37 Gender Reveal Ideas Worth Saving

With all the excitement surrounding pregnancy, finding out your baby’s gender ranks up there as one of the most exciting parts.

But you’re probably not the only one excited. Think grandparents, close friends, aunts, sisters, brothers, your other kids (if you have them), or even neighbors! Seriously, you’re most likely not the only one who’s looking forward to the memorable moment.

Also, gender reveal parties are pretty big right now. For some couples, simply telling people what they’re expecting doesn’t always cut it. And that’s why some people are coming up with all kinds of unique gender reveal ideas to make the announcement that little bit more unique, memorable and special.

If you’re expecting, you might already be looking for gender reveal ideas to make that moment thoughtful and personal. So I’ve compiled together baby gender reveal ideas you can try.

These gender reveal party ideas below will make your celebration special, fun, and enjoyable for you and your guests. You can combine any of the ideas below or just pick the one that resonates the most with you.

And with whatever gender reveal option you choose, make sure it’s celebrated in the way you truly want, and share the joy with everyone special to you!

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In This Article:

• The Gender Reveal Party Agenda
• Gender Reveal Party Ideas
• Gender Reveal Ideas For Your Spouse
• Holiday Gender Reveal Ideas

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The Gender Reveal Party Agenda

If it’s your first gender reveal, you might be wondering what actually happens at a reveal party.

To state the obvious, a gender reveal party is about getting people together to discover and celebrate the sex of the baby you’re expecting. And the truth is, everyone is pretty happy whether it’s a baby boy or a baby girl, so you can relax on that side of things.

A gender reveal party is simply just a fun way to let your loved ones in on that moment you discover the wonderful news, so you don’t need to try and be too impressive or make it a huge spectacle since the moment itself is special. Sometimes low-key simplicity is best.

The main objectives for any reveal party are:

1. Eat food
2. Have fun
3. Reveal the sex of your child

The 1^st point doesn’t need much more explanation other than that you can make the food specifically related to the gender of your child (I’ll give a few ideas below).

The 2^nd one deserves a few extra thoughts. Increasing the fun of your gender reveal party isn’t just about plopping a Twister mat on the floor and playing Messy Twister (though that’s not a bad idea), or creating a funny photo booth (another great idea by the way). It’s about creating suspense and leaving everyone guessing for as long as you can.

The 3^rd one deserves the most thought because you (probably) don’t just wanna just say whether it’s a boy or girl. And that’s why I’ve made this post!

All 37 DIY gender reveals below will help you determine how to reveal your baby’s sex, and are so much fun. Most of the ideas work best if you know the gender beforehand, but some of them can be modified in a way so that the reveal will be a surprise for you or your spouse too!

So figure out whether you and/or your spouse wanna know or not, pick a way to announce the news, and have fun!

Gender Reveal Party Ideas

1. Sports-Themed Gender Reveal

If your guests love sports, then you can go for a sports-themed gender reveal party.

You just need to choose a sport that features balls (ex. baseball, golf, or soccer). Fill the specialized ball with blue or pink powder, kick/hit the ball, and have the powder spread out in the air letting everyone know the baby’s gender.

Also, this is especially great if you have other kids!

2. Drinks Gender Reveal

If you’re looking for simple gender reveal ideas, then this is your answer.

After leaving your guests guessing for as long as you can, serve your guests either a blue or pink-colored drink like lemonade or punch depending on whether you’re having a boy or a girl.

The moment they see the drinks, they’ll probably figure out what gender you’re expecting, but if they don’t get it straight away, bring out either a blue or pink-colored snack afterward too. See if they finally get the hint!

Try to remain silent as long as you can and only officially confirm it once the majority of the group figures it out.

3. Balloons Gender Reveal

There are multiple ways to do a balloon gender reveal, check them out and see which one is best for you!

1^st option: Put pink or blue balloons into a box and then open it up along with your spouse at the reveal party to have the balloons flying around.

If you can make the balloons appear in an unexpected way or from an unexpected place, you’ll be awarded sneaky bonus points! For example, you could hang the box using a rope on the ceiling and pull the rope when it’s time.

2^nd option: Repeat the steps of the 1^st option, but this time use two boxes inside instead of one. Fill one of the boxes with the balloons showing your baby’s sex and fill the other one with nothing. You and your other half can now open both boxes at once and reveal the gender.

3^rd option: Use special balloons to spell out “it’s a boy” or “baby girl.” Just blow up the balloons to form the letters and get some awesome pictures.

4^th option: Fill a large balloon up with pink or blue confetti and helium, then pop it!

4. Special Package Gender Reveal

I feel like this is such a sweet and simple way of revealing the gender.

Some of your relatives may not be able to make it to the gender reveal party, so try sending them a package! Insert a tag that says “Baby is a…” and make the surprise await them inside.

You then have two options for sharing the news:

1^st option: Spread layers of tissue or confetti in a box. Mix the colors and then reveal with a gender-specific outfit beneath the confetti or tissue.

2^nd way: Decorate a large plain box or use this one, then add increasingly smaller plain boxes inside each other so they keep having to unwrap boxes, one box with blue confetti, one box with pink confetti, etc. Do this as many times as possible and then have the last smallest box contain a small blue or pink dummy inside with a tag saying “it’s a boy!” or “it’s a girl!”

5. Cake Or Cookies Gender Reveal

For a food-related reveal, you can accomplish this with either cakes, cupcakes, cake pops, or sugar cookies.

For cakes, bake using either pink or blue food dye to color. Then entertain your guests by letting them guess first and revealing the answer when you open the oven and pull out the cake.

Or if you prefer not to go for a big cake, decorate cupcakes with both pink or blue. Alternatively, make the cupcakes as normal but bake a colored gooey center in the middle that’ll reveal the baby’s gender when guests bite into them.

For cake pops, you can really change things up by baking or buying a strawberry or blueberry cake pop. Use the flavor as one subtle hint of the baby’s gender, and then use some other ideas on this list in combination.

For sugar cookies, you could be more obvious and just bake and decorate them with blue or pink frosting. And then hand them out to your guests as soon as they arrive so they know what to expect.

6. Music Gender Reveal

This might be one of my favorite gender reveal themes on this list and it works best when combined with one of the other ideas.

For this gender reveal, you can make a background music playlist with song titles that give the gender away.

And if you wanna be dramatic (and obvious) then you could just blast “The Boys Are Back In Town” by Thin Lizzy or “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” by Cyndia Lauper at the big moment.

Another way would be to try and be subtle and see if you can keep the playlist running longer and see who starts picking up on it. Once the majority of your guests pick up on the gender, then you can use that as your cue to announce the big news after the song ends!

Here is a suggested 10-song playlist for either sex (they get more obvious as they go along) with links for each one at the bottom.

Boy Gender Reveal Songs

1. Tarzan Boy — Baltimora
2. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy — The Andrews Sisters
3. Hourglass — Mindy Gledhill
4. Beautiful Boy — John Lennon
5. Sk8er Boi — Avril Lavigne
6. Let’s Hear It For The Boy — Deniece Williams
7. It’s Raining Men — The Weather Girls
8. This Boy — The Beatles
9. Simple Man — Lynyrd Skynyrd
10. Sweet Child O Mine – Sheryl Crow

Girl Gender Reveal Songs

1. Never Grow Up — Taylor Swift
2. My Wish — Rascal Flatts
3. She’s Beautiful — Darius Rucker
4. My Girl — The Temptations
5. Haven’t Met You Yet — Michael Buble
6. Oh, Pretty Woman — Roy Orbison
7. Uptown Girl — Billy Joel
8. Girls Just Want To Have Fun — Cyndia Lauper
9. Isn’t She Lovely — Stevie Wonder
10. All-American Girl — Carrie Underwood

7. Paint Fight Gender Reveal

This would be over the top for some groups of people, but if your guests like to have some crazy fun, ask them to bring a set of spare clothes they don’t mind getting ruined to your party and have a big paint fight using blue and pink paint!

You could even create two teams: Team Blue and Team Pink. But make sure you also make it clear people can sit out if preferred.

After the fight, once people are already covered in paint, get everyone into a huddle and grab a bucket of the paint revealing the gender of your baby and throw it all over your guests!

8. Kids Gender Reveal

If you already have kids, they’ll be excited about having a new sibling. So, involve them and make sure they have some fun.

You can even do this in front of the guests. Wear a white t-shirt and blindfold the kid or kids. Have them dip their hands in the correct color of paint and then touch your stomach with it. The color shows the baby’s sex. Don’t forget to take some pictures.

Honestly, such a sweet idea for a growing family.

9. Pet Gender Reveal

If you have a pet, then you could get them in on the fun too. Dress them up, one in pink, the other in blue, with accessories to match. This will keep the guests guessing.

If you have only one pet, dress them up with one color, then later on in the party (before you’ve actually revealed your baby’s gender) switch out its color to the other one just to confuse everybody.

This reveal tip is better when you combine it with another.

10. Party Popper Gender Reveal

You can fill these small confetti poppers with pink or blue confetti and then pop them to reveal the gender along with your spouse. Simple but fun!

11. Car Gender Reveal

If you want an impressive and fun way to reveal your baby’s gender, check out these powder gender reveals you can use to send a plume of blue or pink cloud out of your car exhaust.

To use, open the packaging outside (the powder is very fine and gets everywhere), and pour about one or two cups of it into your exhaust pipe, then stuff it with paper so it doesn’t instantly blow out when starting the car.

Get everyone outside around your car, start a count down, rev your engine, and see the colored smoke fly out. Pretty cool!

Alternatively, you can fill pouches up with the powder and attach them to your tires in what’s called a burnout reveal. Easy to wash off too.

12. Scratch-Off Cards Gender Reveal

Give your guests scratch cards to determine whether you’re expecting a boy or a girl. You all find out what it is when you scratch off the card. Make sure everyone does this at the same time. Perfect for a low-key reveal.

13. Team Competition Gender Reveal

When guests arrive at the door, quickly assign teams by giving them either a Team Boy or Team Girl sticker. Then you can play team challenges for the rest of the party.

The team that wins the most challenges can win a prize, and the team whose gender is the actual gender of the baby can win a prize too.

14. Vote Gender Reveal

Hand out voting cards to your guests to choose what they think you’ll be having. You can even reward those that make the right selection with blue or pink gift items.

15. Piñata Gender Reveal

Piñatas come in all different shapes and sizes. Whether you want to stuff one with pink or blue confetti and candy and open with a string, or whack it open with a bat and blindfolded, a piñata can be a family-fun way to reveal the gender of your baby.

16. Candles Gender Reveal

Use colored candles to make your gender reveal party stand out. Like the other ideas here, there are many ways you could achieve this.

You could simply put lots of pink or blue candles around the house or garden and light them if your party is in the evening/night. Or you can get a special candle that’ll slowly turn pink or blue meaning you can do other activities in the meantime.

17. Written Gender Reveal

Like I said above, sometimes low key simplicity is the best!

Use a message board to spell out your child’s gender. You can then reveal the message board to your guests or use the message board in a photoshoot with your family and share your photos with friends.

If you take photos, remember to add some gender-themed trinkets!

18. Riddle Gender Reveal

Alternatively, use a riddle to reveal your baby’s gender and build suspense in your guests as they wait to get it right.

Spread out your riddle on several pages so that your guests read through. You can attach an envelope on the last page of everyone’s riddle and put a question mark sign on it.

When they open the envelope, they’ll find your baby’s gender tucked neatly within.

19. Balloon Darts Gender Reveal

Create a board covered in a white sheet and attach balloons to it filled with blue or pink paint. When it’s time for the reveal, just throw some darts!

20. Fire Gender Reveal

If the reveal happens during the Fall, then a bonfire would be a great idea. Gather everyone around the bonfire and toss in special pouches that’ll change the flames into your baby’s color. Magical!

This could actually turn out to be one of the best Winter gender reveal ideas out there too. Cuddle up inside with some hot cocoa and drinks next to a cozy fire. Then when the time is right, throw a little bit of the pouch in the fire!

21. Fireworks Gender Reveal

Use fireworks to announce your baby’s gender. Make them blue or pink and have the guests go wow.

This tip comes with caution though: check that it’s legal to use fireworks in your area.

22. Eggs Gender Reveal

Use pink or blue food coloring to fill some eggs in. Give the eggs to the guests and let them crack them at once. They’ll all find the gender as the eggs crack open.

Alternatively, buy a pack of eggs and hard boil all of them except one. Dye half of them pink and the other half of them blue, but make sure that the egg you leave unboiled is dyed your baby’s gender. Your guests can then enjoy seeing you crack eggs on your foreheads. When the unboiled egg cracks open, the dye on its shell will reveal the gender!

Here’s a video showing how that last idea works!

23. Straws Gender Reveal

Place straws that change color in your guests’ ice-cold drinks and get them to find the gender with a white straw that changes blue or one that changes pink.

24. Hair Dye Gender Reveal

Use blue or pink hair dye to reveal your baby’s gender! Dye a little of your hair with the appropriate color and make sure that the dye is on the underneath part of your hair.

Tie your hair up until it’s time to reveal and let your hair down once the secret is out. Could be a great idea when combined with another gender reveal idea.

25. Scavenger Hunt Gender Reveal

You can have all your guests go on a scavenger hunt. When the hunt gets to its last stage, have everyone locate the pink or blue cake in the (cool) oven!

26. Volcano Gender Reveal

This is another reveal tip for your kids if you already have some.

Make a volcano with the help of your kids. Pour in water, detergent, vinegar, and some coloring. The food coloring will either be blue or pink and it should cause the volcano to erupt when your kids add some baking soda.

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Gender Reveal Ideas For Your Spouse

But maybe your spouse doesn’t even know the good news yet! That’s exciting.

If you already have kids, you could either tell them before you tell your husband and get them to be your accomplices of mischief. Or you could tell them after your hubby finds out. Just don’t forget to TAKE PICTURES! Or, you might just wanna have a quiet and romantic gender reveal with your partner only. With whatever you choose, these ideas can come in handy. Check them out!

27. Memory Lane Gender Reveal

Do you and your spouse have any special memories together? Maybe it’s a first date or a Valentines Day memory. Can you think of a clever way of dropping hints while taking a stroll down memory lane with your spouse? If so, perfect!

Maybe you could go to the place of your first date? For example, if it was a park, you could go for a walk there together and tie blue or pink ribbons on one of the trees beforehand. And once you reach the tree, get down on one knee and pull out a ring box with a blue or pink pacifier inside.

Or, if your first date was at a restaurant, maybe eat there together and tip the staff off beforehand and see if they can get in on it! You could order every food with “baby” in the name (ex. baby potatoes, baby carrots, etc.). Maybe even order milk as your drink and have the waiter bring it to you in a baby bottle? Too far? Ok, too far.

28. Shared Activity Gender Reveal

If that last suggestion would be too much effort for you, then you could just keep it simple and do an activity together that you both love. Seriously, sometimes the simplest ideas are the best and you can’t go wrong if you’re doing something you both enjoy.

So for example, if you love fishing, you could go fishing together in a pink or blue boat.

29. Bath Bomb Gender Reveal

You can also give your spouse a special moment and warm up the tub with some fragrant soothing water and light the space up with candles (like they’re at a spa). Then throw the bath bomb into the bath to reveal pink or blue.

30. Bed Sheets Gender Reveal

You can choose instead to enjoy your reveal in bed. All you need to do is make the bed with either blue or pink sheets to match your baby’s sex. He might pick up what you’re having when he sees the sheets.

Best tip: Just in case he doesn’t get the hint, you might wanna have a back-up idea planned in case he doesn’t catch on. That way you can still have a fun time of revealing the gender.

31. Shopping Gender Reveal

Take your partner to the mall and go through the sections. Make sure you end up in the racks that depict the baby’s gender. Pick something pink or blue as their reward.

Or you can do the mall reveal in another way. Give your partner a list of items and have them go on a scavenger hunt through the mall. Let him end up picking an item that is blue or pink.

32. Strawberry/Blueberry Gender Reveal

Spend your reveal night together at dinner. Make a special dessert that includes strawberry or blueberries and whipped cream.

Strawberries are pink while blueberries are blue and, assuming you drop some other well-timed hints too, that might just be enough for him to figure out the baby’s gender.

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Holiday Gender Reveal Ideas

If your baby is due during a holiday or you just wanna let the news out during a specific holiday, you may want to try a holiday-themed gender reveal party. Here are some of my ideas.

33. New Year’s Gender Reveal

Use blue or pink confetti to light up your party. Also, if they’re legal to buy near you, blue/pink fireworks would work well too!

34. Thanksgiving Gender Reveal

Other than Christmas, I can’t think of a more exciting time to reveal your baby’s gender than when surrounded by family!

For a Thanksgiving gender reveal, you could try decorating the table with pink and blue items like mugs and tissues. Serve a pumpkin pie that has the right color within it and have your family try and guess the baby’s gender when they get to the middle of it.

Why not also put little pink or blue booties on your turkey? That’d be hilarious! 😂

35. Christmas Gender Reveal

If you’re looking for some Christmas gender reveal ideas during pregnancy, I’ve got you covered here too! Christmas is simply the most wonderful time of the year for a gender reveal.

1. You can choose to wrap your reveal within your Christmas cards letting friends know the gender as they open up their cards. You could even be sneaky and buy an “It’s a boy!” card but then write inside it, “sorry, they were all out of ‘It’s a girl!’”
2. Fill up stockings with presents wrapped in either blue or pink wrapping paper, or even get Santa to write you a letter to read out to the kids about the present of a new baby brother/sister coming their way soon.
3. If you want the nerves-of-steel approach, during Christmas prayers, when asking God to bless your whole family, why not just casually include your new baby in the prayer?
4. You could even wrap a blue or pink ornament under the tree and make it the last present you open together on Christmas morning. After its open, reveal the news and then hang it on the tree. Then you can hang it up every Christmas from then on out.

36. Easter Gender Reveal

Most Easter gender reveal ideas include Easter boxes with blue and pink tissue paper or confetti and a big reveal surprise underneath. So you can adapt this general idea for yourself to make it work for you!

You could also organize an Easter egg hunt and get them to find eggs. The one who finds the most eggs could win a big pink or blue Easter egg at the end and also a card they have to unwrap and read out loud to everyone else, revealing the gender.

37. 4th Of July Gender Reveal

For 4th of July gender reveal ideas, you could organize a barbecue that includes games that are decorated blue or pink. You could also leave the reveal until last and surprise them with pink or blue fireworks (if legal in your area).

Alternatively, you could buy little blue or pink gift boxes tied in a cute bow filled with blue or pink goodies to give your guests.

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When it comes to gender reveal parties, you just need to be creative, flexible, and fun. I hope these unique gender reveal ideas helped inspire you in planning your special day!

Also, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask and comment below. And finally, congratulations on your new baby!