Baby Shower Games - What's New & Fun

I suppose beer pong would be inappropriate ...

A gross but fun one is buy several different kinds of baby food in jars. Then take some diapers and put 1 kind of food in each diaper. Then the guests have to open the diaper and guess what kind of food is in the 'dirty diaper.'

I just went to baby shower recently and they had baby food jars without the labels sitting on a tray. Guests could smell, taste or whatever we wanted to do to try to guess. She wrote the numbers of the jars on the bottom in marker to keep track. She had 8 and out of everyone there, only 3 people got one correct and one person got 2 correct so it was pretty hard. She did pick out some crazy baby foods though like Ham & Pineapple!
Another game is guess how many diapers are in the jar. The hostess had a really pretty lemonade jar she borrowed from her mom that her mom had gotten at Costco. It was an odd shape so guesses were all over the place from 27 diapers to 70 so it made it fun(there were 65). Everyone would take a guess as they came and place it in a little box. The diapers went to the mom-to-be.

Mom of 10 yr old step daughter, 12 month old son, 2 dogs, 2 cats a husband I adore and.. in my 'spare' time an amature geneologist.

Hmm at the baby shower I was recently at we had to take string at cut it as big as we thought she was pregnant. So measuring how big she was from her back all the way around to her stomach, in a circle. The closet to her actual size won a prize.

We also played baby shower bingo. Where we passed out blank bingo cards and wrote down in all the little squares different things you thought she was going to get for presents. When it came time to open presents you would mark off a box if she got that item, etc. until you got bingo and you got a prize!

I'm horrible and trying to explain, haha

Also she had everyone bring diapers and depending on how many packs you brought you got a raffle ticket for another prize, each pack got you a raffle ticket.

Jess is a soon to be military wife raising her beautiful almost 3 year old spunky daughter in Scottsdale, trying to make it as a nurse.

At the last shower I hosted we did 2 games:

1. Celebrity baby name game: You can select a list of 10-12 celebrities and have the guests fill in the blanks as to what their child/children's names are or vice versa.

2. Old Wives Tales: List 10-12 old wives tales about pregnancy that have to do with the sex of the baby and have the guests guess whether the baby would be a boy or a girl based on the old wives tale(everyone got a kick out of this one, especially the moms and grandmas at the shower)

I just printed these out on colored paper with really cute clip art. Then I gave away cute vintage teacups with a bag of loose tea to each of the winners(we had a tea party)!

One other game/door prize was that I had the lady who made my pregnant belly cake hide a small plastic baby boy in the belly of the cake when she baked it. The person who got the slice with the baby also got a prize.

A game we did at my shower was where you had everyone write down what their nickname was when they were a baby/growing up, and then try to match it.
It was fun to see what other people's parents came up with for nicknames...almost everyone has a nickname for their child.
It's kinda a simple game, but could get some laughs. And then you have prizes for most names guessed.
We also did a game where everyone got a prize. It along the lines of 'memory', but every match would have a specific candy bar that the person would get with that match. Everyone gets one match, meaning everyone gets a candybar. I'll contact my friend who put the game together and get the matches for you-they were cute little sayings...and then you would match them up with the candy bar. I can't remember any of them (almost 1.5 years ago).

I remember one. Every visitor cuts a string of yarn the size they think would fit around the pregnant mom's belly.
Give a small gift to the winner or to the person that is the closest.
It is so funny to watch the mom measure each string around the belly, because the lengths will be all sizes. Some make the mom have wishful thinking.

One Happy Mom in Arizona.

When I hosted a baby shower I put on the invitation for every guest to bring a baby picture of themself. I put each person's picture on a table with a number and everyone had to guess who each one was. We looked at some pretty neat pictures and enjoyed the "oohing" and the giggles.

arizona_mom is a stay-at-home mother of two boys, a kindergartener and a two year old. Just sharing my two cents worth. www.mops.org

I seen a game where the host creates a crossword puzzle out of the parents-to-be information. ie. 1. when did parents meet?. etc. Good luck!

There is no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one!

I have been to alot of baby showers and some of the games we played were:

1. Pour some rice in a bowl and mix the little safety pins in the rice, then blind fold the person and have them try to find the pins with out pulling out the rice.

2. Get two baby dolls and see who can dress the baby while they are blind folded.

3. Get a long piece of string and put clothes lines on them. Using only one hand see who can remove the most clothes pins while saying a baby item once, and not dropping a pin.

That is all I can think of right now off the top of my head. Hope this helps.

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