Gender reveal parties have become an exciting new trend in parenting. Learning your child’s gender is a fun first step in parenting because it gives your family and friends a chance to envision who your child might be. It also allows people to refer to your unborn baby as a “he” or a “she” instead of as an “it”.
Here are some creative and fun ways you can reveal your child’s gender to their grandparents.
1. Make It a Party
Invite the grandparents over for a weekend brunch, lunch or dinner. You may want to tell them it’s a special gender reveal party or keep it as a surprise. Make the meal fun. Here are a few meal ideas:
Pink and Blue Place Settings
Make your special meal exciting using pink and blue place settings, napkins, forks, spoons, and knives.
Make Traditional Foods
Use family recipes and serve family favorites to celebrate both sets of grandparents and the legacy your little one will be inheriting from their family’s culture, foods, and history.
Baby Size
For fun, make a smorgasbord of baby-sized/baby gender themed foods.
Baby vegetables (carrots, tomatoes, potatoes etc.), mini sandwiches, Obento style lunch items (rice, meat, and vegetables cut up to look like animals etc.) pretty pink and blue yogurt parfait cups, pink and blue drinks, dye pasta pink and blue, serve blue corn chips and dip and pink grapefruit skewers with pink jello cubes.
Have fun making everything whimsical and cute.
2. Play Games
Have the grandparents guess if your baby is a boy or a girl and record their guesses then play a few gender prediction games.
The Baking Soda Test
For the Baking Soda test, you pour urine that was collected first thing in the morning over baking soda (just enough to cover the baking soda) and wait for the results.
If the soda mixture fizzes it’s a boy. If it’s flat it’s a girl. You can test to see if the gender predictor test matches the actual reveal. While the idea of using urine might be gross, the game is fun.
The Ring Test
Have parents put the mother’s wedding ring on a string and swing it over her pregnant belly. If it makes a circle, the baby is a girl. If the ring swings in a straight line, the baby is a boy.
Tell Stories and Make Predictions
Have the grandparents talk about their pregnancies with the baby’s parents and determine, based on the facts shared, what they think the baby’s gender will be.
Name Game
Have the baby’s grandparents submit the names they think are good for a boy or a girl. After you’ve played prediction games.
3. Time For The Big Reveal
Here are some fun ways to reveal your baby’s gender.
Gender Reveal Cake
After eating and playing games you can bring out the gender reveal cake. Perhaps the grandmothers can cut the cake together or draw names for who gets to do the honors.
The icing on the outside can be any color other than pink or blue. The cake inside or the icing inside should be the color of your baby’s gender.
Gender Reveal Cake Pops
A twist on the Gender Reveal Cake is Gender Reveal Cake Pops that are given to each grandparent. Everyone takes a bit together and the color inside will reveal the baby’s gender.
Gender Reveal Bath Bombs
Buy a bath bomb that is white on the outside but turns to either pink or blue when dropped in water. Give each grandparent a bowl and a bath bomb and have them drop the bath bombs in their bowls at the same time.
Gender Reveal Gift Unwrap
Pass around a wrapped package and have each grandparent continue to pass around the present and unwrap it until they get to the last box. Inside that box, you can put a pink or blue bear, or piece of baby clothes or something to indicate your baby’s gender.
Gender Reveal Gift
Give each grandparent a specially wrapped gift. Have them all open their gifts at the same time.
1. Engraved Jewelry
Have jewelry engraved for each of the grandparents with “Grandson” or “Granddaughter” written on it. Perhaps you have several children and you’ve already started a charm necklace or bracelet, then have a boy or girl charm to add.
If you know what the baby’s name will be, have their name engraved on a charm, a locket or a piece of jewelry.
2. Picture Frame
Make a picture frame with “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl” on it and add a copy of your baby’s ultrasound or leave it blank so you can give them a picture when the baby is born.
4. T-Shirts
Have T-shirts printed with sayings like “The reason I love being a grandma/grandpa is my grandson/daughter with a cartoon picture of a baby (If you already have children, increase the number of “reasons” to include all the children in the family).
If you know the baby’s name the T-shirts can say “Baby’s Name’s Grandma/Grandpa” or any other specialty shirt you want to create to reveal the baby’s gender.
5. Gender Reveal Scratch Off Cards
Purchase Gender Reveal Scratch Off Cards that will reveal if the baby is a boy or a girl and tuck them into handwritten cards for each grandparent.
Use this special time to remind your own parents how happy you are that they raised you and how excited you are for them to be grandparents to your new baby.
Have Fun
Regardless of how you chose to reveal your baby’s gender have fun with it. Grandchildren are so special to their grandparents, so honoring their role in your baby’s life by having a gender reveal party is a great way to celebrate your new addition to the family.
