Baby Shower Activities – the Fun Factor

Baby shower parties would not be half the fun without the baby shower activities or baby shower games that is integral to this tradition of pregnancy celebrations. The baby shower activities sustain the interest of the participants or guests until the very end. To a considerable extent, popularity of baby showers is attributable to the various activities or games that form part of these functions.

Some of the baby shower activities or games are traditional and quite womanish whereas some others can be termed gender neutral. However, in case men also form part of the gathering, you may either have to add activities conforming to their tastes or modify some of the traditional games to bring in masculine content. Read on to have an idea about some basic baby shower activities for all three categories.

The Traditional Ones:

One of the traditional activities is to guess tummy size of the mom-to-be. For this type of game each woman is given certain length of yarn and she has to cut it to the length she thinks would fit properly around the mom-to-be’s tummy. The participant who comes closest to the actual measurement wins the prize. Another interesting game encompasses giving writing pads and pens to the participant women. Then ask them to write down as many baby products as they can think of within a period of 3 to 5 minutes. The hurry-scurry of the women to search for more names towards the later period of the game makes for some hilarious fun. You can give the women jars containing various kinds of infant foods. The women’s job is to guess the type of food that the jars contain.

The Gender Neutral Types:

One of the games that can be played by men and women alike is ‘Finish the Baby Rhyme.’ The host of the show reads out aloud some of the sentences from baby rhyme except one word, which is to be guessed by the participants. The participant who guesses the most number of words correctly wins. Alternatively, you can take a list of about 15 words and scramble the spellings. The participants’ job is to guess the actual word. The participant who is able to unscramble the most number of words in the specified time limit wins. A game that can even earn the mom-to-be some useful decorative pieces entails asking each participant to craft handmade wall hanging out of the materials given to them for the job. The one who makes the best hanging wins (make mom-to-be the judge).

The Male Oriented Ones:

Some baby shower activities are particularly suited for male participants in couple showers. One of them is to hand participants a baby bottle full of some sort of beverage and to ask them to suck it as fast as possible. The one who finishes first wins. Another interesting game is to fill a jar with a particular brand of beer. Have the participants sip the beer and guess the correct brand of the beer. You can have a cake made for the baby shower party just like a birthday cake and fix some lit candles on it. Have the participants attempt to extinguish all the candles with a single blow. This makes a fun game!

The idea behind baby shower activities is to bring about a mood of pregnancy celebration and cheer up the expectant mother.