Onesie Design Templates
Introduction
Let’s face it baby showers are full of games, but sometimes people just want to sit, laugh, and do something creative with their hands.
Onesie Design Templates is the perfect solution. It’s not really a game. It’s more of a group art project, where everyone gets to customize a onesie (or a paper version if you don’t want to mess with fabric) and leave behind a tiny, weird, wonderful gift for the baby.
And honestly? These turn out hilarious, sweet, and sometimes totally unhinged in the best way.
What You’ll Need
- Blank onesie design templates (printed on paper) OR actual plain baby onesies if you’re going all in.
- Fabric markers, paint pens, iron-on patches, stickers whatever you’ve got on hand.
- A table or two covered with newspaper or plastic, especially if people are using real paint.
- Clothes pins or a string line to hang up finished onesies and let them dry (and be admired).
- Optional: a sign that says something fun like ‘Design a onesie, make it weird’ or ‘Tiny fashion designers welcome here.’
How to Play
- Set up a creative corner doesn’t need to be fancy. Just enough space for people to sit and go wild with some markers.
- Give each guest a template or fabric onesie. Let them know they can draw, doodle, write something meaningful, or just create whatever nonsense they want. No rules.
- If you’re using paper templates, people can take them home as keepsakes or the parents can keep them in a scrapbook.
- If you’re using real onesies, hang them up to dry and let everyone admire (or gently roast) each other’s designs.
- You can keep it super casual or vote on the funniest, cutest, and most 'what even is that?' designs. Totally up to you.
Fun Variations
Blindfolded Designer: Let someone draw their onesie design while blindfolded. The results are gloriously bad.
Theme It Up: Pick a theme animals, 90s cartoons, future careers and see what people come up with.
Baby Judges: If there are any toddlers around, let them vote on their favorites. Their logic is chaotic and perfect.
Caption Contest: Everyone adds a funny phrase or quote to their design. Parents pick the best one-liner.
Real vs Template Split: Let some guests use fabric, others paper mix of keepsake and fun activity without needing 30 cotton onesies.
Why Guests Love It
- It’s hands-on, but low-pressure. You don’t need to be an artist to draw a smiley face and write ‘tiny boss’ under it.
- It gets people talking, laughing, and trading markers like it’s craft class in middle school again.
- There’s no competition unless you want there to be just vibes.
- It gives the parents something cute and hilarious to keep. Some of these end up being their favorite gifts.
- Guests feel like they actually *made* something, which is kind of rare at these things.
Conclusion
Onesie Design Templates is one of those activities that fits into any kind of baby shower backyard, brunch, virtual, you name it.
It’s fun, creative, and weirdly wholesome. Even the scribbly ones feel special because someone made it just for baby.
Whether people go full Pinterest-level with their design or doodle a potato with eyes and call it ‘nap mode,’ it’s all part of the charm.
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