Baby Shower Games, Planning Ideas, Gifts and more

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Three Great New Games

The Price is Right
Materials: Baby products, index cards, pens and paper for each baby shower guest
Like the game show, purchase 10 different baby items (i.e., baby shampoo, soap, bib, lotion, rattle, pampers). On index cards, write the price of each baby shower item and then randomly place the index cards in front of all of the items. Write a letter next to the price of each item and then have your baby shower guests guess by writing down the item that corresponds to the price. Each guest will write their answer on a piece of paper. The baby shower guest with the most correct corresponding prices wins a prize!

How Well Do You Know The Mommy-To-Be
Materials: paper and pens for each baby shower guest, index cards
Have the baby shower planner find out as much about the mommy-to-be as a child and write the questions and answers on index cards. Questions can range from, "What was the mommy-to-be's favorite toy as a baby", favorite baby food, any allergies, favorite show as a baby, first crush, etc. The baby shower guest to get the most right wins a baby shower gift!

Baby Bottle Treasure Hunt
Materials: 2 Normal Baby Bottles, Rice to fill bottle, Little Related Baby Items Like a Q-tip, safety pin, a button, a penny, a hair clip, tiny foam cut outs, small toys, for a boy a tiny car, maybe for a girl shower, bow, a pinto bean, and pom-pom...anywhere from 10 to 15 trinkets, Paper, Pens
Get a standard baby bottles and gather small items for each bottle as mentioned above. Randomly place the treasures in each bottle, leaving a little room for shaking. Split the baby shower guests into two teams and give them 3 to 5 minutes to write down the objects they find in the bottle without opening it! The team with the most items written down wins! Thank you to Cindy for this great baby shower game idea!

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Pass the parcel/gift

Materials: baby shower gift (one for mother to be), newspaper, gags, several instruction stickers which are blank stickers that you will create, a baby doll with diapers and sippy cup, blindfold, rubber glove, oversized tongs, bib)

Wrap a gift with around 10 or more layers of wrapping paper and add an instructional sticker to each layer (see below for some ideas). Some of the stickers should say, "GAG" which means the baby shower participant has to do whatever the gag states (see ideas below). Pass the parcel/gift without music but according to instruction stickers stuck on the outside of the gift. So the package may say: pass the gift to someone wearing pink. That person wearing wearing pink then takes off a layer of packaging. They may receive a prize, a gag, or just the instruction of who to pass to next. Keep going until the final wrapper which has a sticker stuck on it saying "pass this to the mother to be" and have a gift for mother or baby.

Some of the ideas for the gags may read: (or think up some creative ones yourself):

"Oh no! Baby has just pooped. Change his diaper blindfolded within 30 sec and win a prize" Then have the guest complete the activity.
"Oh no, baby's hungry. Have the guest drink a cup juice/milk through a sippy cup within the time limit.
"Oh no, baby's bored. Sing them your favorite nursery rhyme"
"Oh no, poopy diapers in need of soaking! Lift tissues (the dirty diapers) from one bowl to the other using rubber gloves and oversized tongs while blindfolded. If they all land in the new bowl then win a prize.
"Messy baby! Wear this bib until this game is over"
"Mommy has just informed daddy that her water broke. Daddy's first words are________?" (this can be quite funny if daddy is known to say silly things)

Passing instructions. Be as creative as you want with this. Some ideas are, pass the gift to:

some one wearing a blue shirt/ glasses/ socks/ earrings ect.
someone who has most recently had a baby
someone who has the most children
someone who has the most daughters (or sons)
three passes to you left
three passes to you right
pass to the person directly across from you
some one who either has all girls or all boys
someone who is an aunty
someone who is a grandmother
someone with blonde hairsomeone wearing pinksomeone who is not related