Food for Baby Shower

[GrannyOnTheSchoolRun]

Please, can anyone suggest what to serve at a baby shower? And now to do one.

My new DIL is really wanting to have a baby shower and it would appear that if I don't plan it no-one else will. Its just not the kind of thing we go in for. Anyway we were having an afternoon tea for her this week so Ive decided to do a shower instead - but how do I? Just what is a baby shower, what do I do and what do I serve? I love cooking and entertaining so am not worried about the work involved.

This is our 5th grandchild and Im really keen that she gets what she wants rather than what we normally do a few weeks before the baby arrives.

Thank You

Can't link properly on this wretched phone, but google "baby shower games that are actually fun". Some good suggestions on there.

V nice of you OP!

Sounds lovely!

I know I'm a bit late joining in, but my family did a surprise baby shower for me and it was lovely. It was pretty much just a nice summer tea party, two of the games that I particularly remember were 1) identify the baby food: jars of commercial baby food with the labels blanked out, lots of disposable spoons (no double dipping!), and everyone had to guess what flavour they were - what made this funny were the facial expressions of tasters - baby food from jars/tins is generally pretty awful, and 2) a quiz based on nursery rhymes eg what time did wee willie winkie expect all the children to be in bed? This was a lovely moment of childhood nostalgia for everyone else, and also made the baby suddenly seem much more real for me, if that makes any sense. I think they got this from ebay if that helps.

I think it's lovely that you are taking the trouble to do this for her