5 Ideas for Unforgettable Baby Shower Scrapbooks
If you're looking for something extra special to do for your scrapbook pages to welcome the arrival of your little one, here are some unforgettable creative scrapbook for baby ideas!
Prepare your baby shower scrapbook pages in advance
Some of your baby shower scrapbooking ideas will be inspired by the actual blessingway. As much as possible, you'll want to include items and activities from the shower in your scrapbook item. Use the colors and theme from the shower in your scrapbook as well.
Tip: You can also Incorporate elements of your pregnancy scrap book ideas for your blessingway page.
Here are some ideas to consider:
- Cover – list the name of the mom to be and the date, time, and location of the blessingway event. Include a photo of the guest of honor.
- First baby book layout – include a copy of the shower invitation. Separate the invitation so that you can display the cover and inside of the invitation.
- The guest list information – as people arrive at the shower, ask them to sign the guest list, including their relationship to the guest of honor, such as an aunt, friend, or neighbor.
- Printed blessingway games – include a copy of any printed games, such as a memory game or trivia, in the scrapbook spreads.
- The gift list – create one or two papers where someone can write down who gave what gift.
- Messages to baby – design journaling blocks that go along with the shower theme. At some point during the shower, ask guests to write a message of congratulations or blessings to the baby.
Ask guests for a new baby scrapbook page idea
Include the blessingway guests as you plan your blessingway scrapbooking ideas. Here are some fun ideas you'll love:
- Advice for the mom-to-be. Using Microsoft Publisher, make index size cards in advance that have a place for a person to write advice and sign her name. Add a cute border to each card. As guests arrive, ask them to fill out a card and place it in a designated basket. Provide colored gel pens for guests to use.
- Photo snapping fun. Place one or two disposable cameras at each table. Encourage guests to take fun photos of each other during the blessingway. Develop the photos and use the best photos for a new scrapbook album.
- Baby themed die-cuts. Prior to the shower, purchase or make baby-themed or baby related die-cuts.
Provide permanent thin-tip markers and ask guests to add a cute remark or phrase to the die-cuts. Look for the best places to incorporate the die-cuts throughout your baby scrapbook pages.
Create fun nursery rhymes. Encourage creativity.
Fun tip: Have your guests write sweet rhymes you'd love to add to a page. You may even give out a prize to the winning rhyme! Honestly though, as long as they rhyme and they're fun! After all, we've heard "spoon ran away with the moon" or "three blind mice" before, right?
Here's an example of a made-up rhyme from a recent blessingway:
Ms. Casey Lu was suffering the mom to be blues
She still has two months before she's even due
Ahh...go visit your cousin Sally and her five lads
And you'll discover that waiting might not be so bad!
Where's baby? Make it fun.
Remember when "Where's Waldo" was such a hit? In books, magazines, and even puzzles, you had to search and find out where Waldo was hidden in the midst of other things. For a new and unique blessingway page, you can use this same concept. On each Pages, include a picture of a baby or the word "baby". Viewers will have fun looking for the baby on each page.
Create a baby's collage. Current tidbits.
When it comes to your blessingway album, how about creating a collage of recent information by using side-by-side page layouts? Years from now, it will be fun to look back on the collage and realize how much has changed since the time of your baby's birth. Here is something related you may want to include:
- President's name
- Price of gas
- Cost of milk and bread
- The latest technology
- The year and make of your vehicle
- Price of diapers
- Popular song or movie
- Favorite snacks
- Popular hairstyle
- Famous clothing brands
In addition to these ideas for a blessingway scrapbook, be sure to save the gift wrapping paper, gift bag, and cards from the blessingway.
Some of the wrapping paper and gift bags may be used as lovely backgrounds for your layouts. The cards can be cropped and used to create die-cuts you'll love. The insides of the cards can be used as baby quotes for your layouts.
Before you go, If you find this guide about baby shower scrapbooks helpful, then you might want to check out our article about scrapbook baby boy ideas.
