Baby Shower Games
Add to the fun with baby shower games
Choose baby shower games to bring out the “kid” in your guests, picking a variety of games so everyone can participate. Combine games like “Don’t Say Baby,” which basically play themselves, with games that everyone plays together. There are lots of free baby shower games and baby shower game ideas online. Don’t forget free printable baby shower games which are already prepared for you.
Traditional Baby Shower Games
In “Don’t Say Baby,” each guest gets a clothespin and, if they are caught saying “baby,” the person catching them gets their clothespin. Whoever gets the most clothespins wins.
Give each guest a stick-on name tag bearing a humorous baby-related word like “drool,” “burp” or “drip,” and let that be their “party name.” Anyone caught calling them something else has to put money into a special piggy bank for baby.
Distribute water-filled baby bottles. The first one to suck all the water out wins. Break into pairs where one person feeds the other a jar of baby food with a tiny spoon. The first team to finish wins.
Everyone brings a small baby item, including the receipt. Place all items in a sack and have everyone guess the total cost. Whoever comes closest wins a baby shower prize, and mom goes home with the goodies. Tell guests to bring a package of diapers to be eligible for a grand prize. Draw for the winner and give mom the diapers.
Creative Baby Shower Games
Give everyone a crayon and paper plate. Guests hold the paper plates on their heads and, using the crayon, draw a picture of a baby within 2 minutes. The mom-to-be shows the drawings, picks her favorite, and the winner gets a prize.
Everyone brings a baby picture of themselves to pin on a bulletin board. Any guest not matched to her baby picture wins a baby shower prize. This collage doubles as a great baby shower decoration.
The mom-to-be whispers to another person a story about her first encounter with the baby’s dad. That person then whispers the story to another until the story goes around the room. The last guest to hear the story tells the group the version she just heard.
Baby Shower Prizes
Anything you’d buy as baby shower favors, like stuffed toys or flower arrangements, can also be used as baby shower prizes.
Get baby shower prizes in the same price range, wrap, and place in a basket. Also wrap a few diapers smeared with peanut butter, letting guests know about them in advance. If a winner unwraps a dirty diaper, she has to tell a “dirty” secret about herself in order to pick another prize. Camouflage booby prizes when wrapping so no one knows what they are.
