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01-20-2013 at 7:21 PM
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Favorite Baby Shower game/activity

Planning a shower for my SIL would like some opinions on games you've maybe had at a shower lately liked?

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01-20-2013 at 9:23 PM
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Maybe it's just me... but I HATE baby shower games. At every baby shower I feel like we're all forced to play these games like we're twelve and pretend we're having fun. (wow I sound really grumpy...I promise I'm not! lol)

The only thing I really enjoyed at a baby shower was where you picked out a card that said something along the lines of "when baby is fussy..." "when you need a pick me up..."  etc and you write advice or maybe your phone number for her to text you to go out. They weren't all baby-related which was nice.

 I think socializing and having good food is good enough!


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01-20-2013 at 10:32 PM
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Oh man I'm right there with you!

My my mom who's helping me with the shower is really wanting games the Mom to be kind if wants them, oddly enough.

Sooooo I'm stuck.

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01-20-2013 at 10:40 PM
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I am not a big game person but at one shower they played a kinda of retro cartoon game that brought back memories of childhood. There photos of cartoon/children show characters from mom2be favorites and dad2be favorites. Then characters from today's popular kids shows that may become baby's favorite. The point of the game was to name as many as you could. It really was a lot of fun. Better than those guess the baby food poo diapers and trying to be polite with guessing how big around mommy2be is.

 
01-21-2013 at 5:18 AM
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We did somethig where you had to make a baby out play Dough which everyone actually liked because they looked like little aliens.

We did some match the candy bar name to the baby term conception was "skor" and triplets were "3 musketeers".

Then one where we had to guess prices of baby items. Then I got to keep all the things bottles, diapers, etc. most people were. Wayyyyy off so everyone was laughing and cheating.

I liked them because they were all fast.

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01-21-2013 at 7:37 AM
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Naming kids from TV shows is fun. Like the Cosby kids, Rachel and Ross's twins, etc. I also like Mad Libs or gift bingo when opening presents.

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The best showers I've gone to didn't have games. I don't think anyone missed them.

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01-21-2013 at 8:23 AM
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At my bridal shower we played a Price is Right game.  There were a few items (5, I think) and whoever guessed the price without going over won a prize.  For a baby shower, you could have a tube of butt paste, some Johnson&Johnson's products, a small pack of newborn diapers, binkies...

 


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01-21-2013 at 8:24 AM
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I threw a shower once where we had trivia. Each table was a team and the table with the highest score all got prizes. It was fun and interactive. You could do baby-themed questions (both practical stuff and pop culture). I also like the PP suggestion of writing down little bits of advice. 

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01-21-2013 at 9:13 AM
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Personally I LOVE games and have a lot of ideas but probably nothing really exciting.  I would go with some simple things:  Price is Right, Guess how many Q-tips are in the baby bottle, 15 items on a tray carried around by the MTB (if she is able) and then once she leaves you ask questions about the MTB (what color of pants/dress was she wearing, shoes, earrings, how many, necklace, etc, etc).  You just tell guests to make sure they have a good memory.  They, of course, are surprised they have to give answers to questions about the MTB since they were concentrating on the tray.  Easy ones are "baby" word scrmble or to get them thinking...finishing off nursery rhymes.

Another fun activity is to use fabric markers (wouldn't use paint since it takes forever to dry) and have guests decorate bibs.  It is kind of costly compared to other games.

I'm not fond of the candy bar melted in a diaper or smelling baby food in a jar or chugging applejuice from a bottle.  I've done them...but not fond of them.  Baby bingo is a good game to play during the gift opening segment of the shower.

BTW...I don't consider it childish or immature to "play" games at a baby shower.  It is tradition and I'm all for tradition.  It is also fun...especially for the person that doesn't know the people there and socializing is at a minimum.  Course that is my opinion.

 
01-21-2013 at 9:22 AM
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daniellelea1985:

Maybe it's just me... but I HATE baby shower games. At every baby shower I feel like we're all forced to play these games like we're twelve and pretend we're having fun. (wow I sound really grumpy...I promise I'm not! lol)

 I think socializing and having good food is good enough!

THIS.  ALL OF THIS.  I f*cking HATE baby shower games.  I love to play games socially, but the (perceived) forced participation and awkwardness at baby showers is awful.  You've usually got elderly women all the way down to teens at these things, and they just don't have the same cultural refereneces.  It makes people feel uncomfortable when they don't know how to play something or can't learn it as fast as someone else.  I have NEVER left a shower where games were played where my friends and I weren't going "OMG, what were they thinking?" or "that was super uncomfortable".


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01-21-2013 at 9:34 AM
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My favorite thing we did at my showers was decorating onesies with Fabric markers. I love that my LO has a bunch of inside joke/works of art onesies to wear when he gets here. (and my aunt has already said that she would quilt them together for me when hes done wearing them)

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01-21-2013 at 11:56 AM
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Cranang:
daniellelea1985:

Maybe it's just me... but I HATE baby shower games. At every baby shower I feel like we're all forced to play these games like we're twelve and pretend we're having fun. (wow I sound really grumpy...I promise I'm not! lol)

 I think socializing and having good food is good enough!

THIS.  ALL OF THIS.  I f*cking HATE baby shower games.  I love to play games socially, but the (perceived) forced participation and awkwardness at baby showers is awful.  You've usually got elderly women all the way down to teens at these things, and they just don't have the same cultural refereneces.  It makes people feel uncomfortable when they don't know how to play something or can't learn it as fast as someone else.  I have NEVER left a shower where games were played where my friends and I weren't going "OMG, what were they thinking?" or "that was super uncomfortable".

LOL  Maybe you should inquire whether there will be games and then make your decision on attending or not.  You don't HAVE to play the games once you are there but you DO have to sit there and be bored if you don't know anyone and there are no games to break up the time.  Just my 2 cents.

BTW...it has been my experience at showers (I've probably been to 30 of them - as a guest/hostess) that the younger people (early 20's, etc) really like the games and are even more enthusiastic about them then the older women.  Also, what is there to "learn"?

 
01-21-2013 at 2:24 PM
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I love baby shower games.  

One of my favorites is the unscramble game where you unscramble common baby-related words.  It's simple, but I really enjoy it.  

I really dislike the games that require us to measure the mom's belly.  It can be embarrassing to the mother-to-be to have everyone emphasize just how large she's growing.  


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01-21-2013 at 6:01 PM
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I had two showers with friends/family (one with DH's family and one with mine), and the shower with games was by far the most fun. At the shower for DH's family, the guests were just sort of sitting around twiddling their thumbs, waiting for enough time to pass before I opened presents. It was a lovely, low-key shower, but it was sort of...lackluster.

At the other shower, we had four games. I think four was too many; my hostesses could have dropped one and it would have been fine. The one everyone got a kick out of was the Left Right Baby Shower game. We also had the word game (candy bars/baby related things) mentioned upthread, one where you had to come up with a baby related item for each letter of the alphabet, and Thinking Like a Mommy - a word was given and we each wrote down the first thing that came to mind. If a guest's word was the same as mine, they got a point; most points won. The alphabet game wasn't that great, but the other three were fine and helped the time pass quickly.

01-21-2013 at 7:06 PM
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Cranang:
daniellelea1985:

Maybe it's just me... but I HATE baby shower games. At every baby shower I feel like we're all forced to play these games like we're twelve and pretend we're having fun. (wow I sound really grumpy...I promise I'm not! lol)

 I think socializing and having good food is good enough!

THIS.  ALL OF THIS.  I f*cking HATE baby shower games.  I love to play games socially, but the (perceived) forced participation and awkwardness at baby showers is awful.  You've usually got elderly women all the way down to teens at these things, and they just don't have the same cultural refereneces.  It makes people feel uncomfortable when they don't know how to play something or can't learn it as fast as someone else.  I have NEVER left a shower where games were played where my friends and I weren't going "OMG, what were they thinking?" or "that was super uncomfortable".

LOL  Maybe you should inquire whether there will be games and then make your decision on attending or not.  You don't HAVE to play the games once you are there but you DO have to sit there and be bored if you don't know anyone and there are no games to break up the time.  Just my 2 cents.

BTW...it has been my experience at showers (I've probably been to 30 of them - as a guest/hostess) that the younger people (early 20's, etc) really like the games and are even more enthusiastic about them then the older women.  Also, what is there to "learn"?

I'll give you that "younger" people like the games more.  The only baby showers I've ever been to that HAD games were for teenage moms or women that got pregnant accidentally in college.  Thankfully, I've only been to three of those.

As far as sitting there being bored because I don't know anyone, why would I be at the shower then?  I know the MTB will be busy, but I've never been to a shower where I didn't know the majority of the invitees.  I would decline a shower invitation if I didn't know any of the guests.  That tells me that I'm not that close with the MTB and I shouldn't have received an invitation to begin with.

My two nieces, both 21, thanked me profusely for not subjecting them to stupid shower games.  They said they were scared they'd be forced into an uncomfortable round of games, and they had been dreading it.


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526SadieSadie:

At my bridal shower we played a Price is Right game.  There were a few items (5, I think) and whoever guessed the price without going over won a prize.  For a baby shower, you could have a tube of butt paste, some Johnson&Johnson's products, a small pack of newborn diapers, binkies...

 

 

OMG, this has to happen at my baby shower! lol 

I am obsessed with the show.

 


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01-24-2013 at 11:05 PM
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01-25-2013 at 9:48 PM
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I prefer the activities/games you do as you come in and as you eat - like the Mad Lib type games, writing a message to the mom on a diaper for late night changes, fill in the blank wishes for baby.
I really want to make a "scripture scraps" book that I saw on Pinterest, so I told my sister to ask everyone to bring their favorite Bible verse or inspirational quote to add.
I read one where the invite told people to bring diapers to be entered into a raffle. (I don't know if you've already sent out your invites.) 


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