Double Your Fun With a Baby Shower for Twins

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Food

As with the decorations, the food doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive to carry on with the twin theme. Figure out what you’d like to serve, and then add little twists to make them twins!

For hors d’oeuvres, you can put almost anything bite-sized on skewers, and place two on each. Sausage rolls, cocktail wieners, stuffed mushrooms, or even things like cherry tomatoes or radishes can be served this way. Things like mini quiches can be made with “double cheese”.

To garnish your trays, take mini gingerbread cookie cutters and make tiny cutouts from seeded bell peppers. You can usually find assorted shapes in the little cookie cutters, like teddy bears or people (which turn out to look remarkably like toddlers).

Try making potato salad with red and yellow skinned potatoes, and call it “Two-Potato Salad”. You can do the same with macaroni salad, using multi-colored pasta or two different shapes of pasta. Let your imagination guide you!

For dessert, anything that’s got two layers or is double chocolate works well. Chocolate cookies with chocolate chips can be dressed up with a drizzle of melted white chocolate, or consider making a two-layer cheesecake. A two-layer sheet cake would work well too, and you could make each layer a different flavor. If you use white cake as your base, you can even tint the layers in baby colors with food coloring.

Games

There are all sorts of twin themed games you can play. Simple memory games, like putting a bunch of items in a basket and revealing it for thirty seconds, then having everyone write down what they remember can be easily adapted to fit your twin theme. Use only pairs of items, or have people recall only what was in pairs in the basket.

Trivia games work well too. Have a contest to see who can come up with the longest list of famous twins within a certain timeframe. Ask your guests to write down as many movie titles or television shows with the words “twin”, “double”, or “pair” in them as they can.

Do a scavenger hunt, where your guests get a small bag full of one piece of a pair – use gloves, socks, baby booties, cutouts of hands or feet, etc – and ask them to search the yard (or house) for the matching pieces.

You can even do the classic “guess what baby food you’re eating” game, but take it a step further and mix two kinds of baby food together. Make sure you don’t create concoctions that are too disgusting, however. You don’t want the baby shower to turn into an episode of “Fear Factor”.

You can use the weighted baby bottles (full of candy) that hold your helium balloon decorations as prizes for the games.

Favors

When the shower is finished and it’s time for the guests to leave, send them off with a twin-themed gift to remind them of your unique event. Here are some ideas.

Fill a pair of baby socks with small candies or chocolates, and tie them up and together with ribbon. Add a card with the mother-to-be’s name and date of the shower.

Use anything that comes in a pair – oven mitts, salt and pepper shakers, bookends, etc – and add ribbons and tags. You can purchase squares of tulle at a craft or fabric store, and place two small votive candles in the middle, gathering and tying the tulle at the top to form a bag.

Stack up some double chocolate cookies and put them in a clear plastic bag, tied with ribbon.

All you need is a little imagination and some creativity to turn an ordinary baby shower into a wonderfully themed event fit for two babies! The mom-to-be will certainly appreciate that you took the time to customize her very special event as well.