How to Plan a Sibling Shower: Part 1

Are you expecting a new sibling to your first-born? Do you want to make your first child feel extra special before the arrival of a new sibling? Then a Sibling Shower maybe just the thing. Here are some ideas from Fairytale Entertainment on how to make a special shower unique to your first-born.

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Determine your guest list. Remember this is going to be a party for a child. Grandparents, cousins, friends from playgroup, mommy & me classes, or school make good guests. Depending on the age of your guest of honor you may need to keep your guest list small as not to overwhelm your child.

Then you will need to decide the specifics: when, where, time. Will you serve food? Will the party be a surprise? If you are holding the party for your own child it should be easy to keep the party a surprise. If you are hosting the party for someone else, you will need to decide if you are surprising the guest of honor and their parents or just the guest of honor. What plan do you have for getting them to the party location? Is it at a time and place they are already going to be at or is this something that will take them outside of their typical routine? A bit of advice, the more people in on the surprise the harder it gets to work the logistics and get mailing addresses for invitations and such. It can be done but you will need to take full advantage of your creativity and networking to get the invitations out to your guest list.

As you plan your menu, again consider your guests. You will have children and most likely some parents. You will want the food to be child-friendly, finger foods work best. Any menu that works for a birthday party could be used here. You can also play it up with foods and drinks in the blue and pink color scheme.