BABY SHOWER
GAMES

There are a few perks for the guests at any baby shower:

• The baby shower games
• The favors presented to the guests
• Food shaped like baby stuff

But the materialistic and instant gratification issues should be addressed, too. Baby gifts accompanied by sweet, sentimental poems engraved on lovely pastel gift cards will bring a tear of joy to all that attend, but you didn’t get the girls together just to cry, did you?

Scratch-n-Sniff Baby Shower Game

THE MOST POPULAR (and FREE) BABY SHOWER GAMES.
We have instructional videos for some of them, so take a look.

• BLINDFOLD INDOOR OR OUTDOOR PARTY GAMES
  
• Bingo for Baby showers
• Baby Bottle Bowling Game
• Baby Bottle Ring Toss
• Practice Feeding the Baby
• The stinky diaper baby shower game
• Blindfold Baby Food Guessing Games
• Dirty Diaper and Diaper Changing Toilet Paper Shower Games

Fun loving, modern moms want a break from the everyday grind of housework and careers. What you need are a few really fun and FREE baby shower games that are fun to play. It’s good to be silly sometimes and these games are good ways to let the guests EARN their favors and have a belly laugh in the bargain. If you’re gathering party games and activities for a coed shower, free printables might not be the game of choice. You have to bump things up a notch when you're entertaining men at a baby shower, so physically active games might work best.

The trend is to assign one of the hostesses to look for free printable baby shower games for the baby shower, but I think action or productive games are just so much more fun. I don't know about all the other moms, but when the pens, pencils and paper start passing around I have to stifle a yawn. Even the Scratch and sniff stinky diaper baby shower games just leave me cold.

And Bingo? Who decided that Bingo was such a good baby shower game? I like some exercise and a little mental challenge with my games so baby charades or baby stuff scavenger hunts suit me better than what amounts to filling out baby themed crossword puzzles. If the baby shower is outside, games involving water balloons are always good for a chuckle and make excellent videos.

Some of the shower games that I've seen are downright insulting to a person's intelligence. I don't know about you, but my brain didn't turn to mush the day I gave birth. After a recent round of mindless entertainment I heard some childless friends say that they would never attend another baby party ever! We have to find a happy medium in entertaining with sappy baby shower games for those of us who make babies the center of our universe and games for men or childless couples who don't get it just yet.

I beseech you to try to come up with ideas for baby showers and games in themes that are genuinely entertaining, not just something to kill time between admiring the shower decorations, opening the gifts and enjoying the cake and refreshments.

Do something that's timeless and productive!

• When you send the baby shower invitations, ask the guest to please bring something to tuck into the baby's memory box or time capsule. This can be a very personal letter welcoming baby into the world or anything that is time specific to the baby's date of birth.
• Have seedlings on hand and have a tree planting party. Designate a record keeper to map out which trees were planted, where they were planted and which friend planted each tree. What a fabulous eco-friendly shower activity.
• Pregnant Mama Trivia -Have each guest make a list of questions to ask the guest of honor about her pregnancy. Have someone record the answers so that they can be included in a memory book for baby. What fun for a daughter to compare her pregnancy to her mom's when she grows up and is having her own baby!

Silly, goofy games are better than sitting in a chair filling out little pieces of paper and baby shower games that make memories are even better! UNIQUE BABY GEAR IDEAS HOME PAGE