Being A Parent Baby Shower Games

Parenting is something that you learn as you go along. Unfortunately there really are no courses or degrees that ensure that you will excel at parenting. It is all about loving, giving and caring. Here are some games that will initiate the parents-to-be into handling an infant. The games are great fun especially if you have childless guests in the group. Guests with kids have an unfair advantage but hey! Give them a break. They deserve it.

Parenting Baby Shower Game #1: Traveling Light

As any parent will tell you that once a baby arrives, traveling light or with a backpack is a thing of the past. If you have a small group let each guest play the game individually or for a large group divide your guests into 4-5 groups. Give each group a medium size baby bag and tons of baby stuff like diapers, baby wipes, bibs, clothes, bottles, formula, hot water thermos, pacifiers and toys. The aim of the game is to pack all the baby stuff into the bag as soon as possible. Of course you must ensure that all the stuff will go in only if the bag is packed with extreme patience and frugality of space as only a mother of five can do. Amidst much hilarity watch your guests stuff their bags to the brim!

Parenting Baby Shower Game #2: A Day With Baby

Make a list of challenges or tasks to be completed in a typical day like folding the laundry, diaper the baby, take out the garbage, sterilize the bottles, make the formula and clip coupons. Get 7-10 tasks in your list. Now have each guest complete the tasks on the list one at a time. The other guests get to shout out distractions, which must be incorporated by the person playing mom. Distractions can be answer the doorbell, answer nature’s call, get the phone, and pat the baby back to sleep. The guest who completes all the tasks quickest wins. Of course, the only way to actually win this one is to multi-task, which is a talent one really acquires only after having babies!

Parenting Baby Shower Game #3: Dress The Baby

Get a toy baby or a baby doll for each guest or group of guests. Give each group one baby doll, a set of clothes for the baby, a cloth diaper with a diaper pin, a bib, a comb and some baby lotion. The set of clothes should be a complicated piece of baby clothing like a full button down romper. Now each group must dress the baby as fast as possible. However, each guest is only allowed to use one hand. If your guests are playing the game single it can become very tricky. In groups too you’ll be surprised at how much co-ordination a simple task as this can require! Great fun.

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