Women of a certain age find themselves attending a lot of baby showers. These charming celebrations are a festive way to build excitement, pass along advice, and shower a mom-to-be with everything she needs to have a phenomenal first year with her baby. Even so, if you have to measure another belly with yarn or eat chocolate "poop" out of another diaper, you feel like you might swear baby showers off for good!
We're here to tell you that there are plenty of baby shower games that your guests won't dread playing. Choosing a creative suite of unique games is one of the best ways to stand out and curate a fun, memorable event. When you take the time to include original activities, you'll become a trendsetter among the other new moms in your life.
We've created a list of twenty of our favorite shower games and activities that guests actually enjoy. Keep reading to discover the games that will set your spectacular shower apart.
1. Wonderful Onesies
During the mingling portion of the party, provide guests with blank onesies and fabric markers or paints. Challenge them to create the most clever, creative, or artistic onesie. At the end of the event, guests can vote on their favorite design, and winners can receive a prize.
2. Which Parent-To-Be?
Curate a list of silly things the mom-to-be and dad-to-be did when they were babies or young children. Have guests guess whether mom or dad was the culprit. Guests will laugh along with you as they recount their own childhood hijinks.
3. Guess Which Guest
Ask guests to submit their favorite baby picture along with their RSVP. Create a poster and number each of the photos. Guests can guess which baby grew into which adult, and the winner can receive a prize.
4. Baby-Oke
Who doesn't love karaoke? Curate a list of songs with the word "baby" in the title or chorus and invite guests to sing their hearts out. This activity is one of our favorite easy baby shower ideas!
5. Baby Shower Bingo
Bingo is one of the most popular shower games—and it earned that distinction for a reason. Have guests fill in a Bingo card with the items they anticipate the mom-to-be will open. As she opens the gifts, they can mark off their squares until they achieve a Bingo and win a prize.
6. Don't Break Your Water
This game works best at outdoor baby shower locations. Fill up a few water balloons and have guests place one between their knees. The guests who make it to the finish line without "breaking their water" win a prize.
7. Ice, Ice Baby
Buy a few plastic baby charms and pop them into your ice cube tray. Serve up the drinks with a baby ice cube in each. The guest who frees their little baby first wins.
8. Sweet Wishes for Baby
Pass around a special notebook and ask each guest to fill a page with sweet wishes for the new baby. They can write a letter, include advice, and even draw pictures. Give the notebook to your baby when they turn eighteen.
9. Collaborative Alphabet Book
Artistic guests will love to settle down with markers and colored pencils to create a one-of-a-kind alphabet book for your baby. Each guest can choose a word and illustrate a page—silly words welcome! At the end of the party, read the story aloud.
You can get your book bound and laminated at an office supply store and add it to the nursery library.
10. Baby Name Relay
Split your guests into two teams. Have the teams race to try to name one baby name for each letter of the alphabet. The team that gets through the whole alphabet first wins bragging rights.
11. Pregnancy-Term Pictionary
Curate a list of odd and unusual pregnancy-related words and play a game of Pictionary. It's a wacky and challenging way to learn how much your guests understand about what's really involved in giving birth.
12. Baby Bow Bar
If you're having a girl, you can let your friends create sweet accessories for her. Provide a variety of artificial flowers, ribbons, charms, and headbands, and plug in a few hot glue guns. Crafty guests will love this activity, and your little one will always look her best.
13. Toilet Paper Diaper Relay
Have guests split up into teams of two. Hand one a roll of toilet paper and then start the timer. Guests will race to put a "diaper" on their teammate, and the team that uses the most toilet paper wins.
14. Goofy Diaper Messages
Open up a new pack of diapers and get out the markers. Ask guests to write a funny diaper message on the tush. These will keep you laughing during late-night diaper changes during the early days with your little one.
15. Diaper Raffle
Include a raffle ticket with every invitation. If your guest brings a package of diapers to the party, they can enter the raffle. Make the prize enticing, and draw winners at the end of the event.
16. Name Suggestion Box
Provide some cards and ask guests to suggest names for your baby—silly or serious. Put them in a bowl, mix them up, and then read them out one at a time to spark laughter and conversation. You can announce the real name at the end.
17. Baby Shower Jeopardy
Guests can compete for points in this baby-themed trivia game. Categories can range from animal babies to celebrity baby names. Jeopardy is one of our favorite ideas for baby showers because of its flexibility.
18. Place Your Bets
Have guests place bets on the baby's due date, time of birth, birth weight, hair color, eye color, and more. You won't discover the winners until the baby is born, but guests will love having bragging rights.
19. Nursery Rhyme Mad Libs
Provide guests with a sheet featuring the first line of famous nursery rhymes. Ask them to complete the rhymes in the silliest way possible. Read them all aloud and laugh until you cry!
20. Prepare for Baby
Buy a series of tiny baby-themed charms, like little plastic rattles, pacifiers, and bottles. Hide them all around the venue and ask guests to find them. The guest with the most "supplies" by the end of the party gets a prize.
Baby Shower Games They'll Actually Love Playing
Games at baby showers don't have to be a mandatory hurdle to jump in between scarfing down cake and opening presents. Take the time to choose baby shower games that your guests will genuinely enjoy playing. Selecting engaging shower activities can help transform any humble celebration into a memorable, high-energy affair worthy of your sweet baby.
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