Shower games -- looking for something different

dmblack · March 2010

We are in the midst of planning a baby shower for my SIL. My mom would like to do one cute game. I've played the guess the # of M&Ms in the baby bottle, the melted candy bars in the diapers, baby scramble, etc. I'm looking for something different and cute that our guest would enjoy playing as an ice breaker. Any great ideas?

EastCoastBride · March 2010

I'm not a big game person, but one game I didnt' mind was the "memory" game, and this can actually be done one of a few different ways. What I call either the "upfront" or "devious" way:

Upfront - someone walks around the room w/ a basket full of baby items. SLowly, giving everyone a chance to look at it. Or the items could be hung up on clothes line aroudn the room too.

Then, the basket/clothesline is removed and everyone has to right down as much as they can remember. Whoever gets the most, wins.

Devious- same thing, but the mom-to-be is the one to walk the basket around. When she takes the basket out of the room, you have everyone write down what the MOM was wearing!

Another game is to put one baby item in a brown paper lunch bag. Staple or tape it closed. (do this w/ 10 - 15 items). Number the bags and then pass them around and people have to feel through the bag and try to guess what the item is. They write it down and whoever gets the most, wins.

The winner gets a prize, the mom-to-be gets the baby stuff.

hopefulmom · March 2010

The one played at my DD's shower was definitely an ice breaker and since it involved both sides of families plus friends...a lot of people didn't know each other.

Her hostess held a box (the size of a large Kleenex box that looked to be wrapped several times in different colored tissue paper (in fact it was wrapped about 15 times). She told the guests that she was going to send it around the room and for them to continue passing it to the next person as long as the music was playing. When the music stopped the person holding it had to take off one layer of tissue. She said that the person who took the last layer off got to open the box. She DID mention that there were a "pair of bloomers" in the box and whoever took off the last layer and opened it had to wear the "pair of bloomers" for the remainder of the shower. It happened to be my DD's friend who opened it and was very surprised to find a wrist corsage made with two flowers (pair of bloomers). It was definitely an ice breaker since no one wanted to wear "bloomers" they were really tossing the box into the next person's lap. There was a lot of laughing going on. The hostess had the corsage wrapped in bubble wrap (guess she had played this game before!). lol Of course the "prize" was the corsage. It was a fun game and one I had never seen before. BTW...there was no explanation as to what "bloomers" are. It was left up to the imagination of the guests...but I did hear some older women telling a couple of younger girls they were like baggy shorts with elastic around the bottom. lol

hopefulmom · March 2010

I have played the "devious" memory game ECB is talking about and it is really funny because everyone is concentrating on what is in the basket rather than what the mom-to-be has on.

The baby item in the lunch bag was a lot of fun (they did this at my DD's shower) but you have to limit how long the guest has to "feel" the item because the bags started ripping. Maybe because there were over 40 people there. I heard someone suggest to put the item in a clean thick white or black sock and tie the end closed. You still have to put a number on it though...so I suppose that would ruin the sock. I think at my DD's shower they sent around about 15 items. One...no one got was the "gum" toothbrush (it is actually a soft rubber thing you stick on your finger to massage/clean baby's gums. lol

TxTeacher · March 2010

My sister did a price is right game at my shower. She had 10 baby items but paired them up, so there were 5 rounds. Each round she showed the 2 baby items and we had to guess the total price for the items. The winners of each round won a small prize. Then, at the end, I won the "showcase showdown" and I was given all of the baby items. It really was a hit!

GatorWedsNole · March 2010

TxTeacher:
My sister did a price is right game at my shower. She had 10 baby items but paired them up, so there were 5 rounds. Each round she showed the 2 baby items and we had to guess the total price for the items. The winners of each round won a small prize. Then, at the end, I won the "showcase showdown" and I was given all of the baby items. It really was a hit!

I did Price is Right for a shower where the mom was a HUGE fan of the show, so everyone loved playing the game. But instead of the winner taking the baby items, all the baby items went to the mom and the winner got a prize - like a pretty muh full of candy. GL!

07weddingbells · March 2010

You'll Need
* One diaper pin for each guest Party Time
* When guests arrive, give each one a diaper pin to put on her shirt.
* Explain the rules when you give out the pins -- throughout the shower, no one can say the word "baby."
* When someone slips and says "baby" -- and someone will! -- the person who catches her gets her pin.
* Whoever has the most pins at the end of the shower wins.

close2it · March 2010

My friends just played a really fun game at my shower that no one had ever heard of before. I'm sorry I don't have all the specifics, just the general idea but I think they got the game from the internet so you could probably google to get more ideas.

Anyways, the game was like this: They had a poster board filled with different candy bars/candies. Then, they read a baby related list and the guests had to guess what candy/candy bar went with it. For example, time together for mom and dad after baby is born = Zero (candybar), Epidural = lifesaver, moms milk has come in = mounds, etc. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it.

They then read through the list of correct answers. Person with the most correct answers got to pick 5 candy bars from the board, 2nd place got 3 bars, etc.

marriedinaugust · March 2010

My sisters planned my shower and we played a game where everyone had a the name of a tv mom or dad (coed shower) taped to their back and they had to go around asking yes or no questions until someone guessed their person. My grandpa won, he had the dad from Eight is Enough (he coincidentally had 8 children too). It was pretty amusing as we had people from age 4-85 and my sisters gave everyone a character that was from their generation, my nephew got Papa Smurf.

MrsMommyQ · March 2010

I went to a baby shower recently where they put spools of ribbon on the tables and everyone had to cut a piece of ribbon that they thought would fit around the mom-to-be's baby belly. I thought it was a cute idea, as long as the mom-to-be is ok with laughing at her belly size and the pieces of ribbon the guests cut!

There's also the baby food game. You get a few different kinds of baby food and take the labels off. Then pass around the foods and based on smell people have to guess what kinds they are.

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