Baby Shower Games Ideas to Entertain and Amuse your Guests!

You’re throwing a baby shower for your sister or friend and want everything to go as perfectly as you’ve planned. The food has been ordered, the flowers are in place and the invites have been mailed. There’s one other thing you might need to take care of – shower games to keep guest occupied.

Baby showers follow a pretty routine procedure. Guest arrive bearing baby gifts for the new born, enjoy an afternoon of food and merriment, and then leave with their baby shower favors.  If you’re lucky, you guests will have plenty of things to keep themselves occupied in each other’s company, but if they begin get antsy, you better have some pre-arranged games to take the boredom off the evening.

Here are some quick and simple games that don’t require too much planning and are guaranteed to add some fun to the evening.

• Before the shower, collect baby pictures of your guests and stick them on a large poster. Hang the poster from a wall, and ask everyone to match the picture with the adult. This is a great game because baby pictures can be pretty unflattering, and many adults look nothing like they do in their baby photos.  Have a prize for the winner who manages to guess the most number of pictures.
• On a piece of paper, write down part of a rhyme.  Just a snippet will do.  For instance,”…how I wonder” (twinkle twinkle little star).  Guests have to guess the rhyme by reading just the snippet.
• Have a roll of ribbon and ask each guest to cut up just enough length to go around Mommy’s belly. The one who ribbon comes closets to going around the tummy wins.
• Have a diaper race.  Place little dolls on the table with a diaper for each and have the “contestants” line up in front of the table. The person who can get the diaper on the baby properly and in the shortest period of time wins.
• Play a simple game of baby pictionary using the baby things as words to guess.
• Make sure you reward each winner by presenting them a baby gift baskets full of an assortment of baby shower favors to take home.

Whenever you are looking for baby shower favors to give to the guests at your baby shower party, you should know that through these gifts you are expressing your happiness, love, gratitude and appreciation to and for these people. While these gifts are a common part of any baby shower, there are no real rules about them. Instead, they are supposed to be a spontaneous expression of your emotions. Sometimes it is expected that these be given. So, in that case you should talk to others who have recently attended a baby shower to see what baby shower party favors were given out at the celebration.

If you would like to find some keepsake favors baby shower gifts, you are going to need to take your time while you are shopping. This way you can see what exists and get some bright ideas about baby shower favors. One reason that you will want to do this is because you will want your guests to appreciate the favors that you are giving them. Plus, your guests have taken the time to look for great baby shower gifts for you, so it is only right that you do the same thing for them whenever you are looking for baby shower favors.

So, now that you know why it is so important to get great baby shower favors, it is time to think of some of the various items that you can purchase. While some of these favors will be really unique and impressive, you should know that you do not have to purchase such favors in order to truly please your guests. After all, it really is the thought that matters most here.

Now if you really want to impress your guests you could always purchase some personalized baby shower favors for your baby shower. An example of a favor that you could engrave a personal message on is a compact mirror in a black velvet bag. Since baby showers usually give out all the same gifts and play all the same games, this will be something “unusual” and unexpected. For this reason, this will bring smiles to your guests' faces.

Another thing that you can easily pull off is baby shower favors made of chocolate.This will be something enjoyable for everyone who is at this shower since almost everyone loves chocolate. Of course, if you would like for this to be even more impressive, you can accompany these favors with a chocolate fountain.

A chocolate fountain is a stainless steel 2 or 3 tiered fountain that melts chocolate and produces a continuous flow of chocolate over top of the tiers.This can be used as the centerpiece at your baby shower if you just simply use your imagination. Of course, you will want to provide a variety of things that can be dipped into this chocolate. If you would like to keep things healthy, then you can offer apple slices, strawberries, banana slices, chunks of pineapple, grapes, blueberries, orange slices or Maraschino cherries. However, if you want to have some fun food you can offer marshmallows, Rice Krispie Treats, various types of cookies, graham crackers, animal crackers and throw some pretzels in there just for good measure. The bottom line is that it all comes down to the chocolate. As long as that is part of your baby shower, then everybody should be happy. This happiness will be heightened with a chocolate fountain.

Of course, if you want to have a simple, more intimate baby shower, then you are going to need some other ideas for the kinds of favors for baby shower that you can give out. Things that most women are sure to love are candle favors and scented soaps favors. There are some very beautiful ones that you can give out as favors. If you choose to go with soaps, you can find ones in the shape of a heart, rose or starfish with cute little messages attached. For instance, with the starfish the message is, "A star is born." On the other hand, you can find candles in various shapes like roses and hearts, that smell like rose or lavender.

If your baby shower will be held after your baby is born, there are some cute ideas for favors here as well. You can purchase glass coasters with the new baby's picture in it. You can then engrave “A Prince/Princess is born” on them. Of course, you could go with something that may be a little more useful and purchase photo bookmarks with a silver heart charm on them. On these bookmarks you could have “written” “A time to remember.”

These are just some of the many ideas of things that you can use at your baby shower and that your guests will love. Hopefully these ideas have gotten your creative juices flowing so that you can pick out a great favor for your party.