Fun Baby Shower Ideas

I just threw a shower and this is what we did. I set up a Jepordary board about the mom and the guest had to come up with the answers...there were lots of laughs! Another game I did was match the animal with it's babies name for example, a cow has a calf, or a lion has a cub. You can find the answers online if you need help. We also had to make a baby out of playdoh, however, the person making it was blind folded, then the mom to be got to keep all the playdoh as a gift. The last game I did was just sort of a fun thing. The guest were split into groups for the whole shower and each group had to come up with a question the new mom would have about the baby or how to mother. They would write the question down and then pass it to the next group. The group that recieved the question, can't look at it, but has to come up with an answer. This one got tons of laughs because you would get questions like, how often to I change the diapers and the answer was try burping them and rocking them. The more creative your guests are the funnier the answers get.

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I hate to be a party pooper, but I agree with "Trese". People seem relieved when they realize they don't have to play the shower games and just get to visit and relax instead. I would rather take pictures of all the guests and make a photo book for the baby. Just my thoughts....Enjoy whatever you do!!

Baby showers that i have been to we have done the diaper with the melted chocolate, the toilet paper game where you use toilet paper to estimate the size of the belly, the pins in the rice but the funniest game to watch is with a big bowl full of cotton balls and you blindfold the person whos turn it is .. you but the bowl of cotton balls on there head and you use a spoon and have them lift as many cotton balls into a bowl that is sitting on there lap whoever has the most cottonballs wins.... the funniest thing is that you cant feel the cotton ball on the spoon because its so light and its just funny to watch . maybe even a scavenger hunt that has to do with babies.. it just wouldnt be a baby shower without games... have fun

My friend did a game that included making a grid up of 10 by 5 squares on a piece of paper. Fill in all the squares with some odd thing. (went skinny dipping, fell out of a tree, chased by a bull, etc... Ask the mommy to give you a list of 10 or so odd things SHES done or had happen to her and include them. Try to pick other things that people may actually have had happen to them (ask a couple of the guests for lists of 5 or so each they did and include yours).
Everyone gets a copy. Then THEY have to try to figure out who did what with in a 5 minute time. The trick is, You can only ask each person one question at a time. So If I ask person A did you.... I have to go to person b and ask them a question BEFORE i go back to person A...
I learned my sis in law went skinny dipping this way. :-)
After 5 minutes everyone sits back down and you go thru and ask who do you think did.... See what answers you come up with. Its fun and you learn alot.Then the person who got the most right wins.

AND- take a bunch of safety pins (normal ones not diaper ones) count out 10 or so and mix them in a small bowl with rice. Blindfold people and they have 20 seconds to find as many pins as possible. Its funny how similar metal can feel to rice.

My favorite was a book that was passed around for baby advice. Each guest wrights down the tips. I pulled mine out not to long ago to read again.
A. H

Why not 'no games'!? I think a lot of people feel the same way as you - tired of the same old games - or any games for that matter! My baby showers were beautiful - and not a game was played! But everyone was given a beautiful momento to take away with them. Just a thought.

If you are having a smaller baby shower this game idea would work. Put some (uncooked rice) in a bowl or I used an ice cream bucket, sprinkle baby powder over the rice and mix. Buy the smallest safety pins you can find, mix with the rice and baby powder. Have your guest blind folded or close their eyes and then time them to see how many safety pins they can get out of the bucket. It seems like it would be really easy but with the added baby powder it makes the rice and pins feel the same. (Make sure when you add the pins that they are all closed).

OK, not a game idea, but a nice idea nonetheless.

Urge guests to bring books instead of cards with gifts. Have them write whatever they would have written inside the card on the inside cover of the book. It's a great start to wonderful book collection, and a wonderful keepsake.

I am not sure if this has been mentioned because I don't know how to read replies yet...but I always enjoyed the dirty diaper game. melt chocolate bars in diapers and have them guess what is what. there is a variation where you put nasty smelly things like fish in the diaper and close it up and have them guess by smell.
we also found a match up the baby animal names with the type of animal they are. it was a big hit at my sister in laws shower.
there are a few sites that you can look at if you search free shower games
good luck

Here are a couple of fun ones:
"Don't say baby": everbody gets a diaper pin when they arrive, and you can pin it to an index card that explains the game if you want. For the first half-hour or so of the shower, anyone who catches anyone else saying the word "baby" gets to take their diaper pin(s). Whoever has collected the most pins when you announce that the game is over, wins.
Baby trivia: this is a team game. Make up a round of 10 baby-related trivia questions, and the team with the most correct answers wins. If you're trying to fill time, you can have two rounds of 10 questions each. Make sure you have a few extra questions (hard ones!) to use as tie-breakers, too! Use your imagination and Wikipedia to make up questions. (A human prgnancy is 9 months long--how long is pregnancy for an elephant? Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub--what were their occupations?) Let me know if you want any more ideas for this one--I've done the trivia contest for bridal and baby showers and it's always fun!

If she hasn't had the baby yet you can play the game where you guess how big her belly is either with string or hour many TP squares around.

We had a good time playing name that tune with songs that included "baby" or something like it in the title. There was a point awarded for the correct title and a point for the artist who sang it. We used songs from all eras. It's pretty easy to search for and download these songs. All were entertained and challenged! Good luck and God Bless!

Not long ago, our church had a baby shower for me and we played the funnest game!! It was a baby match game. We matched words like twins, triplets, epidural, mommy's belly after birth, etc. For the person who matched them there was a candy or candy bar prize. The person who matched triplets got a 3 musketeers bar. The person who matched epidural got lifesavers. Contractions was a good and plenty box. Mommy's tummy after birth was a bag of jelly bellies. All the prizes had something to do with the words that were matched and some of them were hilarious!! You can probably find it on the internet. It was lots of fun!

K.,

Here are a couple of things that I just happend to see in an idea notebook I had.

#1 use cloth diapers as napkins at the shower, then launder them and give them to the new mom for burp cloths (or diapers if she is using cloth)

#2 Buy a package of newborn disposable diapers and at the shower open them up- give everyone a permanant marker and let them write words of encouragement, helpful advice, or their own funny baby story on the diaper itself (the outside of the diaper) and bag them all up when everyone is finished. The idea being that the new mom can only read them one at a time at each diaper change after the baby arrives.

#3. Have a frozen casserole shower (if the expectant mother has already had a lot of gifts or if this isn't her first baby and she doesn't need much). Everyone brings a casserole already frozen, with the recipe (bring lots of coolers to store the food until it can be put back into a freezer)

Good luck and have fun

At my baby shower we did a diaper game. Every one was split in to teams of 3 or 4. One person was chosen to be "diapered". They rest of the team then wrapped toilet paper on the person to look like a diaper. When time was up (I think it was like 3 or 4 minutes) I picked the best looking diaper and each person on the team got a prize. Every one seemed to really enjoy it. Have a great shower!

The most memorable shower I went to you were handed paper money (with the face of the mom and dad) upon entering the venue. The shower had a MC with a program, and they auctioned gifts like a commercial break, and you could use the money. You can also play team games those do alot better....like have a household object on each table and come up with a wild way to use it in child rearing as a table, sponsering one person from each table as the spokesperson.

A fun game we tried at my brother and sister in law's baby shower was having a race drinking water from a baby bottle. I had gotten about 6 little baby bottles and filled them up with water, making sure that the holes were big enough so the water could come out better. Then you pick out 5-6 women to participate in this race. Whoever finishes their water first wins a prize. It is so funny to see grown women trying to drink from baby bottles, everyone got such a kick out of that game. At the end of the party, you give these bottles to the mom to be, with new nipples for the bottles, that way, she could use these bottles for her new baby.
Have fun!!!
hope this helps.

I went to a party that on the invites the host asked for everyone to bring a baby pic. and then at the party everyone guessed who's who. Also we did a timed drinking game with beer in bottles and who ever drank it the fastest won. You can do Guess the Celebritiy Baby and put their faces on babys. Of coarse there is the guess the poop in the diapers...with assorted melted candy bars and guess which candy bar it is. I hope this helps! Have fun!

we put little tiny plastic babies in ice cubes. the first person to 'break thier water' (ice melts) wins.

I did a baby shower for my niece and a couple of games or activities we did was I boughtlittle plastice babies and froze them in a ice cube and you place them in cups and give them to your guests and the first one to have their baby wins you decide what they can do to make it happen quicker. An activity was i bought beads and string and we made a necklace larger bead was a wish for the mother and the smaller bead was a wish for the baby. the mother is to wear this while in labor so that she has all of you with her. hope this helps.

hi this has nothing to do with games but my sisterinlaw got books insed of cards on her gifts it was really a big hit and now the kids have lots of books.

The candy bar in the diaper game is fun. You take real diapers and like 7-8 different types of candy bars. You melt 1 candy bar in each diaper and then your guests guess what kind of candy bar it is. They can look at the diapers, hold them and smell them. It's fun. There is also the one where each guest cuts a piece of string as big as they think the pregnant girls stomach is. Then you measure each guest's string around the belly and the one that is closest wins. You can also have a "station" with plain white onesies and everyone can decorate a onesie for the baby. That's more fun though and not really a game. Good luck and have fun.

I hosted a shower for my cousin and we put some small plastic babies in an ice cube tray, filled it and froze them. Then, we handed out straws and the guests had to get the baby out. It was really funny some of the things people did. Another idea is bowling with bottles. Just set up 10 and use anything that will roll to knock them down. Give the guests 2-3 chances and whomever gets the most down wins. Then, the mom will have a start on the bottle collection.