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| that doesn't involve sniffing diapers or measuring bellies. And is appropriate for a co-ed crowd. |
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At my baby shower, we played a game where there were baby/young child photos of all the attendees set up on a table and everyone had to guess who was who. Each photo was numbered and we all had pieces of paper that had numbered lines on it. We then wrote down the name of the person who we thought was in the corresponding photo.
My BFF who threw the shower is a little OCD so she had planned this way ahead of time and asked everyone to e-mail her some photos. Don't know if you have the time or the energy to do this, but I thought it was a fun game. Especially since there were a couple older ladies (born in the early 1940's) there so there were some cool old photos to look at 
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One of my favorite shower games is the memory test: put 15-20 items on a tray, give a time limit for observation (no touching and no writing) then remove the tray and ask people to recall as many items as they can within 1 minute or so by writing them down. The one with the most remembered wins. Just adapt it for baby shower: diaper pins, pacifiers, medicine dropper, etc.
At my shower, we also did a baby food taste test: We each had a paper plate with a dollop of various baby foods that we had to identify by smell/taste/sight. |
Anonymous
| I do not do games at showers that I host. I hate them and so does everyone else. |
Anonymous
SO helpful in the "recommend a baby shower game" post. I'm sure you're a gas at parties! |
Anonymous
I like games! The tasteful, cutesy, or get-to-know you or the guest better type of games. I love this post because I just started planning my best friend's baby shower today. Keep the ideas coming! |
Anonymous
| I'm not a games-at-showers person at all, but I have to admit some of my coworkers came up with a pretty good one for a shower they hosted a few weeks ago. They bought several plain white onesies and fabric pens and let the guests design away - there was a prize for the best one. Fun but not embarrassing! |
Anonymous
| There are two I think are decently fun - the first, give the first half of a nursey rhyme phrase and have people finish it - hand it out on paper and have people fill it all in and then share the answers - most right gets a prize. Then the memory game that I have been involved with - you make cards with all pregnancy themed things - so when someone matches breast milk to breast milk, they win a milky way (haha). Or twins to twins they win a pack of doublemint gum. . . |
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We did madlibs with famous childrens' literature (Good Night Moon is a fave).
We did a game where we had a diaper bag filled with junk and people had to write down what they thought was in the bag. The person who got the most of the items won. You have to put in probable things, but some far out things, to make the game fun (so like diapers and wipes and diaper pad and diaper rash ointment, but also hand santizer, extra onesie, sunscreen... If you have scattergories, you can use the letter cube and play modified scattergories by having people put down baby game, baby food, something in a nursery, something you babyproof, baby gift, etc. Congrats to your friend! Have fun. I loved my baby shower. |
Anonymous
| I was one of the first of my friends to have a baby and we did a price guessing game that was fun and eye-opening for all the not-yet moms. The hosts put together a really nice basket of bottles, baby food, diapers, wipes, robeez, rattles, pacifiers. The hosts went through each item and whoever came closest to the overall price of an item and the overall price of all the items in the basket won a prize. Best part for me as the shower recipient was I got to keep the basket and all the goodies in it. |
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Give each person a bell to wear around their necks when they arrive (or some other type of charm).
Tell them certain words are not to be uttered--like "baby" or "pregnant" or whatever you decide. If someone utters that word, the person they say it to gets to take their bell. The person who collects the most bells wins. |
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At mine there was a list of random items and the host asked who could be the first to produce such an item from their person or belongings. A pen, a diaper, an out of state ID, a lipstick. You get the idea but there were a few unusual items like a "D" battery or an orange sock.
I gag at the thought of the chocolate in the diaper and I had that at my shower. |
Anonymous
| The "I hate baby shower games" poster is a party pooper. There will be games at 99% of baby showers. If you don't like them, don't go. Stay home with your poopy attitude. |
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- crossword puzzle with baby-themed clues
- taste test of baby food (this can be funny in a co-ed crowd, especially if you make the men be the tasters). Blindfold the tasters, give them tastes of an assortment of baby foods and have them guess what they are eating. Do at least one mean, one green vegetable, and then a few tricky ones that are hard to distinguish (carrots/sweet potatoes, applesauce/pears). - BINGO - give everyone a blank bingo card, and they fill in the squares with items they think you'll probably get as gifts. As you open the gifts, they cross off their squares until someone gets a BINGO. |
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DH was the always the "Trivia Guy" in college.
Towards the end of our first pregnancy (I was 38 weeks along) we attended the shower of one of his college buddy's wife. They had a Baby Trivia Game (guys vs girls) and what's my surprise... DH was the Quizz Master!!!! We had so much fun! And surprisingly the guys won! 
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