Baby Shower Games – Fun Games For Your Baby Shower

Planning a baby shower for a friend? Or do you have a friend planning a baby shower for you? Be sure to print off this list of great games which are guaranteed ways to have extra fun at your baby shower. Here are 7 popular games to get you started.

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Game 1. Baby!

What You’ll Need

• 1 x dummy for each person coming, cheap is fine
• 1 x piece of ribbon per dummy – enough to have a dummy hang around guests’ necks

How To Play

When everyone arrives at the baby shower, give them a dummy each to wear around their neck.

When everyone has arrived, explain that whenever anyone is caught saying the word ‘baby’, the first person to spot them gets that person’s dummy. So the idea of the game is to collect as many dummies as you can by the end of the day.

It’s a great game for getting everyone involved and really listening to what is going on in the hope they can win a dummy! You can adapt the word for something else, for example if mum-to-be is having twins, you could choose ‘twins’ or ‘babies’.

Game 2. Jellybabies

What You’ll Need

• A packet of jellybabies
• Ice cube trays – enough for one cube per guest
• Cups of equal size, disposable are ideal

How To Play

This needs to be prepared the night before the baby shower. Place one jellybaby into each ice cube slot and fill with water. They need to be frozen to play.

For the baby shower, announce that you are starting a game and give everyone a drink of water or punch etc., in a cup filled to the same height and tell them not to drink it.

Bring around a bowl of the jellybabies and ask each guest to pick one frozen jellybaby and put it in their drink for the game. Remind them not to start drinking until everyone has a jellybaby.

Once everyone is ready, the game can begin. The first jellybaby to be ‘born’ (from the ice completely melting) is the winner! The cubes must melt on their own accord – no crunching the ice. Even if someone wasn’t paying attention at the time and theirs has melted, the winner is the first person to notice their baby has been born.

Game 3. The Price Is Right…?

What You’ll Need

• A selection of baby products varying in price
• Notepad and pen for each guest

How To Play

This game is simple but fun – buy around 8 baby products which vary in price and place them in random order on a table or bench. Each guest must guess how much each item costs and write it down on paper.

The guest who guesses closest to the amounts wins. An easy way to tally the total up is to work out the differences in amounts of the guessed amount and actual amount, then add up all the differences in prices for each guest.

Game 4. Dress the Baby

What You’ll Need

• A newborn baby sized doll (with a nappy on)
• Disposable nappies
• A timer

How To Play

For this game, each guest needs to take off doll’s nappy and then put another nappy back on the doll, as fast as they can, using only one hand – the other behind their back. Depending on the amount of guests and / or time you have, you could expand this to dressing also. The guest who changes / dresses baby the fastest is the winner.

Game 5. Clothes horse game

What You’ll Need

• A clothes horse
• Lots of pegs
• A timer

How To Play

Place lots of pegs on the clothes horse and the guest to take off the most pegs and put them into a container or bucket in 15 seconds is the winner.

Game 6. Belly Measure Game

What You’ll Need

• A tape measure
• Pen and paper for each guest
• The guest of honour’s pregnant belly!

How To Play

This is a simple game, everyone needs to make a guess of how many centimetres the mother-to-be’s belly is. The person who guesses closest is the winner.

Game 7. Weight Game

What You’ll Need

• Bathroom Scales
• Pen and paper for each guest
• The guest of honour!

How To Play

If mum-to-be is comfortable taking part in this game, it can work as per above, except you need to guess mum’s weight. Probably a game more for a groups of friends that are close and mum is happy to do so – it’s a good idea to ask her first!

Kelly Zantey is a birth attendant (aka doula) the creator of BellyBelly, mum to two beautiful children and has just opened the BellyBelly Pregnancy Centre in Canterbury, VIC.

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