27 Games for Baby Showers Fun for Both Guests and the Mom-to-Be

This baby shower activity is fun, even if you’ve played it before. It changes with the names of the parents-to-be.

It can be played both in teams and individually.

Start by writing the names of both the mom-to-be and dad-to-be on top of a paper. Make sure there is at least one piece of paper per guest. Hand these out at the baby shower party. Include both the first and last names of the parents-to-be.

Hand out one piece of paper to each guest and give them a pen. Set a timer for 5 minutes. Their goal is to come up with as many names as possible before the time runs out. The words must only use the letters of the parents-to-be’s names.

If you play the baby shower game in teams, simply hand out one paper and pen to each group.

The guest/team with the most correct names when the timer runs out wins the game.

This is a nice and well-known game at baby showers. It is also easy to prepare. All you need is to print (or write) a column containing the letters A to Z.

In two minutes, the contestants will try to find a word for each letter that has something to do with babies. For example: B-breastfeeding, D-diapers.

The winner is the person or team that has covered the most letters. Since this is a very popular baby shower game, you may already have played it. Therefore we present you with some twists.

Twists to the game

• You can, for example, change the subject from babies to pregnancy.
• Or let the guests come up with words that are related to the mother/father/parents-to-be.
• Play the game after the gift opening and let the topic be “things that can be found in the room you are sitting in.” Since there often are many gifts, you give the guests a chance to be very creative in their answers.

Baby Alphabet Game Answers (A-Z)

Here are answers to all letters of the alphabet. These can be used as Baby Shower Alphabet Game Answers and Baby ABC Answers. We have combined pregnancy alphabet words with baby words and baby items.

A: Afterbirth, Afterpains, Alveoli, Amniotic fluid, Apgar score, Areola

B: Babbling, Baby blues, Bag of waters, Bassinet, Belly sling, Birth, Blanket, Bottle, Boy, Breastfeeding, Breastmilk, Bundle of joy

C: Carrycot, Car Seat / Child Restraint, Cervix, C-section / Cesarean section, Child, Chromosome, Colic, Colostrum, Comfort blanket, Conceive, Cooing, Craving

D: Diaper, Diaper rash, Doll, Doppler, Due date

E: Egg, Embryo, Epidural, Erythema toxicum

F: Fallopian tubes, Fertility, Fertilization, Fetus, Folic Acid, Fontanelles, Formula

G: Gestational age, Girl, Glucose Tolerance Test, Grandparents

H: High chair, Hyperemesis, Hypertension

I: Induced labor, Infant Only Seat, Infant

J: Jaundice, Jumpsuit

K: Kegel exercises, Kid, Konakion (Vitamin K)

L: Labor, Lactation, Lanugo, Layette, Linea nigra, Lullaby

M: Maternity, Meconium, Milia, Milk, Moro reflex, Mother, Motherhood

N: Neonatal, Newborn, Nipper, Nursing

O: Obstetrician, Onesie, Ovaries, Ovulation

P: Pacifier, Papoose, Pediatrician, Placenta, Playpen, Progesterone, Prolactin

Q: Quad screen, Quickening

R: Rattle, Rocking chair

S: Security blanket, Sperm, Strawberry hemangioma, Stretch marks, Stroller

T: Teddy bear, Teether, Toxemia, Toy, Trimester, Triple screen, Tummy Time

U: Ultrasound, Umbilical Cord, Uterus

W: Washcloth, Water breaking, Waters, Weaning, Wet nurse, Wipes

V: Vaccine, Vacuum cap / Ventouse, Vernix, Vitamins, Vomiting

X: X-chromosome, Xiphoid process

Y: Yawn, Yeet

Z: Zygote

If you are a fan of emoji pictionary, you can simply produce one yourself. It takes some time but is always a very appreciated game.

Collect some words that are related to pregnancy or babies. You can also have themes like:

• Titles of popular children’s book
• Titles of famous songs and lullabies

Try to describe the words and phrases using only emojis. Then, print it out on paper and hand it out to the participants at the baby shower. Play in teams or individually.

The player/team that’s most successful in solving the words/phrases wins the game.

Some example words to use:

• Morning sickness
• C-section
• Babyshower
• Breastfeeding
• Baby bottle
• Breast pump
• Pregnancy cravings
• Child safety seat

A baby shower quiz is a casual and low-key parlor game that everyone can join in on. Both the parents-to-be and the guests will learn something too!

Obviously, you should theme it to the occasion. So go for babies' questions and baby trivia. But don’t forget the mom-to-be! Make sure to include pregnancy trivia too!

Here is our list of baby shower quiz questions with answers. The questions are based on baby trivia and pregnancy trivia. Feel free to use them at your baby shower!

Example Questions with Answers

Which is the most common birthday in the USA?

• September 9th
• February 2nd
• June 21st

What is the mean age of the mother at first birth in the USA?

• 23 years old
• 27 years old
• 31 years old

An adult has 206 bones in their body. How many does a newborn baby have?

• 109 bones. The baby grows more bones as it gets older.
• 206 bones. The baby has just as many bones as an adult.
• 300 bones. As the baby grows some bones meld together.

How much did the heaviest baby ever born weigh?

• 14.8 lbs
• 18.3 lbs
• 22.5 lbs

What is the rate of C-section deliveries in the USA?

• 11% of births
• 26% of births
• 31% of births

How many births are twin births?

• 1% of births
• 3% of births
• 8% of births

How many babies are born in the USA each year?

• Slightly more than 2 million.
• Just under 4 million.
• Around 7 million.

Of all babies born in the USA, how many are delivered at home?

• 0.3%
• 1.0%
• 3.7%

Which of the following animals is pregnant more than twice as long as the others?

• Horse
• Blue whale
• Elephant

How many childbirths start with the water breaking?

• 1-3%
• 10-15%
• 20-30%

How often is labor induced?

• 3% of births
• 11% of births
• 29% of births

How often is a baby born in the world?

• Every 3rd second
• Every 15th second
• Once every 30 seconds

How much does a placenta weigh?

• 1 1/2 lbs
• 2 1/4 lbs
• 5 lbs

How many diapers does a baby use in its first year?

• 1900
• 2700
• 3200

If you want a fast-paced unique baby shower game, this is the one!

The game is played in teams of 2-3 people. In each round, the teams are presented with a baby or pregnancy-related keyword. The teams then take turns to respond with a word or short phrase that contains the keyword.

Note: The answers can mean something different than the keyword. For example, the keyword “hat” and the answer “hatch.”

Each team has 10 seconds to respond. If they cannot come up with a word or short phrase in that time, they are out until the next round. The last team standing wins the round.

The teams are not allowed to answer with a word or phrase that has already been used in the same round. Neither is it OK to bend a previous word or phrase. As an example, baby bottles are not an acceptable answer if the word baby bottle was used before in the same round.

It is OK to answer baby crib if baby stroller has been used, though. They are two different phrases. The last team standing wins the round. Now start the next round with a new keyword and let all teams join the game again.

Word suggestions with example answers

• Mother (motherhood, grandmother, stepmother, smother, mother-ship)

• Baby (crybaby, babysitting, baby crib)

• Birth (childbirth, birthday, birthname)

• Skin (asking, skinny, masking)

• New (newbie, renew, New York, pinewood)

• Life (lifestyle, life-giving, lifehack, proliferate)

• Born (stubborn, firstborn, airborne)

This baby shower game is easy to take part in, and it needs almost no preparation at all.

Divide the guests and mom/dad/parents-to-be into teams. Then you hand out a blank piece of paper and a pen to each group.

Now each team has to write down as many song names as they can remember where the lyrics contain the words, baby or child. Set the timer for two minutes. The team that has come up with the most correct songs will be the happy winners.

If the game is played at the beginning of the baby shower, you can put the winning team’s song suggestions into a playlist. Then, play it in the background during the rest of the party.

Fun twist

Play a song in the background where the words baby or child are prominent in the lyrics. This will confuse and set up a fun mood during the game.

A silly song makes this even more fun.

This is an enjoyable and inclusive baby shower game since almost anyone can participate. Gather all the guests of the baby shower around a table. Or, for example, direct everyone to take a seat in the living room. Decide if you want the guests to be divided into teams or if they compete individually.

Before the baby shower party, you must prepare at least 10 words related to pregnancies or newborn babies. Then you shuffle the words to make them hard to identify. Finally, print the words on paper to be handed out at the baby shower.

The teams/contestants then have 1 minute to try and figure out what the different words are. The guests with the most correct answers win.

A fun twist to the game is to include the name of the mom-to-be.

For example: HASRA - Sarah.

Word suggestions:

Print photos of celebrities and print/write the names of their children on slips of paper. Let the guests try and pair up the photos with the correct children’s names.

Be prepared for a very fun baby shower activity! Start by writing down pregnancy or baby-related words on pieces of paper. Then, fold the papers and divide them into two bowls. Make sure there are no duplicate word suggestions and that there’s the same number of pieces of paper in each bowl.

To play this baby shower game, a guest picks a word by grabbing a piece of paper from a bowl. They must now describe the word without using any gestures or phrases that appear on the piece of paper. So, for example, if the paper reads Baby Bottle, they can’t use the words baby or bottle to describe it.

The game can be played in three different versions. Pick the one you like best!

Version 1 - The Mom-to-Be Reads the Pieces of Paper

Let the mom-to-be do the reading. She will then be the one to try to describe all the words, and all guests are free to make guesses. The guest that first makes a correct guess gets 1 point.

The guest with the most points in the end wins.

Version 2 - Play in Pairs

Divide the guests into pairs. One reads, and the other tries to figure out what the piece of paper says. They switch roles when a guess is correct. The couple that finishes their bowl the fastest wins.

Version 3 - Play in Teams

Divide the guests into two teams. Give each team a bowl of word suggestions. In this way, all guests can follow the game without getting spoiled. When a team member comes up with a correct answer, another guest in the team must read the next slip of paper. Make sure to have enough words, so all in a team get the chance to be the reader.

When the first team has finished, it is time for the next group to empty their bowl as fast as possible. The team with the fastest time wins the game.

Word suggestions:

This popular baby shower activity combines a fun game with support for the new parents.

Let the guests know in advance that you’ll hold a diaper raffle at the baby shower party. Participation is, of course, voluntary. However, if a guest wants to join the raffle, they must bring at least one package of diapers to the party.

The guests will receive one raffle ticket for each package of diapers they bring with them. If they bring more packages, they increase their chance of winning some nice prizes.

The parents-to-be will end up with many diapers, and the guests will have an exciting time with their raffle tickets.

Everybody wins!

This is a fast-paced baby shower competition for those who aren’t pregnant. They get to try just how hard it can be to have to go to the restroom all the time when you’re not your most elegant self.

Make sure you have a lot of space. Place the buckets on one side of the room and give each participant three coins and one balloon. Tell them to put the balloon under their shirt and one of the coins between their knees.

On the start signal, the participants have to run as fast as they can to their bucket. The goal is to “pee” in it by dropping the coin into the bucket. After that, they run back, get the next coin, and repeat. The first to drop all their coins in their bucket wins.

If someone drops their coin, they just pick it up, put it back between their knees, and continue.

Outdoor version

If you’re playing outside, you can use water balloons instead of coins. But, of course, the participants have to be careful not to let their water break as they hurry to the bucket.

This game is best played outside since you’ll need a large open space. You’ll also avoid making an eggy mess indoors.

Provide each guest with an egg (you decide on hard-boiled or unboiled). Have the guests paint or draw on their eggs to make them look like babies.

This “baby” then has to be “carried” in a spoon as the guests race through a course as fast as they can. If they drop the baby or hurt it (cracked eggshell), they lose. The first to finish the course with an unharmed baby wins.

You choose if the guests should carry their spoons with a hand or their mouth. If you prefer hand, tell the guests to use the hand they usually avoid.

The course can be as simple as a straight line over a lawn. You can also add obstacles and round points. For example, the guests might have to crawl under a table, run zigzag around cones or jump a hurdle.

A very fun baby shower game for both guests and onlookers.

This baby shower game gives the guests a chance to experience life from a baby’s point of view.

Every contestant gets a filled baby bottle. When the starting signal sounds, they must try and drink as fast as possible to empty the baby bottle. The person to empty their bottle first wins.

You can fill the baby bottles with, for example, lemonade or infant formula.

In this unique baby shower game, the teams/contestants must figure out the hidden names. All names come from a list of the most popular baby names of 2020. So the guests can expect to find only familiar names.

The guests must look at a pattern and figure out which boy or girl’s name fits in.

A pattern for the girl’s name “Hannah” might be _ a _ _ _ h.

Guests could come up with a name that fits the pattern but is not the name you thought of. The name they come up with might not even be on the top 100 list. Decide before the game starts if this is OK or not. Make sure to tell the guests if any name is OK or just names from the top 100. I prefer to accept any name that matches the pattern (guests might not know which names are in the top 100).

Give the guests 3 minutes to try and figure out the hidden names. The winner will, of course, be the ones who guessed the most correct names

Name suggestions

Prepare this baby shower game by collecting photos of the mom/dad-to-be. The photos should be from different parts of their childhood.

Tag each photo with a number and let the guests guess how old the dad/mom-to-be was when the photo was taken.

If you want to make things simple, you can arrange the photos on a table.

You can also hang the photos on one or more walls. This will create a natural mingle where the guests can move around and discuss their guesses. This makes for a great baby shower ice breaker game! Play it at the start of the baby shower.

Note: Only play this game if the mom-to-be is OK with it.

Each guest cuts a length of a string. The goal is to find the circumference of the mom-to-be’s belly. The guests are not allowed to try the string on themselves as a reference when they cut the string.

When everyone has cut their string they take turns to measure it around the mom-to-be’s belly. The closest match wins.

The mom-to-be can also take part.

Instead of everyone taking turns to measure the belly, mom-to-be can do it herself. Or you can help her.

This is an essential game at every baby shower party and baby sprinkle. Each guest has to guess when the baby will arrive. Ask them to guess both the due date and the time of day when the baby will enter the world.

You can be the one to gather all the guesses or let everyone write theirs down on a piece of paper. If so, don’t forget to ask them to write their own name too.

If you want to do something a little extra for the parents-to-be, you can buy or make a calendar. Then, once everyone has guessed a due date and time, you simply write it down in the calendar. Then, when the due date gets closer, the parents will have fun following the guests' guesses.

You can easily make this into a competition. The closest guess wins!

Happy guessing!

This is a fun baby shower party game where you serve different baby foods. The guests (or only the parents/mom-to-be) have to guess what kind of food it is.

Use a blindfold if you want to make it extra hard.

Dirty diaper version

This game can also be changed into the dirty diaper game. Here the food is served in diapers for everyone to taste.

Yummy!

This kind of game requires some preparation since you need a picture of each guest. So ask them beforehand to send you a picture of themselves as a baby.

Print the pictures and put them up on a wall with a number next to each photo. Let the guests and the mom/dad/parents-to-be guess which baby is which guest. Then, tell them to write the guest’s name next to the picture number on a piece of paper.

Those that don’t know the name of everyone can describe the person they mean. “5 is the woman in the pink skirt,” and “7 is the man with yellow socks” will do.

The nice thing about this game is that it doesn’t matter if people have played it before. There will probably be some new faces at every baby shower. It’s also easy for the guests to send another picture than the ones they have used before.

Prepare this baby shower ice breaker game by writing down the names of well-known mothers on name tags. Then, choose a theme that suits the guests, such as celebrity moms, moms from TV shows, or moms from cartoons.

Give each guest a name tag to put on their back as they arrive. But, of course, they are not allowed to read it!

The goal is to figure out the name written on their back only by asking the other guests yes and no questions. For example, “Am I from a movie?” or “Am I real or fictive?”.

This is a fun way to get to know people you might not have met before. You can turn this into a competition if you want to. Most just enjoy the game, and the mingle, though. Winning isn’t too important. Let the guests play for 30 minutes tops and then move on to other activities.

This is a new baby shower game that finally reveals how much fluid a diaper can hold.

Pass around a diaper from one of the smaller sizes. The guests are allowed to squeeze and feel it through. Then they have to guess how much water the diaper can hold without leaking. Leakage is defined as when it clearly drips water, and there is no doubt about it leaking. The guesses have to be in whole, half, or quarter cups. For example, 1 and 3/4 cups.

Write down everyone’s guesses and begin the testing. Start with the lowest guess and pour that amount of water into the diaper. Don’t forget to water the easily forgotten front and back moisture absorbers of the diaper.

Make sure to give the diaper a fair chance of absorbing the water. This is because diapers are constructed in layers, and the water must be transported to the core. You’ll notice when the water has been fully absorbed as the surface will feel almost completely dry to the touch.

Hold the diaper upside down after each time you’ve filled it with water to match a guess. Go on to the next guess if there is no evident trickle of water.

The highest guess that does not make the diaper leak water wins.

Example of how to pour water into the diaper

Let’s say that

• guest A guesses 1/2 cup,
• guest B guesses 1 cup and
• guest C guesses 2 cups

then pour 1/2 cup (A’s guess) into the diaper. If the diaper leaks, no one has won. If the diaper doesn’t leak, pour another 1/2 cup of water into the diaper to match B’s guess. If the diaper leaks now when held upside down, then guest A has won the game. If the diaper still doesn’t leak water, then pour another cup of water on the diaper to match guest C’s guess.

If the diaper still doesn’t leak water when you hold it upside down, guest C won. If it does leak, then guest B won.

Extension of the game

Play again, only this time use a much larger diaper. For example, one size for a two-year-old. Let the guests place new bets but skip the quarter cups. Large diapers can hold a lot of water. Whole and half cups will do just fine.

In this baby shower game, the mom-to-be/parents get to show their skills at packing a diaper bag quickly.

Place an empty diaper bag on the floor or on a table. Stack up typical diaper bag supplies around the bag. Examples are diapers, baby wipes, changing pads, small towels, baby clothes, and pacifiers. Now tell the mom-to-be/parents that they are in a hurry to a wellness checkup and have to pack the diaper bag in 30 seconds. They must pack something in each pocket.

A fun ending is to give the mom-to-be/parents the diaper bag and contents as a gift.

This fun baby shower party game is played in teams of at least two. The goal is to be quickest, and you need to time the groups using a stopwatch.

One team member has to try and put a baby’s pacifier in the mouth of the other team member while blindfolded. To make the game harder, have the participant spin a few laps before starting the search for “the baby.” During the search, the baby has to sit still and quiet.

When the pacifier is secure in “the baby’s” mouth, you stop the stopwatch. Now let the next team try to beat their time!

If you are playing with larger teams, the extra team members can coach the blindfolded searcher. Help him, or her find their way and say “turn left” and such.

The Twister game has been popular for many years, and now you can play it with a twist.

Place the mom-to-be in a comfortable chair near the mat. Tell the guests to blow up a balloon each to put under their shirts. If you want the game to be more challenging, you can tell them to put more than one balloon under their shirts.

Then play Twister. Follow the usual rules or make up new ones. For example:

• Award 1 point for each accomplished move.
• Give 3 minus points to the guest that break their balloon (or maybe they’re out of the game).
• If a guest breaks another guest’s balloon, they lose 5 points (or are out).
• A dropped balloon costs 1 point.
• Let the mom-to-be have the authority to hand out bonus points for spectacular poses.

Make sure this game fits the guests of your baby shower. This game should be fun for everyone, and if you don’t know all the guests, you may want to skip this game. Not everyone might be up for something this physical. It is not a very suitable game for someone in a beautiful dress either.

Create a fun baby shower quiz about the parents-to-be. Pick questions about the mother/father or both parents depending on whom the baby shower is held for.

The quiz can be played in teams where each team writes down their answer. Or you can simply read the questions out loud and let the guests call out the answers.

The parent-to-be will, of course, be the one to correct the answers. If the baby shower is held for the mom-to-be, the questions could, for example, look like this:

Example questions

1. At what time during the day was the mom-to-be born?
2. What did the mom-to-be want to become when she was little?
3. On what day is the baby expected?
4. Where did the parents-to-be meet?
5. How close to to her due date was mom-to-be born?
6. What was the name of mom-to-be’s elementary school?
7. What is the mom-to-be’s full name?
8. How did the expecting parents announce the pregnancy their parents?
9. What was the first thing the parents bought for the coming baby?
10. Where was the mother-to-be born?

This is a fun baby shower game that doesn’t take up too much time from the party. First, decide if you want to play in teams or individually.

The game can be played in three different versions. You can play through them all or just pick one. If you choose to do all three, you can simply sum up the points.

Version 1

Let the mom-to-be choose a letter from the alphabet. Then the contestants must come up with as many names as they can, starting with this letter. They get one point per name and have one minute to finish.

Version 2

Write the letters A-Z in a column. Now the contestants must come up with a name starting with each letter in the alphabet. Set the stopwatch for one minute and award one point for each filled letter.

Version 3

Give the contestants one minute to write down all the names they possibly can produce. Award one point for each name.

This is a fun baby shower game idea where the guests must fill in the blanks in a text. The challenge is to write the same as the mom/dad did.

Note: Baby showers are often a surprise, so the mom/dad-to-be might not have had a chance to help you prepare this one. No matter! Let them fill it in at the start of the baby shower or while the guests do.

Start the activity by explaining that the guests must fill in the blanks in a text. The same text that the dad/mom-to-be got.

Then hand out the papers with pens, one for each guest. The game’s goal is to fill in the blanks as close as possible to what the mom/dad wrote.

When everyone is done, go through all answers one blank space at a time. Then, award one point per blank space to the guest with the most correct answer compared to what the mom/dad wrote in that space. The guest with the most points in total is the winner!

Use the example text below or write your own. Feel free to change it to fit your baby shower party. You know the mom/dad-to-be best!

I hope that my baby will be _______ and that he/she gets to experience _______.

I believe the baby’s favorite _______ will be _______ and that he/she will like _______.

Together we will _______ and maybe we will go to _______.

I will sing _______ and teach my child that _______.

I hope my child’s future will be _______ and that we will get many _______ together.

My baby is the _______ I know.

In this baby shower game, the guests will get to use their creative side. It’s a team contest so divide the guests into teams of 2-3 people.

Print photos of the parents-to-be’s faces for each team. Cut out some parts of their faces like ears, eyes, mouths, and hair. Put these in a little bag and give one bag to each team.

Draw the shape of a baby’s face on blank paper. Give one of these papers to each team.

When the game starts, the teams must create what they think the baby will look like. Let the teams be creative for 5 minutes. Then let the parents/mom-to-be pick the winning team.