Baby shower games can be boring or fun, depending on personal taste. So it is best to have as many options as you possibly can, to find the right ones for the shower. There are several new games, and ones you may have already heard of. Take what you like and leave the rest!
Baby Word Search
You can use a word document or excel to write a bunch of baby related words upside down, on the diagonal or straight across. Then fill in all of the blank spaces with random letters and hand out one sheet to everyone. The first person to finds them all or the person who finds the most within a given time frame wins the game.
Baby Bingo
It is played just like regular bingo except where there would be numbers there are pictures of baby related items such a pacifiers and bottles.
Baby Pictionary
You can put a bunch of baby related words (baby items, phrases, actions etc) into a hat and take one out and get one person to draw that word while other people guess what it is. It can be played in teams. Whoever guesses the word first wins a point. To give everyone a chance to draw, the winner for each word can become the one to draw the next baby related word. Once all the words are finished, count how many points each person won and the one with most points wins this game!
Baby Items Game
You give everyone a blank sheet of paper and then have everyone write down however many baby items they can think of in one minute. The person with the most wins the game.
Famous Mothers
As every guest arrives pin the name of a famous mother to their back so they cannot see what it says. They can ask any other guest yes or no questions until they guess correctly. They have to keep it on until they guess the right name. You can use moms from TV or celebrities. Just make sure they know what category(s) you chose so they know how to guess.
Baby Mad Libs
One of my favorite baby shower games. For this game you can come up with a story related to the mother, the baby, or both. You leave certain spaces blank and labeled with the kind of word that should be placed there (i.e. verb, adjective, noun, action, object etc.) and have everyone fill in the blanks and hand them back. Then you read each story out loud to the group.
You can use this concept and create an advice for mom-to-be. So, in this case, a story could be related to pregnancy or birth.
Example:
___ (your name) was at ____'s baby shower! On _____ (month & year) the happy couple found out they were having a baby _____ (gender)!
Mom was _____ (emotion) and dad felt _____ (emotion)! Mom had cravings for _____ (food) and _____ (food). etc
Baby Obstacle Course
You have two guests randomly chosen from a hat with everyone who wants to plays name in it and give them each a stroller (borrow from a friend or relative), a baby doll, a diaper and tiny baby clothes. The first one to get the baby diapered, dressed, and strapped into the stroller wins.
Baby Photo Game
You can ask the guests to bring a copy of their cute baby photo. Mark a number on each photos and pass it around to the players so they can guess who that cute baby is by writing it on a piece of paper beside a number for correction later. If a lot of people there don’t know each other than I suggest name tags.
Otherwise, you can ask the guests to forward you a copy of their baby photo before the party so that you can prepare a large sized baby photo of each guests and you can show that photo in front of everyone rather than passing it from one person to the next so that everyone is looking at the same photo to share laughs and giggles larger photos will have more impact.
The Newly Parents-to-be Game
This game is for showers where the father is present for which is happening more and more now. You get each of them to go into the bedroom alone and ask them questions; for example "where were you when you found out about the baby", "what sex are you hoping for", "if you could pick, what would your baby grow up to be" etc. Get at least 10 questions and write down all of mommy-to-be’s answers on one sheet of paper and all of daddy-to-be's on another. Then sit them side by side, ask them the questions but have them say what they thought the other parent answered. It is fun and sparks up a debate between everyone, getting everyone talking about their ideas!
