About ten years ago, you either announced the Gender by posting an image of your ultrasound and stating the sex of your child or you just waited until you went through the pain of giving birth.  Nowadays, you will literally see the craziest gender reveals like one that include alligators (no thanks!) People have come up with the most creative gender reveals I’ve ever seen and there are new ones being posted on all social media platforms every day!

We’ve come up with a small list of ideas that you can use for your gender reveal that aren’t so extreme (or dangerous). Feel free to change up things that we’ve done and put your own twist on them!

Gender Reveal Scratch Off

If you don’t want to have an actual gender reveal party, this is a really fun option! You can either just send these in the mail to family members or put them in an envelope with a baby shower invite! It’s a cute way reveal to family and friends!

Materials

• Girl or boy printable
• Card Stock
• Acrylic paint (you can use any color)
• Dish soap
• Packing Tape
• Scissors

Directions

1. Print the template attached above for boy or girl and cut out
2. Mix together the paint and dish soap (2 parts paint: 1 part dish soap)
3. Stir together until it is smooth and well-mixed
4. Cover the scratch-able area with the packing tape (cover the whole area or just the area you're planning on painting over)
5. Now, cover scratch-off area with your paint mixture, let dry completely then repeat about 3 times.
6. Once all the layers of paint are dry you're ready to go! Send them off and let your family and friends discover the gender!

Gender Reveal Cookies

There are numerous food related gender reveals but some may take you up to your due date to complete. These gender reveal cookies are super cute and easy to make.

Materials

• Dough for sugar cookies (you can use any recipe for this)
• Food coloring or colored frosting
• White icing and frosting
• Sprinkles

Directions 

1. Preheat oven to 375F and line a sheet with parchment or silicone mat
2. Mix together all your ingredients for your sugar cookie and gather all the dough into a ball
3. Remove 1/2 cup worth of dough from the large dough ball and place it into a bowl
4. Add food coloring/colored frosting to the mini dough ball and knead until the color is uniform
5. Keep the colored dough separate from uncolored dough
6. Take 2-3 tbs worth of uncolored dough and flatten it out using the palm of your hand
7. Take 1 tsp of colored and roll it into a ball shape
8. Put the colored dough ball in the center of the flattened uncolored dough and wrap the plain dough around the colored ball until completely covered. Roll into a ball without mixing the two
9. Place the dough ball on your cookie sheet and gently flatten with your hand. Repeat with the rest for the rest of the cookies
10. Bake for 10-12 minutes and remove the cookie sheet from the oven and gently remove cookies and place on a cooling rack
11. Allow cookies to cool
12. Frost your cookies with white frosting or icing and immediately add the sprinkles on top

P.S. you can package these in little bags and fold card stock over the bags and staple personalized messages for guests to take home.

Gender Reveal Volcano

I thought a gender reveal volcano would be a great way to reveal the gender of your baby to an existing child/children you have! You can teach them a little science while letting them find out whether they're going to be a big sister/brother.

Materials

• Flower vase (or anything you can find around the house)
• 1 cup salt
• 2 cups flour
• 3/4 cups of water
• Vinegar
• Dish Soap
• Food Coloring
• Baking soda

Directions

1. Find a flower vase or something volcano shaped
2. Mix flour and salt together in a large bowl
3. Slowly stir in water and mix until you get a doughy consistency
4. Form the dough around the base of the vase and build up until you get the look you're going for
5. Mix the food coloring into the vinegar and pour into the vase until about 1/3 full
6. Squirt a small amount of dish soap in
7. You can cover up the top with a tissue to keep the kids from seeing what color it is
8. Once your ready for the reveal, have a child dump a small amount of baking soda into the top of the volcano to unveil the gender of their sibling!

Gender Reveal cupcakes

What a better way to reveal the gender at a party than to do it with cupcakes? Everyone loves cupcakes and if they don't I'm not sure why you're friends with them... just kidding! You can have your party guests bite into these cupcakes at the same time for the big surprise!

Materials

• Betty Crocker FUN Da-Middles chocolate cupcake mix with creamy vanilla filling (and all the ingredients the cupcakes require)
• Red or blue food coloring
• 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/3 heavy cream
• Decorations toppers (optional)

Directions (cupcakes)

1. Preheat the oven to 375F and line a cupcake pan with liners
2. Take the vanilla filling that comes with the box and put it in a small bowl
3. Add 1-2 drops of red or blue food coloring into the filling and mix well
4. Put the colored filling in a small Ziploc bag and make sure it is completely sealed
5. Prepare your cupcake mix based on the directions on the box and fill each liner 1/3 full
6. Cut the corner off your bag and squeeze about a tbsp of fillings into the middle of cupcakes
7. Cover the fillings with the remaining cake batter
8. Bake 20-25 minutes
9. Once done baking, let cupcakes cool completely and prepare the ganache while waiting
10. Heat up your heavy cream and while that's warming up place chocolate chips into a small bowl
11. Pour hot heavy cream over the chocolate chips and let that set for a minute
12. Stir the cream and chocolate chips together until smooth. Let cook for 5 minutes
13. Once cupcakes have cooled down, dip the top of the cupcake into the ganache and let the ganache set.
14. Once you've let the ganache set you can then top your cupcakes however you like. Enjoy!

Directions (icing)

Confetti Gender Reveal Balloon

For this Gender Reveal idea you don't have to be able to cook or be crafty! Because I know those areas can be tough for many and when prepping to have a baby you don't have a lot of time to be doing extra projects.

Materials 

• 1 36" Black balloon
• 4-6 feet or ribbon
• 4 of each blue or pink tissue paper
• Funnel (this can be a paper plate or cut off the top of a water bottle)
• Helium
• EXTRA: ribbon, tassels or other things you may want to add onto the balloon

Directions

1. Cut sheets of tissue paper into square confetti
2. Using your funnel, stuff the balloon with appropriate color tissue paper
3. You can add glitter if you desire
4. Inflate the balloon with helium
5. Tie off the end of the balloon and add ribbon, or a special tassel tail
6. When it's time to reveal the gender, hold your balloon up high and pop with something sharp! Ta dah!

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