Gender Reveal Ideas – From the Low-Key to the Extravagant

Let's celebrate your baby's sex with all these different gender reveal party ideas from Pinterest.

America: Land of the free. Home of the brave. Revealers of genders. Gender reveal parties are one of our favourite US-based exports. (Just in front of Taylor Swift and microwave popcorn.)

You’ve probably heard of this new trend because of some viral Twitter story of a party gone wrong. Remember that couple that caused a forest fire in their excitement to announce their baby’s sex to the world? We’re hoping we don’t get that carried away, lest we have the National Trust angrily knocking on our door, so we’ll be keeping things as pyrotechnically relaxed as possible.

Speaking of sex - shall we get this bit over with? Really, what we’re doing with a gender reveal party is revealing a baby’s sex. Aka what they’ve got downstairs. Their gender will be theirs to find out when they’re a little bit older.

But for now, let’s celebrate finding out their sex by throwing pinks and blues around everywhere. Woo hoo!

1. Going all out

We’re coming in strong with the most elaborate of our gender reveal ideas. As we previously mentioned, we’re going to take fireworks, flame-based stunts, and firing great-uncle Bill out of a cannon off the table. That leaves us with a few appropriately British levels of excitement to contend with.

Gender reveals are usually an intimate affair - with your closest friends and family getting to see the big reveal, while the rest of the rabble get to see it a day later on the social media of your choice. But, if you feel like being extra with the birth of your little miracle (and, honestly, why wouldn’t you?) then you might want to invite your third cousins, co-workers, and that friendly bloke that you met on the bus once.
If you’re boasting a big guest list, you’ll want a flashy gender reveal that the entire crowd would be able to see. Our favourites are a confetti cannon(not the Evel Knievel kind), a box of hidden, helium balloons or releasing an appropriately coloured smoke bomb.

2. Keeping it low-key

So you’re not the flashy type. You choose normal digestives over chocolate ones. That’s okay - they dunk better in tea anyway. We’ve still got plenty of options for you if inviting everyone you’ve ever known to your back garden isn’t your thing.

With just your closest handful of family and friends, you can afford to have a smaller, more intricate reveal. These ones tend to be pretty baking-oriented, so we hope you’ve got a sweet tooth.

Cutting into a cake to reveal a pink or blue inside is a tried and true classic. If you want to get the whole party involved, cake pops are an adorable way for everyone to have a hand in the reveal - just make sure you don’t finish it in one bite (tempting as it is!)

You could also make a game of your reveal (because you surely haven’t had enough forced-fun with all the bachelorette parties and baby showers you’ve definitely been attending…) We’ve seen people use colour-coded drinks to indicate what their guests are guessing, clothes pins, bags of popcorn… The possibilities are endless. Slap some pink or blue on anything you like and let your guests guess away!

3. Do it for the ‘gram

Parties just not your vibe? Reveal your baby’s sex from the comfort of your sofa with an Insta (or any social media of your choice) post!

There’s plenty of creative ways you can announce your little one to the world. You could get fancy with your ultrasound photo and accessorise in a way that would make Moschino proud. Add a twee tiara or a beautiful bow if you’re expecting a baby girl. Or, if you’ve got a baby boy on the way, get out your best bow-tie or some scrabble pieces that really spell it out.

4. Staying old school

If you take a look at your feed, you might think that everyone is finding out their baby’s sex and then throwing elaborate bashes to celebrate. That’s not always the case, though.

Around a third of new parents decide not to discover their baby’s sex - plus there are quite a few who find out, but then somehow keep it to themselves, the big teases - which means it can be tricky trying to politely dodge the dreaded ‘what are you having?’ question.

Let’s say you’d still like a party to celebrate the general gestation of your child (which is more than enough cause for merrymaking!) If you wanted to spice up your get together with a game, you could make a guess-the-sex poll - like we’ve previously given some ideas for. The only difference is… you don’t reveal the answer, because you won’t know! Enjoy taking bets and being as oblivious as the next person until your all-important due date.

If you need more inspiration for your gender reveal party, or if you’re more of a visual-learner-type, head on over to our Pinterest for more gender reveal ideas.

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