What kind of games to play at a baby shower




















Each person must tell one funny or embarrassing childhood story. At the beginning of your baby shower, choose a word that everyone will be forbidden from saying. Anyone who gets caught using the forbidden word is out. The last person to use the word or not!

Either before or during your baby shower, decorate a small bucket or box. This game requires a little bit of preparation beforehand. Your guests can grab any Play-Doh or modeling clay for this game. Set a timer for 20 or so minutes — depends on how artistic your guests are! Hilarity is sure to ensue as your guests reveal their baby masterpieces. If your guests enjoy this sort of game, you can change the format to suit your virtual baby shower best.

For example, read out riddles and tell your guests to make the answer out of their dough. Whoever creates the answer the fastest while still making it recognizable wins! Collect about 10 photos of the expecting mom prior to the beginning of the baby shower. Post them all for everyone to see, with a number next to each photo.

If you have out-of-town guests, be sure to include on the invitation that they will need cupcake supplies. The more fun your guests have with this the more amazing the cupcakes will turn out. Plus, guests have an incentive: they get to eat their creation!

Put all of the photos on a table or a bulletin board, and have everyone guess whether the person in each photo is a relative of the mom-to-be or the dad-to-be. Gather a couple of babydolls and a pack of diapers. Put the diapers on the baby dolls. Next, blindfold several of your guests one for each babydoll. Now, have them race to remove the dirty diaper, wipe the babydoll clean, and put a new diaper on. Whoever finishes first is the winner! This game is endlessly customizable! There are so many different things you could make the subject of this trivia.

If your baby shower guests know each other pretty well, a great option is to make the trivia subject them! Before the shower, they can submit a fact about something related to them and babies. This could be anything, really: a funny encounter they had with a baby once, something entertaining they did when they were a baby that their parents still tell stories about, or, if your childhood friend is attending, something they did with you when you were both very young.

Ask your guests to submit their facts a few days before the shower so you have enough time to make a simple trivia deck on Powerpoint. Your other guests will need to choose one of the multiple-choice options — whoever they think the fact is about! Save all the correct answers for the end. At the very end of trivia, you can go back through the trivia deck and reveal the right answers. Plus, this gives your guests a chance to explain the funny stories behind their baby facts. Whoever earns the most points wins!

Make a list of animals and the names of their young. Have your guests work in teams to guess the names of 10 or 15 different animal babies. Put your guests into teams of two or three people. The team with the most songs at the end of the three minutes wins!

Examples of questions:. At the baby shower, read the questions out loud or ask the mom-to-be to read them , and have the guests call out the answers. Designate one person to be in charge of noting who guesses correctly. Think of at least 10 famous parents from American history, pop culture, or a category of your choice.

Then do some research, and write down the name of the eldest child of each parent this is your answer key. Distribute a list of the parents' names to your guests. Ask everyone to write down the name of the eldest child next to the parent's name. See who can correctly name the greatest number of children. Type out snippets from well-known nursery rhymes, but leave the end off, or leave parts of it blank, and print enough copies for your baby shower guests.

When your guests arrive, distribute the worksheets and ask them to fill in the blanks of the missing nursery rhymes. Give them five minutes to complete the sheet; whoever gets the most right wins the game. There is no prep work needed for this simple game; just press play once everyone is ready. Have the guests shout out the name of the song, and make a note of who gets it right the fastest. The person who guesses the most correct answers wins the game.

Test your guests on the cartoons they used to love as kids. Make copies for your guests, and hand them out at the party. Ask guests to fill in the name of the cartoon babies on the right-hand side.

Before the shower, gather a selection of small baby items. Then take some disposable diapers and tape them securely around each item so the item can't be seen, and write a number on each diaper. Keep a master list of the numbers and what's in each the diaper bundle. At the shower, line up the diaper bundles, and have guests try to guess what's inside each one by feeling it.

Of course, the thicker the diaper layer the harder it is to guess. The guest with the greatest number of correct guesses wins. By the way, did you know that the parents-to-be can be turning their diaper purchases into rewards? After playing this game, let the mom-to-be know that she should download the Pampers Club app so she can start earning great rewards.

If she receives Pampers diapers as a baby shower gift, she can even add the codes found in the packs and be on her way to her first reward. Before your shower guests arrive, heat each candy bar in the microwave and smear the gooey mess onto a diaper, keeping track of which candy bar goes on which diaper. After your guests arrive, have them do a "sniff" test of each diaper and guess which kind of candy is on each one, writing down their guesses on a sheet of paper.

The winning "nose" is the one with the greatest number of correct guesses. When you invite your guests to the baby shower, ask them to bring at least one package of diapers, letting them know that the more packs of diapers they bring, the more raffle tickets they will get to participate in the game!

At the shower, give your guests one ticket for each pack they bring, and then do a raffle draw where guests are in for the chance to win some small prizes, and the lucky parents end up with the packs of diapers.

Fill a basket or tray with small baby-related objects before the shower. After the quick viewing, hide the basket in another room and distribute paper and pens. Ask everyone to write down all of the items they saw in the basket. See who has the best memory and can recall the most items. Each of your guests will have a turn trying to be Supermom. At the same time, she must correctly sort the socks into matched piles and change the baby's diaper.

She cannot put down the phone while she is doing this. Before the next guest begins her turn, mix up the socks again. Fill a baby bathtub with water and put the ducks in it. This game works with any number of groups and with any number of people in a group. Give each guest a balloon and have each team stand in a line. When you say "Go! Then the next person in line does it, and so on down the line. Once the whole team has balloons under their shirts, the first person in line has to figure out how to pop their balloon — and so on down the line.

The team that inflates and pops their balloons the quickest wins! What you'll need: Several rolls of toilet paper, depending on how many guests you'll have.

How to play: Split your guests into teams of three or four and give each team a roll of toilet paper. Have each team "diaper" one of its members with the toilet paper as quickly as possible. No pins or other tools are allowed! The team that finishes first with a diaper that stays on wins. Before the shower: Set up the ten baby bottles in a triangular pattern, like bowling pins.

Roll the diapers into ball shapes. How to play: Have your guests take turns "bowling" with the diapers. You can play as many rounds as you want. How to play: Divide your guests into teams of equal numbers and have them run a relay race using the baby stroller. The doll is the baton that's passed between teammates. What you'll need: Watch this video on how to make an "empathy bump" using a backpack, a baby doll, weights, water, and more.

You'll need one for every team. How to play: Divide your guests into equal teams and have them run a relay race using the "baby weight," aka the empathy bump, as the baton they pass between teammates.

What you'll need: Play-Dough or modeling clay in different colors, and tools to make the game fun such as pencils, rolling pins, or plastic knives. Before the shower: Set up "baby-making stations" with the materials and tools needed.

How to play: Ask your guests to take turns making their own dough babies. The mom-to-be can judge which one she likes best in different categories, such as most realistic, most creative, most disturbing, and silliest.

How to play: Have your guests play Twister with a balloon stuffed under their shirt like a baby bump. What you'll need: A baby doll dressed in a diaper and baby clothes, and swaddled in a blanket. How to play: Divide your guests into equal teams. Hand each team a diapered, dressed, and swaddled doll. Shout, "Go! That player undresses the baby and passes it to the third person, who changes the diaper. The next person dresses the doll, and the following person wraps it in the baby blanket.

You can repeat the process until each person on a team has had a chance to do one step. The team that finishes first wins. What you'll need: Handouts with lists of celebrity baby names and their parents, unmatched. For ideas, check out our lists of celebrity baby girl names and celebrity baby boy names. How to play: Ask your guests to write encouraging words, funny messages, and cute pictures on disposable diapers.

These customized diapers are sure to put smiles on the new parents' faces during relentless newborn diaper changes. What you'll need: A plain newborn or 3-month-size baby bodysuit T-shirt with a snap crotch for each guest, plus fabric markers or nontoxic permanent markers. How to play: Give your guests complete creative freedom to make their masterpieces.

At the end of the baby shower, give the parents-to-be the creations. Before the shower: Check in with the mom-to-be to see whether she's okay with guests measuring her bump. If not, skip this game. How to play: Ask your guests to guess the circumference of the mom-to-be's bump by cutting a piece of string to their estimated length. Have each guest wrap their string around the mom-to-be's belly to see who comes the closest.

What you'll need: A printer and paper; drawing supplies such as markers, crayons, colored pencils, and stickers, plus access to a laminator and book binder. Before the shower: Print each letter of the alphabet on an individual sheet of paper.

How to play: Pass out a lettered sheet or two or three to each guest and ask him or her to decorate the page with things that start with that letter. For example, whoever has letter "A" might draw pictures of apples, alligators, and ants.

Your guests should also put their name on the page somewhere and can include a note to the baby if they'd like. After the shower, laminate the pages and bind them together, then give the collection to the guest of honor. It's the baby's first alphabet book! If you have more than 26 guests, you can also add pages with numbers or shapes or have more than one person work on each page. What you'll need: Blank stationery cards and individual envelopes, or heavy paper cut into cards and one big envelope, plus plenty of pens.

How to play: Ask each guest to take a card and write down encouraging words for the parents-to-be — maybe something that kept the guest going when she felt overwhelmed as a new mom, or some great advice that perked him up when he needed it. The parents-to-be can read the cards at the end of the shower or save them for when they need a boost.

The only limit to the type of games you play during the virtual shower is your level of creativity. Don't let the virtual bit put the brakes on your fun. What you'll need: Access to a shared document like Google Sheets or an online baby betting pool.

Before the shower: Set up your baby betting pool online or create your shared document. How to play: Share the link and ask your guests to fill in their best guess for when the baby will come. Encourage guests to bring a pack of diapers any size to the baby shower. If they do, they can enter a raffle for a chance to win a prize. Guests get one diaper raffle ticket for every pack of diapers they contribute.

Want to hear about one of the funniest baby shower games ever? Have your guests wear a faux-pregnant belly and participate in a complicated game of Twister. This can be an especially fun co-ed baby shower game. To make the pregnant bellies, give each guest a pillow, a fanny pack, and a set of wrist weights. Have them put the weights in their fanny pack and strap the pack and pillow around their waists.

The pregnant mom-to-be will sit this one out and act as the judge. Sure, it's a baby shower—but is it possible to make it through the entire party without uttering the word "baby"? This game tests guests' self-control and listening skills as they try to avoid saying "baby.

Explain the rules when you give out the pins—throughout the shower, no one can say the word "baby. Whoever has the most pins at the end of the shower wins. Now, guests can put their celeb-kid knowledge to the test with this game, recommended by Danielle Friedland, publisher and president of Celebrity Baby Blog.

Assign a number to each celebrity baby picture and hang them up. Next to that, display the parent pictures. Give the guests 10 minutes to match the celebrity baby photos to their parents. The person with the most correct matches is the winner. As a prize idea, give the winner an assortment of cheesy but highly enjoyable tabloid magazines.

What mother hasn't wondered what her baby will look like? Though it's impossible to predict, this hilarious shower activity can shed a tad of admittedly highly unscientific insight. Look at that! How to play this unique baby shower game: Before the party, ask each guest to bring a 4-xinch headshot of herself, and another 4-xinch headshot of her partner or dream partner Brad Pitt, Patrick Dempsey, of whoever strikes her fancy. Give each guest a baby-shaped cutout and scissors. Have them cut up their headshots so that eyes, noses, mouths, and other features are separate pieces.

Mix 'em up and then glue the features onto the baby-shaped cutouts.



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