Clothes Pin Grab Two guests hold a long cord (meant to resemble a clothes line) with numerous clothes pins attached. Everyone has to try with ONE hand only to get as many clothes pins off while still holding them in their ONE hand. As soon as a clothes pin is dropped, it does not count and [...]
Baby Product Logos Cut out twenty baby product ads from several magazines. Then cut out the "brand name" only and place all the ads on construction or stiff paper so they can be passed around. Number the ads from one to twenty. The ads can be passed around from guest to guest or hung on a [...]
Baby Questions Pass out note cards and pencils to each guest, asking them to write down common baby questions such as "what do you do when a baby cries?" or "how do you get a baby to sleep through the night?" Then collect all the cards, mix them up and distribute them face down (so no [...]
Put a dozen plain safety pins of different sizes into a large bowl filled with rice. Blindfold a player and give him or her sixty (60) seconds to pull out as many pins a possible. The one who pulls out the most pins during this time limit win. This game is harder than you think!
Place several baby items on a tray. Show the tray to the guests for only fifteen (15) seconds, then hide the tray and have everyone write down as many of the baby items as they can remember. The guest with the most correct items wins. The tray is then given to the mommy-to-be since she'll [...]
Create a sheet of four to six actual baby pictures (from magazines, mother-to-be photo album, family albums, etc.). Make photocopies of the sheet for each guest. The guests try to create funny captions of what they think the baby is trying to say!
Create a crossword puzzle with baby-related clues. for example, the color for a girl is #1 across. This takes a lot of time to prepare ahead of the shower!
A Mother's Purse Read a list of items and ask each guest to tryand find it in her purse. Assign each item with points (the odder the item, the higher the points). The person the most points and is the winner. Something that rattles (besides keys and loose change)Something that is pinkSomething that is blue [...]
Soap Carving Contest A bar of ivory soap per teama butter knife per team2-3 people per team7 minutes to carve a baby out of the soap and every member of the team needsto have a min. of 1 1/1 min. on the soap. Imaginations run from baby in the womb- baby in the crib and just the [...]
Baby Rattles from Tea Strainers This is a favorite gift of mothers-to-be when they receive it as a gift fortheir baby... it makes a lot of noise is really light-weight and doesn't hurtthe baby when he/she bonks themselves with it! This is an inexpensive, easy,great gift! Materials: Two plastic teas strainers -- the kind with the [...]