Co-ed shower ideas, please share

columbiamommy

DH and I are hosting a baby shower for our best friends.  I've never hosted a shower before, and I've been to very few baby showers and only one one co-ed one before (my own, hosted by the expecting couple).  I'm looking for some fun games that everyone will enjoy.  The guys aren't super macho or anything, so I think they'll enjoy anything.

 Also, there's a chance that we'll have it in a coffee house / dessert type place.  Would it be wrong of us to just buy desserts, non-alcoholic drinks (because of expenses), and possibly appetizers for everyone?  I have no idea what is right or what people will expect. 

 TIA!

Ritza

My girlfriend played a diaper changing game, males vs. females.

Basically you have two changing stations with diapers, powder, and wipes.  Two baby dolls.

The team that changes the most diapers and does it in the correct order, wins.  The order being wipes, powder, diaper. 

When one person is done, he/she gives the baby to the next person in line to change the diapers and it goes on and on until the timer stops.

Marle

My coed shower was a success! We did not do any games. My hostesses set up a table with white onesies and bibs and fabric paint so that whoever wanted would make their own creation for our baby. They also had supplies to build a scrapbook. This way the husbands didn't feel pressured into doing anything they didn't want to.

As far as the alcohol. It seems to me that if you are having guys it is better to have it but if you can't afford it well you can't.

I just liked the fact that it was more of a get together where they happen to bring baby gifts. The hubbys were less ressistant this way.

vhab

We had one for our friends with a relay, of get baby, change baby, free throw diaper into laundry basket.  And then we had a chug a beer out of a baby baby bottle game, and a feed the baby game, where we took pictures of my DS screaming, blew them up, glued to cardboard and cut out his mouth.  Then we had people walk 10-15 feet with cotton balls on spoons, and the person with the most cotton balls in the baby's mouth at the end of the time won.  We also did a don't say baby game, where everyone got a clothes pin, and if someone caught you saying baby, you got the clothes pin.  The person with the most at the end of the party got a prize.  Our prizes were mostly 6 packs of beer, and gift cards to coffee houses or stores.