Feeding Bottle Baby Shower Games

Feeding bottles are perhaps the most universal symbol used to indicate the presence of an infant. It would be difficult to separate a feeding bottle from a hungry infant… or for that matter a mother from her infant’s feeding bottle! Here are some great baby shower games using feeding bottles as props. Keep in mind that you need to buy the most basic traditional feeding bottles for these games and not new fancy shaped bottles or ones for infants with feeding problems. The range and variety of feeding bottles available in the market can take you by surprise.

Feeding Bottle Baby Shower Game #1: Bottle Bowling Alley

You will need nine feeding bottles and a soft ball. Create an alley by marking it out with lines on the floor. Play a traditional game of bowling using the bottles for pins. Great fun and fits right with the theme of the baby shower. This is also a great game for co-ed baby showers when fathers are present as well. Men can identify with the game even if they can’t with the bottles!

Feeding Bottle Baby Shower Game #2: Bottles Up!

Get as many feeding bottles as you have guests. Fill each bottle with soda or water or whatever drinks you are serving at the shower. Give each guest a bottle filled to the top. The aim of the game is to finish the contents of the bottle while drinking from it like a baby! In other words guests have to suckle from the bottle teat like a baby would. They are not allowed to open the cap and drink up. The guest who finishes her ‘milk’ fastest wins! This game provides fantastic photo opportunities especially of those guests who are too queasy and wont drink from a baby bottle.

Feeding Bottle Baby Shower Game #3: Ring The Bottle

Take the bipples from a bunch of bottles and collect about a dozen bottle nipples. Get a small baby bathtub and place it at some distance. The aim of the game is for the guests to toss the nipples into the bathtub. If placed at a distance this can become quite difficult because the nipples are fairly lightweight.

You could also modify this game slightly and place the bottle nipples on the floor and get a horseshoe or some rings and play ring the nipples depending on your preference.

P.S. It is not acceptable to make a gift of the feeding bottles after you have finished playing the games. Baby bottles require extreme hygienic care and sterilization. It would be offensive to gift them to the mother to be. Please save them for other baby shower games or dispose them.

Copyright 2005, Andrea R Britt. All rights reserved.