JEANNE BENEDICT

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OLD FASHION  BABY SHOWER

 Theme Concept: A nostalgic trip back in time.   

Guest of Honor Profile:  For the parents who are real softies  

Invitations: Postcard with tiny cut-out shirts and diapers on a clothesline ribbon.  Purchase or make a 5X7 nice white postcard with a decorative border.  Print verse and shower information on card. Punch 2 holes in the corners the card.  Cut thin cloth ribbon into 10-inch lengths. Knot one end of the ribbon and feed the other end through the hole from backside of post card.  Feed the ribbon end through other hole from front side of post card. Knot ribbon end in back of card.  Ribbon should resemble clothesline across top of card.  Purchase miniature clothespins and tiny clothes from a craft store in the baby shower section.  Pin a few clothes to ribbon clothesline with clothespins and secure with glue if necessary.  Substitute glue for the clothespins and cut bobby sock and clothing shapes from felt or purchase doll clothes.

Invitation Verse: We're Having an Old Fashioned Baby!  (print shower information)

Décor: Mason jars full of flowers on gingham pink, blue, or yellow checked material as overlays over white clothes. String a cotton rope clothesline over a buffet table and use clothespins to attach baby clothes, or cloth diapers to it.  Place a wicker laundry basket on the table as a $5 dollar and under wishing well or place small gifts inside.     

Menu:  Decorate brown lunch sacks with pink and blue ribbons or adhere a swatch of gingham fabric and buttons to the front. Pack a lunch for each guest with classic nibblers such as peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches, moon-pies, apples, etc.  Place old fashioned glass bottles of soda pop and chocolate milk in a zinc tub full of ice or old metal chest cooler.    

Cake Décor: Cupcakes are a great dessert with sprinkles or  baby items shaped as candy for decor.

Games / Activities:  This game can be organized as all guests race around to music with a time limit.  Or guests can play throughout the evening.  Photocopy 10 pictures from newspapers or magazines that show significant events from the last century.  Number picture from 1 to 10 and post pictures in various locations around party.  Give guests a sheet of paper numbered 1 to 10.  Guests guess the events in the pictures and record their answer on the sheet.

Music: Play tunes from every decade.

Party Favors: A church-key or bottle opener on a string for each guest.

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Rockin’ Round The Clock

Mom and dad are going to be rocking that baby all night long.

Mini rocking chairsin centerpieces