Pull in the driveway, view the mama and her bump, and blow her a distanced kiss with your mask on please. To limit crowding, stagger guests by giving different people specific time windows. You should still encourage guests to wear masks, but this way you can spend a little quality time with friends and family by focusing your attention on only a couple people at a time.
Open air, open house. Since celebrating outside is the safest way to socialize, invite people to shower you in your yard or on a deck. Make it an open house so not everyone has to be present at the same time—staggering guests will limit crowding.
This is a great option for a baby shower during quarantine. Add a Zoom link to your invitation so out-of-town guests or anyone looking to keep their distance can easily join in on the fun.
You can add a virtual location in seconds to any Paperless Post invitation. A virtual baby shower is a great and safe way to have a baby shower during quarantine.
Wondering what one does on a virtual baby shower? To make a virtual baby shower more fun, pick baby shower games that can easily be adapted for your streaming set-up. Some of our favorite virtual baby shower games include:. Place your bets: Have everyone write down their guesses about the baby eye color, hair color, height, weight, birth date and time. When the baby arrives, announce the winners with a virtual sip and see. Zoom baby shower pop quiz: Play trivia with a list of questions about the parent or parents-to-be.
When you give the word to start, the first person in line in each team changes the diaper, removing the blanket and diaper, wiping the doll's bottom with a baby wipe, putting another diaper on, and rewrapping the doll in the blanket. Then the doll is handed to the next team member for changing, and the diaper changer goes to the back of the line.
When everyone on a team has changed the doll's diaper once, that team has won. Have each participant blow up at least one balloon and place it under her shirt to make the "baby. You can give prizes for the most twisted pose, most balloons carried under the shirt, and the least number of popped or dropped balloons. Let the mom-to-be sit in a chair and be the judge while enjoying the fun. Make two or three little clotheslines — you can either prop them up on sticks or have one or two members of each team hold the ends of the string.
Split your guests into competing teams, set a timer, and have them hang up as many diapers as possible. The team with the most diapers on the line wins. Cut down on the baby shower prep by downloading and printing our games here , but read on for more inspiration. Before the party, print out our baby bingo sheet and give one to each guest. Hand each guest a card, which should be unique for everyone with a different combination of gifts.
Then, as the mom-to-be opens her gifts, guests can mark off any items received with a sticker or cross it out with a pen. The first guest to complete a row, column, or diagonal wins! Pictures of baby items cut from a catalogue or printed out — they can even be from the mom-to-be's registry wish list. Lay out the pictures of the baby-related items, and give your guests a pen and paper.
You can pick up each item and give a description and have your guests write down a price as a guess. The guest to get the closest price without going over gets a gift. Give copies of the questions to the mom-to-be and her partner before the party, and ask them to write down their answers. During the shower, give copies of the questions to all the guests, and have them use their imagination to fill in the blanks with what they think mom or dad said in answer to each question.
The guest who guesses the answers closest to what mom or dad said wins the game. Let them know they can make their answers as funny or as sentimental as they'd like.
Once finished, have people read out their answers to the first question, and vote for the best answer. The winner gets a point, and then you can move on to the next item on the list. The person with the highest score wins a prize. This baby shower standby is always a hit. Before beginning the game, ask the mom-to-be to reveal her anticipated due date.
Remind everyone that only 5 percent of babies are born exactly on their due date! Then, ask each guest to predict the day and the time the baby will be born, and write their prediction on the paper or calendar. You can promise to give a prize to each person who picks the correct day and also to the person who most closely picks the time. Don't forget to send those prizes out after the baby is born. Before your guests arrive, write or print the names of some famous mothers onto name tags for each guest.
You could choose a category like mothers in fiction, mothers from current or classic TV shows or movies, or anything you wish.
When your guests arrive, attach a name tag to the back of each guest, without letting the guest see the name. Before the party, put a baby item into each bag, and number the bags. At the party, hand out the sheets of paper and pens to the guests, then start passing the bags out one by one. The guest must take a guess what they think is in each bag without opening it, and write it down; however, shaking and feeling the bag is allowed. After the guesses have been scribbled on the paper, ask the mom-to-be to do the great reveal; the guest with the most correct guesses is the winner.
Arrange the pictures of the mom-to-be on a board or a table, and place a number next to each picture.
Ask the guests to write the numbers in the order of age, and see who gets the most correct. Plus, guests have an incentive: they get to eat their creation! Put all of the photos on a table or a bulletin board, and have everyone guess whether the person in each photo is a relative of the mom-to-be or the dad-to-be. Gather a couple of babydolls and a pack of diapers. Put the diapers on the baby dolls. Next, blindfold several of your guests one for each babydoll.
Now, have them race to remove the dirty diaper, wipe the babydoll clean, and put a new diaper on. Whoever finishes first is the winner! This game is endlessly customizable! There are so many different things you could make the subject of this trivia. If your baby shower guests know each other pretty well, a great option is to make the trivia subject them! Before the shower, they can submit a fact about something related to them and babies. This could be anything, really: a funny encounter they had with a baby once, something entertaining they did when they were a baby that their parents still tell stories about, or, if your childhood friend is attending, something they did with you when you were both very young.
Ask your guests to submit their facts a few days before the shower so you have enough time to make a simple trivia deck on Powerpoint. Your other guests will need to choose one of the multiple-choice options — whoever they think the fact is about! Save all the correct answers for the end. At the very end of trivia, you can go back through the trivia deck and reveal the right answers.
Plus, this gives your guests a chance to explain the funny stories behind their baby facts. Whoever earns the most points wins! Make a list of animals and the names of their young.
Have your guests work in teams to guess the names of 10 or 15 different animal babies. Put your guests into teams of two or three people. The team with the most songs at the end of the three minutes wins! Buy a bunch of white baby onesies or bibs and markers made for drawing on cloth. Give one garment to each guest and let them go crazy! Each person can decorate and design the article of baby clothing however they wish. If they live too far but you really want your little one to wear these keepsakes, consider sending guests a gift card so they can purchase the materials themselves.
During the virtual baby shower, your guests can decorate and chat. At the end, they can present their beautiful works of art and mail their work to you later. Those onesies are sure to give you all the nostalgic and grateful feels during those middle-of-the-night feedings! Each year, a list of the most popular baby names is released.
Choose a few different years go way back to the 70s or 80s if you want! Prepare one full baby bottle for each person at your baby shower. Fill the bottles with water, juice, milk, or iced tea. Set a timer and see how much of the liquid each person can drink in one minute. This game is also super easy to adapt to a virtual baby shower. Display the photos and have your baby shower guests try to figure out which stars are in them! Have all of your guests form teams of two, and give each team a roll of toilet paper.
Allow everyone two minutes to make a diaper out of toilet paper on one member of the team. The game involves everyone playing a normal game of twister, but they have to do it with a balloon up their shirt, which will make it not so easy but hilarious. Since both parents are going to be at the party, it may be the best time to do parent trivia. According to First Cry Parenting , guests can all take a shot at seeing how well they know the two people who are about to be parents.
There can be questions about them individually and their relationship, and the person who gets the most right, wins. This one is a classic, and it goes very well with a co-ed baby shower because everyone loves food.
According to Huffington Post , before the baby shower, you want to make sure that you buy an assortment of baby foods and take all of the labels off. Then guests have to guess what the flavor is by just a small taste.
This is sure to have everyone laughing and the person who can name the rightest wins.
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