Baby Shower Games

Some expecting mothers are very self conscience when they are pregnant, especially towards the end of their pregnancy. Unfortunately this is also around the time when you would be having the baby shower. Therefore you need to consider this when organizing their baby shower as the last thing you would want to do is make them feel uncomfortable or embarrassed at their own baby shower. For example, some mothers would not like it if you play games where people have to touch them or dress them up in an embarrassing outfit like a giant diaper etc. But I suppose if you were asked to arrange the baby shower you would be a really close friend of the expecting mom so you would know what she likes and doesn’t like. 

Game No. 1: Dirty Potty

I have played this game at several baby showers and it is always extremely entertaining. For the non participants of course! J

What you will need is a new, UNUSED potty, nutty chocolate (lunch bar usually works best), yellow liquid (pine nut, soda and passion fruit ect.), another bowl filled with NON SELF-RAISING FLOUR (if you use self raising flour the yeast in the flour can give her heartburn) and chuckles/tumbles (anything big enough to get out by just using your mouth). You ask everyone to attach a baby picture of themselves on their present. The mother-to-be then has to guess who belongs to which picture. If she gets it wrong she first has to take a bite of the lunch bar, which is floating in the yellow liquid in the potty, and then try find a chuckle in the bowl of flour. It can get quite messy if she guesses wrong often! Of course you can do the baby picture on the presents without having to do the punishment game with it.

Game No. 2: Guess the Gerber

Another fun game is getting the mommy-to-be to taste different types of purity and guessing which each flavour is. If you want to let her suffer buy the grosser flavours. The dessert flavours are quite nice and she will easily guess what they are. Try not to have too many different flavours as once they are opened they have to be used or thrown away.

Game No. 3: Myth vs. Fact

This game works quite well when there is a mixture of experienced mothers and ladies who aren’t mothers at the baby shower. Get everyone to write down either a myth or a fact about babies and/or motherhood. You can make some of them blatantly incorrect. Then score the mommy-to-be on her factual knowledge of motherhood.

Game No. 4: Dirty Diaper

Take about 4 diapers and melt four different types of chocolates in each diaper. Go around the group with one nappy at a time and get everyone to write down what they think the chocolate is that is inside. Try and get difficult chocolates that are maybe not that popular. Chocolates like Bar-One is very easily guessed. This is a really fun game to get everyone involved and it does like quite off putting at first! J

Game No. 5: Measure the belly

If the mom is not self conscience and doesn’t find being touched this is quite a nice game. Get everyone to guess what the diameter of her belly is. After everyone has guessed measure it. If you want you can organize a small gift for the winner.

Game No. 6: Down-down

Buy a bunch of cheap baby bottles at a place like the Crazy Store. Get everyone to fill it with their beverage of choice and have a down-down competition. Once again you can organize a little prize for the winner if you wish too.

Game No. 7: Belly race

This game is to give everyone else that is not pregnant an idea of what it is like waddling like a duck instead of walking like a normal person. J Everyone stuffs as many balloons as they can under their tops. Then you all have a little foot race outside. The one to cross the finish line first without loosing any balloons wins!!

This is just a few games. There are still plenty more. The main thing is to try and make this day as special as possible so she can remember it forever.

Yours in fun & games,

Elly D