Baby Shower Ideas

I am in need of help. I am planning a baby shower for a dear friend and I am running dry on ideas for baby shower activities. Do you know any? I need at least two of them. I have been to only one baby shower--my own, lol, so I know very little of activities. If you have any activities in mind that are fun, drop me a comment! Pleease...your help will be greatly appreciated ;).

Comments

[marsha]

One of the best activities I have experienced is: take 10 jars of baby food and take off the labels. Have the people name what each food is. They may smell them but no tasting allowed. Number the lids of the jars so you know what is what. The person with the most correct answers wins. We got really strange baby food so it even was funnier!

The other games that are fun: blindfold the contestant and put a baby doll in front of them and a disposable diaper in their hand and time them to see how long it takes them to diaper the baby and the last game is to have them hold clothes pins (the old fashion kind) in their mouths (give each person 7 pins don't share) and have them stand straight up over a milk jug and see if they can drop any in the jug. (that one is really hard too!)

Hope this helps and have fun.

[Katie]

At my baby shower, everyone took a newborn (or size one) diaper and wrote a little funny note. One diaper had brown M&Ms in it and who ever got that one got a prize. Then I got to take the diapers home to use for 3 am changing. It was nice to have a cute note at 3 am.
Also, my mom did a memory game where she put 10 baby items in a basket. She put it out in the middle of the table and gave everyone a min. to study it. Then she covered it up and had everyone write down the items they remembered. I got to take the basket and items home.

[Karen]

We smashed chocolate bars into diapers and had guests guess what they were. No tasting allowed. ;)

We also froze tiny little plastic babies into ice cubes for the drinks. The first guest to have their baby emerge yells "my water broke."

[Liz Anderson]

Easily the grossest game ever is guess what's in the diaper. Using disposable diapers, you microwave melt a candybar in a diaper (1 per diaper). Everyone then writes down what candybar they think it is. We must have had 10 different one, plus an "extra special one" for ties. I don't know that I'd necessarily recommend this game for everyone. I left a lasting ompression on me; not necessarily a good one :-(

[Laura]

I don't know if this is exciting as the other suggestions, but at a baby shower for a coworker, everyone got a paper with the baby's name, and had to make as many words as they could out of the name, within a set amount of time, and when the time was up, the person with the most words written down got a prize.

[alwen]

One game we played was "Don't Cross Your Legs". Everyone gets a little spring clothespin (or other marker) pinned to their shirt somewhere, and if you catch someone crossing their legs (ankles, too!) you get their clothespin. If they have already lost theirs, they can't owe you one. If they have more than one, you only take one. Towards the end of the shower, the person with the most clothespins wins.

It's surprisingly hard to remember not to do it!

[Jennifer in KS]

Isela, here's a great list of games, some of which have been mentioned here;

http://www.babyshower101.com/baby_shower_games.html

[Elena Murphy]

For my son's shower, we bought a lot of plain onesies, socks, pants, and hats and a ton of puff paint and asked our guests to decorate the clothes for us. We got a lot of unique and creative clothing for our baby as a result. We just left the stuff out and people decorated while talking to each other. As a bonus it kept the kids who had come to the shower busy as well.

[Bethany]

Isela, here's a little twist from the crossing the legs idea...everyone who gets caught saying the word "cute" gives up their pin to the person who catches them. This is nearly impossible at a baby shower!
Another idea is to have everyone hold a paper plate on top of your head with one hand, and with the other draw a picture of the future baby...this is a riot to see what everyone comes up with! The mother to be gets to pick the best picture.

[Jeannie]

Well, it has been a long time, but:

Each guest cuts off a piece of yarn or string to the length they think will fit around the belly of the mama-to-be. The person who guesses the closest to the actual size wins.

Most of the others games have already been suggested.

Huggz!

[Jennifer]

Many of the games I've played have been mentioned but here's another one. Get 6-10 baby items like bottle brush, pacifier clip, etc. Put each item in it's own small paper bag. Have each person at the party feel the item from outside the bag and guess what's inside the bag. Whoever guesses the most correct wins.

[Nadine B]

If they are an active bunch or there are children to be entertained, you can do a version of pin the tail on the donkey with Pin the Diaper on the Baby. Large picture of a baby on the wall (I think my friend found a clipart of the backside of a baby and printed it out really large) cut out "diapers" (pieces of paper shaped like diapers), blindfold the guest, spin them around, (we used tape so we didn't ruin any walls) and let them at it.
We also played the name game. If they know the baby's name, start with it. The next person has to think of a name starting with the last letter of the baby's name. The person after that thinks of a name starting with the last letter of the name that the person before them came up with. If you can't think of a name you are out. Last person standing wins. Could also be good if the parents haven't thought of a name. Start with the Mom's name and who knows, they might be inspired.

[Danielle]

My sister froze little plastic babies in ice cubes and put them in glasses. The ladies could then swirl them around the glasses or what ever to make them melt faster the first one out of the glass wins a prize. The only rule was you couldn't actually take the baby out of the glass until it was born (Aka ice completely melted)

[Scoutj]

I have done the onesie painting thing at a few I've organized and it's by far my favorite!

[sara]

One of the coolest things we ever did at a baby shower was each decorate a page for a scrap book. Prior to the day, we all chipped in money, then the host went and bought a scrap book and a bunch of scrap book material kits. then we all selected a kit and decorated the page. The funny thing was that no one designed the page how it was supposed to be. We all got creative and did our own page. Then, the host inserted the pages into the book, and we gave her the gift. It was a fun thing to do, and a great start for a baby book. Once the baby comes, she can insert the photos.

Some decoration ideas I saw:
http://www.ljcfyi.com/ljcsProjects/craftiness/shower.html

http://www.kodakgallery.com/jenny/projects/baby_shower_favors

And I just emailed you the cutest peapod thingys. (bath fizzies in towels to look like peapods.

[Kim]

One of my favorites is a random baby facts quiz (like, how many hours a day does a newborn sleep, how many diapers does an average newborn go through, etc.). I've seen some good ones online. Also, we always play baby scattergories. You take the letter of the baby's name and for each letter you have to think of a baby item. For example, Betty would be B - Bottles, E - Eating, etc., etc. Whoever has the most answers that match the mom's wins.