Great Ways to Reveal The Gender of Your Baby

A while ago, Kidzies had a post on Fun Ways To Announce Your Pregnancy. Now, what are some fun ways to announce the gender of your baby when you find out? Everyone has already been driving you bonkers asking if the baby is a boy or a girl and your yourself are also on the edge of your seat wondering. Now, the big gender reveal is there and you want to tell the world! Here are some fun and unique ways to share the news!

1. Invite friends over for coffee and cake. Bake a cake in either pink or blue and cover it well with frosting. When everyone is gathered, cut into the cake to reveal!

2. Do it with balloons. Get a bunch (think; as many can fit!) of balloons and put them into a big box. Pink for girl, blue for boy. Go to an open field and have a photographer snap pictures of you before the reveal, during and after. Then, you can use this as a social media announcement.

3. A fun way to get younger siblings involved is to do a fiesta party. Invite friends with kids over, and have Latino inspired foods and mock margaritas. To reveal the gender, have the kids break open a pinata with either blue or pink candy and prizes in it.

4. Throw a "Guessing Party". Have people wear the color of the gender they guess the baby is. Pink worn for girls, blue for boys. Make it a casual get-together like a BBQ and at the end announce the winning gender. The "team" who guessed right get a small prize each.

5. Have an older sibling announce it with a T shirt that reads, "I am getting a baby _______ (brother, sister)"

6. Have it put on a Onezie from Kidzies! This would be the perfect way to let grandma or your spouse know if they don't already. Just put the gender (or better yet! name you had picked out if the baby was that gender!) and wrap it up as a present for them to reveal. This will also make a great keepsake!

7. If it is YOU that need to know the gender of the baby, have your doctor write the gender on a piece of paper and place it in a sealed envelope. Go shopping for an outfit together for the baby. Pick out an outfit for both genders (one girl and one boy one). Hand them to a sales clerk and ask him or her to ONLY bag, gift wrap and ring up the one that matches the gender in the envelope. Hand the clerk the envelope and say you will be back in a little bit.


How did you announce your pregnancy?

10 Fun Ways To Make Your Child's Birthday Extra Special

Every kid loves to feel special on their birthday. Aside from the normal birthday party and cupcakes to take to school, how can you fill your child's love tank on their birthday?

Here are 10 fun ways to make your birthday boy or girl feel like the day is all about them!

1. Make pancakes with sprinkles and frosting for breakfast. Put a candle in it, even!

2. Before you wake your child for the day, draw on the bathroom mirror a birthday message. Either use dry erase markers or lipstick!

3. Make sure you write a happy birthday note in their lunch if it is a school day. You may even consider packing a really special lunch and including a small gift, wrapped in it.

4. This is probably a given, but make your child feel like the dinner VIP and allow him or her to have the prime seat at the table and pick what you make or where you eat.

5. Make sure you tell them you love them all day. Teaching siblings that it's important to make the person feel loved on their birthday is also very important.

6. Fill the birthday child's room with balloons on the floor so when they get up, they pop them! What a fun way to wake up.

7. Decorate your car with erasable paint for windows with a special message.

8. Measure them every year. Kids like to see how much they have grown.

9. Let them decorate their own birthday cake.

10. Ask you child's siblings to do something special for the birthday kid such as do their chores for the day. If you have an only child, let them off the hook for chores, for example.

Bonus tip!

Get them a personalized Huggerz for their birthday! Personalized products make every kid feel special!

Top Kidzies Tools You Need For Back To School

Kidzies is your one stop shop for personalized goodies, but did you know that many of our more popular items are back-to-school must-haves? Check out the list below for special Kidzies products that can really make your school year and look at the bottom of the post for a 20% off your purchase code exclusively for Kidzies blog readers!

Huggerz-

Huggerz are the perfect back-to-school companion because they keep your child's drink separate and easy to spot. Perfect for lunchboxes, soccer practice and more. Help your child stand out with a Huggerz!

Protector Palz-

Protector Palz help little ones arrive in style and keep the seat belt from rubbing on the way to school. What kid wouldn't want that? Plus, for expecting moms, Protector Palz keep your little bun in the oven safer by placing on your belly in the car.

Treasure Bagz-

No one wants a boring pencil case! Treasure Bagz are the perfect solution as they keep your pencils, crayons and markers all in one place and since they are personalized, your child will know it is theirs! Treasure Bagz are perfect because they are made of durable wetsuit material and they hold a lot! Treasure Bagz also come with a clip so they can easily be attached to a backpack for holding lunch money as well!

Bigger Bagz-

For the kid who had a ton to carry, Bigger Bagz are the solution. Carry your scissors, glue sticks, pencils, markers and crayons all in the same tote. Made of the same durable material as our Treasure Bagz and they can be personalized, just like all our other products! Bigger Bagz are perfect for teens and tweens as well since they come in some pretty nifty styles and can hold cell phones, calculators and more!

To help you get the must needed items listed above for back to school, make sure you plug in code KIDZIESBLOG at checkout and enjoy 20% off your entire order!*

Have a safe and fun back-to-school season!


*20% off any sized order, but subject to shipping. FREE shipping on orders $50 or more!

Top 5 Reasons to Get Huggerz

We love to have fun at Kidzies. Good thing it is summer!

With fun often comes so many activities they can make your head spin. Every parent needs as much in the way of little helpers as they can! That is why Huggerz are the perfect little helper for summer fun!

Here are the top five reasons to get a Huggerz for each of your kids!

1. Summer camps: Whether it is day camp or overnight camp, hydration is important and with all the running around done, it is easy to lose which water bottle is your child's. Huggerz will help your child be able to identify theirs easily in group activities.

2. Sleep-overs. If you have another child over and they are doing a movie night or you are letting them take a drink to bed with them, the best way to keep them separate is to use a Huggerz on each one. No more mixed up drinks and the guest at your home will feel so special to have a cup of their own!

3. Baseball/Softball games. With so many other players walking around the dugout, it is easy to loose which generic bottle of water is your child's. Mark one with a Huggerz and the problem is solved!

4. Apart from keeping drinks cold and hands dry, Huggerz have some unconventional uses as well. Try using it to store sunglasses for the little ones in your beach bag. Then, when you get to your destination, they are scratch free and you have a Huggerz to use to keep their drink cold.

5. If you are a daycare worker or a church summer camp worker, you will love this: Get several Huggerz for all the kids in the class and you will no longer have to label drinks all day.

Did you know Huggerz fit virtually any drink from juice boxes to tall water bottles? You gotta get  Huggerz today!

Tip: Huggerz are not just for kids! They are great for coffee on the go and keeping Mom & Dad's Drinks cool as well ;)

Exciting New Products are on their way!

I am excited for summer! Aren't we all?!

Summer is a time for fun in the sun and feeling renewed! At Kidzies, we are re-newing with some amazing new products! I can't tell you what they are quite yet, but I just know you are going to love them!

One thing that is changing with Kidzies is we now have a Social Media Manager! Welcome Christine aboard the Kidzies train! (toot toot!)

(Ok, so that was a little corny, but we like corny. Kids like corny!)

From now on, she will be a Kidzies blogging, tweeting, pinning, linking, status posting machine and she has some amazing ideas and fun ways to share all the amazing products Kidzies has to offer.