Baby Shower Games - Bradenton,FL

J.: When I had my daughter my girlfriends did an amazing "game" for everyone. They gave out random envelopes Numbered 1-21 to everyone at the party. Inside was a blank card. Each guest then wrote a note to my unborn child to be read at her birthday according to the year they received. The special guests, grandparents, aunts, etc., was given the choice of special days (first day of school, first date, first car, wedding, graduation, etc.) Some were mailed in advance to the special people who could not attend. All the envelopes were sealed and put in a special box. My family has truly enjoyed opening the special birthday card (three so far) each year. I am sure at some point we will get a card from "beyond" but this was one of the best "games" I have ever played at or participated in at a baby shower. P.S. after the shower my husband and I were given the "left over" cards to put our own special message!

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Some that we did at my showers were:
*If the mom to be has already picked a name, you can have everyone try and spell as many words as possible just using the letters in the name.
*Get a tray and fill it with baby items everyone gets a few seconds to look at it then they have to try and write down everything that was on the tray
*Get a baking pan and fill it with uncooked rice, then mix a bunch of safety pins in it, blindfold each person and see who can find the most. (It is a lot harder then it seems)
*Give everyone 3 clothespins when they arrive at the party, anytime someone says the word baby, the person who hears them gets to steal their clothespin, the one with the most wins.
*Bingo! Make up blank bingo cars with squares. Have everyone fill the squares in with items that they think the mom to be will receive at the shower and as she is opening her presents they mark off their squares until someone gets bingo!

Hope these help!

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Pin the baby on the stork

Dirty Diaper Game....

you will need a few different types of candy bars, reeses, cookies and cream, hersey with almonds, carmelo, etc. Melt the chocolate in the diaper (using the microwave) and have the guests guess what candy is what. It was a lot of laughing when we played this at the last baby shower. And whoever guess the most right wins.

Good Luck!

i like the guess how big mommys belly is. You can get special ribbon at Wal-Mart or any party store, or you can just buy pink or blue ribbon. you pass the ribbon around to everyone at the shower and they have to guess how big mommys belly is. once everyone has cut their piece, you measure mommys belly. the one thats the closest wins. Really fun b/c some people are WAY off! Always good for a nice laugh! ( my mom guessed mine right on )

Depending on how many people come to the shower, and how much room you have, (outdoors is best)there was a hysterical game played on you tube that someone sent me to watch. It was a relay race.
They had teams and one woman had a toilet paper roll that she held between her legs, the woman on the other side had a broom stick. The teams raced to see which team could waddle down to the other teammate (with the broom stick between her legs) and insert it (NO HANDS ALLOWED!) into the toilet paper roll held between the legs of the teammate at the other side. It was really funny, and not as easy as one might think. It's not the standard game that you'd see at every shower, but probably not a game for the prim and proper mommies either! LOL

I found this great site for a shower I am doing in March. There are several pages of great ideas.
Good luck!
~J.

http://www.babyshower101.com/baby_shower_games.html

I remember on game that everyone got a good laugh out of and it was where you put cotton balls into a bowl and get a big wooden spoon. You blind fold the person, they hold that bowl on their head and you put an empty bowl (same size) on her lap. She then has one minute to get as many cotton balls out of the bowl on her head into the one on her lap. We always had a lot of fun with this one. Just be prepared to laugh your heads off. We also did a name game to help if the new Mommy hasn't already chosen a name. Everyone writes down a name for a boy and a name for a girl when they come in the door and put their names in a basket. The new Mommy later during the party reads each name out loud. She picks out the best boys name and best girls name. The one that put the names in each win a door prize.
Another one we played was to put a safety pin on each guest as they come in the door and tell them they will lose their pin if they cross their legs. You also tell them if they catch someone else crossing their legs that they can take their pin. Usually someone will end up with all the pins. But this game has been around for years and is great fun.
We always made the gifts something the baby could use so that after the guest opens it they then give it to the new Mommy. The only gifts that weren't for the baby were the two door prizes.
You can also go online to babyshowers.com and get a lot of neat ideas. At least I think the web site is still up and running.
Have fun relax....Also a diaper cake is a very nice thing for the Mommy to be and it's fun to make.

My favorite is the baby food game. Buy 8 jars of baby food, put a little dab of each on a numbered plate. Guests have a numbered list, and they taste each blob of food and write down what they think it is.

Evokes lots of gag reflexes and laughs, I can tell you (especially the wax beans). It's also a good time to let the new mom know that she can easily make her own baby food with a food processor or hand mixer and ice cube tray (for freezing baby-sized portions) instead of buying jarred stuff.

P.S. any leftover fruit baby food can be added to pancake mix so as not to throw it away.

I am in the middle of planning a shower as well and will be paying attention to your responses. I do know of a few, but it depends of the type of shower and the type of people. Here are some ideas:

1) put different types of candy bars (cut up a bit) in the microwave for several seconds and put each in a diaper and let people guess which kind it is.
2) Baby food smelling/tasting to guess which flavor
3) Get a pillow case and put all sorts of baby items in there (pacifier, bottle, ointment, burp cloth, etc.) and let everyone get 5 seconds to put their hand in and feel around and then write down everything they felt - this also works if you pin these items to someone and let them model them for a few seconds and the write down what they saw
4) For a couples party (which is what we are doing) to get the men involved - you can buy several bottles (either the cheep ones or the kind she has on her registry) and fill them up with beer (half way is plenty) - then have several guys race to see who can drink it the fastest. This is REALLY funny to watch!

I am still thinking of others that haven't been over done - like the one where every time you say "baby" someone can take your necklace or whatever you have been given.

Good luck!

J.,
Here are some that we have used recently:
1. Buy white bibs or onesies and have people decorate them at the shower. Fun for them, helpful to you!
2. Type up games on paper...how many words can you make from your future baby's name or your's and your husband's name or 2 girl's names, etc...match the celebrity baby's name with their parents...match the fictitious children's names with the show they are/were on...play scattergories with baby items only...
3. Everyone gets a pin when they come in, and if they say the word baby during the party and are caught that person who catches them gets their pin. THe person with the most pins at the end wins.
4. Make up a bunch of questions and put onto notecards such as...name as many lullabies as you can, name the characters of a kids' show, etc. Get into teams or do individually, and go around the room asking the questions. Whoever gets the most right wins.
5. Taste jars of unlabeled baby food and have to guess what flavors they are.
Hope these help!
C.