Zoom baby shower- help!

[RoseGoldEagle]

I decided to arrange a surprise ‘baby shower’ via zoom for a friend. Wasn’t planning on doing anything too baby-shower- like at it (I haven’t actually ever been to a baby shower, or had one for any of my kids), so it’s more just a way of her getting to see some friends and family after finishing work and before the baby comes, as I know she’s been a bit down, and obviously with lockdown she can’t see anyone in person.

Anyway, am now stressing that it’s going to be really awkward, there are about 8 people altogether but not everyone knows everyone. I don’t know if they’ll have expected me to arrange some kind of activity?! Should I?! What kind of thing could I do?

Any low key idea about what we could do, or do we just have a zoom chat and that be that? Am
cringing that it’s just going to be people sat not really talking! Ideas/thoughts welcome!!

Ask everyone to email you a baby picture of themselves and do it as a picture quiz.

Ask the mum to be (check she is ok with this first) to measure her belly and everyone guesses how many cm round it is.

Ask any mums for the nicest pregnancy memeory, baby memory etc. No bad memories or horror stories allowed.

I think you need to actually plan something or else it will be quite awkward I think. I have attended one zoom baby shower which did the games mentioned above & a couple of other similar. It worked well because it had one person hosting so asking the questions etc so there was a structure to it rather than people talking over each other or not talking at all.

Yeah if people don't know each other out needs structure. If it goes off on a tangent and everyone is getting along then let that happen too, don't force games in.

Celebrity babies quiz?
All everyone to close their eyes and draw a picture of the baby?
Guess the bump size as mentioned
Ask everyone to give one piece of advice, get them to email or you too then print it out along with well wishes and put them together to post/give to her

Quizzes like name of baby animals etc

Keep it short. Couple of games is enough. I went to one in the summer and after two hours of zoom I was losing the will to live

Cancel it would be my suggestion but probably too late.

I did one the other week:

1. Guess the birth date and weight of baby
2. Match up animal name and it's baby
3. Baby pics of everyone at the party, mum to be had to guess who was who.

The purpose of a shower is to shower with gifts - so working out how to get them to the honouree might be the trickiest thing to,arrange. But having footage of someone knocking at the door and standing back could be one way.

Or you could decide it's not a shower because the showering is just too difficult, call it a party for your friend, and just have fun as you would for any other party.

Not all parties during pregnancy have to be a shower

For zoom parties it's nice when people make an effort with their background/costume.

Can you find a background with bunting /balloons similar and send people the link?