Baby Shower Game Ideas

Guess Who?

This game is always fun and easy to do if guests will cooperate! Ask all guests to bring a baby picture of themselves. Take each baby picture and arrange them onto a poster board, and assign each picture a number. Each guest gets a piece of paper and has to match the adult guest name with the corresponding baby picture. The guest with the most correct matches wins. For added fun, use the pictures as name tags after the game.

Drop the Potato

You'll need to use several jar sizes, and you'll need one potato. Place the largest jar in the middle of the room. Each guest places the potato in between her knees and tries walking to the middle and dropping the potato in the jar. Whoever does it, stays in. Start with a big jar and get gradually smaller until you have a winner.

Name That Song

Sort your guests into teams and get them to write down as many songs that have the word "baby" in the title as they can. Give a five minute time limit. The team who has the most song titles wins. For even more fun, the losers can be made to sing a baby song chosen by the winners.

Change the Baby

You'll need several baby dolls to play this game. Each baby will need to be dressed, including a bonnet, socks or booties, and a diaper. You'll also need baby wipes, extra diapers, and baby powder. For added fun, the diapers can be "dirty". A dirty diaper might have a scoop of peanut butter for added fun! To start the game, divide the group into teams, have the babies dressed and across the room on a table. The first person on each team will undress baby, if the baby has a dirty diaper, that person should clean the baby with a diaper wipe and place the baby on the table. She should then return to the team, and the next person will dry off baby, powder and diaper bottom, dress the baby. The next person will remove baby's clothes, wipe baby's bottom, and place baby on the table. The first team whose members have all cleaned and diapered baby wins!

What Did She Say?

This game is absolutely hilarious and a little risqué at times! Have two or three guests jot down what the mother-to-be says as she opens each gift. After all the gifts are opened, read the comments out loud, explaining that this was what she said on the night the baby was conceived!

Bottles Up!

For this game, you'll need to fill several 4 oz.baby bottles with water or juice and hand a bottle to every guest. Guests are then told to drink the bottle as fast as possible. Who ever finishes first wins! This is a great game for a couples baby shower, as well. Video the faces or take pictures for even more laughs! Practical jokers may want to seal one bottle closed before handing it to an unsuspecting guest!

Cutest Baby Contest

This game really needs to be played at a couples baby shower. Wives should be told ahead of time to bring some items to use to dress their "babies". These babies are actually their husbands! Let each couple go into another room for the wives to dress their "babies". Give prizes for the "prettiest", "cutest", "ugliest", etc.

Word Scramble Baby Shower Game Ideas

For this game, the hostess will need to take ten to fifteen common baby item words, and scramble the words on a sheet of paper. Guests are each given the scrambled word list and a specified amount of time to unscramble the words. The person with the most unscrambled words at the end of the time limit wins.