A Photo-Themed Baby Shower Party

• Guests should be asked to bring photo-themed gifts.
• Decorate your living room or den to look like a faux darkroom, or drape your walls in white paper and sheets for a photo studio look.
• Position cameras and video recorders around the room to add emphasis.
• Food should be fun and festive and served in black and white bowls.
• Take Polaroids of guests as they arrive, then stick them into goody bags as everyone exits!
• Hand out disposable cameras for guests to use during the party. Collect them at the end and have a photo album made of the pictures.

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Playing time: 15 minutes

Players: All present

• bulletin board with pushpins
• paper and pencils for all guests

• Ask all guests to bring pictures of themselves as infants or small children.

• Pin all the photos up on a bulletin board and assign a number to each.
• Distribute paper and pencils to the guest.
• Everyone gets 10 minutes to write down the guest's name next to the appropriate number. The player with the most right answers wins.

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Playing time: 10 minutes

Players: All but the mom-to-be

• paper and crayons for all players
• a timer or stop watch

• Gather your materials.

• Distribute paper and crayons to the guests.
• Set timer for 10 seconds.
• Have each guest place the paper on top of their heads and draw a picture of a baby.
• Collect drawings and present to the mom-to-be, who will act as judge and declare a winner.

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Playing time: 30 minutes

Players: All present

• 1 baby onesie per guest
• fabric paints

• Set up painting area.

• Distribute aprons or other party-clothes protectors.
• Ask guests to design and paint a baby onesie.
• String the final creations up on a clothesline in the party room to dry.
• Have mom-to-be act as judge and award multiple prizes -- best use of color, most creative, most abstract, etc.

• a disposable camera or a picture frame

• refrigerator magnet picture frames
• rolls of film
• small photo albums

• deluxe picture frames or collages
• photo album
• digital camera
• video recorder
• old home movies of the parents-to-be as children
• several rolls of film and/or blank videocassettes
• framed pictures of the mom-to-be as a baby

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