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I loathe Baby Shower Games
Seriously, can't stand them. Would never tell ANYONE that is throwing me a shower that I didn't like them, but in reality I think that most of them are awful.
The worst ones I have ever played: Guess the melted candy bar in the diaper, taste the baby food and guess what it is, the cross your legs diaper pin game and the how big is mom toilet paper game.
The best ones I have played: Guess which baby belongs to which celebrity and Guess the onesie (guests buy or make a onesie and the mom has to guess who it's from).
So ladies, love em or hate em, what are some games that you have played at baby showers?
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Re: I loathe Baby Shower Games
Haha, I've played most of the bad ones that you mentioned!
I haven't played any of the good ones you mentioned and they sound fun. I like the "guess the onesie" idea.
Okay, bitter...just kidding. I totally share your sentiments and have been lucky enough to have hosts that don't like them either. I just don't see the point...it's like lovely time to socialize, eat cake, open presents and gag on baby food or insult mom with 84 squares of toilet paper. I mean, come on!
I once had to write a letter to my friend's DS that he would read on his wedding day....WHAT? Sweet idea, but really. I had no idea what to write and ended up saying something like "Marriage and babies are blessings. May your life together be full."
I don't mind most baby shower games, but I hate the idea of the "melted candy bar in the diaper" game. I've never played it but it just seems disgusting. My host really wants to do it and I rained on her parade by saying ABSOLUTELY not.
I also shot down my host's idea of doing a game where a jar is passed around and people put money in it (loose change or $$). Then at the end everyone guesses how much is in it and the person closest to the total wins a prize. The MTB gets the jar.
Yeah, I do not want my guests bringing a gift AND donating $$ to me as well (and I'm in my 30's and not strapped for cash so this makes it even worse).
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One thing I did at my shower that wasn't exactly a game but everyone got a kick out of, was that I printed out different "features" of DH and I. Such as his eyes, nose, mouth, etc, and then I printed out a babies face with no features on it. I had the babies face and all of DH's and I's cut out features laid out on a table with a poster saying, "What will baby look like?" on it, and people could come over and put my eyes, DH's nose, and my mouth on the babies face to kind of "see" what the baby would look like.
Basically, it was hilarious and the baby looked like a mutant! But it was really funny and everyone got a kick out of it. I didn't make it a "public" game, but rather just left it out on a table where people could come and see it and play with it as they choose.
Totally agree- not a fan of the games, wish we could all just socialize. ..
I tried asking my mom not to do games at my shower this weekend, but then she got distressed and starting asking what she was supposed to do it keep people busy. I figured if she's the one giving it, it's her choice, andI didn't want to make it too hard for her, so I let it go. I put my foot down on any gross game like the guess whats in the diaper.
We were going to skip games as well, but my host came up with one last minute. She had a container of about 25 baby items-bottles, pacifiers, diaper cream, etc and scattered them over the living room/patio. The person who found the most items got a prize. It was suppose to represent how dh and I will be finding crap everywhere for the next 18 years. It was nice because now I have a bucket of cute little baby 'stuff' for the baby, and the kids who came loved searching for the items.
I had to play the guess the onesies game as well, but it was because we had a table set up to make onesies and I forgot a marker for people to write their names on them. So after everyone left, the host and I were trying to figure out who made which onesie.
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I never heard of most of the games mentioned, some of them are not very appropriate or fun.
For my shower, my friend had the guests write the best advice their mom gave them in a piece of paper to give me. Then I am supposed to hang them at a place where I will see them when I am up at night. I got some really sweet advice.
Also, we were blind folded and had to pick safety pins from a bowl of rice. Whoever gets more pins, wins a prize.
Then, finally, she made bingo cards for the guests to fill out with baby items they thought I'd get. Then, as I opened the presents, people were marking their cards. Cute and fun!
They helped the guests to get acquainted and their were tasteful. I liked them!
I'm not normally a fan of games, and didn't have any at my first shower, which was hosted by my SILs for my husband's side of the family. The shower was nice, but it got off to a bit of an awkward start.
My best friends hosted a second shower for me and had games, and they were actually sort of fun. One was a matching game - match the name of a candy bar with a baby-related phrase/thing. For example, "hospital bill" = "100 Grand," and "twin boys" = "Mike and Ike." I think the favorite was a passing game - the hostess had purchased a decorative lantern and candle, and it was passed to either the left or the right depending on which word was said during a story she read: "Mrs. Wright left right for the hospital..." Whoever was holding the lantern at the end of the story got to keep it.
In the end, I'm glad we had games at the second shower, because it did end up being a lot of fun and kept the party moving at a nice pace.
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I hate them and have been subjected to playing most of the ones you listed. I did let my hosts know that I dislike baby shower games and was happy to hear they had no intentions of playing games at my shower.
I had a non-traditional co-ed baby shower on a Saturday evening. It was much more of a party to celebrate the baby and a time for everyone to socialize, eat, and drink. I did open gifts, but there was no big announcement, if you wanted to watch you did, if not, you carried on with your conversations.
Hate them....all of them.
I absolutely despise any and all baby shower games. They're just totally lame and annoying. I told my hostesses, my ONE request is NO GAMES!
Ugh I hate them too. That's why our shower is just a potluck with no games/activities... I actually know that more people hate them than not, so I'm not sure why it's so common to have them at showers still.
The funnest one that we played was guess the baby (so everyone brought a baby picture, and then we had to go look at them and guess which of the guests was which baby). I like looking at baby pictures of people that I know/have met, but otherwise shower games suck :-/