Come in and Share Your Favorite Baby Shower Games

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The ONLY game I like is present BINGO. That way you don't have to do anything except watch the presents be opened but it can feel like a game.

[niq]

Give guests a sheet of paper with the full names of both parents. Have them come up with names using only the letters from their parents' names. They can make as many as they want, serious or silly. At the end the parents (or mom) picks the favorite and they win ... something

ETA: and I'm sure you know this, but NO SMELL THE DIAPER GAME. NONE. DON'T DO IT, I don't care if the mom wants it so bad she will disown you as a friend.

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This can be done for any type of shower...

Fill a basket with small goodies that go with the theme. Then, everyone has 1 minute to study the basket. After that it's removed and you have to write down as many items as possible.

Simple and not intimidating.

[thejen626]

Ugh I hate shower games! The only one I can tolerate is "name the celebrity parents" so you have a list of Apple, Suri, etc.

[meij]

A cute one I've been at had the guests send a baby pic of themselves to the host. She printed them out and had them hanging up and we had to guess who was who.

I've also played Price is Right baby stuff style which wasn't awful.

[Brie]

theecofriendlyfamily.com/2014/08/babies-parenthood-game-free-printable/

[tacocat]

Baby scattergories

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Sept 1, 2014 17:59:18 GMT -5 Brie said:

theecofriendlyfamily.com/2014/08/babies-parenthood-game-free-printable/

This is awesome, thanks for the idea.

[hermione]

Take the labels off jars of baby food. Have guests guess the flavor by sight only. No smelling or tasting. The answers are always awesomely bad.

We numbered the jars and had a corresponding list to write the answers. We made a tray for each table (exactly the same) so it wouldn't take forever.

[waterchurch]

Shower guests hold a paper plate over their heads and draw a picture of a baby. Since you can't see what you're doing, the pictures are funny. It's pretty quick too.

[bananapancakes]

Name the baby animal. (Kangaroo-joey, goat-kid, etc.)

[spankswife]

I like the price is right.

You have a basket if baby items (diapers, wipes, dreft, whatever) and people have to guess the price. Then you add up the total, and whoever us closest with out going over wins a prize, and the mom to be gets the basket of stuff.

[my4girls]

I'm throwing a coed shower next month- we're doing baby doll corn hole and probably ring toss with baby bottles. I'm trying to come up with things that people can just play if they want to that would be fun and not traditional

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Sept 1, 2014 17:51:42 GMT -5 thejen626 said:

Ugh I hate shower games! The only one I can tolerate is "name the celebrity parents" so you have a list of Apple, Suri, etc.

I like that.

We did a Price is Right type game where we matched prices to items on the table.

[bowies]

Baby bottle chugging. It's a game AND you can drink mimosas at the same time.

[caramia17]

Drinking.

Seriously.

[zeewifeandmama]

A variation on the " stuff on the tray" game from a good shower I went to:

Host walked around with tray of goodies. Gave each guest xx amount of time then took the tray and went away and the guest of honor said something like " ok, give me all the details about such & such's outfit...hair, shoes, accessories etc..." The old bitties at the shower were a little ruffled, but everyone else thought it was a good one.

[Yankees21]

I like gift bingo, matching people's baby pictures, and this is cheesy, but match the candy to the baby related phrase (ex: epidural=lifesaver).

[humpforfree]

Sept 1, 2014 18:35:52 GMT -5 spankswife said:

I like the price is right.

You have a basket if baby items (diapers, wipes, dreft, whatever) and people have to guess the price. Then you add up the total, and whoever us closest with out going over wins a prize, and the mom to be gets the basket of stuff.

Yeah I don't mind price is right. Bonus- the mom gets a basket of stuff.

[browneyedgirl9]

I like the present bingo.

[aspentosh]

Not games, but activities we'll be doing:

Guess the date she'll have the baby. Make a calendar and have people use a stamp with foot prints with their name on the date they pick.
Decorating onesies with puffy paint or iron on transfers.

[sjh722]

I don't mind present bingo or the games pp mentioned where you study a basket with 15-20 items for a minute and see how many you can remember, or the price game. Just have them move quickly. There is nothing worse than when a game drags on for 40 minutes because the bride's name is 9 letters long and your batty aunt thought it would be fun to play wedding "scattegories" with 15 categories (using all 9 letters of the bride's name for every single category), then everyone has to compare to see who had the most correct answers. (Not like I'm still annoyed at that one!)

[scribellesam]

Sept 1, 2014 17:58:07 GMT -5 meij said:

A cute one I've been at had the guests send a baby pic of themselves to the host. She printed them out and had them hanging up and we had to guess who was who.

I've also played Price is Right baby stuff style which wasn't awful.

I was going to suggest this one. It's fun to see everyone's cute baby photos.

[minzy]

We just did my sister's shower with about 25 women.  The venue was a home with a closed off floor plan, so most of the people were disbursed throughout the house/backyard canopy area for most of the party, which didn't lend itself to too many "let's all sit down together" type activities.  The gift opening was done in the living room and it was crammed and hot, so I kept the game playing to a minimum.  

That said, we had people fill out mommy advice cards, and guess how many Lego candies were in a baby bottle (considered using sour patch kids but then I chanced upon the blocks).  (Side note: the Lego candies actually fit together!)  We had people guess the gestational periods of a variety of animals (i.e., opposum, 13 days; salamander, 3 years).  Games we considered but didn't happen: the ribbon/girth game, where each person cuts off what they guess is the current girth of the mother; a crossword puzzle with baby terms; guess the nursery rhyme/baby book; and the timer game where you set a timer and each time it goes off, whoever's gift is being opened wins a prize.  I opted against the price is right game because between food, decorations, favors, prizes, hotel, big gift, little gifts, etc., etc., I didn't feel like dropping another hundred bucks on it, and I didn't want to bring attention to how much things cost in the off chance it would make someone feel cheap for bringing something on the smaller side.

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One of the activities we did at my shower was each guest picks a page with a letter on it (pre-printed by the hostess) and draws a picture of something beginning with that letter.  All the pages were put together to make an ABC book.  To this day, it's one of my daughter's favorite 'books'.

Another fun game at my shower was giving each guest a small can of playdoh and they had to make a baby out of it.  Mom-to-be votes on the winner. There were some interesting 'babies' 

[niki]

One "game" we did at my friend's shower was to freeze tiny plastic babies in ice cubes and put one in each person's glass when everyone had arrived (late comers couldn't play). When you notice your baby is free of the ice cube, the first person to yell, "MY WATER BROKE!" gets a prize.

[Ashley&Scott]

I like present bingo, word scrambles & name the baby animal.