What are good adoption shower games?

Question

URGENT! The shower is Sunday and the baby (from China) will be 18 months old. What are good games to play that are baby shower games but don't have to do with a mother actually giving birth?

Answer 1

buy different pairs of socks and time the ladies matching the socks (get the size for the baby and the mom can keep them when done) fastest wins!

play price is right, buy items that the baby can use and have the ladies guess at the price, whoever gets it closest without going over wins! and the mom gets to keep the goodies.

put very very small safety pins in a bowl of white rice, blind fold the ladies and have them try to get as many pins as they can the one with the most wins!

time them changing a baby dolls diaper, fastest wins!

Answer 2

Have a "guess the baby food" game. Buy about 6-8 jars of assorted kinds of baby food (including the wierd mixtures of meats & veggies). Write down what they're supposed to be on a paper with a number corresponding to each jar. Then, mark each jar with its correct number, and remove the labels. Have party guests, using disposable plastic spoons, guess what the baby food is supposed to be. (It's actually a lot harder than it sounds, especially if you get things like potatoes or mixtures.....AND it's kind of gross & fun, too!). Winner is the one who guesses the most jars.

The thing I like about this game is that a toddler may actually have to learn to eat some of this stuff (especially if you get "Stage 3" baby food), so it's not strictly a "baby" shower game.

Answer 3

It is considerate of you to ask.

One game I remember was similar to hot potatoe.  You put mushed peas in a diaper, wrap it up and have other wrapped diapers that are er clean.

Play some music, when the music stops whoever has the poopy diaper wins a prize.  It sounds gross but woman laugh a lot at this game.  Men too.  lol

Another game could be pin the tail on China.  Have a map on the wall, blindfold everyone, spin them around, hand them something to pin on the map and see who gets closest to China.  You might want to ask her about this one beforehand.  Some adoptive parents don't like attention given to the fact that their child is adopted so it would be best if you ask her if she minds.

Another shower game is trivia.  Have everyone write down some odd trivia about themselves and put it in a hat.  Read each piece of paper and have people guess who wrote it.  Who ever gets the most correct wins a prize.

If you want to give the attention to the new mom then have her write down various bits of trivia about herself and add some that are not true.  Read them one by one, have people guess if it is true or false.  Who ever gets the most correct of course wins a poopy diaper.  Er.  I mean a prize.  lol

That might be better because new mommies usually want all the attention!  Good luck and have fun!

Answer 4

First, let me just thank you for being so considerate of your friend.  Being an adoptive mother, I cannot tell you how hard it is to hear everyone talking about "pregnancy", etc., even when you are experiencing an incredible joy through adoption.  You are so considerate to want to do "adoption" friendly games!  Your friend will be so appreciative.

You could play Baby Bingo.  Each person gets a blank bingo card and they fill it in with gifts they think the Mom will receive.  As she receives that gift, they check off their box.  First one to get BINGO, wins.

Another one is the "baby name" game (or you can use the husband's name.  The premise is that everyone gets a wooden clothespin or diaper pin (something easy to hold on to).  Everytime you hear someone say the baby's name (or the husband's name), you can take their pin.  The person with the most wins!  

I do like the poopy diaper game listed above in the other answer though - that is great.  So is the "pin the tail on the map of China" - maybe the one who gets closest to the town the child was born in could win?  

Have fun!

Answer 5

We did a lot of word games at my sister's shower:  word search, word scramble, and pictionary (with cards we made ourselves).  The shower happened to be on St. Patrick's day, so we used words involving both babies and St. Patrick's Day.  You could use words relating to babies/toddlers and China.  Youc an find the word games on line (I googled "baby word search," and so forth) and change them to suit your situation.  We did baby bingo as well (with baby-related words instead of numbers).  

I also got fabric paint and a bunch of onesies, and we painted them.  

We actually had too many games at the shower--people got bored with it, so I'd suggest picking maybe 3 games.