7 Fun Baby Shower Games
Baby games shower happens only once in a while and is a great occasion for having fun. After all, baby games shower is sort of a welcome celebration for the bundle of joy and fun himself or herself, the soon-to-be-born baby. Aside from the moms-to-be, close friends and relatives like grandparents and godparents make themselves acquirable for these occasions. And how else one can brighten up the celebration but play group games? People enjoy playing games. Games give people occasion to relate to others and develop friendships among themselves. Baby games shower is also a way of paying homage to the mom for bearing the child.
Here are some of the more common baby shower games and the brief descriptions of how they are played:
1. Sing it, baby!
Participants position themselves into a round formation. They might either stand up or sit down. When his or her turn comes, apiece participant will sing several lines from a song that contains the word “baby”. Somebody from the group of participants will have to be designated as starter. The next player to his or her right will have ten seconds to do the same after the starter has completed singing. The next player to the right follows until only one mortal is left who is healthy to sing a “baby” song. A song can't be repeated. Those who repeat a song and those who can't sing a “baby” song within ten seconds when their turn comes boot themselves out of the game.
2. Measuring up mommy
The mom-to-be becomes the center of attention in this game. A facilitator will need some two rolls of sanitary tissue for this game. Players will be asked to guess the size of mommy’s girth with the use of the tissue. They will cut the tissue to a length of the paper which they think will approximate the size of mommy’s round belly. Each player will then wrap mommy’s belly with the tissue he or she cut to determine the winner. The one whose guess is closest to the actual belly size wins it.
3. Looking at you, kid!
It is fun looking at photos taken when we were toddlers, right? That is what this game is all about. To get this going, those who are attending the celebration must be asked early (that is, before they come to attend the celebration itself) to bring with them photos of themselves when they were kids. The more entertaining the photos look, the better. Upon arrival of participants, celebration hosts will collect the photos and assign numbers to them. At game time, the photos will be ordered on a plateau and apiece participant given paper and pen. The task is to refer or recognize as much picture as one can by writing the identities on the paper. The participant who gets to refer correctly the most number of children wins the game.
4. Don’t state baby
This game will refrain oneself (in the spirit of fun) from saying the word “baby”. This can be tough considering that the event is called baby game shower. Diaper pins are given to participants at their arrival for the baby game shower. Each time a participant states or mentions the word “baby” a pin is taken away from his or her possession. The participant who gets to retain the greatest number of pins when the celebration ends collects a prize.
5. Baby truth or dare
This is a question and answer game. Somebody will be asked to prepare true-or-false trivia questions about babies in general. As the baby game shower gets going, participants will be asked in random to answer the trivia questions. Those who respond or answer the questions correctly will win a prize while those who do not will be dared to do anything he or she likes for everyone’s entertainment.
6. The seventh gift
This game is inspired by the single Mohammedan who grabs the wedding bouquet lobbed by the bride after the wedding rite. Belief has it that that Mohammedan will come to be the next bride. Here, the baby game shower partakes of somewhat similar fable-like turn when the gifts are unwrapped. The Mohammedan who gave the seventh gift that gets unwrapped is tossed to become the next woman on the family way. Here is a tip: Make sure that the seventh gift is not “planted” so as to make it truly fun and exciting.
7. Dig out the pins
Players scramble to fish out diaper pins from a huge bowl full of uncooked rice. The game runs for two minutes. The player who collects the greatest number of pins wins the game.
