My Monster Baby Shower

When I found out I was pregnant I was positive that I wanted everything neutral and sophisticated.  Well that all changed the day I found out that I was having a boy.  Who knows if it would be the same way with a girl, but this little boy...a.k.a my little monster has made my house spewed with crazy monsters and vibrant colors.  Of course, we would also do a monster baby shower. 

First up were the invites.  As you may not be aware, you are unable to just go purchase monster invites.  So I had them made by a super awesome Etsy seller, GigglePrintables.  The turn around was super quick and I love them!

This was the first time that I had a file made like this on Etsy.  It made it super cheap to print...I used Sam's Club and they came to about 8 cents a piece.  I even found these adorable stamps to mail them with.

 

 

The guest are invited!  Now on to the good stuff.  Everything had to be made or sort of made in some way so that it would all work.  We played several games.



 

We started out with What would Daddy say?  This is where I wrote down part of a phrase and then Dufda has to finish it.  If you have read previous post, you know that he has quite the way with words.  I was very surprised that some people guessed the same thing that Dufda wrote down.

We had stations set up for Name that Baby Food and Baby Shower Price is Right.  The guest could come and go as they pleased and play only if they wanted too.

We finished up with Baby Shower bingo and also a game that I made up.  I took the baby's full name and the guest had 60 seconds to make as many words as they could with it.  This was a lot hard than I had originally thought.

What would games be without prizes?  How many showers have you been to and the prizes suck.  I feel like they typically do.  We opted for something different.  We did have a couple actual prizes.  We bought them in gift sets from QVC.  This is the way to go if you know you are having a shower and it is around Christmas.  They bundle items together and you get a really good rate on them.  What we did for the bulk of our prizes was to just have $5 gift cards to random places people would go.  Yeah, I know $5 isn't a lot, but at least it is something you can definitely use.  We picked Panera, Giant Eagle, Subway and Starbucks.  They were of course packaged in adorable monster bags.

The bags are actually from Oriental Trading.  The boxes in the back are insulated totes that folded up into a nice little square.  We had a few polka dotted tumblers as well.

Next we had to decorate the place.  We went all DIY with this.

The centerpieces were buckets that we found at Five Below.  We then filled them with floral foam and stuck monster suckers in them for the guest to take.  They were fashioned into monsters by my mother.  She has become an expert in all things monster.  The banner that decorated the gift table was made from die-cuts found at Michaels.  That stool was also made by my mother.  We saw a monster one in Garden Ridge that was $30 bucks, we determined this was far to expensive...I bet that stool was far more than $30 to make, but way, way cuter. 

When you create a theme, people seem to really follow it.  I cannot believe how many gifts that I received that were monster themed.  I don't know where they were finding this stuff.  No duplicates either!

 

 All in all it was a huge success.  I was so happy to see everyone and Jad got everything that he needs and way more.  I can't wait for my little man to get here so we can use all of it!