Best Ideas to Throw a Virtual Baby Shower

Benefits of a Virtual Baby Shower

With the situation in which we’re all living today the most important benefit of doing this is to keep your family and loved ones safe while being comfortable at home. You may also count on saving money so it can be spent on the most important things, all the necessities before the baby arrives.

Pre-party and post-party stress is also a huge thing that you won’t have to worry about. With traditional baby showers there’s a lot of things that need to be done, with a virtual baby shower you can just set up a comfortable area in your house in front of a phone or a webcam and have fun!

Virtual Venues

Compared to having to pick the ideal garden or hall to host your traditional baby shower, with a virtual one you can choose one of the many online meeting platforms available and everyone can be part of it from the comfort of their own space.

Some of the most popular platforms are Zoom, Skype, Face-time, Facebook Messenger and Google Hangouts and they all offer easy to navigate systems that your guests can access without any trouble as long as they have a smartphone or computer with a camera and internet connection.

Zoom could be considered the best virtual venue for this occasion thanks to the capacity of up to 100 guests who can even customize their backgrounds to match the theme of your event.It is worth mentioning that if you’re using the free version of Zoom, meetings are restricted to 40 minutes only. But there’s a paid subscription that allows you to have longer “meetings”.

Another great thing about Zoom is that you can record the meeting so everyone can watch it and relive all the great moments they spent together.

Theme and Decoration Ideas

Picking a theme and decorating your space works just as an in-person baby shower. You can even have your guest match your decoration by mailing out props or party favours or have a theme and dress up in a specific way.

Decorating is not a must but can definitely make the event feel more special. You could use a cloth cover and decorate your background, decorate your backyard and join from outside.

It’s Game Time!

Playing games always adds another level of entertainment to the event and since it is a virtual event everyone can join the fun, no matter if they’re in different cities or even different continents. Here are some game ideas you could use:

- “Who’s that baby?”: here your guests submit baby pictures from their past for you to share via Zoom and everyone has to guess who was that baby.

- Virtual Quizzes: these can be about the mom-to-be or memories from their childhood.

- “The Price is Right”: the host can show baby items and guests have to write down how much they think each item costs.

- Slido: it’s compatible with Zoom and let’s everyone write questions and answer polls. So guests could write down fun questions to ask the host.

- Advice for the new mom: guests can give useful tips for the first time mom or even tell fun anecdotes.

As for gifts you could do things such as gift cards for beauty or skincare stores, food delivery services or even Amazon.

Invitations and Thank-You Notes

Even though the event will be held online you can still send traditional invites to all your guests, but another going-green option can be using evites. Here you can include the link to the meeting and even a video done by you or from YouTube with the step by step on how to join the online meeting. Thank-you notes are also important and continuing with the virtual format of the event you can send a personal video message or even email a thank-you card after the shower.

Set up your Baby Registry

Setting up an online baby registry can be really useful since guests can ship their gifts directly to your house and also keeps them safe during the pandemic since they don’t have to physically go to a store. A registry is the perfect way to have everything you need ready for when the baby arrives or even help you future-proof a nursery for your baby. Just have the registry link included in the invitation so that everyone can access it quick and easy.

Thanks to technology and creativity you can make a baby shower as fun and memorable as possible with all your friends and family around. Let your imagination run wild and make your virtual baby shower the special moment it should be.