BABY NAME - Take the baby's name and put at the top of a piece of paper. Make copies and give one to every guest. Give the guests a minute or to to make as many words out of the baby's name as they can.

PUDDING GAME - This game is the best baby shower game ever! Before the baby shower, buy those already made pudding cups for each person playing the game or whom you think would play this game. Before you start the game, pair up couples across of each other, blind fold them, and put a trash bag over them so their clothes won't get dirty. Start the timer for 30 seconds or how ever long you prefer, and as soon as you say "GO", each couple will have to feed each other as fast as they can. The couple who finishes their pudding first wins!!

EMPTY THE BOTTLE - This is game is really more fun to watch when its just for the guys, for those of you having a shower where everyone is invited! Fill as many 4 oz. (or smaller) baby bottles as you will need with water or juice (something they won't mind drinking), one for each male at the shower...fill the bottles equally so its fair for all! Time the fellows with a stopwatch (or watch with a second hand) to see who can "empty that bottle" the fastest! This game is really fun! Its a hoot watching grown men suck from a baby bottle!

BABY ANIMAL NAME GAME - Compile a list of proper names of baby animals, like fawn, gosling, kid, etc... Use a dictionary or a kids book; they usually have the oddest ones. And the odder the better! Make a list of 15 to 20 names, and the guests have to name who the mom is like goose, deer, goat, etc... whoever has the most correct names wins!

CELEBRITY BABIES - Each guest is given a list of celebrity moms on the left, and a list of names on the right. Match the celebrity mom to the name of her baby/child. Ex: Madonna would by matched to Lourdes, using only the first or first and middle names, etc. Whomever matches the most correctly wins. Names of celebrity's children may be found online via different articles on many websites.

WHERE'S THE NUKE - What you need. 3 bowls filled with grits, portage or something thick so you can't see the nuke at the bottom of the bowls. Ask for three volunteers. With there hands behind there back the first one to find the nuke out of the bowl in the winner. The there's a catch!!! there's is no Nuke! The look on the guests faces when they realize they're hunting for nothing is priceless.

DID YOU SAY BABY - Each person is given a clothes pin at the beginning of the shower. Everyone is then instructed not to say the word "baby." If you slip and say "baby", then the first person who catches you gets all of your clothes pins. The person who has the most at the end of the shower, or a set time (say 1 or 2 hours into the shower), wins! This is a lot of fun! It is impossible not to say baby at a Baby Shower!

WHO'S BABY IS WHO - When I sent out the invitations, I enclosed a self address stamped envelope asking guests to send a baby picture of themselves. Informing them pictures will be returned. When I received all the pictures I color copied them. I cut the pictures into circles and glued them to silhouettes of pregnant ladies (die cuts from scrapbook store). I glued them to a poster board and the guests had to figure out everyone's baby picture. This is also good for name tags.

BABY ITEMS WITH A TWIST - Purchase several baby items (diaper, bottle, pacifier, comb etc) before shower and arrange them all on a tray. Have the mom-to-be pass the tray around then find a reason to excuse herself. Once she is gone the hostess tells the guests to write down as many things as the Mom-to-be was wearing (color outfit, hair accessories, earrings etc). This will shock your guests because they are expecting to write down the items. They were probably not looking at the mom so it will be tough, but fun.

THE BAG GAME - You'll need large paper bags (you can get them free at the grocery store!) Give all your guest a bag and have them to place the bag over their head. Then ask the participants to take off something they really don't need. It may sound boring but it is so funny when you see women taking off rings, shoes and even clothing not thinking it's the bag on their head that they really don't need. And of course whomever takes off the bag first is the winner! And the participants who still have the bag on, you continue to ask them to take off something they really don't need, if the participants still don't get the hint just tell them without laughing too loud to take that silly bag off their head (s).

BABY UN-SCRAMBLER - The hostess should have this game prepared before the guests arrive. Make a list of twenty words all dealing with pregnancy such as bottle, diapers, crib, stroller, etc. Give every guest one minute to unscramble the words. Example: BRIC = CRIB. This is a fun game to play!

PIN IN THE RICE - You use a bowl of uncooked white rice and about 50-100 small safety pins. You have about 30-45 seconds to close your eyes and see how many safety pins you can pick out of the rice. Whoever has the most pins wins.

BABY PRICE IS RIGHT - Hostess buys small baby items and keeps a list of what each item costs. Then makes a list of each item for every guest without the prices on the guest lists. Guests write what they think each item cost and total all items. Closest one to the correct cost wins.

POTATO GAME - Things You Need: 1 Potato - 1 Jar - Make sure the Potato can fit in the jar. What the goal of this game is, is to drop the Potato in the jar using your knees. You place the jar in the middle of the room. Each person at you shower takes a turn. The person places the potato in between there knees and tries walking from the front of the room to the middle, once they reach the middle they must attempt to drop the potato in the jar. Who ever makes it wins. If you have more the one winner they go against each other until there is only one winner. Helpful Hint: Try to use a potato the can barely fit in the jar.

MATCH THE BABY'S SOCKS - In the center of the room, place a pile of (separated) 10-15 pairs of baby socks (solids, patterned, and different sizes). Each guest gets 10 seconds to match them. The guest with most pairs of matching socks wins a prize. (* the more patterned socks, the harder). Also, you may want to ask each guest via their invitation to bring in a pair of baby socks to save on party costs). At the end, the mother-to-be takes home all the socks.

COTTON BALLS - Put about 5 cotton balls in a bowl and set another bowl right next to it. Time no more than 4 people for 1 minute. Blind fold them and put the spoon in there hand. Set the timer for 1 minute and let them race and whoever gets the most cotton balls in there other bowl wins. It is so hilarious watching them move the spoon over to the other bowl with nothing in it.

BUBBLE GUM BABIES - Pass out a piece of pink, wrapped bubble gum to eat guest. After each guest has chewed their piece, set the timer for 1 minute and see who can form the best bubble gum baby with their gum.

FIRST BABY BORN - Buy small plastic babies, freeze them in ice cube trays. The first guest to have a baby born, wins.

PUZZLE GAME - Hostess buys several of the wooden tray puzzles - all should have the same number of pieces. Several guests each turn the puzzles over and mix the pieces. Hostess says "Go" and guests race to see who can complete their puzzle first. The winner goes on to the next round. Continue rounds until a final winner is crowned. The guest receives a prize; the new Mom receives the puzzles for baby's toy box.

BABY BINGO - Make up blank bingo cards with a cute baby sticker in the middle or "free" spot. (You can print them up on paper decorated with a baby theme.) Have the guests fill in the squares with the names of baby items that the "new mom" might be receiving when she opens her gifts. Then when the gifts are opened the guests "X" off the gifts that match their squares and yell "Baby Bingo" when they fill in a straight or a diagonal line.