Baby Shower Games
57 games to print and play — materials, setup, and step-by-step instructions for every one. Pick a category or browse them all.
- Baby Mug Shots Guests match baby photos of the attendees to their current selves. A nostalgic icebreaker that gets everyone talking and laughing as they try to recognize each other as infants.
- Diaper Raffle A practical and highly appreciated activity where guests are entered into a prize draw in exchange for bringing packs of diapers for the new parents.
- Baby Bingo Turns the often tedious gift-opening portion of the shower into an engaging, competitive game. Guests fill out bingo cards with items they think the parents will receive.
- Blindfolded Diaper Changing A frantic, hilarious race to see who can successfully diaper a baby doll while completely deprived of their sight. Perfect for competitive crowds.
- Wishes for Baby A beautiful, sentimental activity where guests write down their hopes, dreams, and advice for the new baby to read in the future.
- Decorate a Onesie A highly popular, practical craft station where guests design custom onesies. The baby gets a unique wardrobe, and guests get to show off their artistic skills.
- Baby Animal Match A quick, educational brain teaser. Test your guests' animal knowledge by having them match the adult animal species to the specific name of its baby.
- Name That Tune: Lullaby Edition An auditory challenge that tests nostalgia. Guests must guess the titles of classic lullabies, nursery rhymes, and children's theme songs from very short audio clips.
- My Water Broke! A hilarious and suspenseful game where guests wait for their frozen baby to 'hatch' from an ice cube. It requires no skill but gets everyone cheering and interacting.
- Don't Say 'Baby' A classic test of concentration! This game spans the entire length of the party and keeps everyone highly engaged as they try to avoid the most common word of the day.
- The Price is Right: Baby Edition A fantastic game that tests guests' knowledge of how much baby essentials cost in today's market. It’s both fun and surprisingly educational for the parents-to-be!
- Guess the Sweet Mess Often called 'The Dirty Diaper Game', this visually unappealing but utterly delicious game is guaranteed to elicit groans and lots of laughter.
- Baby Food Taste Test A sensory challenge that separates the super-tasters from the rest. Guests blind-taste various baby food purees and try to identify the ingredients.
- Play-Doh Babies A fun, hands-on crafting game that lets guests channel their inner sculptor. They must create their best representation of a baby using modeling clay.
- Who Knows Mommy Best? A personalized trivia game focused entirely on the mom-to-be. It's a great way to celebrate her and see which friend or family member truly knows her inside and out.
- Emoji Pictionary: Nursery Rhymes A modern twist on a classic game. Guests must decipher classic nursery rhymes and children's stories written entirely in emojis.
- Late Night Diapers More of an activity than a competitive game, this provides the new parents with much-needed laughs and encouragement during those exhausting 3 AM diaper changes.
- Mom or Dad? A fun, interactive quiz game where guests have to guess which parent a specific statement applies to. It's especially great for co-ed baby showers.
- Guess the Baby Food A hilarious taste-testing game where guests try to identify different flavors of pureed baby food.
- Baby Name Race A fast-paced word game where guests race to write down a baby name for every letter of the alphabet.
- Baby Sock Matching A frantic and fun matching game where guests try to pair up tiny baby socks as fast as they can.
- Pacifier Hunt An Easter egg hunt style game where guests search the party venue for hidden pacifiers.
- Measure the Belly A classic and simple game where guests guess the circumference of the mom-to-be's pregnant belly.
- Baby Item Pictionary A baby-themed version of the classic drawing game.
- Baby Charades Act out baby-related phrases and activities in this energetic party game.
- Who's That Baby? A sweet icebreaker where guests try to match their fellow attendees to their childhood photos.
- Pin the Pacifier on the Baby A baby shower spin on the classic 'Pin the Tail on the Donkey'.
- Baby Word Scramble A quiet, seated game where guests try to unscramble common baby-related words.
- What's in Your Purse? A scavenger hunt inside your own bag! Guests score points for having specific items in their purses.
- Advice for the Parents A meaningful activity where guests write down their best parenting advice or well wishes for the parents-to-be.
- Baby Traits A fun prediction game where guests guess which parent the baby will inherit specific traits from.
- Diaper Changing Relay A fast-paced relay race where teams compete to change a baby doll's diaper.
- Nursery Rhyme Quiz Test your guests' memory of classic childhood nursery rhymes by having them fill in the blanks.
- Message in a Bottle Guests write short, sweet notes to the baby that will be read when they are older.
- Baby Stroller Olympics An outdoor obstacle course where guests navigate a stroller through a series of challenges.
- Guess the Parents' Age Display various pictures of the parents-to-be from their childhood to teenage years, and have guests guess their exact age in each photo.
- Baby Feature Match-Up Using printed pictures of the parents' facial features, guests cut and paste them together to create a funny composite image of what the baby might look like.
- Celebrity Baby Match A fun visual matching game where guests pair pictures of famous celebrities with photos of their babies or their unique baby names.
- Draw Baby on Your Head A hilarious drawing game where guests attempt to draw a picture of a baby on a paper plate placed on top of their own heads.
- Emoji Pictionary: Children's Books Guests decode sequences of emojis (digital images) to guess the titles of classic children's books.
- Guess the Baby Animal Test your guests' knowledge of nature by having them match adult animals with the correct term for their babies.
- How Many in the Jar? A guessing-jar classic: the host fills a jar with pacifiers (or any small item), guests write down how many they think are inside, and the closest guess wins after the reveal.
- What's in the Diaper Bag? A quick-thinking list game about the contents of a diaper bag — play it as a timed list against the clock, or as a memory chain that grows item by item.
- Guess the Due Date Guests mark their predicted birth date on a calendar window around the due date — whoever is closest after the baby arrives wins.
- Over / Under The host sets a line for each birth stat — birth weight, length, hours of labor — and guests pick over or under on every one. Reveal the answers after the birth, or use typical averages.
- Memory Match A concentration card game with baby-themed picture cards: print, cut, flip them face-down, and match the pairs.
- Baby Bottle Chug A race to finish a baby bottle of water — much harder than it looks through a slow-flow nipple. Time each racer and record the results on a ranking sheet.
- Pacifier / Bottle Pong A baby-shower take on pong: cups of water stand in a triangle, and teams toss pacifiers or ping-pong balls to knock them all down.
- Baby Gear Scavenger Hunt Guests hunt down a checklist of baby gear — stroller, pacifier, onesie and more — and check items off as they find them around the party space.
- Two Truths and a Lie Guests write two true pregnancy or parenting facts and one lie. The host reads the slips aloud and the room guesses which statement is the lie.
- Late-night Parenting Would-You-Rather A light-hearted card game of parenting dilemmas — 3am feed or 5am feed? Cloth diapers or disposable? Guests pick a side on each card. Skip any card that doesn't fit the room.
- City–Country–River (baby edition) The classic categories word game with a baby twist: one letter, six categories, and a race to fill in every row before anyone else.
- Name Meaning Match A matching quiz made for name lovers: guests match 12 baby names to their meanings, from Ava ('Life, bird') to Oscar ('God spear, deer friend').
- Origin Guess A multiple-choice name quiz: guests guess the language or origin of 12 baby names, from Soren to Bjorn, with four options for every name.
- Children's Book Cover Guess Guests guess classic children's books from one-line text clues — no cover art and no copyrighted images, just the story told in a sentence.
- Bucket List Jar Guests fill a jar with ideas for the parents — things to do before the baby arrives, from date nights to day trips. The parents keep the jar as their pre-baby bucket list.
- Make-a-Baby-Book Pages Guests each fill in a set of keepsake pages — a drawing, a favorite memory, advice, a wish — that the parents stack and bind into a baby book.