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Break The Ice With Ice Breaker Activities!

Ice breaker activities can "break the unfamiliar ice" between guests at your next baby shower. Create a fun environment for your guests by jump starting the activities and breaking the ice all at once.

Ice Breaker Activities:

Bag it!- For this game you pass out paper bags and have everyone place the bag on their head. Then instruct them that in this game everyone needs to remove one item that they don't need.

Most people will take off an earring or a shoe. Tell them they could have just removed the bag. If someone actually does remove their bag they get a prize.

Kazoo Music- (You will need some kazoos and a list of songs (can be baby songs or favorite songs)

This ice breaker activity has the same idea as name that tune, although I think this is much more fun! Pass the kazoo and first song to the first person in the circle. They need to sing the tune through the kazoo.

The person that guesses the song picks out of a basket and has to do whatever it says in there. You can have them give how they know the mother to be, make them do something silly, give some baby advice, or create whatever you would like them to do.

Then the first person would pass it to the next person and continue with the game. By the end of this game, people are usually giggly and ready for comfortable introductions.

(If you are squeamish about germs, buy more kazoos for the group or have wet wipes handy to wipe the kazoo down in-between uses.)

You can add a little fun to the introductions by having them blow on the kazoo before telling who they are and how they know the pregnant mommy.

Chair game- Play the," I've never game." Start with one less chair than the amount of players. The person in the middle will say something they have never done.

All the players in the circle that have done whatever it is will have to get up and race to another chair.

Whoever does not get a chair will have to say something they have never done.

This is a great ice breaker activity for learning more about each other while breaking the ice.

t will get especially interesting when it gets to skinny dipping and stuff like that.

All of a sudden, you will know more than you would have thought possible about your guests! The game ends when you decide.

More Fun Ice Breaker Activities:

The Great Weigh In- Just for the fun of it, put a scale in the middle of the room a little before this activity begins. Your guests will be nervously eyeing it hoping that you are not going to make them weigh themselves.

Announce that it is time to weigh in! After guests eyes get huge, explain that for this game, everyone is going to weigh their purses. The person with the heaviest purse is deemed the most prepared of the group and they get a prize.

Bloomers Shower Game- Play a gag game for your ice breaker activity. A box is passed around while music plays. For this game the guests are told there are bloomers in the box. Let them know that the person who ends up with the box when the music stops will have to wear the bloomers for the rest of the shower.

When the music stops, the person who opens the box finds flowers attached to a safety pin in corsage fashion.

Web of Friends- After introductions, you are ready to play this game. Start with a list of questions for the group to play this game with. Hand a ball of yarn to one person in the group. They will start with the end of the ball.

Ask them a question about themselves. Once they answer it they can toss the ball of yarn to anyone in the circle. The next person will answer a question and toss it to someone else. By the end of one or two rounds, you will have a web of connected people.

Here are some sample questions: What is your favorite food? If you have kids, how many? What is your favorite ice cream? What is your favorite color? What is your favorite music group?

The Laughing game- This ice breaker activity will leave your sides hurting and a smile on your face!

Everyone starts out in a circle facing each other. The first one in the circle starts the game by saying HA. The next person adds one HA to it making it HA HA. Continue around the circle having each person add a HA to the last one. The first one to giggle is out.

Continue on until you have the last person to laugh. They win a prize.

The Name Tag Game- Throw out the normal names, they are not needed here! Pass a name tag to each guest as they enter the room. Each name tag will have an item on it that the mom needs for raising a baby.

Let all guests know that the names on the name tags are now their new names and must be used through out the baby shower. If the guests forget and call anyone by anything other than the name tag name they need to deposit a coin into the baby's piggy bank.

Jog Your Memory Game- In this ice breaker activity, the guests will take turns standing up and telling one thing about themselves. It is easy for the first person.

But, the trick to this ice breaker activity is that every person has to repeat the name and descriptive item of each person in front of them. If they cannot remember it, they are out. The person who remembers the most names and descriptions wins.

The Alphabet Names- This game is all about baby names. Start with the first person in the circle. They will say a name that starts with an A. The next person will say a name that starts with a B. Keep on going around the circle.

If some one is unable to say a baby name that goes with their letter of the alphabet they are out. Continue on with the game until you only have one player left. That player is the winner.

Delivery Room Destination Game- What will the mommy need on her big trip to the delivery room? This is the classic" I'm going on a trip game" played baby style.

Start out by saying" I'm going to the delivery room and I'm taking"... name a baby item that starts with an A. The next person will repeat that and add a B item. Continue on around the circle until someone either cannot remember everything everyone else said or cannot think of an item that begins with the next letter.

That person is out and the game continues. The last person in the game would win a prize. This is harder to play than it sounds! Mix it up: Change the story from the delivery room to something else like "I am taking the baby to the beach and I am bringing"...,etc.

These ice breaker activities are meant to be used for a good start to your baby shower. To finish the recipe for success, add a few games and good food to the concoction.

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