Keep your guests entertained with baby shower games that won’t bore
While baby showers used to consist of a room full of women and a whole lot of ribbon, the celebration process has changed over the years and nowadays consists of both men and women. Oftentimes, baby showers can be a stylish social gathering, complete with a trendy theme and some tasty cocktails for guests. However, it's the baby shower games that really make this event special and encourage interaction with guests. While the same tired old game of diapers filled with melted candy bars can cause immediate rolling of eyes, there are other games that can really make a baby shower fun for both men and women.
This game consists of baby bottles filled with beer, a crowd full of laughing friends and family, and a great opportunity for photos. Depending on the size of your baby shower, a group of male volunteers stand in front of the entire group and race to finish their baby bottles filled with beer. An added touch to the game, is to rig one of the baby bottles to have a faulty nipple that won't release any beer no matter how hard the player sucks. Guests will find the sight of grown men drinking from bottles as a fun photo opportunity and the winner will enjoy a great prize, on top of a bit of a headrush from guzzling the beer.
A simple printed card listing various household items required by parents with newborns, makes for an instant game of The Price Is Right. Guests try and guess the price of everything from a package of newborn sized diapers to a Diaper Genie refill. Not only will the winner congratulate themselves on their Price Is Right skills but it might even be an eye-opening revelation to some of the guests on how expensive little babies truly are.
A blank printed Bingo card is given to each guest and they are told to write down a gift that the mother-to-be might receive in each square. As the presents are open, guests are told to mark off any gifts they have correctly guessed on their Bingo card. The guest who is able to make a vertical, horizontal or diagonal line is the winner of Baby Gift Bingo!
A great resource for the card printed baby shower games isChickabug. Heather from Chickabug created free printables in pink, yellow and blue. Clickherefor these free card printed baby shower games and download and print them for use at your baby shower.
While the themes of the baby shower games are ultra important to create the most fun, the true excitement factor is the winning prize. Since many baby showers now include men, it's important to have a prize that is appealing to both men and women. Think of prizes like candy or even liquor as a winning prize. Whether it's a wine basket complete with pink corkscrew or the cigar basket complete with "It's a boy" cigars, making the winning prize something sought after can make the baby shower games a little bit more appealing.
