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EMERGENCY: Shower games
I need two shower games for a shower taking place... tomorrow.
One that was done at my shower was all of the guests got notecards and wrote a card to the baby for her future birthday. Not really a game, but the mom for tomorrow's shower said that she really liked that one. I can do that, easy.
Do I do 1 more game or 2 more in addition to the card thing? Another hostess suggested the game where you get the jars of baby food and the guests have to guess what it is. Is there anything more to that game than that? Do they write it down on a card? Apparently the other hostesses also want winners because they mentioned I should supply prizes. Are lotto tickets ok for prizes?
Someone help me out, puhlease!
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Re: EMERGENCY: Shower games
We had the celeb baby name game at my shower and I loved it (since I was such an US Weekly junkie).
Also, we did Baby Shower Bingo - I liked this because it kept the guests entertained while I opened presents so it felt less awkward to be the center of attention ;-)
I've done several where you are matching up things, like match the baby animal to the mama animal and match the celebrity baby with their parent. If I can find either of the lists I used, I'll post them. Animals may seem easy, and some are (cat/kitten, dog/puppy) but some are hard! Baby ferret is a kit, a baby jellyfish is a ephyna, and a baby alpaca or llama is a cria. Those type ones seem to be the most fun at the parties I've gone to or hosted.
As for activities, I've also known of people who had a bunch of sposies and permanent markers, then the guests wrote notes on the diaper bottoms, like "I heart mommy!" or "Call your Aunt Such and such when you need a break!"
ETA: I hadn't heard of baby shower bingo while opening gifts, but I would definitely like that if I was the mommy to be.
Lotto tickets are great! Tie a bow on it and call it a day.
I think I gave little Crabtree & Evelyn hand sets as gifts at the last shower I did.
I think the bingo is a fun/ passive game for people who don't really like to play games at showers.
Another easy one is to take a gift bag and fill it with ten(ish) baby items- rattle, pacifier, etc. and have guests feel around for 10-15 seconds (timed) and then write down everything they can recognize/ remember.
They did the baby food thing at my shower. I didn't like it and I don't think many others did either. We wrote down what we thought it was on cards. All it made me do is get nauseous.
We did one that was like name that tune. My sister found ten songs that had the word baby in the title. She would play a clip from the song and you'd write down the title. Bonus points if you knew the artist.
Honestly, I don't like the games where I have to taste or identify a foreign substance.
My SIL had a fun game at one of her (many) showers: she walked around the party carrying a basket full of baby items after the attendees were told that there would be a quiz at the end of the time (like, 5 or ten minutes). She left the room and the surprise was that the quiz was about what she was wearing. (Like: write down everything you can remember her wearing, with specifics.)
At another shower I hostessed, many of the attendees were from different groups of the mom-to-be's friends. So we played a game where each guest had a nametag stuck to her back with a famous mom name on it, and had to ask other guests 3 yes/no questions to determine who they were. It was a good way to get people to mix and mingle and talk to each other, although now that I think about it, there was no prize for guessing correctly first.
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That's why I like it
Because I've been assigned games. I do what I'm told. I'm not at the, "Should we or shouldn't we," stage of party planning. I'm at the, "OhholyfuckIgottagetsomegamesgoing," stage.
But, generally, I agree, games are stupid. Especially games where you have to eat things.
Ok, I am going to do the bingo and the cards. Somebody tell me how to do the bingo.
Here's an example of a card:
Everyone gets a card (the items will be in different spots on each card) and you mark off the squares as the mom-to-be opens a present with that item. Basic bingo rules apply (across, down or diagonal) and whoever is first gets a prize.
Download a number of different cards, one for each guest. A quick google search found this site: https://www.babbee.com/baby_bingo/
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Basically you print out a bunch of bingo cards where each square is a baby item (stroller, playmat, pacifier, bottle, etc.). Hand out pens and when a gift is opened, each person will look at their card and cross out the item if they have it on their card.
If you google 'baby shower bingo' you'll get a bunch of free printables you can use.
There's one I've played where they fill a bowl up with long grain rice (uncooked) and then mix in a couple dozen small safety pins. Each player has to either wear a blindfold or look away, and try to pick the safety pins out of the rice. It's way harder than it sounds - they feel very much the same.
There's another one where each person has a famous baby name stuck to their backs, and they have to mingle with the other guests and ask yes/no questions to try to guess which baby they are. At my baby shower (twins!), they used famous sets of twins.
For prizes, you can check out some place like Ross or Tuesday Morning and find candles or picture frames really inexpensively. Those seem to go over pretty well.
They did one at my shower I really liked- it was quick an easy. Everyone had a paper plate and different colored sharpies. They had to put the plate on their head, and then had 30 sec to draw a picture of a baby. The guest of honor gets to choose the winner. The pictures were really funny. The best part was, afterwards, we cut out the pictures, had them matted and framed and ended up with a really cool (somewhat modern) piece of art for the nursery... It's still one of my favorite things in DD's room. (I'll try to add a pic later).
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Even easier is that I went to one shower where the guests filled out the bingo cards themselves with items they thought the mom to be would recieve. That was pretty fun actually.
Even easier, I've been to a shower where the gifts were numbered and each guest just wrote numbers 1-25 on their bingo sheet anywhere they wanted and when that particular numbered gift was opened, they marked their square. Of course, you would need at least 24 gifts (one free space) for that to work. It was faster than trying to think of a bunch of baby items to fill squares.
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I'm a little late, but we played this memory game at the last shower I went to. https://www.baby-gifts-gift-baskets.com/blog/2007/06/29/candy-bar-baby-shower-memory-game/
The hostess just got a big poster board and wrote the different choices on. Then covered them with post its and just numbered each post it. We then went around the room guessing. If you guessed right you got the candy bar as the prize.
You make a baby related statement and the guests call out the candy bar that matches. The person that gets it right wins.
Epidural - lifesavers
College fund - 100 grand
Engorgement - mounds
Boobs after breastfeeding - milk duds
Sex life before baby - good and plenty
Alone time after baby -zero
Boy names - mike and ikes
If you google baby shower candy bar game you can find a printable list of wall of them. I promise everyone laughs and has a good time.
Have fun at the shower!
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