Baby Shower Games Put The Fun In The Party

The perfect way to have fun and socialize with the Mom to be while enjoying Baby shower party games. Well-wishing friends and family can provide tips and tales about child birth and child rearing. The hostess is responsible for seeing that guests are kept occupied and engaged in the party. Most showers last about three hours. Gift opening and eating occupies at least half the time. However, that leaves ninety minutes in which the hostess needs to plan some group activities.

There are numerous baby shower party games that can be used in a group format Make sure to have lots of little prizes for game winners. A fun game is to make a picture of what the baby might look like. The hostess provides glue, scissors, baby magazines, and blank paper. Each participant cuts out images from the magazines, then glue them onto the plain sheet to create the potential baby. The Mother to Be picks the winner.

Another baby shower party game is to have a jar full of safety pins. As each guest comes in, he or she guesses the number of pins in the jar. After the pins are counted the closet one gets a prie. Try a bottle race. Each participant gets a bottle full of juice. Have them race to see who can drink the liquid out of the bottle the quickest. Name the new baby is always a fun game. Have the guest use parts of the Mom and Dad's names to create a new name for the baby. The Mom to be chooses the winner.

Ask each guest to come to the baby shower party with a baby picture. Put the pictures out on a card table or display board. Play the guessing game where each guest tries to figure out which baby is which guest. Give a prize to the one with the greatest number of correct answers. Guessing the baby food is another game. Guest are asked to taste baby foods and identify what they are. Some people choose to inspect or smell the food to try and identify it.

Allow time at the end for each guest to talk and discuss the results at the end of each baby shower game. Make the presentation of the prize a big deal. Baby shower party favors are the perfect game prize. Most games take about fifteen to twenty minutes to play, depending on the size of the group. Always keep extra prizes on hand for runner's up or consolation purposes. While purchasing the party invitations and party supplies go ahead and pick up the prizes.


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Mrs. Party... Gail Leino gives her two cents worth on entertaining parties, and baby and bridal showers. Plus, she generously provides free baby shower party games activities and baby shower party supplies