Baby Shower Games

Baby Shower Theme Ideas

Giving serious thought to choosing one baby shower theme will make life easier for you.

Here are some examples of themes that I hope will make life easier for you.

Have a fall harvest theme. You could decorate in orange, brown and gold colors. Serve pumpkin pie, cider, spiced chai tea and apples. Make some soups and warm dips; and burn cinnamon candles. Having a fall theme is just another added dimension to the shower. It in no way distracts from the main focus of celebrating baby.

If it is summer time perhaps you'd like to have a pool party theme. Suggest everyone bring their bathing suit and a towel. Host the shower outside. Serve lemonade and popsicles.

The seasons of the year offer wonderful ideas on themes. A spring theme could include lots of flowers. Favors could be a little package of bulbs. Stress the new birth that comes with spring and tie it in with the new birth of the baby.

You could do a "pamper-me" theme. Let everyone take their shoes off and dip their feet in the foot massager. Then rub peppermint lotion on your feet. This would be a fun get together - all the while making mom and baby the focus. It will be enjoyable and memorable for the shower guests too.

What about a cookie exchange? Have all the guests bring 2 dozen cookies and swap them out. Chances are your guest of honor will have fun too. Of course a baby shower is all about mom, but sometimes there are only so many baby festivities to do in one afternoon.

What about a luau theme complete with grass skirts, leis and coconuts. Make your shower FUN. It doesn't have to be about tea and crumpets while sitting quietly in a chair. If your guest of honor was fun before she was pregnant, she'll still be fun. (Give her one last hoorah before baby settles her down.)

Whatever theme you choose, have a blast putting it together. Times like this don't come around so often, you know.

A Few Baby Shower Game Ideas

Baby showers and games go hand in hand, right? Maybe you would rather not have them at your baby shower but you know they are expected. So have some fun with it.

How about doing some baby food tasting? Blindfold mom and have her sit in a big chair. Hostess will give mom different baby foods by the spoonful. Mom's job is to guess the flavor. You could, of course blindfold the guests and make them guess the flavors.

A Few Baby Shower Game Ideas

Baby showers and games go hand in hand, right? Maybe you would rather not have them at your baby shower but you know they are expected. So have some fun with it.

How about doing some baby food tasting? Blindfold mom and have her sit in a big chair. Hostess will give mom different baby foods by the spoonful. Mom's job is to guess the flavor. You could, of course blindfold the guests and make them guess the flavors.

Here is another idea. Have the guests take a roll of toilet paper and take off enough squares that she thinks will go around mom's tummy.

Try this. Put a small portion of baby food in a disposable diaper. Have the guests smell the food through the diaper and guess what kind of food it is. Ich!

Write baby related words on pieces of paper - rattle, diaper, teething, colic, bath, ointment, bouncy seat, etc. and then scramble up the letters. Give everyone a few minutes to decipher as many as they can.

Have a box or a tray with baby related items - wipes, diaper pin, diaper ointment, ear bulb, teething tablets, booties, washcloth, hair bow, etc. The smaller the items the better. Put the box or tray in front of everyone for two minutes then remove it. Have guests write down as many items as they can remember. Of course mom gets to keep the box when the game is finished.

New Breed of Baby Shower Activities

Why do we always have games at baby showers?

1. they provide a great way to get to know other guests

2. baby shower games get wallflower people into the fun and excitement

3. baby shower games always provide a ton of laughter

Classic Baby Shower games are fine but it's time to shake up the party!

New baby shower games ideas:

1. Baby bottle drinking contest. Bottles are filled with water (or juice). The person who empties the bottle first is the winner.

2. A piece of candy is put into a diaper. Guests must guess the type of candy by smelling it.

3. The bib: you get behing another person who is wearing a bib with their hands behind them. you put your arms around the other person and around the other person you try to feed her with a spoon.

What wild and crazy game can you think of for your shower?