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Definitely start with this one! As your guests walk in the door, pass out a puzzle based on the mother-to-be, your party theme, or the guests. They will have a fun puzzle to solve that gets them into the spirit of your party, and they will be entertained while you wait for everyone to arrive! |
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Rice and Safety Pins Fill a bowl with rice and scatter safety pins
throughout it. Let each guest take a turn at being blindfolded.
Once blindfolded, have the guest try to find as many safety pins
as possible within 1 minute time allotment. |
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Mother-to-Be waistline Pass around a roll of yarn and let everyone take
as much yarn as they think will go around the stomach of the Mother-to-Be.
After everyone has taken their yarn, let each guest go up and put the
yarn around the stomach of the Mother-to-Be. Whoever is closest wins! |
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Mystery Objects Place baby items in boxes or bags and close up the boxes or bags. Pass the objects around the room and let people try to guess what the objects are. Give every guest pen and paper so that they can write down their guesses. Whoever guesses the most wins! |
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One-handed Diaper change Pair
up guests in twos. Give each pair a baby doll and a diaper. The pairs
must put the diaper on the baby doll but each person can only use one
hand. The fastest pair wins! |
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Musical Layers Wrap a general gift (this is for the guests- lotion, candle, candy) with several layers. Put music on and start passing the gift around. When the music is stopped whoever has the gift unwraps one – and only one layer. Do this until the last layer is taken off. The last one to unwrap wins! |
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Help Out the Mom-to-Be As guests arrive have them address a Thank You
card envelope. Once everyone has filled out the envelopes; draw one
from the basket and the addressee wins a door prize. ? This is fun but
also helps out the Mom-to-Be a lot! |
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Helpful Hands and Feet Cut out small-sized hands and feet out of cardstock.
As guests arrive, hand out the cutouts along with a pen. Ask the guests
to write helpful advice to the Mother-to-Be. When everyone has written
their advice, go around the room and have people share what they wrote.
Then give all the “Helpful Hands and Feet” to the Mother-to-Be.
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Question Mix-Up Hand each guest a blank note card with a pen. Ask them
to write down a question concerning babies. (i.e. When do you know to
change your baby’s diaper?) Once everyone has written their questions.
Turn the cards over and have the guests pass them to their neighbor.
The recipient of the card writes the answer to their original question
on the new card. When everyone is finished, have everyone read their
cards allowed. The question-answer combinations are pretty funny! |
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Funny Poem If the Mom-to-Be
has already picked out a name for the baby use that name, if not use
‘baby’ or another nickname that has been used for the baby.
Write this name vertically down sheets of paper. (Using a computer here
might be helpful.) Hand a sheet and pen to every guest. Ask the guests
to write a poem with each line starting with the corresponding letter
of the baby’s name. Let them know this is meant to be funny and
at the end the Mom-to-Be will pick her favorite and the author wins
a prize! |
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Baby Talk Find several funny pictures of babies. These can
be magazine cutouts, photographs, newspaper cutouts, etc. Arrange the
pictures on a piece of paper. Make enough photocopies for every guest
to have one. Hand them out and let the guests create captions for each
picture of what the baby is saying or thinking. Go around the room and
share what everyone wrote. |
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Baby Artist Hand everyone a blank sheet of paper, writing
utensil, and book or magazine (something they can put under the paper
to make drawing easier). Have everyone close their eyes and tell them
to draw a baby without picking up the pen. Make sure there is no peeking.
At the end, let the Mother-to-Be pick out her favorite drawing. The
artist wins a prize! |
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Real-Life Mom String a clothesline across the room or have two
people hold up the clothesline. Let two guests go at a time. Give the
two guests a baby doll, cordless telephone, and a basket of baby clothes
with clothes pins. Give a time limit of 1 minute where the two guests
must try to hang as many clothes on the clothesline as they can while
holding the baby and talking on the phone. Repeat as many times as necessary
to let all the guests participate. |
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Bottle Count Fill a baby bottle with small candies (Jelly Beans,
M&Ms, Skittles, Candy Corn, etc.). As guests arrive, pass the bottle
around so that they may take a guess at how many candies are in the
bottle. Have the guests write their answers on small sheets of paper
and then put their folded answer in a basket. After everyone has guessed,
go through the basket and see which number is the closest to the real
number. Whoever was closest gets to keep the bottle of candy! |
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Who really knows the Mom???? Create a list of 15-25 questions that concern the Mom-to-Be or the Baby. These questions are intended to see who really knows the Mom-to-Be. (When’s the due date? What name have they picked out? Did the mom want a boy or girl?) Once the lists are passed around to the guests, give a time limit of 5 minutes. Whoever can answer the most correctly in that amount of time wins! |