Shower Games

Preparation Time:  10 Minutes

Duration:  30 Minutes

Ingredients needed: Tissue Paper, scissors, tape and staplers

The guests will design and create a wedding gown for the bride, made entirely out of tissue paper! The bride gets to act as the model for the resulting design.

Divide the guests into teams and give each team part of the dress to create.  Each team figures out what they want to do, then creates their portion and attaches it to the bride.  For example you might have one team create the skirt, another the sleeves, another the bodice and finally the veil.  Each team cuts and tapes the tissue paper together and attaches it to the bride - usually with tape, but...

It helps to have a cooperative bride - not everyone wants to be dressed in a goofy gown that crinkles when they walk.  I personally loved this and wore the dress for the whole shower.  I still have the tissue paper veil!

Preparation

Have an idea of how many teams you'll have so you break out the dress into enough parts.  For a larger shower, you might have one team do the right arm, another the left arm, for example.

Make sure you have plenty of tissue paper - luckily, packages of white tissue paper are relatively inexpensive.  Each team should have a package (or half of one), along with a pair of scissors and a roll of tape.  A stapler might help also, just don't let them staple the bride!

Helpful Stuff

You can break the dress down into as many parts as you need for your teams.  Here is a list of some parts that work well:  skirt (back and front), train, bodice, sleeves (right and left), veil

Variations

I've heard of, but never seen this game done with toilet paper also - which sounds interesting!  Each team could also make their own dress, then model them for the bride, who can then pick the one she likes best.  This might work well for a larger group.