Trying to Decide on Whether or Not to Have Baby Shower Games?

Whether you should have baby shower games depends on a couple of things. First, if most of the guests aren’t acquainted with each other, games make good ice breakers. And if you aren’t into games, there are other activities that you can do to help everyone get acquainted.

Secondly, do you WANT to have baby shower games? No where is it written that you need games at a shower. If they make you uncomfortable, don’t do them. A shower is really about supporting and conveying good wishes to the mommy-to-be and the new baby.

Number of baby shower games

Since a shower lasts typically a couple of hours, and opening gifts and eating will take about an hour, two or three baby shower games will be enough to fill the other hour. Of course, if you decide on an activity that is time consuming, like working on a quilt for the baby, that’s all you need.

Prizes for winning games

Game prizes make the baby shower games more fun and I think they really are expected by the guests. They don’t need to be expensive so don’t overspend if you don’t have a big budget. They can be something as simple as lip gloss, key chain, or lollipop. When I had my shower for my daughter I went to the Dollar Store and purchased them. Just whatever strikes your fancy is fine.

Don’t Say Baby

This was one of the baby shower games that we played at my daughter’s baby shower and it runs throughout the shower. As each guest arrives, give her a diaper pin. Tell her that for the duration of the party she is not to use the word baby. If someone catches her saying baby, she must give her diaper pin to that person. If she hears someone say baby, she can take her pin. The person with the most pins at the end of the shower wins. It’s actually harder than it sounds, especially at a BABY shower!

For a cute idea that turns the clothespin into a favor, read what one of my readers did.

Pins and Rice

This was another one of the baby shower games we played at my daughter’s shower. You will need to gather a big bowl, a bag of rice, a package of at least twenty little gold safety pins, a blindfold, and pen and paper to write down everyone’s score.

Dump the rice in the bowl and add the pins. Stir well. Blindfold each guest, one at a time, and have them pick out as many pins as they can in two minutes. The rice and pins feel almost identical. The person finding the most pins wins. 
 

My Water Broke!

Some baby shower games can run concurrently with other baby shower games. Purchase some little plastic babies and freeze them in ice cubes trays. Put one in each guest’s glass (they must be all served at the same time to be fair). The first guest whose ice melts completely around the baby wins.

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You should be careful freezing the babies in the ice cube trays to make sure they are all submerged the same. An easy way to do it is to put a little water in the bottom of the tray and let it freeze. Then put a doll in each cube and add a little more water and freeze again. Then fill completely up with water and freeze again.

This one was another of the baby shower games we had fun playing at my daughter's shower.

Toss the Pacifier

Guests stand in a circle. The guests toss the pacifier to someone else in the circle; it doesn’t need to be the person next to them, it can be anyone at random. That person has five seconds to name a baby item, and then she tosses the pacifier to someone else. If she can’t name an item in five seconds, she is out of the game.

The catch is that items can’t be repeated, so pretty soon it gets hard to name a new item. Believe me; creativity counts. The last person standing wins.

You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby

This is a one of tried and true baby shower games that is even played at other types of parties.

In your invitation, ask the guest to bring a picture of herself when she was a baby. The guests must wear name tags for this game if there is anyone in the group that doesn’t know all of the other guest’s names. Number each of the pictures. Give each guest a pencil and paper and tell them to write the guests name next to the number they think matches the picture. The one with the most correct answers wins.

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