Get Your Guests Involved With Baby Shower Activities!

Baby Shower Activities:

Autograph the Ball-This is great for a couples baby shower activity. After playing a sporty game, you can use the ball to collect autographs of the people who came to support the new baby. Take pictures of them while they sign the ball. This can be arranged later in a cute picture collage.

You can also have them write advice on a larger ball. It can be advice on taking care of a child or parenting as a couple.

Tasting Activity- Take different flavors of baby food and place them in jars. Cover the outside of the jars with tin foil. You can make a cute label to go on the outside with clip art and wording to go with your theme.

Place it on a table for guests with plastic spoons for them to taste test the colored goo. Then they will guess on a piece of paper what kind of baby food they think it is.

Advice Book- A new mother will definitely need advice on taking care of a baby. Place out a pretty journal for guests to write advice to the mother. This keepsake will be invaluable to the mother as she starts raising her kids.

What does mommy look like?- Hand out paper to all of the guests and have them fold it in half and put it behind their backs. This is an activity to find out who the best artist is without the guests seeing the paper.

The mom stands up and the guests start tearing the paper to what they think the mommy’s body looks like. Have everyone choose the best mommy cut-out. The winner gets a prize.

Soap carving- Give each guest a bar of soap and dull utensil. Instruct them that they need to carve a baby out of the soap. Guests vote on the best one!

Diaper bag surprise- On a table, place a cute diaper bag and items that would fill the bag. Don't say anything about it; just have it placed as a display. A little while later, take away the bag and items. The guests will then be handed a sheet and told to write down everything that they saw on the table. The one that guesses the closest amount of items wins a prize.

 Guess the items in the bag- For this baby shower activity, you will need 10 brown paper bags and 10 different baby items of different shapes and sizes. Place one baby item in each bag and staple at the top. Label the bags 1-10. Pass out a piece of paper that has been numbered to 10. The guests will then pass the bags around the room and write down what they think it is in the bag. The one with the most correct guesses will win a prize. Make this game harder by leaving some items in their packages. The packages distort how it would normally feel. Baby game items would then be given to the mother at the end of the baby shower.

Place small safety pins in each bowl and mix well. The object of this game is for the guests to try and get as many safety pins out of the bowl as possible. Time them and the person with the most wins.

Trick it up!-You can make this game even harder by giving them plastic gloves to wear, coloring the rice with food coloring, or blindfolding everyone.

Time capsule- Ask the guests to bring something to remind the baby of what was going on in the world when he/she was born. They can have a newspaper clipping, current picture of the baby's mom, current music, or anything else they would like to bring.

Letters to baby-Set out some elegant writing paper and pens for the guests to write personal letters to the baby. They can be about anything they want. It gives the guests a chance to express their love to the new baby, talk about the baby's parents, give baby wishes or tell the baby how they know the mommy and daddy. They can be compiled after the shower into a memory book.

A Roast for the meal- Arrange beforehand to have a close friend of the mom and dad prepare a roast for the meal. A roast is where the friend stands up and gives funny or remember when stories. This is always entertaining for the group. The person giving the roast can end it with a toast to the new mom and dad.

You can also have guests come prepared with advice to give the new mom and dad.

Make sure you have a video recorder handy for this baby shower activity, for this will be a great addition to the couple's library!

Guess the powder- In this baby shower activity you will place different kinds of white powders in bags and label the front with a number. Have the guests pass it around and take a guess to what they think the white powder is. Some examples to use could be: detergent, baby powder, flour, sugar, and salt.

Some Final Baby Shower Activity tips: By choosing one or two baby shower activities, you will be able to get the baby shower started and be able to control the pace in which to start the games.

If used wisely, baby shower activities can give you the perfect mix of variety you will need for a creative and fun baby shower.

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