21 Hilariously Fun Baby Shower Games

20 of the best baby shower games that aren’t lame! Perfect for a coed shower, for large groups, and for boys or for girls themed showers! They’re funny, easy to setup, and totally unique! Play minute to win it style with couples or individually for one hilarious baby shower! 20 of the best baby shower games that aren’t lame! Perfect for a coed shower, for large groups, and for boys or for girls themed showers! They’re funny, easy to setup, and totally unique! Play minute to win it style with couples or individually for one hilarious baby shower!

These fun baby shower games are perfect whether you’re planning a baby sprinkle, looking for coed baby shower game ideas, or just traditional baby shower games! They’re unique, easy to setup, and fun for everyone to play!





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The Best Baby Shower Games

I’m at that point in my life where everyone around me is getting pregnant whether it’s with their first, second, or whatever number of baby. It’s just the stage of life I’m in I guess.

It also means that I have hosted and attended a lot of baby showers and baby sprinkles in the past few years since my son was born. And served this sausage egg breakfast casserole a lot.





It also means that I’ve been asked to come up with unique baby shower games so that people aren’t playing the same ones over and over again!

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Why You’ll Love Them

  1. They’re great for any age – we’ve played with all ages from kids to my 80 year old grandma!
  2. They’re hilarious – both to play and for others to watch.
  3. They’re quick – both to setup and to play
  4. They’re unique – I can guarantee you haven’t played these games are other baby showers (unless they’ve seen this post!)
  5. They’re perfect for coed showers!

How to Play

Pick whichever ones sound the most fun to you and go for it. We typically play them as minute to win it games , but you can play them as individual games as well.

If you want to play them minute to win it style, read this minute to win it games post first for more instructions!

Otherwise, just keep reading for individual game instructions and watch the video below to see many of the games in action!

Tip!

If you will have multiple generations at the party, make sure to split the different generations among teams!

Baby Shower Game Ideas

1 – Bottle to Bottle

Supplies:

How to Play:

Fill one baby bottle with sprinkles then put a piece of double-sided tape or paper with a medium size hole in it over the opening of the bottle (no nipple).

Take another bottle and put it upside down (so the two openings are touching) on the other bottle and tape together.

Players must transfer sprinkles from one bottle to the other bottle to win.

Some of the sprinkles will likely get stuck on the tape but the majority of them should be able to make their way through to the other bottle.

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2 – Rock A Bye Baby

Supplies:

How to Play:

This game is played in pairs. Give each pair a pair of fuzzy baby pjs and a bucket full of these little plastic babies. On the other side of the room, place a bucket or box.

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When you say go, one person should hold the feet of the pjs while the other person holds the top of the pjs.

Then the team should put a baby in the middle of the pjs and use the pjs to fling the baby across the room, hopefully landing the baby in the bucket.

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3 – Diaper Hang

Supplies:

How to Play:

Before the game, hang a string from one place to another.

Provide players with a bucket full of diapers and clothespins like these ones. Players must hang as many diapers as possible using just the clothespins on a string or clothesline in the allotted time.

4 – Bottle Toss

Supplies:

How to Play:

Remove the top part, the part a baby sucks on, from the baby bottle – you’ll be using those for the game.

This game is played in pairs. One player will have 5 (or another number) of the bottle tops and have to toss them over to their partner who has to try and catch them on a chopstick .

If they catch one, they can put it in their “caught” pile. If they drop it, it returns to the tossing player to try again.

5 – Five Little Ducks

Supplies:

How to Play:

This game is played in pairs as well. Give each pair a bucket full of small ducks like this one and set up an empty bucket across the room.

One player on each team should stand on one side of the room. Their partner should stand in the middle of the room between their partner and the empty bucket.

Five little ducks is one of the best baby shower games

To play, the first player on the team has to toss ducks over their partner’s head (who has to duck) and try and land them in the basket on the other side of the room. First team to land five ducks wins.

Great baby shower game ideas like five little ducks


6 – Celebrity Baby Name Game

Supplies:

  • Pictures of celebrities and pictures of their babies (print out ahead of time)

How to Play:

Put all of the pictures (both celebrities and their babies) upside down in a pile and to play, guests have to turn over the pictures and match all of the celebrity moms to their babies within the time limit.


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7 – Ice Ice Baby

Supplies:

How to Play:

Before the party, freeze babies into ice cubes (one baby per cube). To play, give each player one ice cube and the first player to melt their ice cube and get their baby out first wins.

We did this with our 4th of July party games with bells (let freedom ring), and it was a huge hit!

8 – Blind Blocking

Supplies:

How to Play:

Blindfold each player and sit them in front of a pile of blocks (use these alphabet ones then give to mom-to-be as a gift).

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Players must build a stack of blocks as high as possible in the allotted time. If their stack falls over, they can start again.

Blindfolded blocking is one of the best baby shower games


9 – Wipe Out

Supplies:

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How to Play:

Give each player a large pack of wipes. Players must use one hand to pull out all of the wipes from the container.

First player to empty all of the wipes wins.

10 – Chop Binky

Supplies:

How to Play:

Players must use a chopstick held in their mouth (no hands) to pick up binkies from a table.

Chop binky is one of the best baby shower games

First player to pick up a certain number of binkies or player that picks up the most in the allotted time wins. Make sure to use binkies like these ones so the chopstick fits through the handle.

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11 – Lost Sock Hunt

Supplies:

How to Play:

Give each person a diaper bag filled with all of the typical things you might find in a diaper bag (diapers, snacks, toys, clothes, etc.) including a blue or pink sock. Teams must search through the diaper bag to be the first one to find the hidden sock.

12 – Baby Shark

Supplies:

How to Play:

This game is played in pairs. Give each pair a small bag of Swedish Fish (or gummy sharks). Have one person stand on one side of the room and the other person stand on the other side of the room.

Baby shark is one of the best baby shower games

To play, players must toss Swedish Fish across the room and their partner must catch the fish in their mouth.

As soon as a player catches a fish, they must switch with their partner and continue tossing until the minute is out. The team that catches the most wins.

Catching baby sharks is one of the most unique baby shower games


13 – Name that Nursery Rhyme

Supplies:

  • Index cards with lines from nursery rhymes written on them (e.g., the mouse ran up the clock)

How to Play:

Put all of the index cards into a pile. Players must pick a card from the pile and name the correct nursery rhyme as quickly as possible. Once they name one, they can move onto the next card and try to get as many as possible in the minute.

Players can pass if they don’t know it, but they can’t come back and try it again. It’d also be fun to play nursery rhyme charades using the same index cards!

Game Tip!

Make sure to choose the most popular nursery rhymes that everyone will know! Otherwise, this one might get really tough.

14 – Bathtub Bounce

Supplies:

How to Play:

Set up a table with a baby bathtub at the end and fill it with water. Players must bounce ping pong balls from one side of the table to the other, trying to get as many ping pong balls into the bathtub as possible in the minute.

15 – Spin the Bottle

Supplies:

  • Baby bottles
  • Piece of paper with the letters “BABY” “BOYS” or “GIRLS” in the corners (you choose)

How to Play:

Give each person an empty baby bottle and a piece of paper with the letters “BOY” or “GIRL” in the corners. The player must be the first to spin the bottle and have it land on all of the letters to spell the correct word in order.

If you go with baby, make sure they go in order – they can’t use one of the B’s twice.

16 – Baby Sitter

Supplies:

  • Balloons
  • The letters B-A-B-Y written out on slips of paper

How to Play:

Put one letter in four balloons and blow up the balloons.

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To play, players must sit on the balloons, find the letters, and put them in order first to win. Think that’s too easy? Make them blow up the balloons first (you just put the letters inside).

This baby sitter game is one of the best baby shower games


17 – Matchmaker

Supplies:

How to Play:

Fill a laundry basket with baby clothes. Players must go through the laundry basket and put together as many complete outfits (including matching socks, a hat, mittens, etc.) as possible in the time.

18 – Hooded Towel Race

Supplies:

  • Hooded towels
  • Obstacles of some sort (diaper boxes, stuffed animals, baby toys, books)

How to Play:

Before the game, set up a course using stuffed animals, diaper boxes, etc. that players will have to go around like an obstacle course. Give each player a hooded towel and time them as they scoot on the towel on the ground from one end of the obstacle course to the other and back.

Player with the fastest score (or first player to finish if you all go at once) wins.

19 – Baby Got Back

Supplies:

How to Play:

Tie the small hooks onto pieces of string that are about the length of the table. On the other side of the table, place the plastic babies.

To play, player must stand at the end of the table opposite the babies and when the timer starts, they must toss the hooks with the string and try to catch the babies and bring them back in.

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Player must hook a certain number of babies within the time limit or be the first one.

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20 – Sugar Baby

Supplies:

How to Play:

Hide the gummy letters B-A-B-Y in a bowl of sugar.

To play, a player must use a plastic spoon in their mouth to try and dig out the letters first.

Game Tip!

Put a disposable tablecloth over the table before you start playing. Then cleanup is just rolling up the tablecloth and throwing it away!

Baby Shower Games FAQs

How many baby shower games?

How many baby shower games you should play will totally depend on your mother-to-be and the guests attending the baby shower.

If you have a mother-to-be like me who loves games, I’d say go all out and plan 2-3 different games, mixing them up with these active games and these printable baby shower games .

If you have a mother-to-be who doesn’t like games, skip them all together.

Are baby shower games necessary?

No, baby shower games are not necessary. That being said, I think they’re a huge part of a baby shower and most people think they’re really fun!

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Alternative for baby shower games?

If you still don’t want to have baby shower games, try doing one of these baby shower activities as an alternative instead. They’re not necessarily games but still activities to keep your baby shower moving.
Tummy Measure Game
Baby Word Scramble
Who Knows Mommy Best Game

Songs for Baby Shower Games?

Baby shower games don’t necessarily need music but if you want to have a playlist going, this baby shower name that tune game has a great playlist full of songs that have the word baby in the title!

What prizes for baby shower games?

The best prizes for baby shower games are things that people actually want. If you’re looking for prizes for baby shower games coed adults might play, then I’d go with something universal like gift cards, gourmet food, or something off this list of universal gift ideas.

If you want to know what prizes for baby shower games just for women, I’ve included a handful of great ideas below!
Lip Balm in Matching Colors
Fancy Chocolate
MAC Oh Baby Lip Gloss
Gift Set of Baby Books (these are our favorite!)
Oh Boy Snacks
Fuzzy Socks (for chasing the kids around all day)
Sweet Baby Treat Box
Baby Bottle Filled with Treats

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