Tasteful games suggestions

Jags8

My mom is co-hosting a shower for my cousin, and she asked me for game ideas. I told her no problem, but that I refused to help plan "figure out the chocolate bar smushed in the diaper" or "guess the baby food." Because those are disgusting. I have a couple of ideas, but can anyone else chip in?

Nothing can be mother-to-be themed, because the baby girl was born a few months ago (very premature, I think she was around 3 lbs).

TIA!

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KatFCo

Baby ABC: come up with a baby item for every letter of the alphabet. Whoever matches the mom's list the most wins. They did this for my shower with DD (who was in the hospital as a preemie), so I was able to make it a bit challenging by having things like X-ray for the X.

Valancyy

One that I think is fun (and I usually hate games), is to get pictures of family members when they were babies and put them up on a board.  You have to guess who is who as a baby.  Of course, this only works if there is a lot of family at the shower. 

Helenahhandbasket

I second gift bingo.

Another one I like to do is a "guess how many" game.

Get a clear container and buy a bunch of small individually wrapped edibles(candies, mints etc) and put them in the clear container.  Have the guests fill out slips of paper guessing "how many" are in the container.  I do two winners with this game - person that has the closest guess and person that has the furthest away guess.  I like doing two winners because it changes the game up a bit and makes it slightly more interesting.

Winner gets the container, the candy and another smallish prize.

SingleMom31

I'm not a huge fan of games either, but there was a baby-themed version of "The Price is Right" at my shower which was kind of fun.  There was a list of baby items (diaper cream, diapers, etc.) and you had to fill in how much it cost -- Then they gave the real amounts and the person that was the closest won a prize.  I apparently had no clue how much things were since I was one of the furthest off.

sschwege

Not a huge fan of games.  But I think the best are gift bingo and 'guess how many' as pp mentioned.  I also saw this at my SIL's shower whoever had a birthday closest to the due date won a prize or in this case the baby's birthday.

duckr

WhoCanItBeNow said:

Showers with no games have been the best ones I have ever attended.

I totally agree with this. I'd rather catch up with family and friends not try to beat them at a cross word or word jumble.

Jags8

Thank you to everyone for your suggestions! I think I'm going to suggest to my mom the gift bingo, and the nursery rhyme one! The baby picture one is really cute, but invites already went out, so I feel it's too late to try to ask guests to do that now.

mypreciouscargos

Yes, do not that poop in the diaper game. I find that so disgusting. Not sure why some think that's a fun game. I would not be able to keep the food in my mouth if I had to play that one, seriously. Try babycachet.com for game ideas. They have some decent baby shower ideas for fun. Good luck. Wow, 3lbs, hopefully the precious baby will gain weight fast and thrive.

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SuperFreakedFirstTimer

I remember when I was younger, going to a baby shower and one game was that everyone got a pink clothes pin and thru ought the day, if anyone was caught with their legs, arms, feet, etc crossed..the person who saw them could steal their pin and whoever had the most at the end of the party got a prize.

Another one was that after about a half hour or so, while everyone was eating and talking, the MTB left the room nonchalantly and the mother of the MTB asked everyone questions about what she was wearing, what color socks, straight or curly hair, etc. & of course whoever got the most answers right got a gift.

Rxmom04

SuperFreakedFirstTimer said:

Another one was that after about a half hour or so, while everyone was eating and talking, the MTB left the room nonchalantly and the mother of the MTB asked everyone questions about what she was wearing, what color socks, straight or curly hair, etc. & of course whoever got the most answers right got a gift.

We have used a variation of this at showers before too- A designated person walks through the room of guests nice and slowly carrying a tray of baby (or wedding depending on the shower) related items. Everyone is told to pay attention as she makes her way through and once she exits the room the questions start- what color sweater did she have on, was she wearing a watch, what kind of earrings and so on, maybe just a few questions about the tray but most about the person carrying it. It's interesting to watch how most people will pay attention to the tray and not the person. Most right answers wins a prize.


This may or may not help depending on the theme of baby shower you're planning but went to one recently where MTB worked at the zoo. There were two different games. First up was a bunch of pictures of baby animals. Prize awarded to the guest who could name the most. Second was a list of animals to be matched with their average gestation. Prize for the most correct matches. No one got a perfect score but it was fun to guess and definitely not the same old stuff.

4Sweetviolets

A cute game I played at a shower once was a baby item guessing game. The hostess had a variety of baby items (think pacifier, baby shoe, monitor, diaper cream, toy) stapled inside paper favor bags. The guests had to guess by feel what was inside. It was really funny because a lot of the older ladies and those without kids yet had no clue and had really funny guesses!

SaraAnn12

Mine is going to have a 'wishes for baby" area where people can fill out a little card, if they choose. I'm also planning a bib decorating table. Bought a bunch of bibs, fabric paint, stencils, etc. Again, this is optional. Other than that, were playing cornhole, enjoying company and hoping for some good weather.