Top Baby Shower Games

Here is an article that I came across while searching for baby shower games for the shower that I co-hosted. So many awesome ideas so just thought that I would re-share

Baby Shower Games, Baby Shower Prizes & Baby Shower Invitations

Author: Sarah Porter

The baby shower games played at a baby shower are usually one of the most memorable experiences during the pre-baby events. However, to ensure the baby shower games are successful there should be some thoughtful baby shower party planning, All About Baby Showers. Before starting the baby shower games, it's a good idea to go around the room and have everyone introduce themselves and their relationship to the Mommy-to-Be.

Here are some of the more popular baby shower games you can play during the baby shower:

Guess Mommy-to-Be's Tummy Size: You will need some string / yarn and scissors for this game. Have each participant pull the yarn to the size they believe would fit perfectly around the Mommy-to-Be's center of her pregnant tummy. After everyone cuts their string, compare the results to the Mommy-to-Be's actual tummy. Give a prize to the guest who is the closest! This baby shower game is an ole favorite and will be enjoyed by all.

Say "Baby": You will need baby safety pins or another type of baby object you can place on a string for each guests at the baby shower as well as string or yarn, enough for each woman to wear as a necklace. Have each guest place the necklace with the baby safety pins around her neck when she gets to the party. The rules for this baby shower game are given at the beginning of the baby shower. Whenever someone says the word "baby" during the baby shower, any woman who calls it out gets a pin from the other woman who stated the word. At the end of the baby shower, the woman with the most pins wins a prize.

Naming Baby Items: You will need a pad of paper and pen for each guest. Have each guest write down as many baby products as they can name, such as bottle, blanket, pacifier, etc during a five minute period. This sounds easy, and IS at first, but during last few minutes, the participants will start racking their brains for more baby items. The guest with the most baby products named will win and receive a prize.

Make The Mommy-to-Be's Baby: You will need baby magazines, scissors, glue and paper. Divide the guests into teams with each team having three members, and give each team some baby magazines. Ask each team to cut out pieces of different baby qualities and put together a picture of what they think the Mommy-to-Be's baby will look like. Ask the Mommy-to-Be pick the baby she likes the best. Prizes will go to the winning team. This is another of the most popular baby shower games.

Guess The Gerber's: You will need Gerber's infant food, pads of paper and pens. You will need to take the labels off of the baby food jars and have the guests at the baby shower guess the food, i.e. carrots, peas, sweet potato. This game usually has ten different jars or more of different baby food. The winner is the guest with the most correct guesses.

Guess the Number of Safety Pins: You will need a lot of safety pins and a jar. Pass a jar full of baby safety pins around so all the guests can view it. Each guess will then guess the number of safety pins they think are in the jar. The one who guesses the closest wins a baby shower prize. This another baby shower game favorite.

Place The Baby On The Mommy-to-Be: You will need cutouts of a baby, tape and blindfolds. This is a version of Pin The Tail on the Donkey, a game kids love to play. Blindfold each guests and give them a paper baby to place the baby as close to the Mommy-to-Be's tummy as possible. The one who gets closest to placing the paper baby on the pregnant tummy wins.

Bottle Races: You will need several baby bottles with milk. Have each guest take a bottle filled with a milk (you may substitute milk for another liquid) and suck the bottle as a baby would. The woman who drinks the most during an allotted time wins the baby shower gift. This is always a laughter filled baby shower game.

Baby Bingo: You will need pens and bingo cards. Before opening the baby shower gifts, number each baby shower gift on the box starting with one. If you know that 35 people will be attending the baby shower, pre-print bingo cards with numbers 1 through 35 and randomly place them on 35 cards. When the Mommy-to-Be's decides to open the presents, she grabs the present she wants to open and reads the number out loud. As soon as someone receives bingo, they win the baby shower game and the baby shower prize.

What's the baby item: You will need various baby products and a blindfold. A bag of baby items are placed in front of the Mommy-to-Be for her to take one item out at a time blindfolded and tell the baby shower guests what item she has in her hands. This is really fun baby shower game when you choose some crazy baby toys or products.

Complete the Baby Rhyme: You will need a book containing baby rhymes. The host will read out loud to all the guest a part of the rhyme, which is to be completed by the other women.

Baby Bingo: You will need pens and bingo cards. Before opening the baby shower gifts, number each baby shower gift on the box starting with one. If you know that 35 people will be attending the baby shower, pre-print bingo cards with numbers 1 through 35 and randomly place them on 35 cards. When the Mommy-to-Be's decides to open the presents, she grabs the present she wants to open and reads the number out loud. As soon as someone receives bingo, they win the baby shower game and the baby shower prize.

How's the Baby: Ask all guests to bring a baby picture of themselves before the baby shower. Have all the pictures in a collage and draw lines for people to fill in who they think the babies are out of the people at the baby shower. If most guests don't know each other, just have the pictures of the mother, mother-in-law, sisters, and Mommy-to-Be. See how many people guess right. You can make copies of the baby picture collage to see how many can guess right.

Baby Scrambler: Another fun baby shower game is to choose 25 baby related items and scramble the spelling. For instance, pacifier can be changed to reiifpca. Ask the guests to unscramble the words. The one who gets the most right in five minutes receives a baby shower prize.

Name that Baby Song: You will need a pad of paper and pen for each guest. Have each guest write down all the songs that have baby in their titles, like baby love, Santa baby, one for my baby and so on. Allow five minutes for this game. This baby shower game can be made more difficult by asking who also wrote the songs.

Dirty Diaper Circle: You will need a diaper, chocolate and music player. Although one of our "dirtiest" baby shower games, it is one of the favorites. The host takes a diaper that has been "fixed" with warm chocolate in the right place and have the guests pass it to the person next to them is in a circle. When the host stops the music, whoever is holding the diaper is out of the game.

Pacifier in the baby's mouth: You will need a blindfold, a baby picture and a pacifier drawing for each guest. Tape a picture or drawing of a baby on the wall and have the blindfolded women try to tape the pacifier as close to the mouth of the baby as possible. The one who gets the closest ones.

Blindfold Diapering: You will need a blindfold, baby doll (life size) and diapers. One of the funniest baby shower games. It calls for the guests to be divided into teams of up to five people. Each team has a doll, blindfold and diapers. The object is for each participant to place the blindfold on, take the current diaper off the doll and place the new one on while blindfolded. After the first person completes diapering, they run to the next teammate who places the blindfold on and has to do the same. The first team to finish diapering wins!

Baby Tic-Tac-Toe: You will need a large erasable board to use for the tic-tac-toe board, writing utensil, and baby facts. Baby shower guests are divided into teams and are ask to answer a question about a baby fact. If they get the answer right, they get to choose a space, like the classic tic-tac-toe game.

The baby shower games are a very important part of your baby shower. You want to do everything you can to ensure the baby shower games are enjoyed by all and are a huge success. Here's some tips for ensuring your baby shower games are successful:
a. Be sure you have writing utensils for everyone
b. Wrap games prizes
c. Make sure to have extra prizes in case of tie games

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Sarah Porter, Press Agent for several baby sites Birth Announcements Cards, Baby Shower Invitations,

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The Best Baby Shower Games Free

One of the things to expect when someone's expecting is a baby shower. This tradition of throwing a party to celebrate a new baby is uniquely American. This lovely gathering of family and friends should be celebrated by sharing baby gifts, enjoying some food and playing some games in the family way.

No matter where the baby shower is held, a unique mix of people will attend. Family, friends, neighbors, co-workers etc. Baby shower games are a fun and popular entertainment choice because of their appeal.

Of course, whenever you are in charge of hosting a baby shower, you want it to be lots of fun. I chose to write this blog to share some different baby shower game ideas that I have come across. I just recently had the privilege of co-hosting a baby shower for my best friend. I spent HOURS searching the web for some unique baby shower game ideas. It was tedious to say the least. I figured I would share some of my research to help you avoid the same struggles that I went through in finding fun baby shower games. Hope you enjoy and find a game that appeals to you. Also, feel free to share your own baby shower game ideas as well.

A baby shower host should select games that the mom-to-be is comfortable with and also enjoyable and comfortable for the guests to play.

I will post new games as a I come across them.

So here are some to get you started:

Rhyme and Reason Baby Shower Game

This is a game where you call out childhood rhymes. All you need is a book of nursery rhymes for the crowd, just randomly pick a rhyme line to read out loud. First player to shout out the title of the rhyme earns a point each time. Then continue pulling a dozen different stanzas for this rhyming bonanza. Score the most points to grin over your win.

Here are some variations/tips on playing this game different ways
* Provide just the beginning of a verse and challenge guests to finish the rest of the line

* Write silly summaries of famous nursery rhymes and have players identify the rhyme

* Pull lines from popular children's nursery rhymes, but make some subtle changes to them. For example, Mary had a little dog, it's fur was white as snow. Type up and copy the modified rhymes. Distribute to the guests who then have to fix the rhymes

* This variation is a nice conversation starter. Ask guests to bring their favorite baby book to the shower to fill baby's first library. Allow your guests to speak briefly about the book they brough if they want to

Diaper Duty Baby Shower Game

In this game, you basically decipher dirty diapers to get the poop :-)

Before the party set-up, buy 7 to 10 different candy bars and cut in half (save or discard the other half). Place the half bar on a clean microwave plate and microwave it 30 seconds or until it just starts to melt. Spoon the soft candy onto the inside of a clean diaper, repeat with the others, putting a different candy bar in each diaper. Make sure you number or color-code the diapers and keep a master answer key.

To play, line up the open diapers on a table. Challenge everyone to identify the candy bar in each open diaper. Let the group work together to try and decipher each diaper's contents. It's up to you to decide if you want to allow tasting (I do recommend getting tiny spoons or little wooden sticks to allow each guest to take a small taste).

Variation/Tips on playing this game
* For a more individualized competition, pass out pen and paper for players to write their answers. Once everybody's taken a guess, read the answer key aloud so players can score themselves.

* Instead of melting the candy bar, use your hands to mash each full bar into a tight ball and center each ball in a diaper.

* As an alternative to candy, spoon a couple tablespoons of different baby foods into each diaper and have guests identify each baby food.

* Or, test your player's sense of smell instead. Mash or smear a different food (banana, chocolate, mustard, tomato sauce, cheese, tuna, coffee, peanut butter, onions, vanilla) in each diaper and seal the openings (try stapling the edge) Ask guests to sniff out the scent coming from each diaper.

Quiet Enough for a Pin Drop Baby Shower Game

Players wait on pins and needles to play this game :-)

You will need a baby bottle and a bunch of large safety pins. Players take turns standing over the open baby bottle and dropping as many safety pins as they can into the bottle. As soon as they miss a pin, their turn ends and the next player takes their shot. Record the number of pins successfully dropped by each pinhead. Pin the win on whoever bottles the most pins.

Variations on playing this baby shower game
* Weigh down the bottle or have someone hold it in place to prevent tipping.

* Limit it so that players have to hold the pin at waist level or higher before dropping the pin.

* If players are having a difficult time getting pins into the bottle, allow each player a one minute time limit to drop as many pins into the bottle as they can.

* Run a tiebreaker round if needed.

* Give the bottle and pins to mom to be afterwards

* Try using wooden clothespins instead of safety pins.

* A harder game: have players start three feet from the baby bottle. While holding a wooden clothespin between their legs, they waddle up to the bottle and then drop the pin into the bottle. You may need to weigh down the bottle with some sand to prevent it from tipping. Because this is so difficult, not many players will score. Give each player three tries.

Hope you enjoyed the first few games that I posted. Be sure to subscribe at the bottom of the page to get updates emailed to you or just save the blog to your favorites. I will be updating frequently within the next few weeks (as I can only type so much in one night :-). Lots more good games to come. Stay tuned.