21 Unique Gender Reveal Ideas to Celebrate Your Baby-to-Be
From smoke bombs to bath bombs, we have everything in pink or blue.
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Sure, gender reveals don't really reveal a baby's gender — it's actually the sex, which is different — and gender isn't a pink-or-blue binary anyway. Even the person who invented the idea of gender reveals say they're getting a little out of hand (and her daughter, the subject of the first gender-reveal party, is "a girl who wears suits," she says in a Facebook post). But hey, pregnancy is long, hard, and full of gross things, so we won’t begrudge anyone for trying to eke out every bit of joy.
If you’re looking for a moment in your pregnancy when you can replicate that Christmas-morning anticipation of opening up a box and being super-excited about what’s inside, these gender reveal ideas might be just the thing. But how to announce the sex of your baby to the world? If there’s one huge trend in the gender-reveal world, it’s Holi powder, or vibrantly colored powder that was once mostly used in Hindu celebrations (but you can now find at your local Color Run). You can shoot it out of a cannon, pack it in a baseball and hit a grand slam, or even stick it under your tires and watch the plume when your car spins out. If colored powder isn’t your thing, there are also sweet treats, balloon crafts, and silly string fights among these unique gender-reveal ideas.
Those delicious-looking cake pops have both pink and blue on the outside, but once you take a bite you'll be able to see the pink or blue cake inside.
And if you do go the cake-pop route, you can always get a cute tag for the stick.
You can't really predict a baby's sex by the wisdom of old wives' tales ... but it couldn't hurt? Describe your pregnancy symptoms on this poster to help your guests' guesses.
Send up a smoke signal with these Holi powder cannons; when you're done, the powder washes away with water.
Because everything in life is more fun with confetti! With these poppers, the confetti shoots up to 15 feet in the air.
If you're into simple experiments, you can do a firey reveal with this science kit, which allows you to make flames in different colors. (Out of stock at Amazon? Try The Science Company directly.)
Bring all the excitement of a scratch-off lottery ticket to your gender reveal. Either way, everybody wins!
This one requires some skill: These balloons are filled with confetti. Most are white, two are in a red-herring color, and three are the correct color. You get guests to throw darts at balloons until they pop three colored ones and find out the baby's sex.
Place the burnout pack between the tires, and one squeal will reveal if you're having a boy or a girl. This company promises that the packaging with give no hints until the big burnout.
Fill pink or blue helium balloons, stick them in a box, and, when the time is right, open and let your reveal soar into the skies.
This bath bomb is white on the outside, but turns the water either pink or blue when you put it in the bath. Kiddie pool, anyone?
Like the bath bomb, this dissolves in liquid and turns the water either pink or blue. It comes in an easy-to-mail box for another long-distance reveal.
For a reveal that doubles as a pregnancy announcement, send these adorable items through the mail and make for one happy grandparent.
Will it be a HersHEy, or a HerSHEy? Either way, the results are pretty sweet once you download and print these custom chocolate-bar wrappers.
Or, if you just want to cut right to the chase, fill one giant balloon with confetti and pop to your heart's content.
What color "bun" is in the oven? This cardboard treat box is the perfect size for pink- or blue-iced cupcakes, and you can get the oven itself in more than six different colors.
This tissue-paper kissing ball comes with a secret trap door so you can fill it with candy or confetti. You can get it in the color of your choice, if you don't want the pink/blue twist.
Not only will the color inside reveal the baby's sex, you'll get to take out one last bit of aggression before the baby arrives and you're expected to be a calm mama all the time.
Batter up! This baseball comes packed in pink or blue powder, which reveals itself when you knock the ball out of the park.
I mean, we're all on Team Have a Healthy, Happy Baby, but we can never resist a shirt with a good, retro 'stache.
Marisa (she/her) has covered all things parenting, from the postpartum period through the empty nest, for Good Housekeeping since 2018; previously, she wrote about parents and families at Parents and Working Mother. She lives with her toy-collecting husband and daughter in Brooklyn, where she can be found helping out her team at bar trivia or posting about movies on Twitter and Bluesky.
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