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Gift Wrapping Ideas   Use a receiving blanket and safety pins. Add a rattle, teething ring, or pacifier to the bow.Use a baby hamper to hold small gifts after they are opened.

Spice of Life Using kitchen spices and plastic sandwich bags, put a little of each spice into individual baggies. Bags are passed around to each guest, who writes down the name of the spice. Winner ...

Name Poem with Advice If the baby's name has already been selected, have the guests make up a poem using the letters of the name. For example, if the first letter is N, the advice could be, "Neve ...

Embroidered Cloth Baby Diapers Every baby needs spit-up cloths. If your guests are handy, provide them with needles, embroidery thread and cloth diapers. While they are sitting around talking, ev ...

Clothes Pin Grab Two guests hold a long cord (meant to resemble a clothes line) with numerous clothes pins attached. Everyone has to try with ONE hand only to get as many clothes pins off while st ...

  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 ...

Penny in a Pinch Place an empty wide-mouth bottle (Ragu, Prego, etc.) in the middle of the room. Guests start about ten feet from the bottle with a penny placed between her/his knees and must walk ...

Anaaaaagrams All guests get a sheet of blank paper with a pencil and are asked to fold the paper in half. In big printed letters, ask them to write the name of the bride on the top half of the sh ...

Sculpture Game This is a fun game and quite amusing!Cut up about 20 small slips of paper, and write one baby item on each. Divide the guests into two teams. A member from the first team randomly ...

Try Not to Say "BABY" Every guest gets a baby diaper pin and pins it to their clothes. Everyone tries not to say the word "BABY" at anytime during the party. When someone does say the word "Baby" ...

  Put a dozen plain safety pins of different sizes into a large bowl filled with rice. Blindfold a player and give him or her sixty (60) seconds to pull out as many pins a possible. The one w ...

Baby Rattles from Tea Strainers This is a favorite gift of mothers-to-be when they receive it as a gift fortheir baby... it makes a lot of noise is really light-weight and doesn't hurtthe baby wh ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

  Fold white napkins or cloths into little diaper shapes and close with small diaper pins. Hand one out to each guest when she/he arrives. At the end of the party, each guest opens up their d ...

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 ...

Bride on the Runway The bride-to-be leaves the room before the hostess announces there is a game to be played. Object is for the guests to remember and answer questions about what the bride-to-be w ...

  Place ten everyday items found in the kitchen and place them into a paper bag which has been stapled shut. The bag is passed around and guests are each given one minute to feel the items th ...