Baby Shower Games

[Anonymous]

Hi there. I'm trying to plan a shower for one of my best friends and am wondering if anyone here had any fun games that they played at their shower. My friend loves throwing parties and always plans games, so I know she wants me to have games at her shower as well! She threw my shower for my daughter and we played:

- win lose or draw with baby things (nipple shield, boppy, etc.) - that was fun...
- also melted candy bars in baby diapers (looked like baby poo) and you had to guess what kind of candy bar

So those games are out, but if you know any others, I would love some ideas!

Thanks in advance and congrats on your pregnancies - I hope to join you guys soon :o)

[Anonymous]

All I can say, is thank goodness for all all of the attendees that the poopy diaper game is out. That game is ridiculous and no one, I mean, NO ONE really likes playing it. Regardless of the happy face they put on at the shower. It's a retarded game.

[Anonymous]

- the toiletpaper game, where you pass around a roll of toilet paper and guests have to guess how many squares of toilet paper it would take to wrap around the mommy-to-be.

- A cross word puzzle or trivia questions that are baby themed

- My favorite from my shower was the taste test game. Guests can do this either with or without a blindfold, depending on how hard you want it to be. Buy several jars of baby food and put several spoonfuls of each onto plates for each contestant. They have to guess what it is. It can be hard because some that taste similar are apples and pears, carrots and sweet potatos, peas and spinach, etc.

[Anonymous]

Not helpful in terms of giving you games, but encourage you to consider the honored guest and the other guests' personalities. Is this a game-playing crowd? I'm SO not, and neither are my friends. It's early so I don't know if any friend will throw me a shower, but would bet lots of money there would be no games involved. Friends of my mom's have already offered, and I know I'll have to humble/humiliate myself for their entertainment.

I'm a fan of crossword puzzles, wordscrambles, guess the number of items in a jar if there have to be games. The toilet paper thing I personally would find kind of embarrassing. I read on some website a game kind of like the newlywed game, where the baby's father had been interviewed in advance on a bunch of questions. Same questions to the mother in-person and guests guess if the dad gave the same or a different answer.

[Anonymous]

Oh please, no games!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not helpful in terms of giving you games, but encourage you to consider the honored guest and the other guests' personalities. Is this a game-playing crowd? I'm SO not, and neither are my friends. It's early so I don't know if any friend will throw me a shower, but would bet lots of money there would be no games involved. Friends of my mom's have already offered, and I know I'll have to humble/humiliate myself for their entertainment.

I'm a fan of crossword puzzles, wordscrambles, guess the number of items in a jar if there have to be games. The toilet paper thing I personally would find kind of embarrassing. I read on some website a game kind of like the newlywed game, where the baby's father had been interviewed in advance on a bunch of questions. Same questions to the mother in-person and guests guess if the dad gave the same or a different answer.

I completely agree. The TP, baby food, and "candy bar" games are always a nightmare in my opinion. Personally, I don't know anyone who actually enjoys them. Of course, when I'm forced to play them, I giggle and smile and act entertained.

If games are a MUST, I've been to a couple showers where the hostess managed to arrange cute, non-humiliating games or activities. One involved the guests drawing a picture on a pad of paper of the mother-to-be, with their eyes closed. No one was disgusted, and the mom kept the images because she liked them so much. The "winner" was selected by the mom. Another activity involved everyone writing a "wish" or "hope" for the baby on a piece of paper, reading it aloud, and then putting it into a bank to be opened later once the baby was grown. The responses were thoughtful and sweet, bringing everyone to happy tears at times.

[Anonymous]

I don't like baby shower games, but here are a couple I've played....

-team baby trivial pursuit - asking each team questions like how much is a pack of diapers, how many diapers does the average kid go through a week. The moms in the group had a definite advantage on most of the questions.

-naming the baby foood with no tasting. Just buy a bunch of jars and tear the labels off, and attach numbers on each jar. Everyone guess which is which based on color.

-Gift opening bingo. Hand out cards with gifts instead of numbers - like blue onesie, stuffed animal, socks, something pink, and have guests play while you open presents.

[Anonymous]

- 2 Baby bottles filled with water/juice - and two guests have to race to see who can finish the baby bottle first by sucking as fast as they can

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't like baby shower games, but here are a couple I've played....

-team baby trivial pursuit - asking each team questions like how much is a pack of diapers, how many diapers does the average kid go through a week. The moms in the group had a definite advantage on most of the questions.

-naming the baby foood with no tasting. Just buy a bunch of jars and tear the labels off, and attach numbers on each jar. Everyone guess which is which based on color.

-Gift opening bingo. Hand out cards with gifts instead of numbers - like blue onesie, stuffed animal, socks, something pink, and have guests play while you open presents.

These aren't bad at all. I dread going to showers with the baby poop or baby food games.

[Anonymous]

I hate these type of games, and agree with the previous posters -- know your audience and esp your mom to be. My shower hostess really wanted games and it was/is tough for me to tell her now. Very generous of her to offer to do a shower, and I felt like a kill joy for asking if we could not do the games. For me too, my sense of smell is really strong, so I could not handle the chocolate diaper game, and although I have no dietary limits, tasting baby food is not what I want. My weight has been okay, but it's a sensitive subject and in the same day have had people tell me I'm underweight and overweight, so having everyone watch me eat food I don't want is awful. If your friend really wants games, then I'd ask her which ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:- 2 Baby bottles filled with water/juice - and two guests have to race to see who can finish the baby bottle first by sucking as fast as they can

Humiliating and silly...unless the bottles were filled with booze.

[Anonymous]

If you were throwing any other kind of party, would you need to have games? That is usually my take on games at a shower. I agree with on of the PPs, make sure that games are what the guest of honor wants. Generally, the activities of arriving, eating, and opening presents should be enough to keep the crowd occupied for a few hours. That said, if you REALLY need activities:

- Decorating onesies/bibs for the baby (get a bunch of fabric paint and inexpensive white onesies/bibs)
- Have a guest book for people to write in parenting advice for the new mom-to-be
- get a pool together to predict the due date, weight/length and (if unknown) sex of the baby

Nothing too humiliating or gross.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I had no idea so many people felt so strongly about baby shower games. OP, you know the mom-to-be and her circle of friends better than us. If you think they are up for games, go for it and have a great time. To be ultra safe, probably ask the mom-to-be if she has any parameters she'd like set -- ie no strong odors, no tasting games, etc. This is HER day and HER shower so it should be the way she wants it to be. Guests can suck it up or stay at home.

[Anonymous]

Oh God, if I knew in advance there'd be the humiliating/gross games - eating baby food, sucking on bottles, eating out of a diaper - I'd stay home. If you have to have them, let people know so they have a choice to beg off.

In my family, we don't do baby or wedding shower games. At my baby shower, we had people write down baby advice on index cards and I read a few here and there throughout the party. Some were very sweet, some were cute/funny.

[Anonymous]

Have the guests bring a baby photo of themselves. Post them on a board and have people guess who's who among the baby photos. I played this at a shower once and thought it was really fun to see everyone's baby photos.