Great Baby Shower Game Ideas

The number of guests in a typical baby shower is very flexible: starting from 5 guests, this number may soar up to over a hundred. With this changeable factor of the event, it is recommended that you have some baby shower games as part of your event plan – these can live up your party. A baby shower bash usually lasts 2-3 hours, depending on its character and on the number of participants, so 2 to 4 baby shower game ideas should be enough to keep it alive and kicking. You may decide to give some small prizes such as candles, decorative flowers, potpourri, picture frames, candies and bath soaps to the winners.

Winning is not what the game will be about, of course: in addition to ice breaking, these games can make a good opportunity for the new parents to learn something new from the fully-fledged.

Baby Guest Game - recognizing each other in old baby photos.

Here are some popular baby shower game ideas for you to start with: Scrambled (decoding mysterious scrambled baby words), Name Game (forming words with letters in baby names), Round the Tummy (guests having a whack at it, guessing the size of mommy’s tummy), Feeding Time! (where a blindfolded participants try to scoop cotton balls), Baby Food Game (identifying baby foods based on their appearance), Poopy Diaper (telling which candy bars are melted in a diaper after tasting), Rice Bowl (trying to find safety pins in rice while blindfolded. Better keep the point covered, however),

Food Game Ideas  - identifying baby foods based on their images

Don’t forget to ask your guests to bring their pictures with them beforehand), Baby Bingo (where the numbers are dropped for the sake of baby words), Shower Gift Bingo (simply played while opening the gifts), It's in the Bag (trying to tell what it is in there by feeling it with your hands only), Off Limits! (certain action or word off limits during shower) etc.

Great opportunity for some good Blindfold Diaper Racing game idea

Another optional baby shower game idea : a mommy and daddy trivia game, where the competitors try to guess each other’s kids’ weight at birth, first words, day of week born, etc. The guest who answers the most trivia questions correctly is the winner. If you happen to have two dolls, two diapers and two blindfolds on hand, then this can be a great opportunity for some good Blindfold Diaper Racing: let’s see the folks head-to-head, finding out who is the fastest diaper changer in the west!

Know how many people are expected to come to the shower party

And the last whacky game idea for today: do some web browsing to find out what today’s 10 most popular baby names are, and then let your guests sweat over it. The one with the highest number of correct guesses is the winner. It is necessary to know how many people are expected to come to the party, so you’ll know how many pens, papers and other important supplies to purchase.