What you'll Need
String and scissors
How To Play
Have each woman pull the string to the size they believe would fit perfectly around the Mother-To-Be's centre of her pregnant tummy. After everyone cuts their string, compare the results to the Mummy-To-Be's actual tummy.
Give a prize to the woman who is the most close!
This is a baby shower favourite.
Have the host read out loud a part of the rhyme to be finished by the other women. Let's see how many Baby Shower Guests can finish the following Rhymes we have all grown up with:
1) Mary had a little lamb, it's _____________ was white as snow.
2) Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any _____________?
3) Mary, Mary, quite _____________, how does your garden grow?
4) Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub, and how do you think ____________ _____________ ____________?
5) Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, _________________ ________________!
6) Little Jack Horner, sat in a corner, eating his ______________ pie;
7) Little Miss Muffet, sat on a tuffet, eating her ________________ and _______________.
8) Peter Piper picked a peck of ____________ _____________.
9) One, two, buckle my shoe, three four, _____________ at the door.
10) Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater, had a wife but couldn't ____________ her.
11) Old Mother Hubbard, went to the _______________.
12) There was an old woman, who lived in a _______________.
13) Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no ___________.
14) Hey diddle, diddle, the ____________ and the fiddle.
15) Rock-a-bye baby, on the __________________.
Here are the answers below to the questions. It is great to give the winner a baby shower small gift for participating. Read the answers that people have put out loud since you will have some funny ones.
1) fleece 2) wool 3) contrary 4) they got there 5) Baker's man
6) Christmas 7) curds, whey 8) pickled peppers 9) knock 10) keep
11) cupboard 12) shoe 13) lean 14) cat 15) treetop
This needs to be prepared the night before the baby shower. Place one jellybaby into each ice cube slot and fill with water. They need to be frozen to play.
For the baby shower, announce that you are starting a game and give everyone a drink of water or punch etc., in a cup filled to the same height and tell them not to drink it.
Bring around a bowl of the jellybabies and ask each guest to pick one frozen jellybaby and put it in their drink for the game. Remind them not to start drinking until everyone has a jellybaby.
Once everyone is ready, the game can begin. The first jellybaby to be ‘born' (from the ice completely melting) is the winner! The cubes must melt on their own accord - no crunching the ice. Even if someone wasn't paying attention at the time and theirs has melted, the winner is the first person to notice their baby has been born.
What you need:
Pre-Printed Form and pen for each guest
How to play:
Have each women guess what features she wants most on the baby from either her or her husband.
Example:
| Attribute | Mum | Dad |
| Eyes | X | |
| Ears | X | |
| Nose | X | |
| Legs | X | |
| Hair | X | |
| Smile | X | |
| Intelligence | X | |
| Humor | X | |
| Other | X |
