Hi smile

I've posted a couple of times, but I didn't really introduce myself. I'm Kat, 30, pregnant with my first (a boy), and am lucky enough to have an amazing husband who is really excited about becoming a dad. He's been very supportive throughout my pregnancy and the few things that have gone wrong with me (though not our baby - hopefully he has his dad's indestructable genes). I'm due in 9 weeks now, so it's getting reaaallly close. I'd say I can't wait, but I can, I want bub to finish cooking wink

I'm just about to email off invites to the baby shower. We're inviting men and kids, not just girls, because I want hubby to get to share in the celebration, he's put up with all the crap side of pregnancy and I want him to enjoy some of the fun bit too.

So... I finally get to the point. Games! Does anyone have any game ideas? What was your shower like? I'm trying to stick to games that aren't too girly (as much as I'd love to, fabric painting onesies is out), or too gross (hate the idea of guessing what pureed food is in a nappy - gag).

So far we're going to play baby bingo with the presents and maybe pin the nappy on the baby. Also a very classy drinking contest where the guys have to see who can drink beer through a baby's bottle fastest (I saw it at a friend's baby shower and it was hilarious to watch). I'd like at least a couple more.

Also, what sort of prizes did you have at yours/have you seen at others? Mum's doing some baking for the afternoon and offered to make an additional cake as one of the prizes (which will be fantastic as she makes luscious banana cakes with cream cheese icing and I think anyone would want to win one), but otherwise I'm out of (inexpensive) ideas. I guess a 6 pack for the bottle drinking competition.

smile Kat

You could play a game were everyone has a certain amount of pegs on there shirt and whenever someone says the word baby you get to take one of there pegs. Whoever has the most pegs at the end wins a prize. You could do like a quiz game too - heaps of ideas on the net about that one.

My friends sister did a lot of computer things, one game that is good for all at your party was to gues the parents of weirdly named Hollywood babies.
Another one that was funny as (but probably not for yours with kids) was 'pregnant or porn?' She focused in on the faces of women, and we had to guess if they were in labour, or porn. When she went through the answers, it was super surprising. She showed the screen but put 'modesty bars' over all the rude bits.

There are some games at baby showers which really make me cringe!!! laugh

I went to one the other day and we played 'Gene Lottery' and I didnt cringe once wink Basically you make a list of say 20 traits the baby could take after from either parent ie things like Hair, eyes, sense of humour, sporting ability, tidiness, height, skin tone, dance moves etc. Photocopy the list however many guests there are and everyone has to put either the the mother or father for each one . The idea is they have to guess the same answers as what you have picked. The person with the most the same wins smile

It doesnt take long to put together and is easy to do without having to explain to much. It also provided a lot of laughs!

Hi, you could do the game where guests or couples have to guess the circumference of your belly using wool, make an a-z list on paper and couples have to compete to see who can find baby boy names for each letter of the alphabet the fastest (good if you still want name suggestions), fill a baby bottle up with jelly babies and stick a sheet on the wall so guests have to guess how many babies are in the bottle, it would be funny to blind fold the guys and see if they can put a nappy on a doll the fastest with the guidance of their partners instructions. Or, you could have different baby food jar contents presented nicely on a try and guests/couples have to sample them and try to figure out what flavour they are? I like games that can be going in the background so your friends can have a good time and mingle. Enjoy your shower!

I went to a baby shower recently where a lot of people didn't know each other. As an ice breaker they played the nappy game.

Basically you get about 6 different types of chocolates (topdeck, mars bars etc) and melt them individuly and smear them inside a nappy. The guests then have to sniff and lick the contents of the nappy and guess the type of chocolate.

It certainly got the party started!

My sister and I recently did a baby shower for our other sister. We did the peg game like a pp suggested (couldn't say baby, my sister's name or my bil's name); the memory game with 25 baby products on a table 2 min to look at it then had to write down everything you could remember - prize for the person who remembered the most; baby scattagories - pulled a letter out of a hat and you had to come up with things that suited specific baby topics, eg boy's name, gil's name, baby toy, baby clothes etc; dress the baby - we had two dolls and a bunch of baby clothes and it was a competition to see who could dress their doll the fastest in heats till we had a "winner", we used a nappy, singlet, one piece suit, bonnet, socks and bib for each doll (not all were dressed "correctly" we had a superbaby in one heat with socks held over the ears, bonnet tied around the waist, nappy on the head, bib as a cape etc); guess the stats (can't give a prize until bub is born though) where people had to write down the day, date and time they thought bub would be born, whether my sister was having a boy or girl (they don't know), weight and length at birth, time in labour etc.

Other games I've seen at baby showers have been a game of taboo where you've got to get people to guess a specific baby themed word but you've got a list of words you can't say as hints (no prize for this one, just lots of laughter at some of the guesses); guess the ingredients - they had 3 jars of baby food and you had to guess the ingredients used in each, one had 3 ingredients, one had 5 and the other had 8 (i think), the labels were taken off and you had to go by sight, smell and (if you wanted) taste and fill in the blank - they read out 20 nursery rhymes but left out a word/phrase from each and you had to write down what you thought was missing from each nursery rhyme, the winner was the person with the most correct answers.

Leisa

We put baby items in paper sandwich bags and had people try and guess what they were. We also played a game where we got shot glasses of baby food to try and had to guess what was in it.

The games at my baby shower were pretty "gender neutral". We did a game the same as the peg game that Nai&Beau mentioned above but we used dummies on ribbons around your neck. We also did a quiz (basic general knowledge quiz with a baby theme) and a baby product ranking game where you had to list the baby items in order of cheapest to dearest.

I like the sound of the beer through the bottle game for the lads. I'm sure that will go down a treat. Hope you have a great time - it's a great idea to involve the boys too!

you could get baby photos of your guests and have them all guess whois who and have people wesringname tagssonames aint forgotten