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Baby Shower Games
Need some help. A co-worker is planning a baby shower and is looking for some baby shower games. The only limit is that the event is happening at a restaurant's banquet room. Thanks
Re: Baby Shower Games
Well I just had 2 showers, so maybe I can help. At the first one we had a lot of space and the girls who planned it had a few games for us. One was kind of weird but fun. LOL Everyone who was not pregnant had to put a balloon up their shirt and stick a quarter between your knees and walk down and drop it in a bowl. (If you were preggo like me and another guest you obviously didn't need a balloon). If you drop the quarter before that you have to start over. the premise was that pregnant women have to pee a lot (so the quarter is held between your knees like you're holding your knees to pee). It sounds awkward and kind of was, but was actually really fun. I loved seeing DH's grandmother with a balloon in her shirt looking preggo. LOL
We also did a game where we have to guess the flavors of baby food by looking at the jars.
At my second shower it was in a small back room of a restaurant and more of a dinner type atmosphere so we didn't play games. However, my sister in law gave everyone a piece of fabric and fabric pens and they all wrote messages or drew pictures for the baby. Her and a friend are going to take all the pieces of fabric and make them into a quilt!! I'm so excited about this. I didn't see what everyone wrote, so can't wait to see it all together.
Another thing we did at that shower was she had cards (I'm sure that she picked up at a party store or something) Where everyone wrote out advice for me as a new mom. That was really cute. After they were all filled out I read them all out loud (without names).
I know I've also been to showers where we all were given a diaper with chocolate in it. Whoever had the "poopy" diaper wins. Oh, also I've seen a large plastic bottle filled with cotton balls. Whoever guessed the correct amount won a prize.
Generally speaking, I hate party games.
But, to answer your question: at my shower they had me and a couple others undress, change the diaper and redress a cabbage patch kid while blindfolded.
Another one was to guess how big the momma's belly is using toilet paper squares - each guest rolls out and rips off the length of their guess while mingling, then momma's waistline is measured and a prize goes to the closest guess.
Not a game, but a HUGE help for me was that they had all the guests address their own thank you card envelope as they arrived - the hosts bought me some cute TY cards. This ensures correct addresses and saves a bunch of time for mom.
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One they sent around a onesie with important baby stuff in them,safetypin closed. You had to feel what was in there and write it down.Most wins. Ex.include sippy, q tip, binky, spoon, diaper, bottle,etc.
Fill in the blank to familiar nursery rhymes. It was funny to see how many people forgot.
If it's a couple, as baby related questions to see if their answers match...like newly weds. (Such as 'who gets up with the baby at night?')
Filling in the nursery rhyme is a fun one and at one of my showers we did the "cut a piece of yarn to guess how big the belly is."
I've heard of if it is mixed genders, a group of men will be grouped for a "chug beer out of a baby bottle" challenge. Dont' think that would be appropriate at work though!
If you don't think people want to do traditional games, we did something at my wedding shower where my mom bought a bunch of random, cutsie, inexpensive things (socks, soaps, travel size lotion, sparkly pen, etc) and while I was opening gifts (the most boring part of a shower) she set a short timer. Whoever's gift I was opening when the timer went off got a prize.
At my shower my friends did a "Price is Right" game where people/teams had to guess the prices of items. The final round was a gift basket and people had to guess the total cost of all of the items and the winner got to keep it. They also did a guess the baby food game and a bingo gift game while I opened presents.
I usually do the- fill in your name and address on the thank you card envelope, thing when I organize a shower and it's always very appreciated!
At my friends' shower earlier this month, they melted candy bars inside diapers. You had to guess what the candy bar was. It was the along the lines of "daddy fed the baby something bad, guess what it was." She used 3 musketeers, snickers, reeses, milky way and twix to make them extra icky looking. She labeled the diapers 1 - 5 and had a different candy bar in each. You wrote down your guess for each diaper and whoever got the most right, won.