Baby Showers

a little crafty with this popular diaper-pin game for your next girlfriend's baby shower . For the diaper-pin game, you'll need felt, scissors, a thin marker, safety pins , a hot glue gun and a template printed from parents.com/diaper-pin. So first, just print out this template, cut it and trace it on to a felt. You want to make one for each guest that's coming to the shower. Cut out the felt shapes, adding a dab of glue right in the middle, fold the bottom up, then add a little dab of glue on the inside of either arm . Fold in the edges and fasten it with a safety pin. Now, here is how to play this game. When your guests arrive, ask them each to wear one of these cute little diaper-pins. As they mingle and chat throughout the party, they have to try not to say the word "baby." If one guest hears another one say the word "baby," then they take their pin. The person at the end of the party wearing the most diaper-pins wins the game. You'll have so much fun playing this game at your next girlfriend's baby shower .

-At your next baby shower , share your hopes, wishes or words of parenting wisdom with this easy to do baby shower activity. For the wishing tree, you'll need branches, tags, pens or markers, and a vase. The set up for this activity is

some extra circles and confetti, just sprinkle them around your buffet or dining table . Sprinkles are great way to pair for the more experienced mom-to-be.

Hosting a baby shower for a mom to be? Consider a whimsical nursery rhyme theme soiree and impress all your guests with these simple but spectacular cookies. Now these may look complicated but I assure you they're not. You don't need to go out and buy specially shaped cookie cutters. You just need round cookie cutters in three sizes. Mine are about three inches, two inches and one inch. All of the cookies use the same process of royal icing with added [unk] like sprinkles or sugar ice or even chocolate chips . The key to decorating with royal icing is the process known as plotting. You're gonna start with your royal icing in a pastry bag or in a plastic bag with the corner snipped off, that's fine. You can create a border around the edge of your cookie. The next step is

Mary would be proud of and right next to it, Baa Baa Black Sheep . To make these cookies, you start with one large and one small. To make the little lamb, simply pipe your royal frosting in the floppy fleece pattern and then use white nonpareils to add a little interest. And the face gets coated in black course sanding sugar. I added these little sugar ice but you could do that with royal icing as well. And the ears on the little lamb are actually chocolate chips . So, you just stick them in sideways. Baa Baa Black Sheep is the same process except the fleece on the black sheep is coated in, of course, black sanding sugar. I added the same ice, I put a few little white nonpareils on his