Updated on: Feb 12, 2024
Remember that rubber ducky you loved having in the bathtub with you when you were a child? Perhaps you remember your parents singing the rubber ducky song to you. Perhaps you even sang it to your ducky. Well now, you can use rubber duckies at your gender-reveal party (also known as a waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party). Here are some ideas for pregnant women who are looking to have a waddle it be gender-reveal party.
Waddle-it-Be-Gender-Reveal Decorations
At your waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party, you should have blue and pink decorations, including table cloths, balloons, and streamers. Additionally, for a waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party, you should consider including rubber duckies on the tables, hanging duck decorations, and a poster of you and your husband with your baby information as well as his. You may also want to include a bowl of water with blue food coloring, with the boy and girl ducks floating on it. Here are some additional decorations you might want to include:
1. White Bubble Balloons
A decoration you might want to consider having at your waddle-it-be-gender-reveal is having white balloons in your entryway to welcome guests and put them in a rainbow form. Since this is a waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party, you might consider placing a boy duck at one end of your white-bubble rainbow, and a girl duck at the other end.
2. Fish Bowls
You should consider having fish bowls with rubber ducks in them for a waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party. You can place blue marbles in the bowls for bubbles and have the ducks sitting on top of the marbles. You can have boy ducks in half of the fishbowls and girl ducks in the other half to fit your gender reveal theme. Or, if there is room, you can put one boy duck and one girl duck in each fishbowl.
3. Ducky Photo Background
Make sure all your guests can take cute pictures to remember your special day! You never want to be stressed about finding a good backdrop with people walking around and food laying around. So there are some cute backdrop ideas to make sure you have the perfect spot to capture your waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party!
4. Duck Photo Props
Having a nice duck backdrop for pictures is a great idea, but what will make it even better is if you have duck photo props like these to go with it. This will add great humor to the party and the pictures that people will laugh about for years to come.
5. Rubber Ducky Stickers on Toothpicks
You can add some detail to toothpicks for your waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party by wrapping them in duck stickers like these. You can put these in containers next to fruit and veggie trays so that guests can pick their favorite foods. Because you are throwing a gender-reveal party, you should consider having pink and blue stickers. This way, the guests can pick their favorite foods and at the same time, guess whether you are having a boy or girl.
6. Hanging Decorations
Hang some streamers, duck-themed swirl decorations, or banners to make your venue more festive! Your guests will absolutely love the decorations as soon as they walk in.
Waddle-it-Be-Gender-Reveal Favors
7. Ducky Party Favor Bags
Every party needs bags that match the theme of their party! you can do colors to match the theme or a specific design that you like. Blue or yellow party bags will go great with the ducky theme Your guests will be quacking up when they see the cute party favor bags that you picked out!
8. Duck Dispensers
Include some duck soap dispensers to make sure your guests remember the amazing time they had at your party and it would look amazing with your theme! This will also be a great decoration for your guests if they certain bathroom for their kids.
9. Rubber Duckies
Let your guests bring the party home with them by including some small rubber ducks in their party favor bag! They can give it to their small children or just keep it as a memory.
10. Duck Themed Thank You Stickers or Tags
Spruce up your party favor bags by including some cute thank you stickers and tags! These stickers are an inexpensive and creative way to continue the theme of your waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party.
11. Duck Key Chains
Key chains are always essential for the people at the party who can drive. Duck key chains would be the perfect party favor, they will always have a memory of the party with them every time they leave the house.
Waddle-it-Be-Gender-Reveal Food
12. Rubber duck cupcakes with bubble frosting
This is an easy recipe; a large round piping tip to put blue frosting on (you will dye white frosting blue). After you have cooled the cupcakes for about 15 minutes, use a knife to smooth the blobs into bubbles. Then add the sprinkles and duckies. Since you are holding a gender-reveal party, you should buy boy and girl ducks (there should be boy ducks on half of the cupcakes and girl ducks on the other half of the cupcakes).
13. Punch Bowls
For your waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party, have some pink and blue serving bowls for the punch with rubber duckies in them to match your theme. Your guests can have whichever kind of punch they want, regardless of which gender they are guessing your baby is. Just make sure these are the rubber duckies that float; mini rubber duckies might sink to the bottom.
14. Waddle-It-Be Cake
If you want to have your cake stand out from the crowd with very little effort on your end! Get yourself a Waddle-It-Be cake topper. This paired with a delicious cake is sure to make your guests quacking up.
15. Duck-o-Jello
This is easy to make for your waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party. All you need to do is put some blue jello into individual cups with whipped cream, and a mini rubber ducky. This makes for a cute dessert. If you are having a fairly small party, you can just buy cups of blue jello at the grocery store, and just make the whipped cream. If you are having a big party, however, you will probably want to make the jello at home. You can get blue jello mix at your local grocery store.
16. Waddlewiches
This is an easy recipe for a waddle-it-be-gender-reveal; simply make sandwiches and use a duck-shaped cookie cutter to give them the look of a duck. You can make any kind of sandwich that you believe your guests will like. Have different kinds of meat and cheese for your guests to choose from. You might even consider using your cookie cutter on different types of bread if your budget allows it; that way, your guests have a variety of bread types to choose from.
Waddle-it-Be-Gender-Reveal Games
17. Clothespin game
In this game, you would have each of your guests grab a yellow clothespin. If they hear someone say, “baby,” they should snatch up their clothespin. Whoever has the most snatches at the end wins.
18. Pick-a-Duck
This is another awesome game to have at your waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party have a blow-up pool filled with water and rubber ducks, with each duck having a number on the bottom that corresponds to a prize. Since you are having a gender-reveal party, you should have a boy and girl duck pairs with each pair having the same number of the bottom of each duck (in other words, if a boy duck has a 3 on the bottom, there should be a girl duck with a 3 on the bottom as well), and have each guest find the matching pair. In this game, everyone's a winner.
19. Baby Bingo
For this game, give your guests blank bingo cards and have them fill out those cards with items that they believe that you, as the new mom-to-be, will receive. Include a list of items that you registered for, in case the guests need help thinking of ideas. As you open your gifts, have your guests cross off any items of yours that they have on their Bingo card. Give a prize to the first one who gets 5 in a row.
20. Take a Quack at it
1. Take a Quack at it: This game is a very simple one for guests to play at your waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party. Simply take a whiteboard, and write the words, “Take a Quack at it” at the top. Then make columns that say “Boy” and “Girl” and have people fill out a tally mark to guess whether you are having a boy or a girl.
21. Pin The Tail on the Duck
Simply hang a poster or even use a photo backdrop of a duck and have pieces of paper with tape on them for everyone. Then have all the guests try pinning the tail on the duck. This is a fun and simple game that the guest will love.
Waddle-it-Be-Gender-Reveal Party Supplies
22. Team Boy and Team Girl Pins
Have your guests pick which side they think it will be and have everyone wear their pin! It's a fun way to get your guests involved.
23. Ducky Tablecloth
Make sure clean-up is a breeze by getting some tablecloths. You can either get plain yellow-colored ones of your choice or you can get ducks on them!
24. Ducky Ribbon
Use some duck-themed ribbon around your party to spice up any table, decorations, or even use it to decorate the favor bags for your guests!
25. Baby Prediction Cards
Have your guests submit their predictions with some adorable duck-themed cards! See who is right, who's wrong, and what will come next.
26. Waddle-It-Be Banner
This is the perfect banner for your gender reveal party! With a super easy setup and a wonderful design, your guests will be blown away with this banner.
Waddle-it-Be-Gender-Reveal Invitations
The best theme parties all start with the same thing, the invitations! There are a few different ways that you can make these invitations. You can print personalized ones at home or at a printing shop, you can use email to send personalized e-vites (check out various options here), or you can fully customize them by hand. No matter which option you choose, here are some cute and quacky ideas and taglines for your ducky invitations.
27. Waddle-It-Be Etsy Invitation
Find an adorable, hand-crafted invitation for your party!
28. Waddle-It-Be Amazon Invitation
Waddle-it-be invitations from amazon are adorable but not as common. This amazon invitation is adorable and works great for the theme
29. Pink and Blue invitations
You can also choose a more simple invitation and send your guest pink and blue invitations to get them excited about what the gender will be.
30. Ducky Invitations
You can go all-in with the theme by sending your guests a mini ducky along with a written note with all your information about the gender reveal party inside. They will get an invite and a little present all in one!
31. Personalized Gender Reveal Cups
Cups never go to waste especially for a party. The guests can bring them to the party to get use out of them and along with the pink and blue cups you can send a note with all the party information on it.
Waddle it Be Gender Reveal: Conclusion
In this article, we have talked about ways you can use rubber ducks for a waddle-it-be-gender-reveal party. We have talked about the games your guests could play, as well as food that was made fit for the party. In addition, we talked about various games your guests can play that relate to your theme. We hope that you and your guests have a wonderful party.
Written by Carmen Boneck; Contributor: Gianna Rutigliano