Seeking FUN Baby Shower Games

Good afternoon, they played this game at my baby shower and it was a lot of fun. You blind fold the person and put a bowl of dried white rice and those little gold saftey pins in front of them, then you have them try and pick out as many as they can in 30 seconds. Then give the person with the most pins the prize. Even my too good for these silly games sisiter in law played and she had fun.

www.babycenter.com has good ideas for shower games I especially liked the one where you freeze little toy babies or pacifiers in ice cubes and then pass them out, one to each guest, whos ever melts first yells "my water broke" and they win the prize.

At my friend's baby shower, we played a game I hadn't played before that was fun - no pens required! Basically the test is who in the room might be the best multitasking mom. You have two people hold a clothesline, have a basket full of baby clothes (to give to the mom-to-be afterward), a baby doll and a phone. Each participant has to hold the phone between their ear & shoulder, have the baby in 1 arm and try to hang the most clothes to dry as possible in 30 seconds to win a prize. Obviously not many line dry their clothes anymore, but everyone there enjoyed it and no one HAD to participate.

I did the games for my friend's shower - I've listed the ones that match your criteria best, but if you're interested, I have others. I had a lot of pen and paper games, but most of them were very tasteful.

The traditional one is the "don't say baby" game - no one is allowed to say the word "baby" the whole time. In one version, each guest gets a clothespin (diaper pin, whatever - something they can attach to their clothes) and if they say baby they lose the pin to the person who catches them. At the end of the shower, the person with the most pins wins.

My favorite was "the perfect baby" - Before the party, the mother-to-be fills in a list of attributes (eyes, teeth, sense of humor, etc.) with whether she'd rather the baby get hers or her husbands (e.g. my teeth, hubby's eyes, etc.) At the party, the guests try to guess which one she picked. In the paper version, each guest fills out a scorecard and the person with the most matches wins. But it could easily just be a group vote type of activity or a show of hands, without the prizes.

Another good one is "a mother's purse." Everyone gets out their purse and you read off a list of items. Different items are worth different amounts of points (e.g., a pen is worth one point, but a pacifier is worth three). The person with the most points wins.

I have sheets for these games, plus other pen and pencil games if you get desperate.

Good luck - it sounds like you're working under some tricky restrictions!

I am NOT a fan of shower games so this one was really great. As guests arrive they put on a diaper pin that has several (I think we started w/ 3 or 4) smaller pins on it. As the shower goes on and especially when she opens gifts, no one is allowed to say, BABY, CUTE, SWEET and any other word you choose. When someone catches another using one of those words, they have to give that person one of their pins. At the end of the shower the one w/ the most pins wins the prize.

One of the most fun games I have played (and I am not a big fan of games) is you put small safety pins (they have to be the small ones too) in a bowl of rice. Each person is blind folded and they have to see how many safety pins they can find in a minute. You might want to do 30 seconds with the amount of people you have. It is actually pretty entertaining when people think they have a safety pin and it is rice. It is pretty tough to do. Have Fun!

At a shower I went to they had pictures of celebrities as babies and everyone had to guess who they were. Some of the guesses can be really funny.

I went to one my sister hosted and she got the game from the internet I can email you more dtails tomorrow anyway unfortunately it does invole paper and pen but its several pictures of an ultrasound and each one is a picture of the babies different parts and you have to guess what one it is by one of the choices listed. Otherwise use a roll of toliet paper and each person has to guess how big the moms belly around is. Good luck finding a fun game I will send you a message on where to find that game

I hosted a baby shower for a good friend and I did a game that involved teams (I think I had about 17 people total): each team had a photo copy picture of the mom and dad-to-be's faces, and then a 3rd sheet of paper with a blank baby face. The teams then cut and pasted together features of the parents onto the blank baby face and that's "What Baby (Doe) will look like." People really had a lot of fun with it. To help create the teams, when people arrived I asked them to make a nametag (write their name on it; just blank nametag stickers). I had put a different baby themed stickers on the blank nametags beforehand (ducks, bears, rattles, diaper pins etc.), and then when time came to break into teams all the ducks were a team, etc.

I also asked guests to bring a baby photo of themselves and then I attached each picture to a numbered index card. For the game then, people numbered a blank sheet of paper with however many pictures there were to guess whose baby photo it was. It was helpful to have people wear nametags so that people who didn't know one another could make a better guess.

This wasn't a game, but I borrowed a polaroid camera from someone and had people take pictures with the guest of honor and then double stick tape them into a guestbook and then write a special note next to the picture for the mom-to-be.

Another idea that someone did for my baby shower was a Price Is Right game using baby products and then the mom-to-be receives all the products as a gift.

Hope this helps and most importantly that everyone has fun!

Cutsie-weary? Try Adorkable Babies' Pin The Baby On The Vajayjay. It's not right for everyone but it is a hilarious! Find it here:http://adorkablebabies.com/store.php

It is not a game so much but when I went to a shower a few years ago we all got a small diaper and a marker and got to write a few sayings on the diaper - if we wanted to do more we could. It was a blast seeing what other people wrote down. Another game that was played at a different one (I couldn't do it because I was on rest pregnant with twins) was they got a clothesline and had the person hold a baby talk on the phone (pretend of course) and see how much laundry she could attach to the line and who ever did the most in 2 mins won.

I was recently at a shower. When someone arrived, we put a pre-printed piece of paper on thier back with someone famouse name on it. They could not read the name. They would have to go around and ask other people yes or no questions to try and figure out who the person was. The first 3 people to guess the celeb got a prize. It got the women talking and mingling more then anything. Plus it gave the hostess more time to set up and do odds and ends while the people were talking. We had people like, James Brown, Hillary Clinton, Bette Midler, George Clooney Ect..

A fun game we did at my sister's shower, was to print off cute pictures of babies or kids and everybody has to come up with a caption or what the person was saying in the picture...it turns out very cute! Also you can do the pin game, every time someone says baby that person who heard it takes away thier pin the person at the end of the game with the most pins wins.
Good luck hope you have fun!
T.

I am not a fan of baby shower games. But I recently attended one where the host had a list of the names of the women at the shower and the "meaning" of each name.

You had to match up the correct meaning with each name and the one with the most right wins. It was easy and informative.

Hello,
We did a clothespin game. Everyone gets a clothespin and if you say the word baby you lose the clothespin and the person who collects the most pins. Gets a door prize. It is up to you to set a time limit.
You can decorate the clothespin with baby stickers. A fun game that has pen and paper is you get a package of diapers, package of onesies, tub of wipes, formula. Basically anything basic that she would need for the baby. Everyone needs to guess the price of each item. Then the mom to be can bring them home. It is nice gift for the mom to be.
Another game is you take a rattle and have each guess shake the rattle to kids songs but the mom to be has to guess the song...Wheels on the bus, Twinkle Twinkle Little star, Sunshine...it is pretty fun! Have a great shower!~
M.

Hi J.~
You could try the clothes pin game. The guests are given 1 or 2 clothes pins when they arrive to clip on their shrits. You can then steel clothes pins from other women when they say the word "baby" and who ever has the most clothes pins at the end of the shower ( or whatever time limit you set) gets the prize. Another way I've seen it done is to steel the clothes pin if you catch them crossing their legs. I hope this helps you out. C. V

Hi, J....

At one of my baby showers, they pre-printed a sheet with both my and my husband's first names and "What should they name the baby??" on top, then two columns of lines underneath. Everyone had 5 minutes to come up with as many baby names as they could using only the letters from our names. Then each guest read their names. If anyone had that same name, they crossed it off. At the end, they gave prizes to the person with the most unique (non-duplicate) names, as well as to the person with the name I liked the best. That was a cute one. If you didn't want to do it with pen and paper, everyone could shout out the names and only give a prize to the name mommy liked most...one person could write them all down for her as a keepsake. Another of my showers they had everyone share the best baby advice they had ever been given (you could also do worst or silliest). One of the most meaningful things I had done was when people were able to share a special thought with me about why they thought I'd make a good mom or what they were excited about for us/our baby, then all prayed for me, my husband, and our coming little one.

Have fun!
Blessings,
V.

This one also requires a pen, but the participants only need to check off a box in either the mommy/daddy column. I just gave this game to my boss for a shower last week and they loved it. Guests were taking copies home with them. You have the mom-to-be choose which features (eyes, nose, lips, other traits) that she would like the baby to have. There is a column for mom and dad. The guests get their own form and have to get as many of the same answers as the mom-to-be. If you're intersted, I can e-mail you the game. Just send me a personal message. -C.