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Baby Shower Games & Birthday Party Planning
Guide to baby shower gift ideas, over a dozen baby shower games and links to top baby gift registries.

Baby Shower Tip: We highly recommend getting a baby shower book, they are low priced, and have valuable guides to planning a winning baby shower, games to play, and recipes. As guests arrive have them put their name and address on the front of an envelope. When you send out thank you cards the envelopes are ready, no more searching for elusive addresses!

Baby ShowersComplete Book Of Baby Showers
This book shows you many ways to have a unique celebration. Different chapters on choosing a theme, location, invitations, decorations, baby shower games, gifts and prizes, snacks, appetizers, meals, desserts, scheduler, budget, checklists, planning sheet.

 

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Baby Shower Games:

Guess The Baby's Birthday Game
Guests write their names on a calendar on the date and time they think your baby will be born. The host of the party starts a money or gift "pool", payable to the winner. When the baby is born, the host then distributes the money to the lucky winner.

Best Baby Registry Web Sites

 
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Don't waste time driving all over town to crowded baby stores, buy your baby shower gifts online and save time. Here's our recommended list of the top online baby registries. Click on a web site below:

The Parents Name Game
All the baby shower guests are asked to take letters from the mother's name and the father's name and create a name for the baby. The winner can be based on the funniest name, or whoever comes up with the most names.

The Melting Ice Baby Shower Game
Get small plastic babies or plastic safety pins and freeze in an ice tray. Use one ice cube per each drinking glass. The first person whose ice has melted and have a baby or safety pin floating freely in their glass wins a door prize.
 

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Guess The Mommy's Girth Game
This is one of the most popular baby shower games. All the baby shower guests are asked to write down the circumference around mommy's stomach. Then, mommy is measured and the guest with the closest circumference wins the prize or pool.

Variation Of The Mommy's Girth Game:
The host goes around to everyone with a roll of toilet paper and asks them to pull off what they think the mother's girth is. Then everyone tries their toilet paper around the mother. The one closest wins.

Match The Baby Picture Game
This is a popular baby shower game. When the host sends out the invitations, they instruct all the baby shower guests to bring photos of themselves as babies. The host will arrange the photos with numbers, and with a list of names of the partygoers. The host then asks all the guests to write down the name and matching number. The guest with the most correct matches wins a prize.

Diaper The Baby Game
One of our favorite baby shower games. Male and female couples are paired together to "diaper" a baby doll. Sounds easy enough, but there's a catch. The the couple must wrap the diaper to the baby using only one hand each. The other hand is not allowed to touch the diaper. This is a lesson in teamwork! The team who diapers the doll the fastest wins the prize.

Pass The Present Game
The hostess starts with a gift which was wrapped numerous times with many layers of different colored paper. This game is played like musical chairs. When the music starts, the hostess passes the gift around the room. Every time the music stops, whoever has the gift removes a layer of wrapping paper. When the music restarts, the present gets passed around again. This continues until the last layer is removed, and the person holding the present gets to keep it.

Rice & Clips Game
Place rice in a ice cream pail, along with several small plastic paper clips. Each player needs to be blindfolded, while trying to pick out the paper clips. See who can get the most paper clips.
Name The Baby Food Game
Get some jars of baby food, and remove the container labels after marking the lids by numbers. Have each person taste the food and try to guess what it is.
Footprint & Handprint Advice
Sent in by one of our visitors. Make copies of baby feet and hand prints and cut them out. At the shower ask each guest to write advice on one and a helpful hint on the other. Then put them in a scrap book for the mom-to-be to refer back to as needed.
Name The T.V. Children Game
Pass out a list of popular T.V. families and have guests list the children from the families. Some families to try: Eight Is Enough, Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Leave It To Beaver, Partridge Family, Growing Pains, Bewitched, Cosby Show, The Simpsons, The Waltons, Family Ties, Family Affair.
Pre-Addressed Envelope Door Prize Game
As guests arrive they are handed an envelope and asked to write their address on it, then it's put in a basket. One envelope is drawn, and the winning guest receives a prize. Then the envelopes (already addressed) along with the thank you cards were given to the mother, making it very easy to send.
We have seen many baby shower books, but in our honest opinion, most just don't give you what you really want: Baby shower games! Many other books have not been updated for the 90's either. We like the book reviewed here because each one reviews all facets of planning and organizing, recipes, eating, and fun games. The best part about the books is you can save them for future baby showers, or give them to your friends who are planning a baby shower, and you'll be the hero.

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