Most people don’t go to a baby shower assuming that they’ll have to use their brain a little bit, but when you incorporate a crossword puzzle they’ll have to do just that. A crossword puzzle can be a great icebreaker, and a simple way to have everyone earn a baby shower prize.

Make It Original
There are many websites dedicated to helping you create a professional looking crossword puzzle. You can simply input the clues and it will create it for you. Your clues will be what make your crossword unique. Think of using all types of things such as experiences of mom or dad, the day you announced your pregnancy, and even what your chosen names are for the baby. You’ll really test your friends and family, and you’ll know who has been paying attention and who has not. The individual that finished the crossword first will win the game!

Make It A Team Sport
A fun variation of the crossword is to blow them up to poster size and group your friends and family into even numbered teams, as this can be played with any number of people. Then, allow your teams to tackle the crossword, the team with the fastest time will win the game and the prize.

The great thing about a crossword puzzle is that it can be as simple or as difficult as you would like. Since you can input any questions you have complete control, your friends and family just need to come with the answers! Your baby shower guests will love this crossword puzzle and will compete to win.

Get everyone wondering and joking as they try to guess the function of the most unusual baby items. This is especially fun when husbands and fathers are involved, and you may want to have it be a game only for the men at your co-ed party. You will really have to think to come up with strange looking objects if you want to fool seasoned mothers.

Start by showing the object, and having everyone think what it might do. Either they can shout it out, or write it down. The person with the most right wins. You can also award a prize to the person who thinks up the most unique real use for the product. Some suggestions of products include a bulb syringe, breast pump, ear thermometer, diaper stacker, sling type baby carrier, teething ring, formula mixer, etc.

Even if you do not want to play the corny games usually associated with baby showers, there are many activities that you can turn into games. Women like babies and they like fashion so why not combine the two for a lot of unique baby shower fun? Baby Fashion Designer is a game that every shower guest will wonder why she did not have such fun games at their own shower!

How To Play
Choose a plain piece of baby sized clothing for each guest, for the best results choose the same item for each guest, as this game really can be played with any number of guests. Baby clothing such as t-shirts, sleepers, and onsies work best for this because you can buy them quite plain, and you can also buy quite a few at a bargain. Then, get fabric pieces, fabric paint, sequins, thread, buttons, yarn, and anything else you might associate with clothing. Then, tell each of your shower guests that they can create an outfit for your child with any or all of the items provided. The mother to be or the hostess will then judge all of the finished products and decide which participant is deserving of a prize!

Ready, Set, Go!
Tell your shower guests that they have to put together the best product they can in twenty minutes, or whatever you decide is an appropriate time allotment. This will make guests get even more creative and will also get their competitive juices flowing. Encourage all your guests to get really creative, and have some fun, you’ll be amazed how many of your friends are baby fashion designers!

Just about everyone had a wacky idea of where babies come from when they were a kid, and if they didn’t they know of some silly ideas that a friend, cousin, or sibling had. These wacky ideas can make for a great baby shower game for sure. Where Do Babies Come From is a great way to start your baby shower as it will get everyone relaxed, laughing, and able to open up to having a good time.

How To Get The Laughs Started
You’ll really only need scraps of paper and a pencil for each of your guest, the more the merrier for this gut busting game. Instruct each of your party guests to write on a piece of paper where they thought babies came from when they were little. Then, instruct each of your party guests to read their answer to the question of where the little guys and girls come from. It’s inevitable; every guest will be laughing by the time each shower guest has read his or her story!

To make the game even more fun, each of the ideas can be put into a bowl or container of some sort. Then, the expectant parents can read each idea aloud to the other party guests who will then have to guess who wrote what. The person with the funniest or most outlandish idea of where babies come from will win a prize! This is a simple game that takes almost nothing to play, but will leave a lasting impression on each guest!

This is a fun take on the Murder game where hand squeezing instead of winking is what kills you. If you are the murderer and kill everyone before they find out who you are, then you win. If the rest of the group finds you first, the team wins.

All of the players need to sit in a circle close enough to hold hands. A piece of paper is folded for each person playing. Only one has an “X.” If you draw the “X” you are the murderer. To start killing people you squeeze the hand of the person to your left or right a number of times. They then squeeze the hand of the person on the other side of them the same number of times minus one. When it gets to one squeeze, then that person is dead, and needs to die in a dramatic way. For example, say you are the Murderer. Think of who you want to kill. If it is the person 4 players to your right, you would squeeze the persons hand to your immediate right 4 times. They still will not know you are the murderer, because you could have received 5 squeezes and are just passing on the next four. The person on your immediate right then squeezes the hand of the next person on their right 3 times. That person then squeezes the hand of the person on their right 2 times, and so forth. The person receiving one squeeze only dies. The squeezing can start either to the left or right, but continues in the same direction until some one dies. After killing someone, the murderer then starts the sequence again, maybe using 2 squeezes this time. He can even choose one squeeze and kill the person next to him. When someone suspects they know who the murder is, then they say “I suspect that (person’s name) is the murderer.” Someone must then second it. If they are right, the murderer is caught. If not, they both die and are out of the game.

The murderer must be careful not to let anyone see him squeeze someone’s hand, however, the observer doesn’t know if that was the first squeeze or not and may falsely accuse someone.