Pacifier Baby Shower Games

Pacifiers are every mothers little helpers. They help calm and soothe the baby and often give mothers a much-needed break. Here are some baby shower games that use the pacifiers for more than just soothing the baby. Pacifiers also make for great fun at baby showers!

Pacifier Baby Shower Game #1: Passing The Pacifier

You will need a few pencils and a pacifier. Make sure you get the kind of pacifier that comes with a loop at the end. Give each guest a pencil and ask her to hold it in her mouth. Place the pacifier from the looped end on one of the player’s pencil. Have the players pass the pacifier from one pencil to another around the room without using their hands. The player who drops the pacifier is out of the game. You have to ensure that players don’t cheat by refusing to accept the pacifier. Any player caught trying to deliberately drop the pacifier goes out herself. The last person left standing wins!

Pacifier Baby Shower Game #2: Bobbing For Pacifiers

This is a great take off on the traditional ‘Bobbing for Apples’ game. Get a baby bathtub and fill it with water. Place a dozen or so pacifiers in the water. The guests have to retrieve as many pacifiers as possible using their mouths with their hands behind their backs in a given amount of time. Generally 1 minute is good enough to create competition. Two minutes may make it far too easy. The guest who retrieves the most pacifiers wins!

To make the game tougher or yuckier, replace water with a food like oatmeal or pudding. You could even make lemonade or some nice drink and bob the pacifiers in that. Your guests might actually enjoy all the dunking they have to do.

Pacifier Baby Shower Game #3: Pacifier Counting

Get a few dozen pacifiers and a big container like a novelty sized feeding bottle. Fill the bottle with as many pacifiers as you possibly can. Make sure you count the number of pacifiers as you put them in. Once all the guests have come ask them to look at the bottle and guess how many pacifiers are inside. The guest who comes closest to the actually number wins! If you place some pacifiers with the caps on, some without and other with the packaging it can be quite difficult to guess how many are actually inside the bottle. Once the game is over make a gift of the pacifiers and the bottle to the mother to be!

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