Least offensive baby shower games?

RebeccaFlower · April 2014

I'm planning my MOH's baby shower with some help and there 'has!!!' to be games... I would rather just skip it all but since I'm not the only one contributing, I said I would find a few to choose from. The baby food trial and something about chocolate in a diaper has been suggested but the big fuck no from me. Any suggestions? I saw a 'Price is Right' for baby goods and thought that wasn't too bad. I'm not super creative at making up my own.

AddieCake · April 2014

The last one I was at, we had to guess a baby item for each letter of the alphabet and compare lists to what the mommy to be wrote. I also weirdly enjoyed one where we tasted and guessed what kind of baby food we were eating.

climbingsingle · April 2014

Baby Bingo - everyone fills out a bingo sheet with the presents they think the mom-to-be will receive. First 5-10 people that get bingo win a prize.

ElcaB · April 2014

The Price is Right doesn't sound horrible.

For my sister's shower, we bought tiny plastic babies from the craft store & froze them in ice. Everyone had to guess what time their baby would be "born." It sounds super weird but it went over really well!

wandajune6 · April 2014

We did one where we matched the celebrity to their oddball baby name. It wasn't too bad.

I hate baby games.

Peaseblossom55 · April 2014

I like the bingo with the gifts, it also gives you something to do while opening while the mommy to be is opening the gifts

Maggie0829 · April 2014

Baby Bingo - everyone fills out a bingo sheet with the presents they think the mom-to-be will receive. First 5-10 people that get bingo win a prize.

I would do this one. Just don't do the "guess the size of the Mommy to be's belly" game. The last baby shower I went to did this and almost every guest there cut a piece of string that was at least twice the size of Mom's belly. I can only imagine what the Mom was thinking and how horribly large she must have felt since everyone around her saw her as huge.

lmcooper86 · April 2014

I hate the baby food game, I think it's just gross.

We did the price is right for my friend's shower and it went over well, but it's not easy for women who don't HAVE children...I have no idea how much diapers and baby shampoo cost! That one might depend on who's attending the shower.

Bingo and the weird celebrity children names could be fun though!

Sugargirl1019 · April 2014

ClimbingBrideNY said:
Baby Bingo - everyone fills out a bingo sheet with the presents they think the mom-to-be will receive. First 5-10 people that get bingo win a prize.

We are doing this at my bridal shower. I really really like this idea for a baby shower too.

climbingsingle · April 2014

Maggie0829 said:

Baby Bingo - everyone fills out a bingo sheet with the presents they think the mom-to-be will receive. First 5-10 people that get bingo win a prize.
I would do this one. Just don't do the "guess the size of the Mommy to be's belly" game. The last baby shower I went to did this and almost every guest there cut a piece of string that was at least twice the size of Mom's belly. I can only imagine what the Mom was thinking and how horribly large she must have felt since everyone around her saw her as huge.

I hate that guess the size game. We had to do it at the shower I went to Sunday. Everyone's piece of yarn was WAY bigger than her. It made me sad.

HobokensFury · April 2014

I hate shower games. With that being said gift bingo isn't awful. I told my mother if she did the size of the belly game I would walk out and she would be left looking like an ass because it's hard enough being pregnant and you don't need to be reminded/embarrassed about how big you are.

IMathlete · April 2014

We did two, and they didn't take long. The first was a race: teams of four. We timed it and each team had one person remove a cloth diaper (pins and all), wipe the baby, powder the baby, and re-diaper. Fastest team won a prize.

The second game was trivia in pairs, team with the most correct answers got a prize.

theartistformerlyknownas · April 2014

At my sister's we did matching the name of the baby animal to the adult name (i.e. baby fox is called a kit; baby frog is a tadpole or a polliwog, etc.) and one with a list of features where you had to guess which parent the mommy hoped the baby would take after (i.e. mommy's eyes and daddy's chin). Then since she didn't know whether she was having a boy or girl, did one with old wives' tales that are supposed to predict the gender (like "if you carry the weight out front, does that mean boy or girl?"). That one wasn't linked to the mom's actual answers so there weren't any awkward moments like "that baby is totally stealing your beauty!", but we did have some fun asking her which ones she was experiencing, like if her feet were colder. They ended up 50/50 and she had a boy.

csuave · April 2014

I agree that bingo and match the oddball bably name to the celebrity are both pretty good.

I like guess how many items are in the jar. Bonus if it is M&Ms and then the winner gets a jar of M&Ms!

Another I participated in was where each person sitting at a table got a diaper pin. Throughout the course of the shower people could take your pin if you said "baby." At the end the person with the most pins got the flower centerpiece.

As for the measure the expectant mother's bump the best way I saw this done was at a large shower with several tables. Each table did it on their own with ribbon and scissors at the table. There was a box at the table with the correct size ribbon. A quick comparison that the mom-to-be didn't even see showed who the winner at each table was.

Most importantly if games are being played for prizes it is nice to have good prizes. That may differ by crowd but for me it is chocolate or something like a Starbucks giftcard.

Maggie0829 · April 2014

I have a question and it isn't meant to be snarky, just curious. Why games? Where did this tradition start that a bunch of grown women who are coming together to celebrate a wedding shower or a baby shower need to play games? And ridiculous games at that?

littlemushroom · April 2014

At my BFF's shower we did questions about kids from old TV families, like Name the 6 kids from the Brady Bunch, name the Jetson's 2 kids, name all the kids in the Wilder family (from Little House on the Prairie), etc. This was really popular because the grandmas and the 30 somethings were pretty evenly matched.

We also did a game where you had to fill in the next line from certain Nursery Rhymes, like Little Boy Blue, Hey Diddle Diddle, and things like that.

Despite not having kids, I really like the Price is Right game for baby items. I almost always win that one because I am a good guesser.

jenna8984 · April 2014

I attended one where we did kind of like sherades/hollywoo game night. It was actually really funny, we were split into 3 teams of 8-10 women. The mom-to-be picked slips of paper and had to act them out and the team with the most points won. First round she couldn't speak- she had to make the motions for breastfeeding, burping, swaddling, changing diaper, bathing, crawling, etc. Second round she could speak and had to describe things like epidural, nail clippers, basinette, bib, baby monitors, etc. Having her involved and slighty embarrased made it way more fun.

jaygeejay · April 2014

I went to a baby shower last year for a baby boy with a mustache theme. One of the games was to identify famous mustaches. It was surprisingly fun and entertaining for everyone! One of the mustaches was the soon to be grandpa. It was cute!

Fairyjen1 · April 2014

I hate shower games and didn't do them at my sister's shower. I usually skip baby showers because of the games and usually ask if they will have them before I RSVP. The only showers I enjoy are ones where we talk, eat cake and open presents.

That said, if there HAS to be games, I don't like the chocolate in the diaper or 'guess the baby food' game. I won't participate in either.

There's one where you put a bunch of small baby items on a tray, 20-30 items, then you have everyone look at it for one minute, then you hide or cover up the tray and everyone has a few minutes to write down as many of the items as they can remember. Whoever remembers the most wins. Then you give the items on the tray to the MTB.

There's little printed books at party stores that have baby word jumbles and word searches and stuff.

photokitty · April 2014

Set a timer while opening gifts. When the timer goes off, the giver of the gift being opened at that time wins a prize.

Maggie0829 · April 2014

Set a timer while opening gifts. When the timer goes off, the giver of the gift being opened at that time wins a prize.

This is seriously the best game ever because it involves no participation whatsoever except for just showing up with a gift.

emmyg65 · April 2014

Ugh, shower games. What's wrong with just eating and chatting?

Blergbot · April 2014

I threw a baby shower once, and instead of games I bought a bunch of solid color onesies in varying sizes, some fabric paint, stencils, etc. and we all decorated the onesies. It was a big hit. Otherwise, as @emmyg65 suggested, there was yummy food and chatting. It was lovely.

ahyatt87 · April 2014

http://sarcasm-101.blogspot.ca/2011/08/rubyspikes-guide-to-hosting-baby-shower.html

Some of these don't sound too terrible like guessing the number of candy in a baby bottle or guessing the beer that is the baby bottle (but serving it in cups) could be done with any type of drink. IDK, I think shower games are silly, but if it is what the mom to be wants, some of these could be okay.

grumbledore · April 2014

RebeccaFlower said:

I'm planning my MOH's baby shower with some help and there 'has!!!' to be games... I would rather just skip it all but since I'm not the only one contributing, I said I would find a few to choose from. The baby food trial and something about chocolate in a diaper has been suggested but the big fuck no from me. Any suggestions? I saw a 'Price is Right' for baby goods and thought that wasn't too bad. I'm not super creative at making up my own.

I hate all those cheesy games. How about trivia? Price is Right could be fun, I love that show.

Skip anything to do with poop. It's so stupid.

grumbledore · April 2014

photokitty said:

Set a timer while opening gifts. When the timer goes off, the giver of the gift being opened at that time wins a prize.

That's an awesome idea.

pinkcow13 · April 2014

Maggie0829 said:

I have a question and it isn't meant to be snarky, just curious. Why games? Where did this tradition start that a bunch of grown women who are coming together to celebrate a wedding shower or a baby shower need to play games? And ridiculous games at that?

I hate baby showers, mostly because of the games. I have no idea where this tradition started, or why. I kind of feel that people choose to have them because "that's the way it is" and it's "tradition." For example, FMIL nearly had a cow when I mentioned (and lesson learned to keep my big mouth shut about wedding plans) that I did not want line dances, garter toss, or the traditional bouquet toss. She said I would "ruin" the wedding, and how I "have" to do these things. Right.

I went to one baby shower that did not have games, and it was the best shower I've been to. It didn't even feel like a baby shower, more like a lovely brunch. Even when the mom to be opened the gifts it did not feel brutal.

MobKaz · April 2014

ElcaB said:

The Price is Right doesn't sound horrible.

For my sister's shower, we bought tiny plastic babies from the craft store & froze them in ice. Everyone had to guess what time their baby would be "born." It sounds super weird but it went over really well!

I have read about this game. When the ice cube finally melts enough for the plastic doll to float freely, the article suggests the lucky winner shout, "My water broke!"

ktjanesmom · April 2014

Can someone please explain to me how exactly the bingo game would work at a bridal shower? Do you have BINGO across the top? And then the guests fill in the gifts? So you would have like B-toaster? What if you write toaster under the G? What am I missing here?

Maggie0829 · April 2014

@ktjanesmom - typically you have a blank table with 5 blocks across and another 5 down (just like a bingo card) and then the guests fill in the blocks with gift ideas. The word bingo is only used when someone gets five in a row, you don't need it across the top because you won't be announcing gifts per letter (like there won't be someone announcing B-diapers or N-breast pump). When the Mom opens the gift and say it is a diaper bag, then if you have diaper bag listed on your sheet you cross it off regardless of where on the table it was listed.

ktjanesmom · April 2014

@Maggie0829 Thank you. I get it now.

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