4 Wonderful Game Ideas to Make Your Baby Shower Memorable and Fun

Baby showers are usually organised by a close friend of the mom-to-be in honour of the expecting mom and to celebrate the joy of the coming addition to the family. Parties are usually filled with lots of fun and good will, and with the right kind of games, they can truly become unforgettable. Baby showers can be enlivened with some simple baby shower games that bring family and friends together and give a lot of happiness to the expecting mom. 

Read on for some great game ideas for your Baby Shower

• Guess Who? - If you are looking for baby shower games for a larger groups, this one is a perfect fit. While sending invites, ask all your guests to bring along a photo of themselves as a baby. Clip all the pictures together and ask the guests to guess the babies. The one with the right answer can take home a beautiful gift!

• Don’t say ‘Baby’ – This is one of the classic funny baby shower games wherein each guest is given a clothespin that they must put on their sleeves or hem. The instructions are that no one should say the word baby. When someone says, baby, their pin is taken by the person who catches them. The guest with the largest number of pins wins the game!

• Baby Boggle – If you like baby shower word scramble or similar word games, you can play a fun boggle where you create a sentence or a phrase for the new parents and ask the guests to make as many different words from the letters in the sentence. You can use a phrase like, ‘There’s a new set of parents arriving in the world’ or ‘(name of parents) are going to be wonderful parents to their baby’.  

• Time Capsule – This is a great game for the future. Each guest must write a line or a short note for the baby which must be sealed in an envelope. The mom must open these notes on the 10th or 15th birthday of the baby.

If you know the sex of the game, you can also create special baby shower games for a boy or girl and make the arrangements and decorations in blue or pink respectively. Ensure that you play games in moderation and get active participation from all the guests to make this a memorable event for the mom as well as the baby!