decorate a chair with or hang around, and things like balloons mostly white with orange accents.

Don't forget the cute little black kitten knicky-knack things that are always out there for Halloween - black kittens with witch hats. They could be decorations.

Add as many of those ceramic (or other material) Jack-O-Lanterns that have small electric bulbs in them. Candle with paper decorations are a major fire hazard. Do the rest of the lighting in the room in a way that leans toward the spooky but also might double as "atmosphere" for a nice shower too. You could do something like string "Christmas lights" in white and orange or just white.

Hallmark stores are offering that adorable ghost that holds a pumpkin for 12.99 with the purchase of three cards. The ghost runs around and dances to some old sixties song, but you wouldn't have to run it. It would be a cute decoration (and if you and two other people need cards - there you go).

You could wrap lollipops (Dum Dums or Tootsy Pops are good) with small squares of white tissue to make little ghosts, and tie the neck with orange and black ribbon.

I hate candy corn, but its very Halloween-y and colorful in little dishes around the rooms.

People could bob for apples, but you could add a few rubber duckies and a couple of baby-toy toy boats.

A big tray of Halloween doughnuts or pastries adds atmosphere to the table. A pyramid of cookies wrapped in orange cellophane and tied with white ribbon would as well.

Making up goody bags filled with old fashioned penny candy like dots, Nik-L-Nips, root-beer barrels, nonpareils, Now-N-Laters, Smartees, etc. could be tied with white or orange ribbons. Sometimes you can find cute Trick Or Treat Bags with just a cutesy pumpkin on them or one cute kitty.... You could somehow alter them with marker to do something to make them also reflect the baby shower.

There are inexpensive little pumpkin dishes or sort-of-like-pumpkin dishes at drugstores, dollar stores, etc. Get one and fill it with that old classic, pastel-colored jordan almonds, and that would tie together the Halloween and shower them.

Don't forget those strips of pumpkin-face lollipops. You could do any number of things from putting them out on a plate to tying bunches of them together and adding them to any goody bags.

If you had lots and lots of tiny white and/or orange lights around and a bunch of Jack-O-Lantern faces lighted up in as many places as possible, and maybe have some other electrically lighted source of light on or near the table, you'd have a darker and quieter and more unique blend of both elegant and spooky (if there were enough Jack faces - that would be the key). (If you can't buy a bunch of electric Jacks then maybe you could buy a bunch of those cheapy plastic pumpkins that are everywhere and place cheap, disposable, flashlights in them. Cover the flashlights with tissue or paper towel to diffuse the light. Hang these around rather than the lighted ceramic Jack-O-Lanterns. You could buy ten or twelve of these and ten or twelve dollar store flashlights of some kind, and for less than $35 you have atmosphere to add to the mini-lights and other decorations. Maybe light sticks or some other thing would work too...)

I know I haven't offered really spooky. Its not my style. I have to say - with all due respect - I'm not a big fan of the plastic baby heads thing you mentioned.