Fun Baby Shower Games To Play At Your Next Party

Baby showers happen all the time, year round, but the spring seems like the most popular season. And spring is just around the corner!

The traditional baby shower used to be just for women, but these days it seems like the trend is having a co-ed baby shower. That means there's more pressure to have a fun baby shower.

The most basic baby shower goes like this: have snacks, watch the mom-to-be open gifts, and that's it.

Here are some games that will transform your shower from basic to balls of fun.

Baby Price is Right

Buy 10 to 12 baby items that you think the parents-to-be will need. Use blank note cards to write the price of each item on one side, and the item itself on the other. Gather guests together and play it just like the TV show 'The Price Is Right'. Each guest must guess the price of the items on the cards, and the person with the highest total without going over wins a special prize.

Sloppy Diaper Relay

Set up several diapering stations complete with dolls swaddled in diapers. Break guests up into teams, hand out a blindfold to each and set your timer. When you give the word, teams must take turns taking the current diaper off the doll and placing a new one on as fast as possible-all while blindfolded! The first team to complete the diapering challenge wins the prize.

Bobbing for Nipples

Set up a row of large buckets of water and drop some baby bottle nipples into each. Each guest must get down on his or her knees-hands behind backs-and bob for as many nipples as they can grab in two minutes. When the buzzer goes off, the person with the most nipples wins.

Don't Say Baby

As you greet each guest walking through the door, give each a diaper pin to wear on his or her shirt. Once all of your guests have arrived, tell everyone that they can't say 'baby' for the duration of the shower (or until it's time to open presents). If anyone hears someone else saying the forbidden word, he or she can steal the rule breaker's pin. At the end of the game, the person with the most pins wins a gift.

Mommy and Daddy's Secrets

Ask the mom and dad for answers to twenty questions, make sure to do this with the significant other nowhere in sight! Some great questions include, "Where were you when you heard the news?" "Do you want a girl or boy?" and "If you could have your way, what would you want your child to be when he or she grows up?" After you quiz each and record their answers either on paper or the voice-recorder on your phone. Bring both into the room and put the future parents on the hot spot one at a time. Ask each to guess the answer their partner gave to each question-before polling the audience to see who thinks the answer is correct. Everyone's a winner with this lively game!

Baby Sketch Artists

Who knew paper plates could be this much fun? Pass out sturdy paper plates and markers to all of your guests. Let them know they'll be drawing a picture of the baby, and the best sketch will win. The catch is that everyone has to draw with the paper plate on her or his head! It's a hilarious sight-and the finished drawings are guaranteed to have everyone in stitches.

Guess the Baby Food

Gather seven to ten unique flavors of baby food jars, number each lid and tear off the labels. Ask each guest to grab a spoon and start sampling! The guest with the keenest taste buds wins a prize for getting the most correct.

Drink Up, Baby!

This game is really fun to play. Fill baby bottles with the beverage of your choice-beer for the guys at a grown-ups' party and apple juice for the kids at a family baby shower. Then, give everyone a bottle and on the count of three they must suck the bottles dry as quickly as possible. The first person to down the contents of his or her bottle wins the game.