In this growing world of internet assessiblity, more and more
friendships are being formed online. The internet has also become
a popular, inexpensive way for families to stay in close contact.
It's only natural that the next step would be Internet Showers!
Planning an internet shower for your expectant friend or relative
is just a little bit different from planning one in your home. For
starters, no one will notice if you didn't finish vacuuming! LOL
There are two types of showers you can plan.
The first would be
for a friend or relative. This shower would basically work the same
as one in your home.
The second would be for a group of women due
in the same month or in the same time frame. In this type of shower
instead of everyone sending a gift to everyone, the shower coordinator
would take everyone's name and address and assign each present swap
partners. Each person would send their gift out in time to reach the
recipient before the party.
You will need to set up a chat room for everyone to meet in on the
designated day. Talk City ( http://www.talkcity.com ) has free, easy
to use chat rooms. Talk City is also webTV compatitble which can be
a nice advantage if you have webTV users attending your party.
Be sure to include the url and chat room name in your
invitations.
Speaking of invitations, you will want to do those next. There are
several sites you can send invitaions from, far to many to list. Here
are a couple of my favorites.
You can still play games at an online party. Some ideas of games you can play can be found in our games section.
Another idea would be to play baby trivia games. You could ask
questions such as "Which brand of diapers features Barney?" (Luvs)
"What brand of baby food features a baby's face on the label?" (Gerber)
or "What brand of diapers come in a red and white bag?" (Huggies)
You can make up other questions by looking at the baby items
around you, or in the store.
As the online honoree opens her presents, she can describe them and
everyone will get the opportunity to ooh and ahh (virtually, of course)
If the honoree has a digital camera, a fun idea it to take picture of each
gift and upload it to a photo hosting page as the party is going on.
You can find free photo hosting on the following sites:
That's pretty much it. The only think left to do is find a pregnant friend
and start planning! Have fun!
if you have any questions or comments!