If your little person is celebrating their birthday or even if they just need an excuse to have a doll party with friends, they are sure to love the idea of having a doll baby beauty contest. But why stop with just a contest? Why not have all of the fun games/activities associated with a real baby shower? Below are our ideas for a unique party plan you can organize and play at with all of those friends and classmates who love baby dolls just as much as you do!
The Contest Rules & Awards: As with most of our successful parties for children, I suggest that you create ribbon awards, one per guest, with different themes or characteristics. In this way, every guest goes home happy because every submitted baby doll is appreciated for something special. Below are just a few contest ribbon ideas for baby dolls.
Make Ribbon Awards for . . .
- The prettiest baby doll
- The most fashionable baby doll
- The baby doll with the chubbiest cheeks
- The baby doll most likely to sleep through the night
- The baby doll with the best name
- The baby doll with the cutest feet
- The best loved baby doll
- The baby doll that cries the most etc...
The Treats and Sweets: YouTube Video
- Great baby shower treats from WFSB 3 can be made for a baby doll's party for little girls.
- Baby shower dessert decorating ideas: baby cupcake rattles , baby faces, baby carrier cake (pink), baby carrier cake (blue), baby toppers for cakes, fondant baby shoes
The Party Favors: Tiny plastic strollers filled with candy tarts, gummies or M&Ms. These strollers come in blue and pink usually.
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| The baby doll invitation for a ''shower'' only, in yellow. |
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| The baby doll invitation for a Birthday themed doll shower, in yellow. |
Fun and Games
Sculpt Play-Dough Babies: Have enough play dough (recipe) for each guest to sculpt into a pretend baby. Give guests lacy trims to diaper their baby, an artificial flower for the baby's headband and a small plastic bottle for the clay baby's mouth. (You can purchase these objects at a party store or dollar store.)
Guess What Is In The Bag: Use white or decorative bags to conceal easy to identify baby items in the bag. Each guest may squeeze and shake the bag but not open or tear it, in order to identify what is inside. If they guess correctly, they get to keep the prize inside.
Bobbing For Pacifiers: This is played in the same way that kids 'bob for apples' at a Fall themed party. Acquire a large tub or basin, fill it with water and then float many plastic pacifiers on the water surface. Each guest should then try to pull a pacifier from the water using their mouth only. Provide ample towels for this game. Time it and award the quickest withdrawal. You will need a stop watch to judge the timing.
Guess the baby food flavors: Line up real baby food jars without labels across a counter. Number each jar with permanent ink marker and write a secret answer sheet that the hostess can keep with the correct corresponding labels and numbers. Give each guest a numbered card where they can guess the baby food flavors. The guest with the most correct answers wins a prize. You might time the guess work to make this game a little harder. Make sure each guest dips up a food sample onto a paper plate before tasting so that the baby food doesn't get contaminated during the game.
Fill A Plastic Baby Bottle: Fill the plastic baby bottle with a favorite/popular small candy. Have your guests guess how many pieces of it are inside and write that number beside their name on a list. The guest who is the closest in guessing the number of candies wins the bottle of candy!
Prize Ideas For The Hostess To Give:
- A 'disappearing milk' baby doll bottle
- A tub and toys from Dollar Store
- A very special prize would be a new baby doll wrapped up in nursery themed papers. The hostess may reserve this prize for the most difficult game played successfully.
- Make baby clothing cupcakes using doll clothes - here are examples of real baby clothing cupcakes from Andrea O'Sullivan.
- Baby doll clothing - easy handmade pieces in our sewing collection
- Sand toys for a baby doll: bucket, shovel, plastic molds
Easy baby doll crafts for the guests to make at the party:
- Coloring sheets for baby doll lovers from our big collection, The Doll Coloring Book
Old-Fashioned Baby Tunes for Your Party:
- ''Baby Face'' by Nicole Hulett and Art Mooney's version here.
- ''Baby Mine'' official audio from Dumbo Disney film and ''Baby Mine'' song by husband-wife duo called The Hound + The Fox
- ''Be My Baby'' by The Ronettes
Baby Doll Play Videos and Popular Baby Care Videos: For guest who are waiting to be picked up to go home or who may have arrived before you are ready to begin the festivities, here are few viewing suggestions to help with timing.
- See just who are the fastest crawling babies on the internet? Watch the Baby crawl contest and The Diaper Derby Champion
- Jessica Martinez brings home a robot baby . . . and parenting and child development in high school and very brave teens are parents for a day!
- Babysitters Videos: a baby-sitters bag, and Diaper changing the easy way by the Babysitter Boss
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| The baby doll invitation for a ''shower'' only. Print the greyscale version on pink or blue paper to compliment those colors if your little one prefers it. |
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| The baby doll invitation for a Birthday themed doll shower. Print this greyscale version on pink or blue paper to go with a traditional color scheme if you like. |
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