Babys First Year

Nursery rhymes naturally lend themselves to baby shower themes. Truly, who doesn’t have a favorite nursery rhyme that baby can enjoy? Pick up a book and revisit those nursery rhymes, find one you like and use it as an inspiration for your invitations, decorations, games and even appetizers! For example, do you remember “Hey diddle diddle?”

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such fun
And the dish ran away with the spoon!

Incorporate this charming rhyme into your theme by sending out invitations with a cow jumping over the moon, you can custom print these yourself using the “Invitation Creator” at BabyShowerGamesAtoZ.com. Include the nursery rhyme on the interior of the card to trigger many a happy memory for your invited guests. Continue the theme by serving a cake decorated with a fiddlin’ cat; create a fun mobile out of paper plates (the dish) and plastic spoons, and of course, what is a baby shower without games?

The right number of games for two hours is three. This provides guests with enough time to arrive, settle in, socialize and get some noshing in. At BabyShowerGamesAtoZ.com, you can print out great game cards for any theme, including the popular Nursery Rhyme Quiz. We’ve all heard the classic nursery rhymes, but how many were listening? Have your guests take this quiz and find out! Do they really remember what happened to Humpty Dumpty? What about Jack Sprat? Another favorite is Name That Nursery Rhyme!.

Can you remember the name of a nursery rhyme if you were given the plot? Have guests compete on time, pit one generation against another, read answers out loud. There will surely be some humorous errors. For the third game, try Nursery Rhyme Scramble / Baby Word Scrambles. Guests race to unscramble names of various Nursery Rhymes with only a few hints.

Baby Shower Games

This one is great for couples showers.

You’ll need several jars of baby food and baby spoons. Have one partner be “the baby” and the other partner be the parent, and see who can feed an entire jar of baby food, using a small spoon, to their partner the fastest.

Variation: For added laughs, make the “parent” hold the spoon in their mouth while playing with the “baby”, and trying to get their attnetion!

You’ll want to take pictures of this one!

Baby Shower Games

Thie one is more of a gag game but it’s funny! You will need enough oversized white paper napkins to have one for each guest. Fold the napkins diagonally and place 4-5 plain chocolate M & M’s in the center of each napkin. Bring pointed ends of napkin diaper fashion into the center and secure with tape. Pile all ‘diapers’ except one in a large bowl. Place the one you set aside briefly in the microwave, just long enough to melt chocolate.

When you are sure the ‘diaper’ is gooey, add to others in the bowl. Let each guest choose her own diaper shaped treat out of bowl and get ready to laugh as one will get stuck with a messy diaper!

Use small pieces of several different chocolate bars…some with nuts, Snickers, Milky Way, M&M’s, Hershey’s, etc.

Variation: Make little diapers out of card stock. Inside one of them, put a brown pen smudge. Then mix them up and write each guest’s name on the outside. At the end of the party, everyone opens their “diaper” and the person with the “poopy” one gets a prize.

Baby Shower Games