Looking for some fun baby shower games? Check out this list of baby shower game ideas for a riotously good time the next time you host a baby shower. But a celebration should be full of laughter and fun too! So why not add a few of the 15 hilarious and fun baby shower games?
Melt candy bars inside diapers, and have guests guess which kind is in each diaper. Playdough babies is another fun game. Provide little canisters of playdough and cupcake liners for your guests to mold their own babies. Have prizes for the cutest, ugliest, weirdest, etc. Feed the baby is fun for coed showers. Provide samples of several different types of baby foods, but hide the labels. This game may be best for outdoor baby showers but can be done indoors if you have a large indoor area that tolerates spills.
Play with hardboiled eggs to avoid messy breaks! Small plastic babies, one for each guest you can get these from a party store. For a unique baby shower game, place the plastic babies in the ice tray, pour water over them, and freeze the night before. When the guests arrive, remove the babies from the ice tray and put an ice baby in each person's drink.
The first who calls it wins. Give everyone a baking cup and a few different colored pieces of dough, and set a timer for 15 minutes. The aim of the game is to see who can create the cutest dough baby in the given time. You can make things fun by adding plastic knives, pencils, or anything else that can help your guests get artistic. Of course, mom decides the winner. Split the guests up into teams of four or five, and give each guest a balloon. Then, the second person must blow up a balloon and stick it under her shirt and so on until all the team members have balloons under their shirts.
Then, using a pin, the first person must pop her own balloon through her shirt, and then the second person does the same, and so on. The first team to pop all the balloons wins the game. Assemble your baby shower guests in teams of the same number, and have each team stand in line. Each team should begin with its baby doll wearing a diaper and wrapped in a receiving blanket. When you give the word to start, the first person in line in each team changes the diaper, removing the blanket and diaper, wiping the doll's bottom with a baby wipe, putting another diaper on, and rewrapping the doll in the blanket.
Then the doll is handed to the next team member for changing, and the diaper changer goes to the back of the line. When everyone on a team has changed the doll's diaper once, that team has won.
Have each participant blow up at least one balloon and place it under her shirt to make the "baby. You can give prizes for the most twisted pose, most balloons carried under the shirt, and the least number of popped or dropped balloons. Let the mom-to-be sit in a chair and be the judge while enjoying the fun. Make two or three little clotheslines — you can either prop them up on sticks or have one or two members of each team hold the ends of the string.
Split your guests into competing teams, set a timer, and have them hang up as many diapers as possible. The team with the most diapers on the line wins.
Cut down on the baby shower prep by downloading and printing our games here , but read on for more inspiration. Before the party, print out our baby bingo sheet and give one to each guest.
Hand each guest a card, which should be unique for everyone with a different combination of gifts. Then, as the mom-to-be opens her gifts, guests can mark off any items received with a sticker or cross it out with a pen.
The first guest to complete a row, column, or diagonal wins! Pictures of baby items cut from a catalogue or printed out — they can even be from the mom-to-be's registry wish list. Lay out the pictures of the baby-related items, and give your guests a pen and paper.
You can pick up each item and give a description and have your guests write down a price as a guess. The guest to get the closest price without going over gets a gift. Give copies of the questions to the mom-to-be and her partner before the party, and ask them to write down their answers. During the shower, give copies of the questions to all the guests, and have them use their imagination to fill in the blanks with what they think mom or dad said in answer to each question.
The guest who guesses the answers closest to what mom or dad said wins the game. Let them know they can make their answers as funny or as sentimental as they'd like. Once finished, have people read out their answers to the first question, and vote for the best answer.
The winner gets a point, and then you can move on to the next item on the list. The person with the highest score wins a prize. This baby shower standby is always a hit. Before beginning the game, ask the mom-to-be to reveal her anticipated due date. Remind everyone that only 5 percent of babies are born exactly on their due date! Then, ask each guest to predict the day and the time the baby will be born, and write their prediction on the paper or calendar. You can promise to give a prize to each person who picks the correct day and also to the person who most closely picks the time.
Don't forget to send those prizes out after the baby is born. Before your guests arrive, write or print the names of some famous mothers onto name tags for each guest. You could choose a category like mothers in fiction, mothers from current or classic TV shows or movies, or anything you wish.
When your guests arrive, attach a name tag to the back of each guest, without letting the guest see the name. Before the party, put a baby item into each bag, and number the bags. At the party, hand out the sheets of paper and pens to the guests, then start passing the bags out one by one. The guest must take a guess what they think is in each bag without opening it, and write it down; however, shaking and feeling the bag is allowed.
Whoever gets the most right wins. After all, not everyone craves the limelight. This fun game flips the focus onto guests! Whoever gets the most correct wins. What you need: Tiny plastic baby dolls one for each guest and an ice cube tray or other small containers. Before the party: Put a plastic baby into each cube, then fill with water and freeze.
How to play: Give each guests a drink with a baby-filled ice cube in it. The object of this baby shower game is to melt the ice and get the plastic baby out—in whatever way guests can think of. People can be sly! The best baby shower games serve as ice-breakers and encourage your guests to mingle and get to know one another—and this one does just that! Before the party: Write up a list of various fun facts that could apply to many of your guest. How to play: Each guest will have to get to know each other quickly to find people who fall into the various categories.
The person who meets enough guests to be able to tick off the most fun facts wins. Some people love it, some people would rather pass. What you need: Diapers, a variety of mini-chocolate bars, and pen and paper for each guest. Before the party: Melt different kinds of mini-chocolate bars and pour one kind on each of the diapers. How you play: Have guests sniff or even dip a finger to taste the chocolates and guess which kind is on each diaper.
The winner is whoever guesses the most chocolates correctly. A little bit. But then again, who can resist the power of chocolate? Who has the most sensitive nose among you? Our guess is the mom-to-be—pregnancy has a way of heightening your sense of smell.
What you need: Unlabeled jars, pureed baby food and paper and pen for each guest. Before the party: Fill each of your unlabeled jars with a different kind of baby food and make sure to keep track! How to play: Distribute paper and pens to guests, then ask them to smell each jar of puree and jot down which foods they think are inside. If you want to make it especially tricky, have them do this blindfolded!
In fact, she won the game. The guests write down what they think each one is. Whoever has the most right wins. How to play: Have your guests pull their chairs into a circle. The person holding the prize when the story ends gets to keep it! Looking for modern baby shower games? The baby shower emoji game takes the classic anagrams game and gives it an up-to-date twist, using emojis instead of words. Before the party: Print out or order lists of emoji anagrams for each guest.
How to play: Instruct guests to try and guess the baby-related words or phrases that are written out in emojis, and fill their answers out on the sheet.
The person who gets the most correct wins. Just about all the baby shower games in this article can be enjoyed by everyone—male or female.
Looking for the best baby shower games for couples? This one might just top the list. Guests take a fun Mom vs. Dad quiz, and then the mom- and dad-to-be weigh in with their responses. You can prep a quiz sheet and have prizes at the ready, or just have people shout out their answers and keep things casual—whatever floats your boat. What you need: A computer and printer or copy machine, and paper and pen for each guest. Who has always gotten at least eight hours of sleep every night?
Print it out and have enough copies for all the guests. How to play: Hand out the list of questions to each guest. Once everyone has jotted down their answers, invite the mom- and dad-to-be up front, read the questions out loud and have them give their responses. Whichever guest answers the most correctly gets a prize. Everyone knows that having a baby is expensive, but how much do baby supplies really cost?
See which guests are savvy shoppers with this spinoff of The Price is Right. Before the party: Write a list of baby items and specific quantities say, a box of 88 Pampers Swaddlers on a sheet of paper and make enough copies for all your guests.
How to play: Have each guest write down what they think each retails for, then have them total their guesses. Whoever gets closest to the correct total without going over wins. This sweet printout is illustrated with whales, for those on the hunt for nautical baby shower games. What you need: Two life-size baby dolls, two blindfolds and one diaper for each guest, plus two extras.
How to play: Have guests separate into teams. Each team gets a doll, blindfold and diapers. The first person in line for each team must put the blindfold on, remove the diaper on the doll and replace it with a new one. After the first team members are done, the next person in line goes, and so on. The first team to finish wins. Get ready for lots of laughs and maybe even some blushing. How to play: Write down the exclamations the mother-to-be says when opening her presents.
For this one, separate guests into teams and give each a balloon. Once all team members have balloons under their shirts, the first person must pop their balloon, then the second, and third, etc. The team who blows up and pops their balloons the fastest wins. If you choose to penalize people a penny every time they slip up, baby might just end up with a little nest egg! How to play: Have each guest put on a name tag when they arrive.
During the shower, people can be called only by their name tag name. If a guest calls someone by their first name, they have to put coins into a piggy bank for the baby. What you need: 10 paper bags, 10 baby items pacifier, spoon, etc. How to play: Give each guest a sheet of paper and a pen, then randomly pass the bags out. Guests have to write down what they think is in each bag without opening them.
Whoever guesses the most right is the winner. Pin the Tail on the Donkey is a classic party game, but this modern take is the baby shower version. What you need: A picture of a baby, a blindfold, a picture of a pacifier, a copy machine and tape. Before the party: Enlarge the baby picture if necessary and hang it up on the wall. Make enough copies of the pacifier picture so each guest has one you might want to resize the pacifier so it fits the baby.
Attach a piece of tape to each. Whoever gets the closest wins! Scroll for a roundup of the most unique baby shower games. Searching for some Harry Potter baby shower games? Then this unique baby shower game is for you, especially if the mom-to-be would prefer not to be at the center of games. Have guests deposit their baby socks in the basket, and at the end of the shower, present the sock stash to the mom-to-be who will soon appreciate them once her little one arrives.
Before the party: On the left side of a piece of paper, make a list of the names of Disney mom characters Sarabi, Kala, Perdita, Elastagirl and leave the right side blank. Make enough copies for all your guests.
What you need: Plain onesies and other articles of clothing, if you wish in various colors, tacks, thick cardboard sheets, fabric markers, stencils and iron-on letters and graphics.
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