1. Name That Baby
For “Name That Baby”, email your guests prior to the shower and ask them to bring a baby pic with them (and not show it to anyone else). Once all of your guests have arrived, display all of the pics with a number by each one. You can post them on a bulletin board, lay them out on a table, or hang them on the refrigerator with numbered magnets:
Have paper and pencils available for your guests and have them write down their guesses for who each baby is. The shower guest who correctly IDs the most babies wins! It’s a great low-key game to play at the beginning of a shower because guests can wander over to look at the pictures in between grabbing a drink and munchies and/or catching up with friends.
2. Daddy Knows Best (via video)
For this baby shower game, prior to the shower videotape the expectant dad answering a series of questions. The ones that I asked are:
- What has been {expectant mom’s} biggest food craving during the pregnancy?
- What’s the one word that would best describe {expectant mom’s} mood while pregnant?
- Do you think your baby will be born with no hair, a full head of hair, or in between?
- How many diapers do you think your baby will go through in the first year?
- What are you going to be most worried about if the baby is a girl?
- What about if it’s a boy?
- What parenting skills are you bringing to the table?
- What percentage of the time do you think you will get up with the baby at night versus the percentage of time that {expectant mom} will get up?
- Are you or {expectant mom} more likely to be the parent who says “no”?
- Which grandparent will spoil your baby the most?
- Besides you and {expectant mom}, which family member will be your baby’s favorite?
- What year do you think you will buy your first minivan?
- How many happy hours do you expect to go to the first year after the baby is born?
- How many times a month do you think you will hang out with your friends who don’t have kids?
- From 1-10 how prepared do you feel for the baby’s arrival (with 10 being most prepared)?
- What are you most looking forward to about being a dad?
At the baby shower, gather everyone around and play the video of the expectant dad on a computer or TV, pausing it after each question is asked so the mommy-to-be can guess her husband’s answer. Talk about entertaining! We all got some great laughs out of this one. And the video makes a great memento for the couple to watch years down the road.
3. Wishes for the New Baby
Give each shower guest a sheet with “Baby Wishes” to fill in (for a printable PDF of the navy & green sheet click {here}, pink sheet click {here}, and blue sheet click {here}). Collect them at the end of the shower and give all of the endearing baby wishes to the expectant mom! 
If you don’t want to spend the time preparing the Baby Wishes cards on your own, you can also buy pre-printed Baby Wishes cards {here}.
4. Late Night Diapers
For “Late Night Diapers”, give each shower guest a few diapers and some fine tipped permanent markers and ask them to write a message to the new mom on the front and/or back of the diapers. Use a brand of diapers that has a more cloth-like feel on the outside such as Pampers Baby Dry rather than diapers with a more slick material. These diapers are to be reserved for late night changings by mom so the point is to write something funny or encouraging to give her a little pick-me-up in the wee hours of the night! Put all of the decorated diapers in a basket that has this “Late Night Diapers” sign attached (click {here} for this printable sign):
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My shower guests came up with some fun messages for their diapers – these are a few of my favorites:
No doubt that these (and a few of the other funny diapers that were a bit too PG-13 to show!) will give new mom a few laughs during those bleary-eyed middle of the night diaper changes. There were also many diapers with sweet, encouraging messages that I know she’ll appreciate such as “Enjoy me, I’ll grow up fast!” and “Don’t ever doubt what a great mom you are”.
I hope sharing these fun baby shower games and activities helps make your shower every bit as fun as ours was! And to help you out a little more with your party planning, I’ve gathered together a few of my favorite baby shower gifts (also see {this post} on decorative growth charts – they’re the perfect gift!):
some favorite invitations:
and some favorite party supplies and favors:
Have fun!
Julie Lipari says
I found this idea on pinterest while looking for ideas for my friends diaper shower. Since this is her 5th baby & 3rd girl, she doesn’t need any of the traditional stuff but we love her & want to shower her. Instead of a traditional shower with games, it’s just going to be an open house/luncheon, so was looking for something the guests can do for fun while they are here. This is great!! Thanks for sharing!!
Anonymous says
can you please share some other comments that were written on the diapers?
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
It’s been two years since the shower now so honestly I can’t remember what everyone wrote! As I mentioned at the bottom of the post, in addition to the ones I pictured, there were some encouraging ones such as “Enjoy me, I’ll grow up fast!” and “Don’t ever doubt what a great mom you are”. Hope you have a fun shower!
Paula Landers says
Love these baby shower ideas! Do you happen to have any clever bridal shower game ideas as well?
I wonder about asking each guest to bring a picture of themselves as brides and have people guess who they are would be fun?
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
Hi Paula! I actually have never hosted a bridal shower before so I don’t have any great ideas for you. But I actually LOVE the idea of people bringing a picture of themselves as brides – how fun is that?!
Anonymous says
Love this idea for my daughters baby shower. Would you happen to have a pink Late night diaper sign for a girl baby shower to print? thank you.
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
You can find a pink sign and other color options here: https://www.drivenbydecor.com/2014/02/late-night-diapers-baby-shower.html
Anonymous says
Love this idea, putting a pink and white basket together for my best friends shower on Saturday! I appreciate the comment of using uplifting and encouraging messages, I will include this in my verbal instructions! I’m thinking we’ll do a separate bunch of diapers for “Daddy’s Late Night Changes” too. Thanks for the inspiration!
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
Love the idea of doing a few for daddy too! Hope you have a great time at your shower!
prettyandink says
I love the late night diaper idea! Do you by chance have an editable version of your label that you’d be willing to share? My sister-in-law is having a girl, so I’d like to modify the coloring a bit.
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
The Late Night Diapers sign was made with PicMonkey and once it’s saved as a JPEG, unfortunately you can’t modify the colors. Sorry!
Leigh Anne Kraft says
I’m going to do this for my daughter’s shower, but she recently had a preemie. We decided to use separate pieces of paper (in baby related shapes) to slip in each diaper (we are concerned with the sharpies and their smell) That way, she will be able to save the well wishes instead of pitching them with each diaper.
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
Love this idea Leigh Anne – thanks so much for sharing it with us!
April Thomas says
What did you use to attach the “late night diapers” sign to the basket?
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
I used Glue Dots, which you can buy at craft/scrapbooking stores. They are kind of like the clear sticky stuff that holds credit cards to the paper in your junk mail – sticky but pretty easy to peel off.
Lindley McGary says
I’ve been looking on Pinterest for a little while for baby shower game ideas and I think most ideas out there are either cheesy, or take away from the overall “community” feeling of the party because everyone has their heads down trying to think of answers to some sort of word scramble or questionnaire . With that said, I love every idea you gave! Thank you so much.
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
Thanks for the sweet comment Lindley!
Sara Landreneau Kleinpeter says
Kris – How did you give the directions for this activity? Were they written or oral instructions? We are using this awesome idea for a rather large shower this weekend!
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
Hi Sara,
Both times that we did this activity for baby showers, it was very casual and I just told everyone what to do. Hope you have a wonderful baby shower this weekend!
Anonymous says
Oops, just read your other posts. Thanks for addressing.
Anonymous says
Hi Kris. Thank you for all these great ideas! I love the late night diaper idea, but am a little nervous using even permanent pens as I would feel terrible if they ran onto clothes and ruined them. Have you had any negative feedback about this or would you say permanent pen is a pretty safe bet?
April says
Found this through Pinterest.
May I politely suggest that the statements written on the diapers are of actual encouragement? Lack of sleep tends to rob people of their sense of humor. A little kindness or a sweet pick-me-up during those times would have been much appreciated, but a sarcastic or witty zinger (like the bottom two of the posted examples) would have made me cry during that stage… even though I could laugh at them now that I’m no longer sleep deprived.
thebungefamily says
Doing this for a friend’s sprinkle I’m throwing this weekend. Thank you for the wonderful idea. I also appreciate the helpful tips on using Pampers (or similar type diaper) and permanent marker. As a mom who cloth diapers, I would have no idea what to us. I know this will be much appreciated.
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
Good luck with your planning – I’m sure your sprinkle will be a big success!
Anonymous says
Martha Stewart needs you as her right hand – WOW thanks for the great ideas my sister’s baby shower will be even sweeter, much success to you!
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
Thanks for the sweet comment – I hope you have a wonderful shower!
Anonymous says
We had the late night diapers from 2 showers. One used pampers and that one seems to be fine but the other used a different brand (maybe luvs) and that one definitely gets all over everything.
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
Thanks for the comment – it sounds like we’ve sleuthed it out and the type of diapers is the culprit for those people having issues!