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Can You Keep A Secret?
This is a great baby shower icebreaker for small or
large groups. It is also a great way to encourage
folks to respond promptly to your RSVP. What you
need to do is ask each guest to e-mail you with one
little-known fact about themselves prior to the day
of the shower. Some folks will have traveled to
exotic locations, others might play an instrument
in a local rock group, still others are poetical.
Everyone has done at least one interesting, or slightly out- of-the-ordinary thing. Get them to tell you about it.
Once you have received the secrets, prepare a
document with all of them written out. Add a
blank space next to each secret for the owner's name. Be sure
to
print out enough sheets. When folks arrive for your
baby shower hand them a blank copy. Guests must mingle and try to figure out which secret
belongs to whom. They should do this by asking
questions and trying to get a good sense of each
person
at the party.
The one rule of this game is that – No one may
confess their secret outright! This encourages
guests to get to know each other a little. Later during the party have the guests reveal their
secrets. The person with the most correct answers
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Tied in Knots:
This is truly a hilarious baby shower game that will
melt even the toughest exterior – a terrific ice
breaker!
To begin, get your guests into a circle – everyone
facing each other. Next, have everyone move closer,
shoulder to shoulder and close their eyes. When all
eyes are closed ask everyone to carefully reach out
and clasp hands, each person should be holding hands with others in the circle. As the
hostess check that each hand is
joined to only one other hand, and that everyone has
hands from two different people. When you are
satisfied (with a little rearranging if necessary),
ask the group to open their eyes and start
un-tangling the human knot without letting go hands.
Remarkably the group will untangle into a perfect
circle, with perhaps a break-away smaller circle.
After you are done, get everyone to clap and
congratulate themselves for a job well done.
Caution – this baby shower game can be rather physical. You
want to make sure that folks are warned to be
properly dressed, and are physically able to take
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18. Is a Rose a Rose?
This is a wonderful ice breaker baby shower game for both small and
larger parties. To prepare for this baby shower game
collect 5-10 baby items. Try to select a wide range
of items from baby food, to diaper rash formula,
etc.
To play the game each person is encouraged to come
up with an alternative use for each item. Be
prepared for whacky and outrageous responses! Have your guests tell something about themselves in
addition to giving their answers for the baby items.
This allows people to get to know each other better. |
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Shoe Pile:
A great way for your guests to meet others at the
baby shower is the "Shoe Pile" game. To play this
game everyone takes off one of their shoes and throws
it into a big pile. Everyone picks out a shoe that
isn't their own and mingles around to find the person it
belongs to. This is a really good icebreaker game for large
groups! |
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Person Scavenger Hunt Bingo:
For this baby shower game, instead of creating a
Bingo board with numbers or words, you will create a
Bingo board of things anybody could have done or
might have in their possession. For example one of
the squares might read "Find a person with a twin
sister", another might read, "Find someone wearing
their hair in a ponytail", etc. Give each guest a
copy of the Bingo board when they first arrive. Have
guests mingle and find people who match any of the
detail on the squares. If a player does find someone
who matches a detail, then the matching person must
sign their name in that square.
There are a couple of
rules for this baby shower game. First Rule
– a guest cannot sign his or her own Bingo board.
And Second Rule – a guest can have any one person
sign his or her Bingo board no more than once. Give
guests a time limit. The winner is the first person
to get a row of names signed across, up and down, or
diagonally. A super fun baby shower game! |
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No Words Allowed:
This is a really quick way to get people mingling at
the baby shower. Once guests have arrived, quickly
divide everyone into two groups. Give the
members in each group a number. For instance, if
there are 20 people at the party you will have 2
teams of ten people. Give each member of
the first group a number between 1 and 10. You will do
likewise with the second group. Everyone receives a number on a slip of paper
that they cannot show
to anyone else. The challenge is to see
which group can arrange themselves in numerical
order without speaking or holding up fingers. The
first group to arrange itself into numerical order
wins.
The second round is more challenging. The group then
has to arrange itself in alphabetical order using
everyone's first name. Speaking is still not allowed.
The group to complete the task first wins. |
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Lie Between Two Truths:
This really simple baby shower game is a simple yet
effective icebreaker that gets everyone familiar
with each other. Have each person write 2 things
about themselves that are true. They might
write little known facts
or interesting things that they have accomplished in
their lives. Then instruct everyone to write a lie
about themselves that sounds as if it might be true.
Next, have everyone number their truths and lie in
random order. They will pass these papers to the
host who will introduce each guest and read their
truths and lies in random order, and the group will
have to guess which fact is the lie. |
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The Big Bopper:
This is a great baby shower game for somewhat
familiar groups, or just as an icebreaker to loosen
people up and getting them laughing during the
party. First, give your guests a brief time to mingle and
learn each other's names. Next, have your guests form a
circle (or sit around the living room). One guest is
designated as the "It" and stands in the center of
the room. The "It" person will wield a soft "Bopper"
of some sort. Examples of good boppers are: a rolled up towel, or
perhaps a
Nerf bat.
The "It" person starts the game by calling out a
seated person's name. That person must call another
name before the "It" can bop them on the knee. The
object of the game is for the seated player to
quickly recall and call out another guest's name
before being "bopped" on the knee. If the seated
player does not call out a name fast enough and the
"It" bops them on the knee, then he or she become
"It". This baby shower game is full of
great, silly fun. |
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The Name Memory Game:
This is a classic icebreaker that adapts wonderfully to
baby showers. First go around in a circle. Have the
first person say her name and what her favorite
pregnant food is. If the guest is male
or has never been pregnant, then have them say what their
favorite pregnant food would be (makes for a lot of
laughs with the guys). The second person in the
circle says her name and pregnant food, and also repeats
the first person's name and pregnant food. The third
person does likewise, repeating the first two
people's names and pregnant foods, and then adding
her own. This continues on all the
way around the circle. The folks at the end of the
circle may struggle somewhat, but they can elicit
help from the rest of the group! |
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Timer Tell All:
This baby shower game offers a great way to record
special memories for your
parents-to-be.
Set a timer to go off every 10 or 15 minutes during the
party. Designate several taboo actions. An example
of a good taboo action might be: holding a dessert,
or sitting on a specific couch, etc. When the timer sounds
call out "FREEZE!". Have the person (or people) who
is caught doing the pre-designated action
give a bit of advice or tell a special memory about
the parents-to-be. To record these well-wishes you
can set up a video recorder in one corner of the
room. Send folks to the video camera as they are caught doing
the taboo actions to record their advice!
Whoever didn't get a chance to record something
throughout the party can do so before the party's
end. The video
makes a very special memento for the parents-to-be
and their new baby. |
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The M&M Game:
This baby shower game is a really simple way to break the ice at your
next
shower. Once everyone has arrived pass around a bag
of M&M’s and have each person take as many as
they think will "get the job done". Instruct your guests not to eat the M&M’s
right away. You might want to provide each guest
with a small paper cup to hold their M&M’s. Tell your
guests that for each M&M they have taken, they
have to tell the group
something about themselves, or give a well-wish the to
parents-to-be. |
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27.
I Have Never:
What a
great baby shower game to get your guests
to open up somewhat at the shower!
Have everyone sit
in a circle except one person. That one person
stands in the center of the circle and tells the
group something they have never done. Next, all the guests
who have never done that activity either have to
get up and find an empty seat – one of the seats
recently vacated. The last person left standing is
now in the center of the circle and has to
mention something she has never done. This game
doesn’t really have an end, just play until folks are
having fun and getting into the spirit of your party. |
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Animal Charades:
This baby shower game gets folks to interact with
others they may not know that well. To play,
divide your guests into groups of three - make sure
you put people together who may not know each other.
Each group is given the name of an animal. As a team
they must come up with a way to act out that animal.
Then each group presents their demonstration to the
group, who then has to guess what animal it is. I
really like this game for larger baby showers.
However, if you are hosting a smaller baby shower, I
recommend pairing your guests into groups of two. |
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