When it comes to the “special holidays” in life, weddings and baby showers are high on the list!
This article will reveal all the creative ways to use poems at baby showers.
If you are having or hosting a baby shower, consider using poems! Read the reasons below to see “why.”
Our focus will be in these areas:
- Why use poems at a baby shower?
- Who comes up with the poems?
- Do you have to be a poet?
- Sources of “Poemspiration”
- poems on invitations
- At the party, who reads the poems?
- How do I implement the poems in the Baby Shower Party?
- thank you poems
- cake poems
- poems for activities
- poems for favors
- poems for the departure of guests
- Poems to give to the future mother.
1.) WHY USE POEMS IN BABY SHOWERS?
Why the hell not?! Poems will totally personalize your baby shower! Poems will help inject into the atmosphere of your baby shower what you are trying to convey: sentimentality, fun, or theme. What a great addition to add to any Baby Shower!
2.) WHO POSTS THE POEMS?
Oh! Well, that depends on what the poem is used for. The mother-to-be works together with the hostess of her shower and creates some gifts for the parts of the shower that she is involved in. If it’s a surprise baby shower, then it would be the Hosts. The mother-to-be can definitely come up with the thank you poems. The mother-to-be can also write poems to her host after the fact and to her mother. Make them sentimental and show them your sincere appreciation! Hosts can think of poems to be used on the cake (we’ll discuss that later), for activities (before and after or for winners and losers or top runners-up), for party favors, and for thank yous. of the party guests who went out of their way to attend the baby shower.
3.) DO YOU HAVE TO BE A POET?
No way!! Be creative, fun and original! Express yourself! These poems can be long or short. funny or serious UP TO YOU. Perhaps it expresses the theme of the baby shower (fun, silly, sentimental, etc.). Just be yourself and your true light will shine through the poems making it even more special for the guests. Perhaps the host can form a small group to be in charge of the poems. After all, the host has a lot to do!
4.) SOURCES OF “POEMSPIRATION”
Like that word, “poemaspiration”? Thank you! I just invented! There are many sources to unearth your inspiration! There is inspiration online (absolutely fantastic! Highly recommend this!). Go online with your computer and search Google Search or Yahoo Search and search for “baby shower poem samples” or “baby shower poem ideas” or “baby poem ideas” (you get the idea!). There are so many baby shower sites out there and I’m sure you can get tons of “inspirational poems”.
Another thing you might want to check is eCards. There are so many eCard sites!
Again, go to Google Search (or whatever you want!) and type “free ecards”. Be sure to use the cards as sources of inspiration only… be sure to personalize them based on their function (thank you, game win/loss, etc. Remember: use them for inspiration! Customize for yourself.)
Also, you might want to check out Hallmark or anywhere they sell cards…look through them for inspiration! There is also the library! Look at the Poems area or Baby Shower books or Invitations or Thank You Idea books. Ask the librarian for ideas on where to research.
5.) POEMS ON THE INVITATION
Now this is sweet! Why not have a general poem on the invitation? It can even be the invitation itself, perhaps? Maybe use a beautiful font, wonderful ink (silver? gold?), or decorative paper or vellum? So many ideas! (Check out “card ideas” on the internet!) If it’s not the invitation itself, it can be a wonderful “bonus” to the invitation (and also a prelude to what’s to be spread at the baby shower!) : poems!) . A sample of a poem verse invitation might be:
“Just a little party
with a small gift
In honor of someone special
We would like to meet each other!
A baby shower is being held for xxxxxx
and his mommy xxxxxx”
(and the information, of course!)
But, an additional Baby Shower Poem (to the invitation) is a lovely idea! Make it sincere. make it silly Whatever applies to the Baby Shower theme. For example:
“Heather is having a baby
(We know that you know)
Come see her big belly now
And her mommy-to-be glow!”
6.) AT THE BABY SHOWER, WHO READS THE POEMS?
Good question! This is where you can get creative!
If you are the mother of the mother-to-be, perhaps YOU want to be the one to read a beautiful poem to your daughter as a mother-to-be…or perhaps to your grandchild-to-be. If you are hosting the baby shower, you may want to be the one to read the poem that welcomes the guests…and the other poems scattered throughout the baby shower (later). …and the final “thank you” for coming to the poem… (or, perhaps you as the host would have a wonderful sentimental “thank you for coming” poem written in advance by the mother-to-be, without telling her WHEN the party, if it is a surprise This could be very moving and meaningful to the guests who attended).
7.) IMPLEMENTATION OF THE POEMS IN THE BABY SHOWER.
This is also a fun creative part! Really enjoy thinking through this part! Some ideas would be as follows (but use this as a ‘starting point’):
- A poem welcoming guests as each one arrives. (Perhaps rolled up and placed in a small, inexpensive bottle?).
- The Host can welcome the guests after they are all there in a poem and also introduce the mother of the mother-to-be in a poem.
- The mother of the mother-to-be can stand up and then read a personal poem written to her daughter, who is now a first-time mother… and also address one to her future granddaughter (also, she can then hand them to her daughter, perhaps framed for a wonderful and heartfelt keepsake!
- The Host can start the party games/activities with poems and also end each activity/game with another poem for the categories of winner, loser, best effort, most creative, etc. Make them fun and activity related! The more laughs you get, the more bonds you create and the more sincere enjoyment on the part of everyone.
- There are more ways that I’ll cover later (below). But here are a few to get you going!
8.) THANK YOU POEMS
Well, this can actually fall into two categories: thanks for coming and thanks for the gift.
- Thank you for attending Poems. It can be a poem read by the Host (or if done in advance by the mother-to-be) to the guests.
- Thanks for the gift poem. This is written by the mother-to-be after the party (after all, she needs time!). You can write a nice poem that incorporates the gift received. It can be brief, but it will tie into the theme of the poem (within a theme!). It will also show the sincere appreciation of the mother-to-be, as it takes time and effort to do so.
- Another cool thank you poem might be for the mother-to-be to surprise her mother with a beautiful heartbreaking poem about how grateful she is to her mother for giving birth to her, etc. (Have tissues handy!)
9.) POEMS FOR CAKES
Just to tie it all together, why not put a single nice verse on the cake?
10.) POEMS FOR THE ACTIVITIES
I already went through this more or less above. But, just a reminder: it’s a good idea to open each activity/game with a fun poem (to keep the atmosphere nice and fun!).”
Also, before you take out the cake… announce it with a poem!
Perhaps, have a fun and silly poem that the host can stand up and read aloud to the first guest to get up to use the bathroom! (Make sure you don’t get embarrassed! Keep it light and fun.)
You can suggest that the winners or losers (or both!) submit a poem on the spot before receiving their prize. This should get a lot of laughs!
11.) POEMS FOR FAVORS
A nice addition to the party favors could be adding a poem to it! You can have it in a cardboard square with a little diaper cutout (or something with a baby theme) and tie it to the party favor. You can also tie it up like a small scroll and attach it with a ribbon or elastic band etc. The Baby Shower poem should be related to the party favors in some way. Be creative! Have fun!
12.) POEMS FOR THE DEPARTURE OF GUESTS
I mentioned this earlier, but to recap: the host might read a beautiful poem to the guests before they leave, thanking them for coming and saying how much they appreciate their participation, etc. The mother-to-be could have written (weeks or months in advance) this “poem for departing guests” and she could stand up and read it. That would be really touching!!
13.) POEMS FOR THE MOTHER TO GIVE.
In addition to all of the above, the mother-to-be can give our personal thank you poems to each guest (they can be short and easy!) and thank them verbally while lovingly placing them in their palms. No guest would feel that her presence was unnecessary. This would be the most touching!
The mom-to-be can give her mom a framed poem she wrote for the baby shower occasion…reading it out loud at first (why not film it?).
The mother-to-be can include a personal poem that fits the unique gift she received from each guest on her thank you cards.
After reading my article, I hope you also agree that these are wonderful secrets on how to implement poems at a baby shower!
The results should be fantastic for your Baby Shower!
