I am hosting a baby shower for my sister-in-law this coming weekend, and I am planning a baby trivia game and need your help to come up with some good questions. Basically, the theme is pregnancy, labor & delivery, and newborn care & development trivia questions. I’m hoping for some interesting and slightly obscure questions (as in, nothing too easy!) although I would like to throw a few easy ones in too.
Also, if anyone knows of good web sites that discuss this stuff where I could find material for questions, please share!
AND lastly, does anyone have ideas for other baby shower games?
I hosted a baby shower for my SIL last summer. As one of the games, I filled a wicker laundry basket with as many baby items as I could. I kept the basket on display during the shower and, at one point, I walked around and asked all the guests to look at the basket and the items within. After placing the basket out of sight, I handed out paper to all the guests and asked them to write down as many of the items as they could remember. The guest with the most correct wins a prize. The basket then made a nice gift for my SIL.
I also handed out diaper pins to each of the guests when they arrived and explained that if they said “baby” the guest that heard them say it could take their diaper pin. The guest with the most diaper pins wins a prize. We had a lot of fun with this one.
I hope these sound entertaining and best of luck with the shower.
At the shower my mother held for me when I was expecting, we played the pinchy clothes pin game. Everyone was handed a clothes pin at the start of the party, if you saw someone cross their legs or ankles you could “steal” their clothes pin. Most of the old ladies at the shower lost theirs immediately…it was fun.
My niece is getting ready to have a baby shower for our family, and these things sound like they could be a lot of fun. Hope you don’t mind nyctea scandiaca but I’m gonna steal some of these ideas, they sound like a LOT of fun, especially seeing as there will be several guys there too and they can get pretty competitive.
If you use these questions, take out #12, it’s incorrect. I can’t vouch that all the others are correct, but this one is definitely false. Newborns cannot breathe and swallow at the same time, but they do transition between the two very quickly.
And from http://www.diva-girl-parties-and-st…aby-trivia.html, take out #16 unless you want a pedant like me arguing with you that newborns certainly do have kneecaps, they’re just not ossified yet.
When I helped throw a shower for my sister-in-law, I made a “name the baby animal” game. Sure, everyone knows baby dogs are puppies, but you’d be surprised the number of people who think a baby horse is a pony. And I threw in some really odd ones. Do *you * know what a baby ocelot is called?
At a recent baby shower, all of the games were modeled on NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. It was super-fun. It was all baby-themed, but they did the Listener Limerick Challenge, the Bluff the Listener game, and That’s Not My Job (about baby animals, as opposed to human babies).
My plea, as an attendee of many baby showers–please, no games that involve diapers. Especially the one where you melt candy bars into diapers. I’m an adult; I’m well past the “poo-poo is funny” stage; and that stuff is just nasty.
This may not be appropriate for what you’re planning, but it was loads of fun for a co-ed babyshower held at a bar. We froze little plastic babies in ice in little dixie cups. Each person got one and the contest was to see who could “deliver” their baby first. Baby had to be in one piece, totally ice free. People were very creative–from blowing on the ice to holding it in their hands, pooring water on it, putting salt on it to hasten the melt, chipping at it with various utensils. It was messy but a lot of fun, particularly for the men other than the father-to-be.
At the baby shower that they held for me at work, there was a game of guessing what baby food was by taste. We divided into teams, and each team got four jars of baby food with the labels torn off. It was interesting, but maybe a little gross. Baby food mac&cheese tastes like library paste, in case anyone was wondering.
The fruit puree ones are actually quite tasty. IIRC, it’s mostly the “dinners” that get really disgusting. Turkey/gravy/noodle/green bean combo level of nasty.
(Despite having two kids of my own and nannying/babysitting for a gazillion others, the only time I’ve had the opportunity to try jarred baby food is at baby showers. The game always reminds me why I go to the bother of making my own!)