Baby Shower Games: Pop-Culture Games

March 2, 2017
Game: Name That Kid
What you need: Paper and pens for each guest.
How to play: Think of your favorite childhood T.V. shows that centered around a family or had a cast of characters including kids. Now start brainstorming questions that will make your guests have to guess the kids’ names. Here are some ideas to get you started:
1. What was the name of Ross and Rachel’s baby on Friends?
2. Remember Step by Step? Name the Fosters _and _Lambert kids.
3. Name the 3 kids on The Simpsons: Bart, Maggie and Lisa
4. Name the 4 children on Family Ties: Alex, Mallory, Jennifer, Andy.
5. Name the 5 Huxtable kids on The Cosby Show: Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa and Rudy
6. Name the Tanner kids on Full House: DJ, Stephanie, and Michelle
Whoever gets the most right wins.
Game: Finish The Baby Rhyme
What you need: Baby rhyme book
How to play: Have the mother-to-be read aloud a line from a popular nursery rhyme — but have her leave out a random word or two from the line. The guests then have to guess what the missing word/phrase is. Whoever can guess the most is the winner.
Need some ideas? Here’s a sample:
- Mary had a little lamb, it’s _____________ was white as snow.
- Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any _____________?
- Mary, Mary, quite _____________, how does your garden grow?
- Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub, and how do you think ____________ _____________ ____________?
- Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, _________________ ________________!
- Little Jack Horner, sat in a corner, eating his ______________ pie;
- Little Miss Muffet, sat on a tuffet, eating her ________________ and _______________.
- Peter Piper picked a peck of ____________ _____________.
- One, two, buckle my shoe, three four, _____________ at the door.
- Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater, had a wife but couldn’t ____________ her.
- Old Mother Hubbard, went to the _______________.
- There was an old woman, who lived in a _______________.
- Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no ___________.
- Hey diddle, diddle, the ____________ and the fiddle.
- Rock-a-bye baby, on the __________________.
And now for the answers:
- fleece 2) wool 3) contrary 4) they got there 5) Baker’s man
- Christmas 7) curds, whey 8) pickled peppers 9) knock 10) keep
- cupboard 12) shoe 13) lean 14) cat 15) treetop
Game: Mother, Mother, Who Am I?
What you need: Paper and pens for each guest.
How to play: The host gives clues about famous moms and each guest has to write their best guess down. Need help? Think of some pretty famous moms that everyone would know — like Kate Gosselin, Angelina Jolie, and Nicole Richie — and start jotting down some of their main traits/things they’ve done that can be good clues for your guests.
Game: Guess the Celeb Baby
What you need: Before the baby shower, find 10-15 pictures of different celebrities’ babies. Number the pictures and paste them on a poster board. Then get pens and paper for each guest.
How to play: After looking over the poster board, each guest has to try and guess who the celebrity children are. (Think: Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Suri Cruise, and Cruz Beckham.) Whoever gets the most correct wins.
Game: Guess the Pregnant Celeb
What you need: Pictures of celebrities who are pregnant, with their faces covered, pens and paper
How to play: Each player has to guess the names of the celebs from the pictures on the poster board. Whoever gets the most wins.