Rebecca
Ca.
Name:DIAPER THE BABY
Supplies: Several dolls about the size of a small baby and
a package
of preemie diapers.
This game is especially fun to play if there are men
at the
baby shower. Have the men (or women, if there are no men)
kneel on the
floor in a line facing the "audience". Place a doll and
an unopened
disposable diaper in front of each person. Someone says
"go", and they race
to see who can correctly put the diaper on the fastest.
Some parameters
must be set up ahead of time, such as what constitutes
"correctly". This
may be that the diaper has to be facing the correct
direction and both tabs
must be fastened so that the diaper will not fall off the
doll!
This game can be played in one of two ways. Two people
can compete at a
time, and someone can keep track of the winner's time with
a stopwatch. The
winners of each group can then compete until a final
winner emerges to
receive a prize. Or, everyone who wants to play can
compete at one time and
the winner can receive a prize. Though this method does
save time, it is
not as much fun because it is too difficult for the
"audience" to watch
every contestant.
This
is a very fun game and results in lots of laughs.
Brandie
Ca.
Name:
What's in the Bag?
Supplies Needed: A large gift bag & lots of various baby
items
Place all of the baby items in the bag...some ideas are: a
diaper, a bottle, baby pain reliever, tether, baby
booties, an outfit, a
nasal aspirator, outlet covers, pacifier, rattle, etc.
These items can then
be given to the mom-to-be as one of her gifts. You want to
have at least 10
items in your bag! A person goes around the room taking
the baby to each
person, who must look away while they put one hand in the
bag...each person
gets about 10-20 seconds to feel the items in the bag.
The goal is for each
person to remember what they felt..and after each person
has had a chance to
"feel", the guests are given 2 minutes to write down
everything that they
remember feeling in the bag. The winner is the guest who
has the most
correct.
Angie
Co.
Name: Name
That Baby
Supplies
Needed: Baby picture of each shower guest,pencils and
paper
My
favorite baby shower game is "Name That Baby". Everyone
invited to the
shower brings a baby picture of themselves. You put all
the pictures on a
board along with the names of everyone at the party.
Everyone has to try to
match the picture with the correct name. It is fun and
doesn't cost anything
to do.
Terri
La.
Name:
A Blossom of Love
Needed: 4 inch flower pots,
baby's breath seeds (or other "baby" seeds),
pastel toile or netting,
a nice pretty ribbon, small baby related item ( pacifiers,
etc) from a craft store
In the pots place the seeds ( you can use potting soil
too, if you put it in the snack sized baggies)
wrap with the toile and tie with the ribbon and the
ornament. You can print instructions for
planting and attach it to the ribbon.
If you have the baby shower 6 weeks ahead of time
sprouting time will be just in time for the birth..
Laura
Texas
Name:How
many squares of toilet paper
will
take to go around the Mom-to-be's stomach
Needed:
Toilet paper
All the
guests are to make a guess on how many squares of toilet
paper it will take to go around the
Mom-to-be's stomach! Best guess gets prize-worst guess
gets the roll of TP!
Kieran
AUSTRALIA
Name:
Put the pacifier in the baby's
Needed: One picture of cartoon baby,paper pacifier cut
out(one per guest),blind fold
One picture of cartoon baby with mouth open screaming &
paper pacifiers cut out.Blind fold
guests
one at a time and get them to put the pacifier in the
baby's mouth.
Kathie
Name:
Poopy
Door Prize
Needed:
Cloth squares
(about 2"), a small safety pin for each square,
one
drop of dark mustard
When
the guests arrive, they receive a little cloth diaper
pinned with a
little safety pin (we're talking about a 2-inch square of
white fabric folded
in pseudo-diaper style with a little safety pin on it.)
Unbeknownst to the
guests, one of the dipes is poopy (with a little drop of
mustard.) When all
the guests have arrived, they unpin their dipes en masse
and the one with the
poopy diaper wins a doorprize.
Melanie
Pennsylvania
Name: Ring
around the Neck
Needed:
Ribbon, plastic pacifiers
This game is lots of fun and can last the whole time of
the baby shower.
Before the shower, make up pink and/or blue ribbon
necklaces with pink and/or
blue plastic pacifiers. Give each guest a necklace when
they arrive. They
get to keep their necklace as long as they don't say the
word "Baby". If
someone catches them say the word, they must give up their
necklace to the
person who caught them. The winner is the person who has
the most necklaces
by the end of the shower. Everyone will have a great time
trying to get
someone else to say the word!
Shari
Name:
The Careful Cottonball
Needed: You will need one aluminum pie tray, a wooden
spoon,
a bowl
and a bag of cottonballs.
This is a hilarious game to share with all of your
guests! First, you
blind-fold the guest and place the pie tray on top of
their head. Next, you
place the bowl full of cottonballs in front of them and
give the blind-folded
guest the wooden spoon. Timing the guest, she/he has 1
minute to see how
many cottonballs they can get into the pie tray on the top
of their head.
This game creates many laughs watching the guest "think"
she is carefully
putting cottonballs in the pie tray, when really the spoon
may be empty!
Julie
Name: Baby
Bingo
Needed:
Paper
and pencil
This is an
old sure fire Tupperware party game I used to play when I
sold
Tupperware
Every one writes down 5 numbers between 1-30. The hostess
writes down all the
numbers between 1-30, Then everyone goes around the room
and gives their very
best loudest baby sound..from cries to whines to goo goo
gaa gaas. Then
hostess calls out the numbers in any order from her list
(1-30) as she calls
one of the numbers the players have written down, they
have to yell out their
sound...when they get all 5 they yell Baby Bingo! This
works great with a
rowdy bunch who will really get into it....IT's a blast
especially when a few
people have written down the same numbers and yell them
together.
Mary
MI.
Name:
What's in this Diaper?
Needed: newborn diapers and variety of chocolate bars
(snickers, 3
musketeers, etc.)
Melt
the candy bars in the diapers (microwave) and then pass
them around for guests to guess the type of candy bar in
each diaper.
Person with the most correct answers wins.
Melanie
Name: My
Water Broke
Needed:
Little babies (found at party stores), ice cube trays,
water, cups
I love
this game to pieces! And everyone loves to yell "My water
broke!"The night
before
the shower you freeze the little babies in the ice cube
trays. Then at the shower
you
serve your guest punch with the ice cubes that have the
babies in them. When the
ice
has melted and baby has floated to the bottom of the cup
yell "MY WATER BROKE",
that
person wins the prize. No sucking or chewing on the ice
cube is allowed, but all
other
means of inducing labor is accepted.
Please note:
This may cause a choking hazard and is not intended
for use as a
children's game.
Penny
Name: Bubble Gum Baby
Needed: Small plastic plates for everyone, which you will
have anyway a piece of bubble gum for each guest
(super bubble works great and can be purchased
individually wrapped)
Here
is a great baby shower game that will bring a lot of
laughs!!!
Give everyone a piece of gum and a plate. Everyone should
chew the
gum until soft.Then take the gum and mold it into the
shape of a baby. Put the
"baby" on the plate when through and let everyone look at
each "baby". The one who has
the best "baby" wins. Everyone will get sticky fingers
with this game, but the
results are hilarious.It's a lot of fun to see the bubble
gum babies and some people can
really be creative. Everyone, young and old likes this
game. Loads of fun!!!
Thanks so much for offering the contests.
Melanie
Name: Pin-the-Bellybutton-on-the-Belly
Needed: Large piece of paper, pen, tape, scissors
I have
planned several baby showers and enjoy all kinds of games
from guessing the
circumference of the woman's pregnant belly (not for the
ultra weight-conscious!) to
memorizing baby items in a box then listing as many as you
can remember. My very
favorite, though, is Pin-the-Bellybutton-on-the-Belly. I
think I made it up, but who knows!
You
just draw a simple outline of a naked pregnant body turned
to one side (profile).
We used a picture from What to Expect When You're
Expecting as a guide. We didn't
add many details, but that depends on your audience! Then
you make little circles with
tape on the back, blindfolded the partygoers, and one by
one they spin around three times
and pin on those bellybuttons! It is a hoot!
AMANDA
Name: Find
The Pins
Needed:
Safety pins (small size), two bags of rice, mixing bowl,
blind fold
My favorite game was putting a couple bags of rice in a
mixing bowl and add small safety
pins
in it. Blind fold the guest and let them try to find the
safety pins. It's not as easy as
it
sound. It's hilarious to watch them drop over a dozen
safety pins because they couldn't
feel
them. You got to play it to understand what I mean.
Toni
This
isn't so much a game as it is a "handy Thank You
Card helper".
Needed: Envelopes (from Thank You notes) and pens.
As guests arrive, have each one write their name and
mailing address on the front of
one
envelope. After everyone has filled out an envelope, the
Shower Hostess
gathers them and fans them in her hands like a hand of
cards. The Mother-to-be
selects on envelope from the "hand". The individual who's
envelope is drawn
receives a prize. The envelopes are then used to send the
Thank You notes...less work for Mom!
Mindy
Name: The
Substance
Needed:White powder: baby powder, talc, flour, baking
soda,salt and sugar
Basically,
make little ziplocs of each substance and party-goers need
to guess
which
is which. Make group teams.
Melanie
Oregon
Name: Name That Tune
Needed: paper, pencil, musical version of popular baby
songs
The game is to make up a new version or a verse to the
song. The mom-to-be gets to choose the winner.
Kristina
Florida
Name: Your Right! My Left
Needed: Balloons, Cloth Diapers, Safety Pins, a Timer
At my sister-in-laws shower I am using this as a coed game
but it doesn't have to one.
Two people are selected (in my case a man and a women)
Then they stand
facing a table side by side. They place their middle arms
(one persons left,
one persons right) behind their backs. On the table is an
inflated balloon,
No Helium, this will be hard enough!!! Also on the table
is a cloth diaper and
safety pins. Someone counts down for the couple 3, 2, 1...
GO then the
race is on to diaper the wiggle worm balloon baby. You
guessed it... Faster
than the next few couples. Harder than it sounds so I
hear. Also funny.
This game forces people to interact.
Connie
Louisiana
Name: What's That Smell
Needed: Diaper, baby food three or four really smelly
kinds
Spoon the baby food in the diaper smush it around. Then
have the guest put
it to their nose and try to guess what variety of baby
food it is.
Dawn
Ohio
Name: Advice for the New Mom
Needed: Blank Book, Pen
I'm not much for games at baby showers and I
told the woman planning my
shower this so that she wouldn't make us play any. What
she 'did' do, and it was
lovely, was get a nice blank book (actually, she made it
because she's creative
that way, but a pretty store-bought one would be fine,
too) and a fancy pen. She
told every guest to write some baby/parenting advice for
us. As much or as little
as the guest wanted. She left the book out so if anyone
thought of anything later,
they could go back and add it. Some of my guest wrote
novels, some just wrote a
little note but it made for great reading and a wonderful
keepsake. Some advice was
practical, some inspirational, some we laughed at, some we
tried. I love this little
book. It's a snapshot of my friends and family as well as
the time in which we're living.
Judy
New Jersey
Name: Baby
Bingo
Needed:
Blank BINGO sheet and pencil or pen for each
guest (You could decorate either for the shower gift. Even
get them special engraved!)
Ask the guests to fill in the blank BINGO boxes with
gifts that they think the baby will probably receive.
Of course the FREE Spot should already be "X"ed. Then
as the Mother-to-be opens her gifts, they should "X"
them on their sheets. You can have small gifts for
the number of winners you decide on awarding. It's a
fun way to keep the guests interested in the long
process of gift opening! Have ALL winners come up for
a special picture with the New Mom!!!
Holley
Illinois
Name:
Guess the Baby Food
Needed:
Three jars of baby food
You take
the label off (3) jars of baby food . Then you pass them
around the group.
Don't
take the caps off the jars just look at the food inside
and see if you can guess
what
kind it is.
Debbie
Connecticut
Name: Memory Game
Needed: Pencils and Paper
Give everyone a pencil and paper. Place about a dozen baby
items an a baby
blanket or tray in the center of the room for all to
see.Tell the shower guests
the object of the game is to remember what is on the
blanket after it's removed
from sight in 30 seconds. Item ideas include a pacifier,
bib, booties, bottle,
rattle, baby hair brush, diaper pin,etc...After you take
the display away, give
everyone a minute to recall.Whoever remembered the most
items wins.
(Adjust the length of time allotted as desired)
Christina
California
Name: Who Am I?
Needed: Pencil, Paper, Tape
Prepare small slips of paper with words relating to babies
(i.e.: stroller, diaper, teddy
bear,
onesie, etc.) As guest arrive tape one on each person's
back. Then they have to try
to
guess what's on their by back by asking other guests yes
or no questions. This is a
great
game to break the ice and get people in the party spirit!
Randi
Delaware
Name: Guess How Big The Baby Is?
Needed: Yarn, Scissors
Measure mother's-to-be belly with a piece of yarn. Put
this aside. Give each person
a long
piece of yarn. Have them cut the yarn to the length that
they think the mother's
belly
is. The closest cut length to that of the exact first
piece is
the winner.
Joanne
Delaware
Name: Clothes Pin Game
Needed: Clothes Pins
Each person in the room is given a clothes pin to attach
to their clothing
(wherever - it's not important) Whenever anyone
uses the word 'baby' in any
sentence and someone else catches them they have to give
the person who caught
them
their clothes pin. The person who ends up with all (or the
most) clothes pins wins.
They
can either get some kind of little prize themselves or can
win a prize to be given to
the
expectant mother. It's a fun game because it is almost
impossible to not say 'baby'
at a
baby shower! |
