Baby Shower Games

Take some disposable (or cloth) diapers, one for each guest. In one of the diapers, put a healthy glob of peanut butter and fold it back up, nice and tight. Then put the diapers in a bag. Pass the bag around and have each guest pick and open one. The one who gets the dirty diaper, gets a door prize!

Here's another: Get a real-life (or as close as possible) doll, one that you can change the clothes. Have each guest take their turn at changing/dressing the doll, while other assigned guests create distractions.. e.g. call out: phone is ringing, doorbell, cat fell in the toilet, food in oven is burning, etc... get creative. You can put these distractions on pieces of paper, pass them in a hat or the host can call them out.

Use your stop-watch to time each guest that participates and the one who can get the baby diapered/changed in the shortest time wins a door prize! (Leaving baby unattended on a couch or changing table is GONGED and disqualified)

I was given a bunch of ingredients: flour, sugar, milk, water, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla, butter, eggs, oil, etc. Then I was told to make a one layer cake from scratch. If I requested an ingredient that wasn't on the table, one of the guests brought it to me from the kitchen. While I was mixing and measuring, the guests were given sheets of paper and pencils and told to write down their own recipes, as well as make suggestions to me. One person also wrote down my "recipe" as I threw things together in a bowl. When I was finished, the cake went into the oven at a temperature and duration I specified. We opened gifts while it was baking. When it was done, I was required to taste at least one bite. Well, it came out like a flat, sweet pound cake gone bad. Everyone laughed, and then we compared recipes. The guest who was closest to the actual recipe (it can be any "scratch" cake recipe from a cookbook) won a prize. My favorite part is the moral of the game: that marriage and children don't come with recipes, so we rely on the help of friends and family as we go along.

One game that I have seen done is one where each guest ( or a selected few ) are given small baby bottles filled with water or juice and whoever finishes the bottle first wins.

Another one I have is one where several small baby items are put into brown paper lunch bags and the bags are sealed and numbered. The bags are then passed around to all of the guests and they try to guess what each item is by feeling it through the bag. The person with the most correct answers wins, and the guest of honor gets to keep all of the baby items.

Have the host draw a bingo card (a box with 5 boxes across by 5 boxes down) leaving the boxes open and make enough photo copies for everyone attending. Before the gifts are opened, have everyone personally fill in the boxes with things they think the mom-to-be will get. As the presents are opened, each guest should cross out the appropriate box(es). (For example, if someone wrote down onesies and baby clothes - they could cross off both when the mom-to-be opened a outfit with a matching onesie.) The first guest to have all her boxes covered/crossed out is the winner. If at the end of the present opening, no one has a "bingo" then the closest one is the winner.