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Baby Shower Games
Make the soon to be new mums baby shower a barrel of laughs with these fun and easy to play baby shower games. By playing a few games we guarentee your guests will be entertained, making it a special and memorable baby shower for the mum to be. Don't forget to turn on the video camera and take a few happy snaps record all the laughs.
Games to Play:
Click the link to download a copy of our baby shower games shopping list - coming soon!
Ice Breaker Games:
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Come try and Guess
Print out the Come try and Guess Poem and Guess Sheet and allow your guests to try and guess the sex of the baby, the birth date, the birth weight and suggest a name. This sheet can also be filled out by other family and friends who weren't at the shower.
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Don't Say Baby
To play Don't Say Baby you will need to purchase a packet of nappy pins. As your guests appear supply them with a nappy pin informing them that they will be given instructions regarding what to do with it once all the guests have arrived. When it's time explain to your guests that no one is allowed to say the word "baby" during the party. The aim of the game is to collect as many nappy pins as you can, from the other guests if you catch them accidently saying the word baby. At the end of the party see who has managed to collect the most pins as they are the winner.
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Is That Really You? - Guess the Baby Photo
Is That Really You is best played if your guests aren't really familiar with one another. On the invitation instruct your guests to bring along a baby photo of themselves. As they arrive collect their photos off them making sure that they don't show anyone their photo. Number the back of each photograph writing the name of the guest against the appropriate number on your Is That Really You - Record Sheet. Once you have all the photos pin them up onto a board and have your guests try and guess which photo belongs to which guest at the shower. Allow them to record their guesses on the Is That Really You - Guess Sheet. If your guests don't know each other supply them with name tags. Give them a sufficient amount of time to record their guesses then reveal which photo belongs to which guests. The guest with the most right is the winner.
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Babies in the Bottle
To play Babies in the Bottle fill up a baby bottle with jelly babies making sure that you count the number of babies that fit in. The aim of the game is to display the bottle and allow your guests to guess how many jelly babies have fitted in. Once they have decided on a number ask them to record their name and guess onto the Babies in the Bottle - Guess Sheet. Once everyone has filled out their guesses reveal the correct answer and see if anyone had the exact correct number or which guest was closest. This guest is the winner and wins the bottle of jelly babies.
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Can you Find Someone Who...?
Print and photocopy the Can You Find Someone Who...? Guess Sheet so there is one for each guest. This sheet is made up of ten questions and is designed to allow your guests to learn a little something about one another. When given the signal your guests will have to find someone who:
- Has twins or triplets.
- Has a boy.
- Has a girl.
- Has no children.
- Is pregnant.
- Has a _____ year old.
- Was born in the same month as the babies due date.
- Was born prematurely.
- Walked before their first birthday.
- Was not born in a hospital.
Once the time is up (a couple of minutes) see which guest found the most people to fill the given criteria as they are the winner.
"The Price is Right" - Baby Shower Style
This game is played just like the game show "The Price is Right" that was on TV not long ago. Simply purchase several baby items, ensuring that you try to pick a variety of different items that will be useful for the mum to be. There are so many baby producs to choose from depending on your budget. Try a dummy, box of diapers, a bib, a bottle, formula, breast pad, teething toy or thermometer. Keep hold of the reciept to provide proof of purchase price at the end of the game.
Photocopy the price card template provided (onto coloured card) so that you have one price point per purchased item. Using a black marker write the purchase price of each item onto the corresponding price point card. Display your baby products on a table with the appropriate price card laying face down in front of them. Ask your guests to guess the exact price of each item recording their guesses on the Price is Right Record Sheet. The guest who gets the most amount of closest guesses wins the game.
Baby Food Guess
Baby Food Guess is easy and fun to play. Simply purchase a selection of five baby food jars allocating each jar with a number. Remove the jar label and make a note of what each jar contains using the baby food guess record sheet. Provide your guests with a Baby Food Guess - Guess Sheet and allow them to taste each jar of baby food. As they taste each jar they are to guess what flavour of baby food each jar contains recording their answer on the sheet provided. The guest who guesses the most right wins the game!
What's Inside the Bag?
Keep your guests guessing with What's Inside the Bag. Simply purchase a number of oddly shaped baby items and place them into separate numbered paper bags. Instruct your guests to feel the item inside the bag (without peeking inside) and guess what it is. Provide them with a What's Inside the Bag - Guess Sheet to record their guesses. After each guest has had a turn reveal the item from inside the bag with the guest who has the most correct guesses winning the game.
Measure Mummy
Look at the size of the soon to be mums belly. I wonder how big it actually is. Play the Measure Mummy game and find out. Simply give each guest a long piece of string and ask them to cut it according to how big they think mummy's tummy is. Allow each guest to measure their length of string around mummy's tummy to see how close they are. Use a tape measure to measure the actually size of mummy's tummy and determine which guest was the closest. They are the winner.
Race to Feed the Baby
Get food on your face wih the Race to Feed the Baby Game. Divide your guests into pairs supplying each pair with a bib, spoon and small jar of baby food. One person is to use the bib and the other the spoon. The guests with the bibs are to put them on and place their arms behind their backs. The guests with the spoon are to stand behind their bibbed partners placing their arms through the gap between their partners body and arms. When you give the signal the guest with the spoon has to use their hands to feed their partner. It’s a race to finish the jar with the first pair to finish winning the game. Alternatively you can fill up a baby bottle with milk or juice and see which person can finish it first.
Baby Celebrity Heads
To play Baby Celebrity Heads simply set up three chairs so that they are facing your guests. Ask for three volunteers to come and sit in the chairs. Attach a piece of card with a pregnancy or baby related word on it (ie. dummy, diaper, mummy, breastfeeding, formula etc) to a headband and put it on each of the volunteers heads. Make sure that the the volunteers don't see what is written on their piece of card. The aim of the game is for your volunteers to take it in turns asking questions (that have a yes or no answer) that will help them to determine what is written on their card. (ie. Am I a baby product? or Am I a person?). The rests of the guests have to answer the questions by simply saying yes or no. The game keeps going until al the volunteers have guessed what is on their card.
Dump the Dummy in the Mouth
Dump the Dummy in the Mouth works exactly like pin the tail on the donkey except you use a pacifier instead of a tail and a baby picture instead of a donkey picture. To play simply pin a large baby picture onto the wall and give each guest a paper pacifier (with their name on the back of it) and pin/blue tack. Instruct them to take it in turns to be blind folded, spun around and led towards the baby poster. Once at the poster they have to pin their dummy as close to the babies mouth as they can. The guest who is closest wins the game.
Dress the Baby
To play Dress the Baby you will need a number of baby clothes related items (ie. bonnets,dummies, bibs, mittens, nappies and booties). Divide your guests into small groups, supply them with a roll of toilet paper and ask them to nominate one person in the group to be the baby. Once in their groups ask them a bunch of questions such as:
On what date is the new baby expected to enter the world?- How many weeks pregnant is the mum to be?
- What are the boys names that the mum to be has picked out?
- What are the girls names that the mum to be has picked out?
- Will the mum be using cloth or disposable nappies?
The first group to answer the question correctly is given one of the baby clothe items. Once all the questions have been asked and the items won give the groups 5-10 minutes to use the toilet paper and any collected clothes items to dress up the nominated person as a convincing looking baby. At the end of the time period ask your babies to do a fashion parade and let your mum to be choose which baby she would have. This group wins the game.
Message in a Bottle
To play Message In A Bottle you will need a baby bottle, pens and a slit of paper for each guest. In their own time ask each guest to write a sentence of parenting advice onto their paper to be put into the bottle for the mum to be to read at a later stage. Give your guests the choice of whether or not they put their names on their advice slips so the mum to be knows who wrote what.
Penny in a Bottle
To play Penny in a Bottle you will need an empty baby bottle and a "penny" for each guest. Position the baby bottle (without its lid) on the floor and ask your guests to line up a reasonable distance away from the bottle. Allow your guests to take it in turns to try and throw their "penny" into the bottle. The guest(s) who get the "penny" into the bottle or who are closest to the bottle win the game.
Are You a Multi-Tasking Mamma?
To play Are You a Multi-Tasking Mamma you will need to set up a clothes line (piece of strong string) across the room. You will also need a basket of baby clothes, a number of pegs, a doll baby and toy telephone. Each guest is given a chance to hang up the washing while trying to balance the baby and the telephone. Its a race to see how many items each guest can hang up in ______ seconds without dropping the phone and more importantly the baby. The guest who hangs up the most items within the designated time is called the Multi-Tasking Mamma.
Chocolate Game - Baby Shower Style
The Chocolate Game - Baby Shower Style is an oldie but a goodie. To play this game you will need a block of cadbury chocolate (on a chopping board or plate), a knife and fork, a number of baby clothes items (ie. a bib, a diaper, mittens, booties and a bonnet), and 2 dice. Position your block of chocolate and baby clothes items on the floor and ask your guests to sit in a circle around them. Allow your guests to take it in turns to roll the dice. If they roll a double they have to get up, dress themselves in the baby clothes, pick up the knife and fork and start cutting the squares of chocolate. Meanwhile the other guests continue to roll the dice in hope of rolling a double. Once someone else rolls a double they take over from the person in the middle. This continues on until their is no chocolate left. It is up to you how much chocolate you provide for this game.
Baby Animal Game
To play the Baby Animal Game you will need to supply each of your guests with a pen and a copy of the Guess the Baby Animal Game Sheet. Instruct your guests that they have ____ minutes to try to guess and record as many of the correct names of the offspring of the animals on the Game Sheet. For example what do you call the offspring of a Cat... a Kitten. Once the time is up give your guests the correct answer (these can be found on the Guess the Animal Answer Sheet) and determine who had the most correct.
Baby Sketch Game
To play the Baby Sketch Game supply each guest with a paper plate and a pen or pencil. Before you play the game ask your guests to write their name in the back of the plate. On the opposite side of the plate they are to draw a picture of what they think the baby will look like when it is born. However, the trick is that they aren' to draw the picture as the plate lays in front of them, instead they are to do it while the plate sits on top of their heads. Give your guests 1 minute to draw their baby then ask your mum to be to decide which one they think is the best and which one they think looks the funniest. Guests are welcome to offer their opinions to try and get the mum to be to choose their baby.
Pass the Baby Parcel
To play Parce the Baby Parcel you will need to select a prize and wrap it in nice paper. Then wrap a number of other layers around the parcel using newspaper and putting little gifts, parenting advice slips or parenting question slips between each layer.
Ask your guests to sit in circle. When the music is playing they are to pass the parcel around the circle. When the music stops playing the person who is holding the parcel gets to open a layer, keep the gift inside or read out the slip. This continues on until it reaches the layer with nice paper and a guest wins the prize.
Baby Birth Game
To play the Baby Birth Game you will need to purchase a packet of miniature toy babies and freeze them into a ice cube tray (ie. put one baby in per cube, fill the cube up halfway with water and freeze, then fill up the remaining space and freeze). Provide each guess with a plastic cup with a baby in an ice cube inside of it. It is a race to see whose baby is born first. The baby can't be born until the ice cube has completly melted.
Baby Memory Game
To play the Baby Memory Game you will need to purchase a number (at least 15) of small baby related items such as a nappy pin, dummy, bottle, baby food jar, baby wipes, nappy, talcum powder etc. and positon them onto a tray. Ask youur guests to sit in a circle placing the tray in the middle. Give your guests a couple of minutes to study the items without touching them. Remove the tray and ask your guests to write down as many of the items as they an remember on to the Baby Memory Game Record Sheet. Bring back the tray and see which guest remembered the most items. You can make the game harder by asking for more specific anwers such as the colour of items or the flavour of food or formula.
Baby Word Search
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Baby Bingo
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Baby Word Scramble
To play Baby Word Scramble you will need to print off a copy of the Baby Word Scramble Sheet for each of your guests. This sheet contains a number of baby and pregnancy related words which have had their letters scrambled. Allocate your guests a number of minutes to try and unscramble as many of the baby words on this sheet as they can. Once the time is up give your guests the answers and determine which guest had the most correct.
Baby Sculpture Game
To play the Baby Sculpture Game cut out the strips of baby related words from the Baby Sculpture Game Word Sheet and place them into a baby bottle. Divide your guests into pairs or small groups and provide each group with a ball of playdough or plasticine. Inform your guests that you will be randomly picking out a baby word from the bottle in which one group member has to try and sculpt while the other member(s) try and guess what it is. The first group to correctly guess the item wins the game. Continue playing the game until everyone has had at least one turn at sculpting the baby word.