How to Play Fun Games at a Baby Shower

Baby showers don't have to be just a quiet afternoon of watching your friend open present after present. Spice it up for the guests as well as the mother-to-be with these simple party games.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Clear Tapes
• Baby Food
• Plastic Spoons
• Scissors
• Scissors
• Markers
• Notebook Papers
• Pens And Pencils
• String
• Small Prizes
• Markers

1. Have each guest cut a piece of string to the length he or she thinks will fit around the expectant mother's expanding waist. One by one, place it around her belly. The person with the string that comes closest to matching wins.

2. Take the labels off eight jars of baby food. Tape a number on each jar. Hand out plastic spoons and have each guest sample each flavor and guess its identity. The person with the most matches wins.

3. Copy a list with the names of 15 animals and ask guests to guess the word for the offspring: A joey is a baby kangaroo, infant swans are cygnets and so on.

4. Tape the name of a famous mother on each guest's back: Mother Nature, Mother Goose and Carol Brady are good choices. Have players ask yes or no questions of each other to figure out whose name is on their back.

5. Write the baby's full chosen name on a sign and have guests scramble the letters and come up with as many new words as possible. The person with the most new words wins.

6. Ask every guest to bring his or her baby picture and have everyone guess who's who. The person who gets the most right wins.

Tips & Warnings

• Prizes should be pretty small and inexpensive, such as an address book, a mirrored lipstick case or a bottle of wine.

[bettebogart]

on 7/31/2009 Great ideas, lots of fun!

[lilolladystuff]

on 6/6/2009 Cute games. Nice article. Thanks.

[skunkgirl13]

on 1/14/2009 I created a blank bingo card for each guest and asked for each of them to list items the mommy-to-be might receive in each box. As the gifts are being opened, and if the guest has the gift listed in a box, they mark it down, if the get a line completed they get a prize. I have hosted 3 baby showers and this game was a very big hit!

[spy06]

on 5/17/2007 Something to interest the men who may come: set up a pool to guess the baby's weight. Create a 4x16 grid and sell the boxes. Then fill in the numbers 5-8 on the short side and 0-15 on the long side (healthy baby sizes). The prize won't be issued until the baby is born

on 11/22/2005 Let guests know that if they bring a bag of diapers with their gifts they will be entered into a drawing for a grand prize. I bought lotions and bath oils at the cost of $13.00 for the grand prize. My friend said she had enough diapers for a few months after her shower.