Having a baby shower and looking for some funny and memorable games to play? From playdough babies to egg and spoon races, we’ve rounded up our top list of suggestions for games to try with your family and friends.
1. Baby Picture Quiz – Baby Shower Games
Print out photos of celebrities as babies – and ask your friends and relatives to bring a photo of them as a baby as well. Stick these up round the room using Blu-Tack and give everyone a score sheet to write their answers. The extra fun and memorable part of this game is that only your guests will know the answer to the friends and family baby photo part!
2. Guess Your Baby’s Weight
Much like ‘guess the weight of the cake’, everyone writes a figure secretly on a slip of paper and posts it into a jar or tin. The fun of this is that no one gets to find the answer until your baby is actually born. For a small prize, why not invite the winner as one of your first visitors (for cuddles, tea and cake).
3. Changing Bag Memory Game
Remember the classic ‘objects on a tray’ memory game? This is like that, but with a baby-themed twist. By now you probably have a changing bag, so pack it with 10 baby-related items – this could be a nappy, cream, changing mat, nappy sack, clothes, hand sanitiser etc. Have one of your guests unpack the bag for all to see, then repack it quickly. The winner is the person who can remember the most items.
4. Gender Tug Of War – Games For Your Baby Shower
A fun game for your non-pregnant friends and family. Get them to pick a team – boy or girl. Have one team at the end of the rope and let them battle it out. This can be fun if you’re planning a gender reveal during the baby shower – or even if you’re not! For extra challenge, have a non-binary team as well who are there to sabotage the efforts of the two other teams!
5. Pick A Lolly Stick Gift – Baby Shower Games
Are your friends wondering what to buy you for your baby shower? Ask them to hold off a bit and play this fun game. Simply write down some gift ideas before the party on some lolly pop sticks, one idea per stick. Then pop the sticks into a tub of sand or hide them in a bag. Your guests can pull out one gift idea each – these can be simple things like nappies, clothes or maternity/baby gear. It’s a win: win with no unexpected gifts coming your way and useful ideas for your friends and family.
6. Rubber Duck Raffle
We love this idea of a rubber duck raffle from the Bump. Fill your bathtub or a large plastic box with enough water for 10 rubber ducks or bath toys to float in. Before the party, make ten raffle tickets and write the corresponding number using a permanent marker on the underside of each duck. When your guests arrive, you can give them a raffle ticket each. Then the idea is that during the party you pull out a duck at regular intervals and award a prize!
7. Soother Fishing Game
If you’re filling a tub for rubber ducks, why not double up the water for a dummy/soother fishing game?! Soothers have ready made handles for you to hook your ‘fishing rod’ under. You can make your own fishing rods by taking some bamboo canes, adding string and a homemade hook using a paper clip. Have lots of fun seeing who can catch the most dummies. For an extra twist, add a mark onto some of the soothers so your guests can claim a prize. Thanks to Pampers for this idea.
8. Design Your Own Nappy
Here’s one for the creatives out there. Simply draw or sketch a template of a nappy onto a piece of paper and let your guests go wild colouring in and designing their own nappy! You can vote and award a prize for the best ones at the end. Looking for nappy inspiration? Check out Little Lambs for their colourful reusable prints as well as Bambino Mio. Or you can use fabric pens and draw on actual baby vests if you like – and have fun remembering who drew which one when you get to use them with your baby!
9. Who Am I? Celebrity Or Fictional Babies/Mothers
This is like 20 questions. Each guest thinks of a famous celebrity or fictional baby or mother. For example, you could use Rachel’s baby Emma from Friends, baby Stewie from Family Guy or a recent celebrity who has give birth. The rest of the group has to ask yes/no questions to work out who the guest is thinking of, e.g. ‘Do you live in America?’ This works really well for a group of guests who know each other well. Equally you can have loads of fun with this game if your guests come up with unexpected and unusual answers!
10. The Alphabet Game – Baby Shower Games
Remember the alphabet game where you have to come up with answers for different categories using the same starting letter? Well this is similar. Simply get a guest to call a letter out from A-Z, then everyone has 30 seconds to name/write down as many baby-related items and things as they can beginning with that letter. For example, ‘f’ could be ‘feeding’, ‘fork’, ‘food’, ‘formula’, etc.
11. Baby Egg And Spoon Race
Get some hard-boiled eggs and give one to each guest to decorate using felt tips or similar. Their challenge is to get the eggs to look like babies! Then you can run your classic egg and spoon race using the hard-boiled baby eggs. For extra challenge, see if your guests can carry their spoons using their elbows or teeth. Again, thanks to Pampers for this idea.
12. Playdough Babies
We also love this ‘make a baby out of playdough’ idea. Who can make the cutest/funniest/most realistic baby using their playdough in 10 minutes? For added relaxation, your guests can make their own playdough. Simply mix one cup of flour with one cup of salt, a cup of water and a tablespoon of vegetable or olive oil. Use food colouring or paint to add your chosen colour.
13. Pair The Socks – Baby Shower Games
Simply get around 15 pairs of baby socks and scatter them (unpaired) on the floor. Now your guests can have fun pairing as many socks as they can within one minute. Thanks to the Bump for this party game idea.
If you want to be really cheeky, pull out unpaired adult or kid socks as well and sit back while your guests do all the work!
14. Guess The Pregnancy Craving
A fun one if you have been having lots of pregnancy cravings. Each guest just has to list as many food and drink items as they can that they think you may have been craving recently. This can be great for your close friends/observant guests who may have noticed your food preferences. But make sure you have some of those foods to hand for after the game as it’s very likely you’ll start to crave them even more!
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