The
Winning Plate
On the plates the food will be served on, draw a
picture of a baby on only one of the plates. When
everyone is eating ask them to look under their
plates for the picture of the baby. The one with the
picture wins a prize.
The
Price is Right Game
Buy 10 to 12 baby Items. Get little envelopes and
cards from the florist department of grocery store.
Write the price of the item on the card and on the
envelope write the item name, then seal envelopes.
Play it like the tv show - "the price is
right." The one that collects the most price
cards without going over the amount wins.
Duck
bath toy
Johnson's Baby Powder
Bunny Rabbit Baby Rattle
Jar baby food
Diaper Ointment
Baby
Picture Match Game
In advance, ask all the guests for pictures of
themselves as babies. Assemble the photos on a board
and assign each a number. At some point during the
shower, pass out sheets of paper to the guests so
they can match each baby to the appropriate
grown-up. If the guests don't know each other well,
name tags can help the process. The person who gets
the most correct answers wins.
Just
eat it Buy 12 jars of baby food in pairs of like colors
— for example, a jar of green beans and a jar of
peas, a jar of applesauce and a jar of pears, and a
jar of carrots and a jar of squash. With a permanent
marker, number the lids of the jars 1 through 12.
Then remove the labels, marking the jar number on
the back of the corresponding label (hide the labels
to use as an answer key). Have the guests examine
the jars by sight only — no tasting or smelling!
— and guess what each one is. They can write their
answers down on a piece of paper. The person with
the most correct answers wins. After the game is
over, tape the labels back on the jars and give the
baby food to the mom-to-be.
Word
of the day ...
The object of the games is to avoid saying the word
'baby.' Everyone gets a clothespin or safety
pin when they arrive, and if someone catches you
saying 'baby,' she gets your pin. The person with
the most pins at the end of the party wins a prize.
The
Brown Bag Game
To play, put various baby things individually in
brown paper bags. Seal the bags securely with tape
and number them. Guests try to guess what's inside
just by feeling them from the outside. Some are easy
— diapers, pacifiers — some are really hard
(like a fingertip toothbrush!).
The
Tray Game
Fill a tray with baby items... a diaper, pacifier,
Desitin, rattle, booties, diaper pins, thermometer,
bib, bottle, nail clippers, baby brush, rubber
ducky... whatever you can think of. The
hostess walks around the room, letting everyone get
a good look at the tray. After she takes the
tray out of the room, the guests have to write down
as may items as they can remember. (The
"Mom" then gets to keep everything on the
tray!)
Another
way to play the game, is to buy one of our
darling Diaper
Cakes and show that around.
It's covered with lots of useful baby
items to make the memory game fun yet
challenging then turns into a wonderful
gift for the mom to be!
Diaper
Derby
To play, you'll need a four-roll pack of toilet
paper. At the shower, divide your guests into four
teams. Give each team one roll of paper. Using only
that, each group should dress one of their team
members in a diaper. They can't use pins, staples,
or anything else to hold it together. The mom-to-be
picks the best-diapered baby, and the whole team
wins small prizes. You'll be amazed at your friends'
creativity!
How
Far Around?
Take a spool of curly ribbon or yarn and have each
guest cut off how much they think will go around the
pregnant tummy. Then wrap one around the Mom.
The one closest to the "real" one, wins!
Baby
Word Scramble Game
Pick 10 or so words related to babies and scramble
the letters. Photocopy the scrambled words on a
sheet of paper for each party attendee. Give a time
limit of about 5 minutes to try to unscramble the
words.
Scrambled
Word
Actual
Word
Scrambled
Word
Actual
Word
Sitbenas
Bassinet
Peidar
Diaper
Searance
Cesarean
Kirgonc
Hicar
Rocking
Chair
Akeblnt
Blanket
Yabb
Gnisw
Baby
Swing
Treesbidganef
Breastfeeding
Licoc
Colic
Tolbet
Bottle
Rupb
Burp
Raragice
Carriage
Webnonr
Newborn
Guess
the Number of Jelly Beans in the Baby Bottle Game
Fill a baby bottle with little jelly beans (or other
small candy). Show the attendees the baby bottle and
have them guess how many beans are in the baby
bottle. How about picking the mom's favorite small
candy to use to fill?
Name
That Baby
Write down the Mom and Dad's names and then have the
guests come up with names for the baby from a
combination of their names. It's really funny to see
the names that people come up with. The one
with the most won.
Diapers
of Encouragement
Give everyone a disposable diaper and a Sharpie
marker. Ask everyone to write some sort of
encouragement, teasing or advice for the "early
morning diaper" changes. (ex: It's 3am & I
am sleeping ...I'm having fun are you?) It
will be lots of fun for the Mother & Father to
be to read these tidbits from friends & family.
The
Nose Has It!
Take disposable diapers (the cloth-type ones... not
plastic covered) and "carefully" melt a
different chocolate candy bar in each one (breaking
up the candy bar into pieces helps... and I would
recommend experimenting with "cooking
times" prior to the party!) Number
each diaper and then pass them around the party.
Guests have to "smell the diaper" and then
write down what kind of candy bar they think is in
each one. The photos taken of the guests
sniffing the diapers, are priceless!
Advice
for the New Mom
At the beginning of the shower, start passing around
a journal. In it, ask people to write some advice
for the new mother. Present this as a gift to her at
the end of the shower. This works best for first
time mommies. Also, it is helpful if you make a note
on the shower invitation that this will be done. It
gives the guests a chance to think of what they
would like to write to the mother-to-be. The
invitation might read "We will be making a
special list at the shower with advice for the
mother-to-be. Please be thinking about words of
wisdom you would like to share."
