Mommy Song List

Materials - pad of paper and pen for each woman
Have each woman write down in 5 minutes all the songs that have mommy, mama or mother in their titles (i.e., I saw mommy kissing santa claus, songs my mother sang, mama mia). You can make it harder by stating that you have to name who also wrote the songs! A baby shower favorite! If this seems too hard, open it up to songs that have these words in their lyrics! Here are a list that we have if you want to change the game to have guests guess who sang the songs:

Mama Kin - Aerosmith
Your Mama Can't Dance - Loggins & Messina
Mama's Got A Squeezebox - The Who
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
Mama I'm Coming Home - Ozzy Osbourne
It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding - Bob Dylan
That's Alright Mama - Elvis Presley
"Mother" by Danzig
"Mother and child reunion" by Paul Simon
"Mother Dawn" by Blue Pearl
"Mother in law" by Ernie K-Doe
"Mother nature and Father Time" by Nat King Cole
"Mother of mine" by Niel Reid
"Mother Universe" by The Soup Dragons
"Mothers talk" by Tears for fears
"Motherland-a-fri-ca" by Tribal House
"Motherless child" by Eric Clapton
Mother's Little Helper ~ The Rolling Stones
Motherless Child ~ Richie Havens
Atom Heart Mother ~ Pink Floyd
Tie Your Mother Down ~ Queen
If I Was Your Mother ~ Bon Jovi
Mama tried - Merle Haggard
Mother by John Lennon
Mama He's Crazy - the Judds

Name the Names

Materials: Paper, Pens and Preliminary Questions for Key Baby Shower Family Members
On one side of the paper list the first names of mom and dad to be, all the grandparents and brothers, sisters (you could also use the names of the guests on the invite list). Then on the other side of the paper list a brief meaning of each name from a baby book. Guests then had to match the names with the appropriate meaning. The one with the most correct wins! It was a lot of fun and interesting to find out what the names mean.

Name The Characters
Materials: Pictures of child characters from Movie and TV, Pen, Paper)
Prior to the baby shower, have a baby shower guest go to different popular child sites (Disney.com, Noggin.com, SesameStreet.com, NickJr.com) and print pictures of popular children personalities/characters. At the baby shower, see how many the mommy-to-be gets right when you hold them up as she will need to be briefed on the characters that her new child will enjoy! Bonus points for knowing all of the names of The Wiggles, Hannah Montana's real name as well as the Wonder Pets). A great baby shower game to test contemporary characters that will be loved by the mommy-to-be's child!

Good Advice
Materials: Strips of A4 (narrow) paper and pens
All the guests get given a strip of A4 paper - the paper must be fairly narrow and long. Fold the paper into quarters and then get the baby shower guests to write a problem they may have had in the first few weeks of having their baby (e.g. baby doesn't sleep well, baby cries too much, baby doesn't burp after a feed then cries etc.on the first quarter). Fold the paper in half and pass it three people along. The baby shower guests then write the solution to the problem and fold the paper so it is like a small parcel. The papers are gathered up and the mother-to-be reads out the problems and the solutions.