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  Create a sheet of four to six actual baby pictures (from magazines, mother-to-be photo album, family albums, etc.). Make photocopies of the sheet for each guest. The guests try to create fu ...

A Mother's Purse Read a list of items and ask each guest to tryand find it in her purse. Assign each item with points (the odder the item, the higher the points). The person the most points and i ...

The Show: Magician: Have one of the guest shuffle a deck of cards as many times as he/she wants. Ask another guest to pick one card and show it to everyone, including you. Announce that you are tel ...

Cakes for Weddings What's In... What's Out! Copyrighted by Mary Ann Ross, October 2004   When I got married 42 years ago, it was tradi ...

Bridal RicePut uncooked rice in a large bowl and add 50 small safety pins. Each guest gets a turn to reach into the bowl and pull out as many safety pins as she can in one minute. Person with the mos ...

Pick ten or so words related to babies and scramble up the letters.Photocopy the scramble words on a sheet of paper for each guest.Place a time limit of five (5) minutes for everyone to try to unsc ...

Baby Bottle Game Fill a baby bottle with little jelly beans (or other small candy, small pins or cotton balls).Ask everyone to guess how many jelly beans are in the baby bottle.

Baby Picture Guessing Everyone brings a baby picture of herself (or himself). All the pictures are displayed and given a number by the hostess/host. Give each guest a piece of paper and pencil and ...

Estimate the Mommy-to-be's Waist Pass around a ball of string and a pair of scissors. Each guests cuts off a piece of string in the length she guesses will fit around the Mommy-to-be's waist. Gue ...

Stork Bingo This game works like regular bingo but instead of using the word "bingo" across the top of the card, use the word "STORK" instead. (Also, baby words such as bassinet, crib, bottle, etc ...

Baby Questions Pass out note cards and pencils to each guest, asking them to write down common baby questions such as "what do you do when a baby cries?" or "how do you get a baby to sleep through ...

Draw Baby on Your Head Our family seems to play many different Shower Games. However, we ALWAYS play this one: Give everyone a plain white paper plate. Then have each person place the plate on th ...

Rainbow Snow Art Beautiful white snow is a canvas for colored works of art... outdoor fun  for kids of all ages to show the artist that is hiding inside. So simple, so simple.

Divide everyone into wo teams and have them spread out along the gutter at the deep end of the pool. Float two plastic dishpans at the shallow end of the pool corners. In the middle of the pool, dist ...

SHARKS AND JETS TAGDivide eveyone into two teams -- one is known as the Sharks and the other team is known as the Jets. Have both teams line up opposite one another in the middle of the shallow end o ...

DUCK, DUCK (water version of dodge ball)Assemble two teams and designate one as the "Offense" and the other as the "Defense" and position them at opposite ends of the "shallow" part of the pool. A re ...

This is a popular pre-school game because it is easy and has lots of actions. All of the players sit cross-legged in a wide circle --- they are the ducks. One child is chosen to be "It" -- he or she ...

Wolf! Wolf!This is a game of Tag. All the children form a large circle, holding hands, around the person who is "IT". The person who is "IT" is called the WOLF. The children cry out, "Wolf! Wolf! Wha ...

Water Balloon TossKids toss water-filled balloons to each other over increasing distances without breaking the balloons. Have pairs of kids face each other in a line and give one child in each paid a ...

Variations of Pin-the-Tail on the...Many ways of playing this old standby game... here are a few ideas:* Pin the Smile on the Cheshire Cat*Pin the Kiss on the Frog*Pin the Tornado on Kansas*Pin the P ...

Standing Broad GrinHold a silling competition in which kids measure their smiles to see whose is the widest. While the kids tally up every eight of an inch, load up the camera... you won't want to mi ...