1. It's A Baby
Buy some sleeping babies and freeze them in ice cubes before the party, making sure there is enough for every guest. Give each guest a glass of punch or water at the same time with an ice cube baby in it. Whoever's baby is the first to be "born" (completely melts from the ice) wins a prize.

2. Secret Word Game
Give every guest a safety pin at the start of the shower. Pick out a word people will most likely say throughout the party (ex. baby, diaper, pregnant) and forbid them to say it at all. If they do the person that catches them gets to collect their pin(s). The person with the most pins at the end of the party wins a prize.

3. Safety Pin In Rice Game
Place uncooked rice in a nice sized bowl. Add 50 to 100 safety pins. Mix this up so the pins are not all on top. The person who will be trying to find the safety pins will be blindfolded and will have 20 to 30 seconds to find as much as possible. The person who finds the most wins. It is very difficult to distinguish the pins from the rice by touch.

4. Baby Bingo
Create a blank baby bingo card (25 squares all together) the middle square being a freebie, pass out the sheets of paper and have your guests fill in 24 of their favorite baby items (remember not to tell the object of the game until they fill out their bingo sheet otherwise it's too easy to set your card up for a winner) Once they've filled it out, this is when "mommy" begins opening her gifts, as she opens a gift you can mark that item off on your sheet. Not only is this fun, but a good way to get everyone's attention while she's opening presents. (if you give away the object of the game too soon...you can always collect the cards and redistrubute them or have them pass their card once to the right) You can have several winners if there are a lot of gifts...I used lotto tickets as prizes! LOTS OF FUN!!!

5. Baby Scramble
You have 2 minutes to unscramble the following words. Each word relates to a baby in someway or another. Good luck!
1.MOFLARU _______________
2.SIWPE ____________
3.PBRU WOELT _______________
4.CIIRPEAF _______________
5.ENBTON _______________
6.YBBA TNOIOL ______________
7.NAKLEBT _______________
8.TEBSITASEN _______________
9.GIHH RIHAC _______________
10.LTOTBE _______________
11.PARIED GBA _______________
12.TRSIAPOAR _______________
13.TNLLYEO _______________
14.TALRET _______________
15.TOIBOSE _______________

Answers: Formula, Wipes, Burp Towel, Pacifier, Bonnet, Baby Lotion, Blanket, Bassinette, High Chair, Bottle, Diaper, Aspirator (used to clean nose), Tylenol, Rattle, Booties

6. Estimate Size of the Mother-to-be's Waist Game
Pass around a ball of string and a pair of scissors. Each party member cuts off a piece of string guessing the length to fit around the Mother's middle. Mom tries on each string. The person with the closest length wins a prize. Meanwhile, Mom gets to show off her proud tummy! Great for coed baby showers! Some showers use toilet paper instead of string. Ribbon would work well, too.

7. Baby Questions
Pass out note cards and pencils to each attendee. Each person writes a common baby question such as "What do you do when a baby cries?" or "How do you get a baby to sleep through the night?" Then collect the cards and redistribute them face down (so you cannot see the question) and have each attendee write the answer to their initial question on the blank side. Then read the cards and get ready to laugh! For example, you could have a card with a question "How do you know you have folded a cloth diaper correctly?" on one side and the answer "Where you get your first smile" on the other.

8. Balloon Carry
Place two laundry baskets across the room from each other, one with about 10 party balloons. Divide guests into two teams. Each member of the team puts a balloon between her knees and waddles across the room placing the balloon in the other laundry basket without touching the balloon with their hands. (Shaking, wiggling and hopping over the basket to free the balloon are all allowed!) The balloons get staticy so this can be tricky. After the attendee gets his/her balloon in the basket or drop it on the floor, he/she runs back and the next team member goes. Two teams can go at the same time with four baskets or one team at a time. Whichever team gets the most balloons in the basket within a certain time frame wins. This game is good for belly grabbing laughter especially if mom-to-be gets an honorary turn. Shelane suggested another version using the clothes pin and milk bottle instead. Yes, the clothes pin still goes between the knees!

9. Clothes Pin Grab
Two attendees to hold a long cord (meant to resemble a clothes line), with numerous clothes pins attached. Everyone has to try with ONE hand to get as many clothes pins off while still holding them in your ONE hand. As soon as you drop one you are out and that one does not count. The Whitehead family record was 17. What was your party's record?

10. Cotton Ball Games
Pass around a jar of Vaseline and tell everyone to take as much as he/she needs. When everyone has some on his/her finger, tell them to cover their nose with it! The objective of the game is to get as many cotton balls from a big bowl to the floor in 60 seconds only using the Vaseline covered nose. The attendee with the most balls on the floor wins (balls on the nose do not count). Hint: To get the balls off the nose, shake your head or blow on the balls. Most likely, laughing will not make them come off!

Another game is feeding cotton balls to a baby made out of a shoe box. Amy made her baby by taking a shoe box and cutting a crescent (or oval) in it to be an open mouth, and draw eyes and nose on with a marker. She even gave hers dimples and a pipe-cleaner curl that stuck up out of the top. Then, using a bowl of cotton balls and a serving spoon or other pretty big heavy spoon, let the blindfolded attendee try to feed the baby (held by an opponent who is free to make the baby wiggle and squirm). The guest who manages to feed the most cotton balls to the "baby" wins. Of course, if the baby is "wiggling" you may not even need to use a blindfold to make it fun.

A third game is a cotton ball transfer. Get two large bowls and fill one up with cotton balls. The attendee is blind folded and tries with a heavy metal spoon or ladle to try and get as many cotton balls from one bowl to the other. It's actually very hard because all you feel is the weight of the spoon! The attendee who gets the most cotton balls into the other bowl wins.

11. Dirty Diapers
Fold white napkins or cloth into little diapers and close with small diaper bin. Hand one out to each attendee when he/she arrives. At the end of the party, each attendee opens his/her diaper and the one with the brown "poop" spot wins a prize. Cynthia suggests that you use an unwrapped Hershey's chocolate kiss for the "poop." Great idea! Before the party: Take ten disposable diapers (number doesn't matter) and number the outside from one to ten. Then smear the inside of each with some smelly food item (i.e. tuna, horseradish, Italian dressing, garlic, mustard) Close each diaper up.

To play: Pass out paper and pens. Each diaper is then passed around for the players to smell. The one with the most correct guesses wins! Stephanie played this at her shower and got some great pictures of people holding up the smelly diapers to their nose.

In this version, the guesses try to determine what candy bar Daddy let the baby have last night while Mom was out! Melt 8 different candy bars (Snickers, Butterfinger, Three Musketeers, Baby Ruth, etc.) in the microware in 8 different diapers. Hint: do not melt the chocolate too much, just enough for it to soften and then smear it inside the diaper. Make sure the host/hostess numbers each diaper and tracks which chocolate bar when in it. The guest with the most correct guesses wins.

12. Clothespin Game
Put a bunch of clothespins on a rope to resemble a clothesline. One guest at a time, with one arm behind their back, have them remove and hold the clothespins in one hand. The guest with the most clothespins is the winner

13. Price Is Right
Like the game show. Have guests try to guess the prices of baby items. Whoever gets the most right wins. May divide into teams if you'd like.