Here’s a list of popular Baby Shower games that are fun and easy to organize for the celebration:
1. Baby Bingo
- How to Play: Create Bingo cards filled with typical baby-related gifts (e.g., diapers, bottles, toys). As the mom-to-be opens gifts, guests mark the corresponding square on their cards. The first person to complete a row wins!
- Materials: Pre-made Bingo cards, pens.
2. Guess the Baby Food
- How to Play: Buy a few jars of baby food in various flavors. Remove the labels, and guests must taste and guess the flavors. The person with the most correct guesses wins.
- Materials: Baby food jars, spoons, blindfolds (optional).
3. Diaper Raffle
- How to Play: Ask guests to bring a pack of diapers with them to the shower. For every pack of diapers, they receive a raffle ticket. At the end, draw a ticket, and the winner gets a prize.
- Materials: Raffle tickets, prize for the winner.
4. The Price is Right – Baby Edition
- How to Play: Select several baby items (diapers, wipes, bottles, etc.) and have guests guess the price of each item. The person whose guesses are closest to the actual prices wins.
- Materials: Baby items, paper, pens.
5. Diaper Changing Relay
- How to Play: Set up a relay race where participants must race to change a doll’s diaper as quickly (and neatly) as possible. You can time each participant and declare the fastest as the winner.
- Materials: Baby dolls, diapers, baby wipes.
6. Don’t Say Baby
- How to Play: Give each guest a clothespin or necklace when they arrive. The rule is that no one is allowed to say the word "baby" during the shower. If someone catches another guest saying “baby,” they can take their pin. The person with the most pins at the end wins.
- Materials: Clothespins or necklaces.
7. Who’s That Baby?
- How to Play: Ask guests to bring a baby photo of themselves. Collect the photos and display them. Guests must guess which photo belongs to which guest.
- Materials: Guests’ baby photos, display board, pens, and papers for guesses.
8. Baby Charades
- How to Play: Guests take turns acting out baby-related items or activities (like changing a diaper, rocking a baby to sleep, or feeding a bottle) without using words. The group tries to guess what’s being acted out.
- Materials: Cards with baby-related actions or items.
9. What’s in the Diaper Bag?
- How to Play: Fill a diaper bag with random baby items and a few non-baby items. Guests must feel the outside of the bag (without looking) and guess the contents.
- Materials: Diaper bag, baby items.
10. Measure the Mommy's Belly
- How to Play: Guests guess the size of the mom-to-be's belly by cutting a piece of string or ribbon to the length they think matches. The person whose string fits the closest wins.
- Materials: String or ribbon, scissors.
11. Baby Name Race
- How to Play: Set a timer and give each guest a sheet of paper with the alphabet on it. Guests must come up with a baby name for each letter of the alphabet before time runs out. The guest with the most names wins.
- Materials: Alphabet sheets, pens, timer.
12. Baby Pictionary
- How to Play: Similar to traditional Pictionary, but all the prompts are baby-related (e.g., stroller, pacifier, swaddle). Guests take turns drawing while others guess.
- Materials: Drawing board or paper, markers, baby-related prompts.
13. Advice for the Parents
- How to Play: Set up a station with cards and pens where guests can write down their best parenting advice or wishes for the baby. This is more of a keepsake than a game, but it’s fun for guests to contribute.
- Materials: Advice cards, pens.
14. Baby Shower Trivia
- How to Play: Create a trivia game with fun facts about the mom-to-be or baby-related topics. Guests write down their answers, and the person with the most correct wins a prize.
- Materials: Trivia questions, paper, pens.
15. Pass the Pacifier (Using a Straw)
- How to Play: Guests form teams. Each team member must pass a pacifier down the line using only a straw (no hands allowed). The fastest team wins.
- Materials: Pacifiers, straws.
These baby shower games aresure to keep guests entertained while celebrating the upcoming arrival. Most ofthem require minimal supplies, and they help create lasting memories for both the parents-to-be and their loved ones.