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General Baby Shower Games

Don't say "BABY" Game
Each guest receives a clothes pin as they arrive and explain to the guests only once: If you catch someone saying the word 'baby' you get to take their clothes
pin. The one with the most pins at the end of the shower wins.
- Suggestion: Instead of using safety pins, make candy pacifiers. Use white certs (the ones like lifesavers), pink or blue ribbon, and jelly belly jelly beans. How to make: Put ribbon through the cert, and then glue a jelly bean in the center. Note: Tell guest not to eat the pacifiers. Play the game the same way, but wear the pacifiers around the neck. Thanks - Amanda - Lexington, KY

Word Scramble
Two versions: 
1. Take words of baby items and mix up the letters, then have guests unscramble the words. Do 10-15 and make so tough the most correct wins. 
2. (as an ice-breaker) Use the expecting mother's first and last name, create teams of 2-3 end have each team come up with as many baby terms from the mother's name as possible. The team with the most real words wins. Printable Baby Shower Games include the Baby Word Scrambles

The Price is Right:
Just like TV, purchase several baby items and keep the receipt. Have the items out for the guests to see, and have them write down what the price of each item. The one closest without going over to the actual price wins. You can also have 10 - 15 items and list the prices of each, and the person who matches the most products to the correct amount of prices wins a gift.

Baby Animal Game
You create a sheet with a list of animals and their babies, the one who matches the most babies with the correct animal wins a small gift
Baby Animal Game Free - Ready To Print 
Or Various Printable Baby Shower Games that include the Baby Animals Game

Baby Bingo
Make up a blank bingo card on 8 1/2 X 11 paper and made copies. Each card
had five columns and five rows. The boxes need to be large enough that the guests can fill them in. Then on another sheet of paper come up with 100 baby
related items. Before you play you need to have each guest fill in their blank spaces with any of the words on the list of 100 in any order. Then, without telling the guests ahead of time, have them play bingo while the mother to be opens her gifts. Every time that she opens one of the gifts the guests mark off that gift on their bingo card. The first to bingo either up and down, across or diagonally wins. We had enough prizes that we were able to play this game the entire time that the mother opened gifts. Thank - Diana
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Hang the Laundry: 
Hang a clothes line at the shower. Have a pile or a basket with baby clothes, blankets, and clothes pins. Each guest has a certain amount of time to hang the clothes while they are holding a baby (doll) and have a cordless phone to their ear. The ones that can hang the most clothing without dropping baby or the phone wins.

Play Dough-tionary
We had a really big shower, probably 50 people there, so we had them divide up in teams. I got several jars of play dough, and gave one to each team of 4 people. They picked one person to go first, that person would draw a word from a basket. I filled a basket with pieces of paper with baby type words on them (stroller, bed, diaper, etc...) and then it was a race to "sculpt" the word out of the play dough, while their team members tried to guess what it was. It was hilarious. Of course some words were much easier then others, and every team had a different word, so there was not a problem with one team looking what someone else was sculpting. We did this several times, and had a good time. I gave a small prize to everyone on the team when they won a round. The play dough works great too if there are any children at the shower, it keeps them busy, so be sure to buy plenty. Thanks - Diana

Baby Shower Games with Food 

Ice Breaker Games for Baby Shower

Get To Know You and Pick Teams Game
This is the game you play before you play games.
Its a fun way to break-the-ice when guests don't know each other, and you may not be sure the best way to divide up teams.

- Say you have 20 guests - and need 5 teams of four people each
- Pick five songs everyone knows. Write down each song four
times on separate pieces of paper. (Mary Had a Little Lamb x 4, Take Me Out to the Ball Game x 4, and so on . . .)
- Pass the 20 slips of paper to the guests randomly.
- One the count of three everyone starts humming their song (no
words). The goal is to find the other three people humming your same
song. When everyone finds their song-mates -- the teams have been set!
Thanks - Kelly

IceBreaker - Discovery Game
This is a good game to start a party so that people can break the ice and get to know each other a little better great for showers or any event. Each guest receives a piece of paper and a pencil. In that paper they will find 10-15 different sentences. They have to find somebody in that room that shares what the sentence says and once they do, they write in that persons name. No listing yourself as the answer either! The winner is the first person to finish or whoever gets the most names, and you can give them a reward. To make it more fun, read the sentence and the answers to the group, so all can enjoy.
For instance you can write things such as:
- Find somebody who wears your same shoe size Name:______
- Find somebody who likes chinese food
- Find somebody who has been to Europe

You can be as creative as you want to be! This one is a guaranteed success to make people feel comfortable with each other.
Thanks - Ruth

The Toilet Paper Game - Ice Breaker
This is great for a "getting to you know you game". Have everyone sit in a circle and pass around a roll of toilet paper. Ask everyone to pretend they were going on a weekend camping trip and they need to take as much or as little toilet paper off as they would use. Once everyone has tore off their sheets tell them they have to tell something about themselves for every sheet they took off. For the ones to took a few they have it easy and they ones who took a lot then they have a lot of talking to do!
Thanks - Marcie

Dirty Diaper Game - Ice Breaker Game
Directions: Take a paper napkin and fold it into the shape of a diaper. Fold it in half once to form a rectangle. Place a small drop of mustard on one side of one of the diapers! Fold in half again so that it forms a square and so that the mustard is on the inside of the diaper. Fold down the top corners of the diaper and secure with tape or a small safety pin.

Give everyone a diaper once they come in and when everyone arrives or mostly everyone is there announce it's time to find out who has the dirty diaper. Before each person opens their diaper ask them to tell a little bit about who they are and how the know the mom to be and then open the diaper. All diapers are empty or clean except for one "Dirty Diaper." The guest with the "Dirty Diaper" receives a prize.
Thanks - Amy

Icebreaker - Cartoon Characters Who Am I
Get to know you game. Label 3X5 cards with famous characters from childhood. For example, you can use Barney, Winnie the Pooh, Barbie, etc. Make as many cards as there are guests and tape them to their backs without them seeing who they are. They figure out who they are by asking each person one yes or no question, such as, am I a girl?, do I have red hair? etc. Thanks - Jeannie

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