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Exciting way for 4yo to tell grandparents 3rd grandchild is on way

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Biffalobuff · 15/09/2014 16:38

Before I get a lot of people saying 'I just said I'm pregnant [hmmm]' this is at the request of DD and DH.
We knew DD would be excited as she had been asking about having another little sister or brother for a while so we told her in a creative 'surprise' type way during a day at the beach, she was ecstatic and loved that we told her that way, our youngest was nonplussed as didn't have much idea what was going on! She knows for now it is to still be a secret and wants to plan a big 'surprise' for her Grandparents to tell them. She loves this sort of thing, she often wants to surprise Daddy just for coming home from work and most of her surprises involve jumping out from behind curtains. Shock
DH has said that we should help her with her surprise as otherwise it is liable to end up with lots of leaping out at people, dancing and dressing up and nobody will understand what is going on, then she will get frustrated that they dont get it and we will have to tell them and she will be disappointed. (That makes her sound like a little diva - she really isnt at all!) Anyway DH has said we should help her plan it, but that he has no ideas, so I am wondering if any of the lovely mumsnetters could come up with a simple way she can do what she will consider a big surprise but keeping it very simple.

I did Google, but almost everything I saw was either in photo form ie for doing actual paper announcements, which I dont want, or was about announcing a first grandchild and we just told them normally then, Im not so much one for leaping out from behind curtains at people as it appears my daughter is.

Just for reference Im not a fan of handing people a pregnancy test to announce it I dont want to give her or grandparents something I have peed on to hold, I know they dont touch the peed on bit but it still just makes me feel a bit ewwwww.

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iklboo · 15/09/2014 16:42

Ermmmm......

Balloon in a box for them to open with 'BOY OR GIRL?' on it / on a label? So the balloon floats out of the box when it opens?

Jbck · 15/09/2014 16:47

I think it's lovely, could she draw them a 'special' picture of her family but there's 3 children in it, even if she can't draw well as long as it has two big and three small people it'll work.
She could wrap it up to give to them even in a frame.

maccie · 15/09/2014 16:48

Could she design a roll out poster type thing ? Like a wallpaper roll so DH could hold one end and DD could unroll it with the announcement on.

dinkystinky · 15/09/2014 16:53

Get dd to draw pictures to show them in an art show

This is me

This is daddy

This is mummy - then draw a big tummy on it - and this is my baby brother or sister. We don't know what it is yet...

dinkystinky · 15/09/2014 16:53

Sorry forgot older sibling - this is my older brother/sister

Then the one of mummy and the tummy

BlessThisMess · 15/09/2014 16:56

We got a white T-shirt and some special printer stuff that would print an image for transferring to the T shirt, and did a photo of DD1 with a speech bubble saying "I'm a big sister!".

Biffalobuff · 15/09/2014 17:02

Ooh these are all great thankyou! She is quite good at drawing - as in things in her drawings are recognisable. And that is quite close to how we told her - we got her to draw a family portrait in the sand and I told her she was missing something and drew a big tummy on mummy and a little baby in it, she asked a few puzzled questions and then started jumping up and down going 'Yessssss! and fist pumping!
She'd probably really like to draw her announcement too and if she did it on a paper roll she could 'unveil' it too adding to the drama! I just hope she gets the level of reaction she is hoping for!

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woodwaj · 15/09/2014 17:12

Get her to make some blue and pink cakes for the grandparents? Or take a dolly and pram round to play to show them how she can look after the new baby ;)

ruthpett · 15/09/2014 19:03

We gave FIL a book all wrapped up, called 'I Love My Grandpa.' It took him a while to get it, but he was chuffed. It's our 1st child, but not his 1st grandchild. Could she wrap up a book like that and give it to him?

Only1scoop · 15/09/2014 19:07

How far along are you have you had any 4D scans yet....maybe could do something creative with one of the images?

TheScenicRoute · 15/09/2014 21:14

Get her to write a message on a plate (google ceramic pens) then she could bake a cake/rice crispy cakey things etc with you, and serve them over the writing on the plate. She could watch them eat it and wait for them to cotton on to the writing on the plate.

Biffalobuff · 18/09/2014 16:31

Ok,so she got v excited to day and just blurted it out to my parents.Unfortunately they barely reacted at all (didn't even say congratulations) Sad so she and I are feeling a bit crap.Kind of glad she didn't carry out her big plan for them anyway.
She's going to do it for in laws though and pretty sure they'll have a better reaction.
Hmm

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Only1scoop · 18/09/2014 20:36

Ah what an anti climax although I'm sure she wouldn't have noticed

Congratulations anyway Thanks

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