Unique gender reveal ideas - June 2016 Babies | Forums | What to Expect | Page 2 (2024)

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What is a unique gender reveal? ›

Light up the night sky. For a creative gender reveal idea, use sparklers to draw “boy” or “girl” in the night sky (practice all safety precautions). This is especially fun (and safer than a smoke bomb with colored powder) if you're revealing your baby's sex around the Fourth of July, Labor Day, or New Year's Eve.

The perfect moment for a gender reveal party is during the second trimester, 18-20 weeks after the mid-pregnancy ultrasound. This is when you can start exploring various baby gender reveal party ideas to make the event memorable.

Silly Strings are a fun and colorful way to reveal your baby's gender. Guests spray each other with pink or blue silly string, ensuring lots of smiles and laughter. Gather the cans before the event, and make sure to choose an outdoor space or an area that's easy to clean.

How long do gender reveal parties usually last? They're typically brief, ranging from 1-2 hours.

Who typically hosts the party? Typically, the expecting couple hosts the gender reveal party. We know — that's one more thing on your plate as you prepare for the new baby. But the good news is that, compared to the baby shower, it's typically a less formal affair.

Fill several black balloons with gold paint and one balloon with pink or blue paint. Staple each balloon by the tail to a board and have the couple throw darts at the balloons until the secret-holding balloon is popped. Just don't stand too close!

We inflate a 20" black balloon, so the inside is completely invisible so as not to reveal the surprise. Inside we fill it with either pink or blue 'powderfetti', a biodegradable paper confetti, that will reveal the gender of your baby.

Often neither parent knows the sex of the baby, and this information is only known by a trusted friend or family member called a "gender guardian". In this situation, both of the parents get to share in the excitement of the gender reveal with their guests.

In short, bringing a gift to a gender reveal party is certainly appreciated, but not required. "Gift-giving is a personal choice and so is the amount you spend on the gift," says etiquette trainer Suzy Lins. "Keep in mind that gifts don't need to be expensive to be thoughtful."

Whatever option you choose, let your care provider know if you'd like to find out the gender during the appointment or would prefer to keep it as a surprise. You can also ask your ultrasound technician or doctor to write the results on a piece of paper and put it in a sealed envelope.

How to predict baby gender calculator? ›

A Chinese gender predictor chart guesses baby's sex by taking the mother's birth date and the estimated date of conception or the baby's due date, then converting the numbers into the mom's lunar age when she got pregnant and the lunar date of conception.

Make a Gender-Reveal Handprint Heart

Have your partner dip their hands in paint while you're blind-folded, and place them on your belly to create a heart revealing Baby's gender. Or, you can both just do this together and create a photo shoot gender reveal announcement for social media—and as a keepsake you can frame!

A gender reveal party will usually include food, drinks, games and of course the reveal itself! Some ideas include opening a box to reveal pink or blue helium-filled balloons or biting into cupcakes filled with pink or blue icing.

At this point if the parent's chose to announce the gender, the baby's gender has already been announced. Of the two events, the baby shower is definitely considered the more traditional; whereas, the gender reveal party tends to be the more creative of the two.