Looking for funny baby shower games to play at your upcoming shower? We’ve rounded up some of the best ones that everyone can get involved with!
It’s the last hurrah before baby arrives, and there’s nothing better than laughter with your nearest and dearest. From diapers and baby predictions to testing your abilities to change a nappy blindfolded – bookmark and screenshot your favorites for later!
19 Fun Baby Shower Games For Everyone To Enjoy!
1.Baby Predictions
Get your guests involved from the get go with some baby prediction cards, you could even have a prize up for grabs for whoever gets the closest match.
If you’re hosting a shower with different friend groups, this makes for a fab ice breaker too.
2. Bodysuit Painting and Crafting
Okay, more of a baby shower activity than game, but this is such a fun activity that will soak up a little bit of time for mingling and drinks during the afternoon/morning or evening.
You’ll need a stack of plain unisex bodysuits and fabric markers/fabric paints to kickstart this activity.
3. Guess, Laugh and Win
Guaranteed for plenty of laughs and giggles, this guess who mommy or daddy game is a great extra or alternative to the baby prediction cards.
Make up your own on Canva and get them printed, or you can get these fab ready to go mommy or daddy game cards from Amazon.
4. Diaper Pong
The days of beer pong might be a distant memory, but diaper pong is the in thing now!
Have a go at crafting your own setup, or find a company who can hire the stand out to you. To make your own you could even use a table put on its side, just affix a ‘diaper pong’ sign and hang some nappies. Get the pongs at the ready for shooting!
5. Celebrity Baby Guessing
Always a lot of fun, print out some photos of celebrities as babies and get everyone to make their guesses.
Alternatively, why not get each of your guests to submit their baby photos beforehand to you to print out and do the same for a more intimate, yet fun game.
6. Guess The Baby Food
Line up jars of baby food and get your guests to dig in with a spoon and guess what the food is. They’ll be laughs, cries and maybe some disgusted faces!
All you’ll need are some empty mason jars, numbered cards for the pots and pureed baby food to sample.
7. Name That ‘Baby’ Song
Feeling quizzical? Get a playlist ready for the baby shower and host a name that baby song. It’s determined to get everyone dancing and scratching their hands for this one.
8. Pacifier Hunt
A treasure hunt with a difference, hide pacifiers throughout the venue of your baby shower and challenge guests to find the most. Whoever can come back with the most will win a prize!
9. Baby Shower Roulette
Spin the bottle, but make it mom version! This baby shower roulette idea is a lot of fun, guests can take it in turns to literally spin the bottle to act out on whatever it lands on. You could get creative with this and come up with your own ideas.
Here are some to get you started;
- Act like a baby
- Give advice to mom to be
- Recite your favorite childhood memory
- Recite a nursery rhyme
- Sing a song for the mom to be
- Dance like no one is watching
- Recite ABCD backwards
- Dance with mom to be
- Wear a nappy for the rest of the shower!
- Change a nappy blindfolded
10. Catch The Sausage
Catch the sausage? Yes, really!
The one that will deliver some real baby laughs – there are a few different ways you can set this up, but essentially you hang a sausage off a hook or something similar from a certain height and swing it whilst the contestant has to try and catch it in their mouths. Trust me, it sounds easier than it is!
11. Don’t Say ‘Baby’!
A fun challenge to greet your guests as they arrive, simple rules, they can’t say twins, baby or babies – who do you think will fail first?!
12. Blindfold Diaper Changing
How good are you really at changing a diaper? If you’ve ever heard yourself say you could change a nappy in the dark or in your sleep, let’s put that to the test!
Set stations up with dolls and diapers and blindfold the participants, who can finish it first, and successfully?!
13. Late Night Diapers
If you liked that diaper game, here’s another to sandwich in for the shower.
For those late night diaper changing sessions, a few positive and kind words will go far. Get each guest to take a diaper, writing their own little message or words of wisdom on it. It’s the gift that will keep on giving during those night changes in the early days of mom hood.
Fill a hamper with plenty of diapers, and add this late night diapers message sign for guests to read.
14. Wishes For Baby
These wishes for baby cards are a sweet extra to throw in for the baby shower. A little memento that each guest can write down their wishes for the baby on, these are great to keep in a baby keepsake box, taking out and sharing with the little one as they grow older.
15. Bib Making Station
Like the bodysuit station, why not do it with bibs instead, or do both?!
You’ll need a stack of plain unisex bibs and fabric pen markers to let those creative juices flow.
16. Picture Frame Signing
A guest book with a difference, add your baby scan to a mounted frame and get each guest to write a little message on it, like shown below.
The sweetest present to hang in a nursery or to store in a baby keepsake box for years to come.
17. Fingerprint Painting Messages and Cards
Who said fingerprinting had to be for kids only?! Lean into your child side for the shower and get everyone to finger paint cards and leave messages for the mom to be.
18. Baby Bottle Chug
Cocktails, but add them to baby bottles instead! Such a quirky, fun idea that will make for some pretty interesting photo opportunities.
19. Pacifier Beer Pong
What better time to wet the babies head than at a shower. Create a really fun baby shower by doing some actual beer pong, well nearly. This time, replace the pong with a pacifier, and you know how the rest goes!
Which of these fun baby shower game ideas is your favourite? Let us know in the comments below what your favorite games have been at baby showers, past and present!
