party games

Oh, The Places You’ll Go! Well, that happens to be my friend’s favorite children’s book, so it was easy to come up with a plan for what theme to do her baby shower. Mary and I went to work with the planning. I was so thankful that Mary decided to take care of all the food and I did the decorations and games because I am not a huge fan of the food part and that’s the part that always feels more stressful to me (due to its more last minute nature). Man, this was a fun shower to plan, with pretty much free rein of all those bright colors and the whimsical style of Dr. Seuss stuff, and all the ideas I found online. (I couldn’t do any pinterest pinning this time though, because I wanted the guest of honor to be surprised!, so I had to do thing the “old fashion” way… Bing and Google!) There was a lot of good ideas out there, so thank you everyone! It probably was one of my favorite showers to help create!

Here are the pictures!

These were inspired from the book Oh, the Places You’ll Go and I had some extra large cardboard in the garage, so I just cut out the shapes and spray painted them and duct taped them together in the back and a little to the house to keep them from falling down.

Tried to imitate the balloons from the book also. Colored the striped (after they were blown up) with permanent markers

The trees also inspired from the book. I made these by using 5 sheets of tissue paper, accordian folded them and wired them around the center (just like the regular tissue paper puffs), cut both outer edge into a point, Then I used a heavier wire from Home Depot cut it twice the length needed, took a balloon clip weight, put the wire through the hole to the middle of the wire and folded the wire in half. Then, with the ends of the wire toward the prepared tissue, I wrapped the thin wire around the tissue paper around the heavy wire to attach. Next, I took black duct tape and wrapped it around the heavy wire to hide it all the way down to the balloon clip. I did also have to wrap the taped wire around the balloon clip a little bit to make it strong enough to hold the flower up and then clipped it to the buckets (or anything you want). Last, I fluffed out the tissue paper, mostly just one on side, so the top stays mostly flat to look like the Dr Seuss trees. And voila!

I also loved the vases (idea I found online) wrapped with a blue boa and hot-glued the ends together.

Momma-to-be in all her glory!

Dr. Seuss phrases and characters for around the house! (Printed and cut out)

Everyone had fun doing this and there sure were some funny ones!

One of the games (203 was the answer by the way). Another game not shown was a crossword puzzle. You can create your own here. So, I did it fill-in-the-blank style based on the book, Oh The Places You’ll Go.

The 3rd game we played. Some may recognize from a previous shower I did. I had a lot of fun with Photoshop and took random baby faces and super-imposed them over celebrities and the guests needed to guess the celebrity.