50 Delightful Baby Shower Games for Every Type of Celebration

Duration: 20-25 minutes

How to Play: This classic baby shower game will keep guests engaged, entertained, and on the edge of their seats as the mother-to-be or couple opens gifts. Distribute bingo cards to each guest (like the one above) and have them write down popular baby shower gift items in each vacant bingo square. As gifts are unwrapped, players can mark off the appropriate squares on their boards until they have five in a row.

Duration: Entire Shower

How to Play: This engaging game can be used throughout the shower. When guests arrive, have a sign explaining the word that is “forbidden” during the shower (e.g. baby, pregnant, labor) and a basket of clothespins. If the mom is having a girl, buy pink pins. If it’s a boy, buy blue pins for an extra decorative touch. Everyone takes a clothespin at the beginning of the shower and attaches it to their clothing. If you hear the forbidden word used, you take that guest’s clothespin. At the end of the shower, the person with the most clothespins wins. Active baby shower games like this one keep people engaged, mingling, and listening closely to each other in conversation.

Duration: Throughout the shower or 15 minutes

How to Play: In your baby shower invitation, ask each guest to bring a photo of themself as an infant or young child. These can be displayed in a frame, on a corkboard, or creatively like this picture. Throughout the shower, guests can write down which guest is associated with each baby photo. Near the end of the shower, reveal who is who. The person with the most right answers wins. If you’re looking to make this game a little more formal, designate 15 minutes for everyone to submit their guesses. Supplies needed include a board or presentation piece of some kind to hang photos on, numbered photos of each guest, a blank numbered list for each guest, and pens or pencils.

Duration: 10 minutes

How to Play: Put your guests’ pop culture knowledge to the test and see how well they do matching celebrities with their babies. You can find customizable PDFs of this game online and also personalize the look to match the theme of your shower. The only materials you will need for this game are printed versions of the name worksheets and a pen for each guest. Once distributed, ask guests to match each celebrity (in one column) with a baby name (in the other column). Give guests a few minutes to match and then read the answers aloud. The guest with the most correct answers is the winner. Because this baby shower game is relatively quick, it is a great option for a fun icebreaker.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Purchase a bunch of baby items and display all of them on a table. In front of all the items, randomly put out the prices of the items on cards. Ask guests to write on their own paper what they think each item costs. Once everyone is done, see who had the closest matches. To organize this game you will need price tag printouts, pens or pencils, a custom shopping list/worksheet for your guests to complete, and an assortment of baby products. Ideas for items include baby shampoo, baby soap, a box of diapers, a pack of wipes, a swaddle blanket, a onesie, baby shoes, a hat, diaper cream, a pacifier, and socks.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: You may get a little messy with this baby shower game idea but it is well worth it! Gather as many kinds of chocolate bars as you can and melt each one onto a different diaper. Have guests take turns smelling each diaper to try and guess what kind of candy bar it is. The guest who guesses the most amount of correct diapers wins. Supplies needed for this game of scent superiority are diapers, candy bars, pens or pencils, and paper for guests to write down their guesses.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Ask guests to write down a piece of parenting advice they got from their parents on a slip of paper. Put all of the slips in a bowl, mix them up, and let everyone draw one. Have each guest read the piece of advice they drew and have fun guessing who wrote it down, and whether it’s something the mom-to-be would say to her own child. It’s also a game that would work great at a co-ed shower. The supplies needed are minimal. Choose to just play for fun or make it competitive and keep track of the guest who correctly guesses the most submissions.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Create a set of cards with baby photos showing different milestones (first smile, sitting up, crawling, etc.) and another set with the typical age ranges these milestones occur. Players race to match milestones with correct age ranges. Add a twist by having players arrange them in chronological order. The person with the most correct matches wins.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: Start by placing one item on a tray (like a pacifier). The first player adds a second item (like a bib) and recites both items in order. Each subsequent player adds one new item and must recite the complete list in order. If someone makes a mistake, they're out. The last player who can correctly recite the entire sequence wins.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Create elegant prediction cards where guests can write their hopes and predictions for the baby's future. Include prompts like "Future Career," "First Word," "Favorite Hobby," and "Most Like Mom/Dad In..." Have everyone write their name on their cards. The parent(s)-to-be keep these cards and open them on the child's first birthday, creating a meaningful connection between the shower and this milestone celebration.

Duration: Throughout the shower

How to Play: Set up a crafting station with plain white onesies in various sizes, fabric markers, iron-on transfers, and other decorative materials. Guests can design personalized onesies for the baby throughout the shower. Create category prizes like "Most Likely to Be Worn," "Most Creative," "Funniest," and "Most Beautiful" to be judged by the parent(s)-to-be at the end. This activity doubles as both a game and a practical gift - the new parents get a variety of custom onesies for their little one. Supply fabric markers, stencils, and decorative elements that match the shower's color scheme for cohesive results.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: Guests write down their best parenting hack or time-saving tip. Tips are read aloud anonymously, and parents-to-be rate each one on practicality and creativity. The highest-rated hacks win prizes.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Bring out the celebrity chefs in your guests. Give them cards with various fruits, vegetables, and grains listed. They must create and name their own baby food combination that sounds appetizing. Fellow guests vote on which combinations they'd actually try. The most creative (yet plausible) combination wins.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Ready, set, diaper! This game gives guests a hilarious taste of the real-life parenting obstacle course that's coming soon. Create diaper-changing stations with dolls. On "go," players must properly diaper their doll while incorporating random challenges announced every 30 seconds (like "now use only your non-dominant hand" or "you must hop on one foot"). First to complete a properly secured diaper wins.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: This creative twist on classic Pictionary gets everyone laughing while testing their artistic skills. Divide guests into teams and have them take turns drawing baby-related items (like strollers, cribs, bottles, or swaddles). Create cards with baby items in advance, ranging from simple to challenging. Players draw their item within a one-minute time limit while their team tries to guess. Keep track of points and award a prize to the winning team.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: If looking for baby shower game ideas that will get the blood pumping and sweat dripping, look no further. This game is best played outside where there is decent room to move around. Have guests wear a balloon on their stomach under their shirt or dress and waddle to a bucket on the other side of the yard with a sponge between their legs. They must try to drop the sponge into the bucket. When a guest has achieved this, they have to yell “My water broke!” The first person to accomplish this wins. You can play as many rounds as you’d like. This activity is the perfect solution when looking for baby shower games for a large group.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: Calling all brave taste-testers and aspiring artists! In this deliciously unpredictable game, guests taste unlabeled baby food and must draw what they think the flavor is without using words. Other players guess the flavor based on the drawing. Award points for both accurate guessing and creative illustrations.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Every expecting mother has tons of questions, so hopefully she doesn’t take this advice! Funny baby shower games like this one will have people in stitches, including the mom-to-be. Distribute notecards and pens to each guest and have them write down a question the mom might have, such as “When should I transition my child to solid food?” Then, have everyone turn the card over and pass it to the guest on her left. Have each person write down a comedic answer to the original question on the back of her new card. Guests can then take turns reading the Q&A cards out loud. The guest whose Q&A gets the loudest laughs wins.

Duration: 10 minutes

How to Play: This baby shower game can serve as the perfect transition between other items and activities on your party agenda. Have guests bring out their inner artist by encouraging them to grab some Play-Doh to create a sculpture of a baby. The Play-Doh sculpting contestants have the freedom to create an abstract arrangement, a funny interpretation of what the newborn baby may look like, or any other creative idea they may have. The mom-to-be will be the final judge that determines the best sculpture. Simply purchase a collection of Play-Doh canisters in various colors and create a sign detailing the game.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: It's feeding time but with a competitive twist! One team member sits in a chair wearing a large bib while teammates toss baby-safe snacks (cheerios, soft puffs) trying to land them in a bowl on the "baby's" lap. The most catches in one minute wins.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Get ready for some outrageous baby predictions! Create fill-in-the-blank stories about the baby's future, structured like Mad Libs. Guests fill in the blanks without seeing the full story. Reading the completed stories aloud creates hilarious predictions about the baby's life.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: Everyone wants to know what the baby is going to look like, and while we can’t make an actual prediction, we can have some fun! In advance of the shower, ask the parents-to-be to send you a series of photos of each of them making a variety of facial expressions. Print these photos out in advance and cut the photos into horizontal strips that showcase their foreheads, eyes, cheeks, nose, mouth, chin, and neck. Set up a table at the shower that has a collection of all these photo strips and feature a sign asking guests to glue together strips to form a human face of what the baby will look like. Have guests tape their final product to a wall or tack to a corkboard. After the last guest is done, everyone can vote for their favorite face and that person will win a prize. Typically it all ends in hilarity! Supplies needed include photos of the parents, scissors, glue, plain paper, and tape for the wall.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: Fantasy meets reality in this eye-opening game! Give guests blank 24-hour schedule templates. They must plan out a "perfect" day in the life of new parents, hour by hour, including all baby care tasks, meals, and activities. Have experienced parents judge which schedule is most realistic. Award prizes for "Most Optimistic," "Most Realistic," and "Most Creative Solution.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: It's time to knock 'em down in baby style! Set up empty baby bottles as bowling pins and use a soft ball to knock them down. Create teams and keep score over several rounds. Add excitement by filling bottles with different colored water - when they topple, it creates a beautiful pattern. This active game gets everyone moving and creates great photo opportunities.

Duration: 30 minutes

How to Play: Let the parenting Olympics begin! Set up stations with different parenting tasks (swaddling, preparing formula one-handed, folding a stroller while holding a doll, etc.). Guests rotate through stations, being timed at each one. The person with the best combined time wins. Add fun challenges like doing tasks while wearing noise-canceling headphones playing baby cries.

Duration: 25 minutes

How to Play: Parenthood is all about navigating challenges — so let's practice! Create an obstacle course and have guests navigate it while pushing a stroller containing a doll and diaper bag. Include tasks like picking up dropped items, opening doors, and managing tight corners. Time each participant and award prizes for best time and most careful navigation.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: It's a parenting emergency — how fast can you pack? Create a list of essential items that should be in a diaper bag. Scatter items around the room. Contestants race to correctly pack a diaper bag with all required items. The first to pack everything correctly wins.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: As we already mentioned, it is inevitable that late-night/early-morning diaper changing will occur under limited visibility. Start practicing now! Set up a changing station complete with a baby-sized doll, diapers, and a blindfold. The goal is for each guest to take a crack at changing the diaper on the doll as fast as possible while blindfolded! Designate one person to run the stopwatch and record everyone’s times.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Wrap stars, get ready to roll! This game not only creates laughs but teaches an essential parenting skill that will be used countless times during those first few months. Using baby dolls and blankets, guests compete to create the perfect swaddle. Judge based on speed and security — the baby doll should stay snug when held upside down (carefully!). Have experienced parents demonstrate proper technique first.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: Step right up to the baby bottle carnival! Test your aim and win bragging rights! Set up baby bottles at varying distances. Players toss teething rings or soft baby toy rings, trying to land them around the bottle necks. Make it challenging by having some bottles laid at angles or partially hidden behind other baby items. Keep score for competitive fun.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Ready to test your pacifier pitching skills? This carnival-style game will separate the rookies from the pros! Set up baskets at varying distances, each labeled with different point values. Players toss pacifiers trying to land them in the baskets. Add challenges like tossing with their non-dominant hand or while balancing a baby doll. Highest score wins.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Divide your guests into two teams and have them take turns acting out funny baby-related actions or concepts such as sleepless nights, teething, rubber duck, and cutting the umbilical cord. The team with the most correct guesses wins. If you are having a hard time coming up with ideas to act out, a quick internet search will yield plenty of templates you can download. A fun prize to hand out to the team that wins is movie tickets since they have proven they are such great actors.

Duration: 10 minutes

How to Play: This game sparks nostalgia and often leads to impromptu singing sessions, making it a heartwarming group activity. Create cards featuring partial lyrics from classic lullabies and children's songs, leaving blank spaces for key words. Guests must fill in the missing lyrics — but it's trickier than it sounds! Include a mix of traditional lullabies ("Rock-a-bye Baby," "Twinkle Twinkle") and modern children's songs. Award points for exact matches and partial credit for close answers.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: Think you know how much baby gear costs? Prepare to be shocked at today's prices! This game reveals just how much this tiny human's stuff adds up! Print pictures of 15-20 items from the parents' actual registry, but remove the prices. Guests guess the current retail price of each item. The twist? Prices change constantly online, so use real-time pricing during the reveal. The person with the closest total wins.

Duration: 15-20 minutes

How to play: Most of us remember some of the nursery rhymes we recited as children. It can be a fun refresher to see which guest at your baby shower is most well-versed when it comes to these youthful rhymes. Create a worksheet that lists lines from well-known nursery rhymes. Players will then be tasked with writing in the next line of the rhyme. Some examples include: “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men… __________________” “The Itsy Bitsy spider climbed up the water spout… __________________” “Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,... _____________________”

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Parenting instructions always get hilariously lost in translation, and this game proves it! Players sit in a circle. The first person gets a complex parenting instruction (like steps to make a bottle while holding the baby). They whisper it to the next person, who passes it on. The last person must demonstrate the instruction they heard. Compare it to the original message for laughs.

Duration: Throughout the shower

How to Play: We all know new parents are sleep-deprived and changing a lot of diapers. So why not use the shower as a chance to provide them with some inspirational diapers they can use during future late nights? This activity is designed for just that! Have a spot at the shower where you lay out diapers and a sign inviting guests to write funny sayings on the front of a diaper. In the end, those sayings will help the parents out when they are half-awake changing a diaper. This game doesn’t have a winner and instead is more of an activity that can be enjoyed throughout the party. Supplies that will be needed are diapers, sharpies, a sign explaining the game, and a basket to put the finished diapers in.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Ever wondered why baby socks always disappear? Now you'll understand why matching them is a parental superpower! Create a pile of mismatched baby socks (the tinier the better). Teams race to match as many pairs as possible within a time limit. Add a twist by having players wear oversized gloves or use chopsticks to sort the socks. The team with the most matched pairs wins.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: Fashion Week meets the nursery in this haute couture baby challenge! Channel your inner designer and create Instagram-worthy baby looks! Provide paper dolls and various baby clothing items cut from magazines or printed. Guests create five complete outfits for different occasions (coming home, first holiday, everyday play, etc.). Best-styled collections win.

Duration: 15-20 minutes

How to Play: This game always creates lots of laughs and memorable reactions, perfect for photo opportunities. Remove the labels from 5-7 different baby food jars and number them. Give each guest a tasting sheet with numbers corresponding to each jar. Guests take small tastes and try to identify the flavors — from simple ones like "banana" to trickier combination purees. The person with the most correct guesses wins. For added fun, have guests rate each flavor with emoji reactions.

Duration: 10-15 minutes

How to Play: This is a great game for trivia lovers. Before the shower, create a playlist of lullabies, kid’s songs, and popular songs that have “baby” in the title or lyrics. Or see if you can select songs that match your theme, such as winter/holiday songs. Before the game starts, ask your guests to mute themselves so no one inadvertently blurts out an answer. Play a 5 to 10-second snippet of each song. Have guests write down their guesses on a piece of paper and once you’ve gone through the entire playlist, give out the answers! The player with the most correct answers wins.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: This virtual game idea requires some pre-party planning and setup. When collecting RSVPs to your baby shower invitations, ask each guest for a fun story about when they were a baby or were responsible for caring for an infant. Once you have your guests’ facts, create a slideshow presentation with each fact on a separate slide. Include a multiple-choice list of possible answers as to which guest the story relates to. Your guests can be asked to write down their guesses during the game. Whoever earns the most points wins. Arguably the most fun starts when the people with the funniest stories get to share them after the game is over.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: If you’re looking for baby shower games for a large group, scavenger hunts are great, especially virtually! Create a list of everyday items most people will likely have in their homes. Explain to your guests that you will say an item and then the first three contestants to find that item in their house and display it in front of the computer camera will earn a point. Sample scavenger hunt items could include a paperclip, popsicle stick, ribbon, and piece of chocolate. After 10 or 15 rounds, tally up which player has the most points.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: Everyone loves to guess on key elements regarding the pregnancy and delivery. What date will the baby be born? Will they be a boy or a girl? How long will labor last? How much will the baby weigh? What color eyes will the newborn have? There are countless other details that can be guessed at prior to the birthdate. Create a form of 10-15 questions and have each virtual party attendee submit their answers. Let everyone know that at a designated time after the baby is born, you will review all the answers and award one guest the “Nostradamus of Baby Showers”.

Duration: 10 minutes

How to Play: This game is deceptively hard and really fun. Choose to create your own list of animals or find a worksheet online that matches the theme of your party. You’ll want a list of 10 to 20 animals, with the names of adult animals listed on one side and a blank space on the other side for guests to fill in what the animal’s baby name is. Or you could have a worksheet that asks you to match the correct baby name to a list of possible animal names. If playing the game with a virtual crowd, simply present the worksheet for all the attendees to work through.

Duration: 20 minutes

How to Play: This game is perfect for design-loving guests and creates beautiful keepsake inspiration boards for the baby’s parents. Before the shower, create a digital mood board template (using a platform like Canva or Google Slides) and share it with guests. During the game, participants have 15 minutes to "design" their dream nursery by dragging and dropping furniture, decor, and color schemes onto their boards. The host can provide a selection of pre-approved design elements to choose from, keeping it simple yet creative. The mom-to-be picks her favorite design as the winner.

Duration: 15 minutes

How to Play: This game works especially well on platforms like Zoom where everyone can see the chat simultaneously and creates lots of laughs. Every guest must tell a brief birth story or baby-related tale using only emojis in the virtual chat. Other participants try to decode the story. For example, "👩‍👦 🏥 👶 😴 💉 😱 👶 😊" might represent "Mom went to hospital, got epidural, had dramatic delivery, but baby arrived safely!" Award points for both creative storytelling and accurate guessing.

Duration: Throughout the shower

How to Play: This digital memory vault will be the gift that surprises years from now! Create a shared digital folder where guests can upload photos, video messages, and written notes for the baby to view in the future. Ask each guest to contribute something meaningful: a piece of advice, a prediction, a favorite recipe, or a special memory about the parents. Set a specific future date (like the baby's 16th birthday) when this digital capsule will be opened.

Duration: 10 minutes

How to Play: Parents are masters of improvisation, and this game proves why! The host shares their screen showing everyday household items. Guests have to quickly type in the chat how these items could be repurposed for baby care. For example, showing a clean sock might get responses like "puppet for entertainment," "storage for small toys," or "bottle warmer." The most creative answers win points.

Duration: 15-20 minutes

How to Play: Test your parental instincts in this virtual boot camp! Using a shared-screen baby care app or simulator, guests take turns making quick decisions about baby scenarios ("Baby is crying at 3 AM - what do you check first?"). Each participant gets 30 seconds to choose their action, and points are awarded for correct responses. Make it more entertaining by adding humorous scenarios and unexpected twists. This game combines education with entertainment and helps prepare new parents for real-life situations.

Designate a "game photographer" to capture the hilarious, touching, and competitive moments throughout the shower. Focus on candid reactions, particularly during taste tests, charades, and skill challenges. These spontaneous photos often become cherished memories for both guests and parents-to-be.

Transform game results into meaningful mementos. Frame the baby predictions, create a scrapbook page from the late-night diaper messages, or compile the advice cards into a bound book. These keepsakes become treasured items parents can revisit when they need encouragement or a good laugh.

Use a shared digital photo album where guests can upload their own photos and videos from the games. Create a custom hashtag for social media sharing. For virtual showers, record the event (with permission) to capture those priceless reactions when games lead to unexpected outcomes.

Make awarding prizes a special moment. Create a mini "ceremony" for announcing winners, perhaps with humorous award titles like "Most Likely to Start a Baby Food Empire" or "Swaddle Master Extraordinaire." These lighthearted acknowledgments make everyone feel included in the celebration.

• Decide on your shower theme and game categories.
• Create a master supply list for all games.
• Order custom game materials (signage, prediction cards, bingo sheets, etc.).
• Recruit helpers for game setup and management.

• Purchase or gather all game supplies and prizes.
• Test complex games to ensure they work as planned.
• Create instruction cards for each game.
• Plan the shower schedule, noting when each game will be played.

• Assemble game kits for each activity.
• Create signage explaining ongoing games.
• Confirm helpers understand their roles.
• Prepare prize baskets and award certificates.
• For virtual showers, test technology and send digital game materials to guests.

• Set up ongoing game stations 45 minutes before guests arrive.
• Place "Don't Say Baby" clothespins in an accessible location.
• Schedule the first official game after all guests have arrived and mingled (30-45 minutes in).
• Plan energetic games when energy might dip (typically mid-event).
• Save sentimental games for near the end of the shower.
• Allow 5-10 minutes between games for transition and mingling.

Remember that flexibility is key — be prepared to adjust your timeline based on the natural flow of the celebration and guest engagement.