subject: Awesome Games To Play At Baby Showers [print this page] Whether your baby shower will be attended by older children or by mothers and their babies, it will be good to have a few games prepared for them to play giving life to the moments in any party when guests begin to drift apart into their own corners. Games are guaranteed to keep the party going and the guests enjoying each other's company.
Games for baby showers are designed in different ways. However, the best ones to play will be games that can either be played on the computer or on a sheet of paper. The theme of these games will, of course, have something to do with babies.
The Animal Name Game
Many baby shower games are question and answer, multiple choice or matching games. They are down-loadable and can be printed out on paper and distributed to the guests. Some games may ask you to match the names of the male and female of a number of animal species. Other games may ask you to match the animal baby name to that of its mother, for instance a chick matches with a hen.
Baby Food And Fruits Game
There are games which ask you to supply two or three names of fruits for each letter of the new baby's name. Likewise, you might want to play a game wherein the players race to write down as many names for baby food as he can think about
Helping Mom and Dad with the baby's name
Other games are designed to help in selecting the best name for the baby. A player could be asked to write down as many names starting with 'R' in 15 seconds and so on. Very imaginative variations exist for this type of game. You may even use flash cards for displaying letters. Then the first player who blurts out a name corresponding to that letter wins if the name sounds correct. Otherwise, the task of each player might be to write down the prettiest names starting with certain letters.
Intellectual games
Completing nursery rhymes is an amusing game for baby showers. Games that ask questions concerning baby facts are entertaining and informative at the same time.
Guessing games
One popular game for baby showers is guessing what your opponent has in her bag or in his trousers. The game is played between two contestants both of whom need bags to be eligible. Each contestant takes her turn with a guess. Each time a player makes the right guess she is awarded a point. You can make this game very exciting by adding a few details to it, such as penalizing a player every time she misses on her guess.
Make Up A New Game
On the internet you can find many sites supplying games for baby showers. These are usually printable on paper that can be distributed to the guests. Others, like the guessing game need nothing but a score sheet.. You can ask those sites to custom print any idea you have for a game.
If you choose, you can do your own artistic design for the game and print it at home. Just make sure you have enough colored ink for the whole set.
