Baby Shower Games That Break The Ice

No party can really start swinging unless all your guests are comfortable with each other. To make sure everyone is having a great time, here are some games that will help break the ice and put all the guests in a fun mood. You will obviously play these games at the beginning of the baby shower.

Icebreaker Baby Shower Game #1: Baby Shower Raffle

Ask each guest to buy a raffle ticket by paying a token amount like a dollar or five. You can also tell guests that they can buy raffle tickets with baby products like diapers, formula, bottles and bibs – but guests will have to be given notice for this with the invite itself. Put round stickers with a number on them on each of the barter baby products or if your guests prefer to have raffle tickets then assign a number to each ticket. Once all the guests have arrived stir things up a bit by playing emcee and finally get the mother to be to pull out the winning number and award a prize.

Icebreaker Baby Shower Game #2: Scratch This

Make some scratch cards like the ones that are often sent in the mail. Draw baby related items like diaper pins, bottles, rattles, bibs, teats, blocks and cradles. Make three matching items on one scratch card only or if you plan on having multiple winners then on as many prizes as you want to give away. Using a silver wax crayon color over the drawings. When the guests arrive hand each one a scratch card and ask them to keep it for later. Give each guest a diaper pin and ask her to scratch the silver off. The guest who gets the three matching items wins!

Icebreaker Baby Shower Game #3: Baby Betting

Make a list of factual information related to the baby’s conception and current status. You can include date of conception, baby’s approximate current weight, gender of the baby, due date and similar things. A list of 5 things should be plenty. Get all your guests to place bets on each of the 5 things and encourage them to bet big. Start the betting at the beginning of the shower and let it continue throughout. At the end of the baby shower the mother to be gives away the answers and declares the winners. Give all the money collected from the betting to the unborn baby and award prizes to the winners.

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