Baby Photos
Unoriginal but still one of the best ice-breaking Baby Shower Games! Ask all guests to bring a baby picture of themselves or better still, post one in advance. Take each baby picture and arrange them onto a board. Assign each picture a number. Each guest gets a piece of paper and has to match the adult guest name with the corresponding baby picture. The guest with the most correct matches wins. Use the pictures as name tags after the game.

Top Baby Songs
Sort your guests into teams and get them to write down as many songs that have the word baby in the title in 3 minutes. The team who has the most song titles wins. The losers sing a baby song chosen by the winners.

Drop Potato Game
Buy 1 Potato and 1 Jar making sure the Potato can fit in the jar. Place the jar in the middle of the room. Each guest places the potato in between their knees and tries walking to the middle and dropping the potato in the jar. Who ever does it stays in. Start with a big jar (or bucket!) and get gradually smaller until you have a winner. Use a small balloon for an easier version. Alcohol helps enjoyment of this game!

Bottle Suckers
This game is especially good when its just for the guys at a mixed Baby Shower Party! Fill one 4 oz.baby bottle per person with water or juice. Time the suckers to see who can finish the bottle the fastest. Its great watching grown men (or women) suck from a baby bottle! For more fun, *set up* one contestant (father-to-be?) by using a teat with a very small hole or even seal one bottle completely.

Pillow Talk Just for fun, not a game.
Write down everything the mother-to-be says when she opens her gifts. After all the gifts are opened, explain that her comments were *what she said on the night the baby was conceived! Read her comments out loud for some hysterical inuendos. Some Grannies may not appreciate this!

Baby Food Tasters Buy 10 jars of baby food.
Provide a list of the 10 flavors. Cover the jars with foil and write a number on the side of each jar. Give everyone a plastic spoon, paper plate, and paper and pencil. Pass around each jar of baby food and have players drop a spoonful and write the number next to it. Get them to taste the samples and try to identify each flavor on the list. Remove the foil to reveal the answers. Try sweet potato as a *hard to guess* option. Get the camera out to record some great faces!

Baby Birthday Card
Give blank cards and envelopes numbered 1 to the number of guests (say 16) to each guest. Ask them to write a birthday card to the baby for that year of his/her life with appropriate comments and advice for that time of their life. It's a great gift for the baby, especially as a means of remembering older relatives who are present at the Baby Shower Party.

Dress the baby
A great game for a mixed sex Baby Shower but you need *good sports*. Tell all female guests to bring a diaper bag with an outfit to dress their baby. As couples arrive send them to a bedroom where the wives dress their husbands as heir babies. Give prizes for cutest, ugliest..etc.. baby.

Teenage fumblings
Again this games' best for a mixed sex party (ideally) and only for *good friends*! Blindfold 2 guests and stand them in the middle of the room facing each other. Attach 5 clothespins on each player in strategic places. The players must then search the other player to find the clothespins. Whoever finds all 5 first wins. It's camera time again!.

Baby Products Buy
10 baby products that aren't easily identified, such as a temperature strip or a breast pump. A bit of lateral thinking with ideas for *products* helps e.g. a cinema voucher - to escape and leave baby with dad for 2 hours. Ask guests to write down what each object is for. The most correct answers wins the game. Present all the products to the mother-to-be as a gift.

Time Capsule
Get a large container and decorate it with your baby theme. Ask guests to bring items to put into a time capsule, such as newspapers, magazines, cds of current music..etc... or anything that relates to the current time. Also get each guest to write a note to the baby.

Play Dough Babies
Provide half a can of dough per guest and ask everyone to make little babies. Tthe mother-to-be then judges and the winner gets a prize. Peaceful game.

Perfect Baby
Make a list of questions relating to the baby's character and appearance e.g. hair, eyes, bottom, sense of humor, intelligence..etc... Get guests to write down which of the attributes the mother would like the child to inherit fom her or the father. Compare their answers with the mother's-to-be most perfect baby list. Themost correct answers wins.

Mum's Waistline Get a roll of ribbon.
Mother-to-be stands in the middle and each guest has to estimate the circumference of Mummy's waist and cut a length of ribbon to match her waist measurement. Measure Mum's waist and compare to each ribbon. The closest length wins.

Test drive
If your baby shower is outside, set up an obstacle course. Put a doll in a stroller and time each guest around the course with a 5 second penalty for each collision and disqualification if the doll falls out of the stroller.

Baby Anagrams
Prepare a list of twenty relevant baby words. Scramble up the letters - if you are feeling clever, have the result as real words e.g. STROLLER = REST ROLL. Give every guest a list of the anagrams to solve as quick as possible.

Celebrity Babies
Prepare a list of celebrity mums and a list of baby names.Guests have to match the celebrity mum to the name of her baby/child.

Baby Price is Right
Buy small baby products and keep a list of what each one costs. Make a list for every guest of all products without the prices. Guests write what they think each item cost and then total all items. Closest one to the correct cost wins.

Balloon BustBlow up one balloon per guest and put a piece of paper in each one before blowing them up. one has *winner* on it. The other have forfeits such as reciting nursery rhymes or singing pop songs. Each guest chooses a balloon and has to burst their balloon by sitting on it before carrying out the forfeit or collecting their prize.

Pudding Game
Buy or make pudding cups for every guest. Pair up guests. Put a trash bag over each of them. Sit them opposite eachother. Give them one cup each and a plastic spoon. Blindold them. Each couple have to feed each other the pudding as fast as they can. The couple who finishes their puddings first wins. Best done over a vinyl floor or outside!.

Smelly Diapers
Fill 10 diapers with different smelly products e.g.chilli sauce, baby lotion, chocolate, beer ..etc... Give each guest a pen and paper and pass the little diapers around and have each guest sniff them and write down the source of each smell. Whoever guesses the most correctly wins.

Diaper in pairs game
Arrange guests into pairs. Each pair has to diaper a doll with a cloth diaper and pins but each person on the team can only use one hand and nothing else! Winner combines speed and accuracy with no holes in the doll!

Bath Towel
More a memento than a game. Buy a large white hooded bath towel for the baby. Purchase non-toxic fabric paint or markers. Get each guest to write a *message*, *poem* or just *autograph* the towel upon arrival. At end of party present Mum with the towel.

Blind Diaper game
Provide a baby doll, 1 cloth diaper, 2 diaper pins. Guests take turns putting a diaper on the baby doll while blind folded. The guest with the fastest and best diapering job wins a prize.

Lullaby
As guests arrive, take each one into another room to sing their favorite lullaby or childhood song into a tape recorder. If they don't want to sing, have them recite their favorite nursery rhyme or poem. Give the tape to the mother-to-be.

Who am I?
Oldie but goldie of all Baby Shower games! Stick a sticker on the back of each guest with an appropriate celebrity name as they arrive. Everyone has to find out who they are by asking other guest questions which can only be answered *yes* or *no*. A great ice-breaker but try not to insult anyone with the choice of sticker e.g. Miss Piggy! Last one to guess gets Booby prize.

Name Tag
Prepare name tags with various words of things that the mother-to-be will use during motherhood. e.g. Diaper, Cot..etc... Give guests a *name* tag when they arrive which is how they will have to be called during the Baby Shower Party. Introduce forfeits of a quarter to the baby's piggy bank for anyone using real names.

Ice Babies game
Freeze miniature plastic babies in a small Cup full of ice. Before the shower party, partially thaw the ice babies. When guests arrive hand them a cup and get them to write the time they believe their baby will be *born* (break free from the ice). Guests keep an eye on their ice babies and record the actual time of "birth". The one with the closet time wins.

ABC's
Write down each letter of the alphabet on a card with something to do with a baby that begins with that letter. Choose one letter at a time and guests have to guess the word(s) on the card. Whoever guesses correctly gets the card. Whoever has the most cards at the end of the game wins a prize.

Baby Animal name game
Make a list of proper names of baby animals, like cygnet, elver, fawn..etc... Use a dictionary or a childrens book to research the oddest ones. Make a list of 20 names. The guests have to name the mother animal. Whoever has the most correct names wins.

Baby's Portrait
Give each guest a paper plate and a crayon. Get them to place the plate on top of their heads and draw a baby. Everyone votes for the best picture.

Baby Bag Mystery
Place ten baby products each in a paper bag. Staple the bags shut and number them. Pass the bags around and get guests to right down the bags contents. The one who gets the most right wins.

Baby Bingo
Give a piece of A4 paper divided into a 3x3 square grid to each guest. Write *Baby* in the middle square. Before Mum begins to open her presents, each guest writes in the other 8 squares exactly what she thinks the gifts will be. As Mum opens her gifts, guests X the box they have correctly guessed. The first person that fills her card shouts *Baby Bingo* and wins.

Did you say BABY?
Each guest is given a clothes pin at the start of the Baby Shower party. Everyone is told not to say the word *baby*. If you accidentally say *baby*, then the first person who catches you gets all of your clothes pins. The guest with the most pins at the end of the shower wins. Try tricking your fellow guests into saying *baby*.

Nursery Rhymes
Write down lines (or partial lines) of nursery rhymes. The guests have to guess the title of the nursery rhyme. e.g. *the little dog laughed* - Answer = *Hey Diddle diddle*.

Motherly Advice
Each guest is given an index card when they arrive and asked to write a question a new mother would ask (e.g. How can I stop my baby from waking every 2 hours?) Then during the baby shower party, pass all the cards out face down. The guests write the answer to their question on the back of the different card. Then read the non-matching questions and answers for some strange tips.

Next Mum Fun
Not a game Tradition says whoever brought the seventh gift opened at a baby shower will be the next to get pregnant. Make a badge with a picture of a pregnant woman and the caption *I'm Next!* for her to wear.

Baby Statistics
Create a list of baby statistics to give to each guest at the start of the Baby Shower Party and collect as they leave. Questions such as: baby's weight? color of hair? date of birth? time of birth? sex ? Once the baby is born, send the guest with the most correct answers a gift ( a crystal ball?).

Safety games
Learn while you play with some great educational games based on child safety. . To carry the theme through, why not buy one of the innovative child safety products available.

Baby's name boggle
Take the baby's name (if known) and write it at the top of a piece of paper. Make copies and give one to every guest. Give the guests 2 minutes to make as many words of 3 letters or more out of the baby's name. Baby shower boggle.