With no travel arrangements to think about, finding the best date and time for a virtual baby shower might be easier than with a traditional baby shower. A weekend evening is often a good call, or a Sunday brunch. There are so many great options out there for baby shower themes. You could go for a nautical theme with rubber ducks, or a sweet pastel rainbow theme. Decide whether you want to keep it a small group so you can all see each other easily on the computer screen or if you want to open it up wider.
With the party taking place online, it makes sense to use digital invitations to spread the word. Find your favorite virtual baby shower invitation design and customize it to share all the important details about your virtual get-together. Think about how your event will look — will your activities work over a Zoom or Skype call?
Will your guests need to download printables? Can you send your guests a party package by mail ahead of time that features little extras for the celebration? These are all considerations that will help shape your event. What better way to celebrate a new arrival than with some fun and games? This is a fun game to set up at the start of the baby shower, and you can play it all the way through.
At the end of the celebration, the person with the most points could win a silly title or a joke gift. You might think charades is better in person, but it can work just as well as a virtual baby shower game.
Create a list of baby or parenting themed words or phrases for your party guests to act out, while others try to guess the answer. This can be a great way to add some laughter to the online celebration. Take Pictionary and give it a fun twist with a game of baby-themed emoji Pictionary. Once everyone has contributed to both clipboards, read the vows aloud for all to hear.
The Gist: Think of it as a live game of clue. What to Prep: For each of the guests attending the shower, write up a juicy question revealing how they know the bride or groom on index cards. Example: "Who did Tim bring to the prom?
How to Play: When everyone arrives, hand them a card and explain they have 30 to 40 minutes to come up with the answer to the question on their given card. After swapping info and mingling, each person reveals their relationship to the to-be-weds. The Gist: It's the celebrity version of Catch Phrase. What to Prep: Have everyone write the names of about 10 to 20 celebrities on small pieces of paper and throw them into a hat or bowl.
How to Play: Split guests into two teams. The first player from Team A draws a name, stands up and tries to explain the celebrity to her teammates without actually saying their name. If teammates guess correctly, the second player draws a new name and goes on as before. Each team has one minute to get through as many names as possible until all the names are out of the hat.
Shake up the next round and only allow players to use one word to define the celeb. Shop the Idea: Here's another prop that doubles as a sweet shower gift: Customize a sun hat for the guest of honor with her initials, the word "bride" or her future "Mrs. Once the game's finished, flip it over and surprise her with it. The Gist: Try to stump your guests on the couple's "love story. What to Prep: At the beginning of the shower, the bride should share her "love story" with the group, bringing up key events where they met, how they proposed and so on.
How to Play: After opening presents, the host surprises guests by asking questions about the story. Throw in curveballs with questions like, "How many times was 'love' used in the story? The Gist: Guests "shower" the bride with marriage and love advice. What to Prep: Tuck a pretty blank card into the invitation for the shower and ask every guest to share their advice for a happy marriage.
How to Play: Guests' advice can range from recipes, a poem or funny story, and so on. At the party, guests take turns reading their words of wisdom to the group and everyone tries to guess who gave which words of wisdom. When the cards have all been read, the host can compile them in a scrapbook as a keepsake for the bride.
The Gist: Everyone has to figure out what the bride and groom did with whom. What to Prep: Hand out index cards and have each guest write a description of their favorite memory with the bride the more adventurous, the better.
The host will collect the cards. How to Play: After the host collects the cards, she'll take the bride on a trip down memory lane, speaking them all out loud. Everyone will have to guess who did what with the bride. Examples: Who snuck out of the house with the bride for a high school party, or who met a celebrity during a weekend in Miami with the bride.
The Gist: You get to eat cake and guess the flavors. What to Prep: Set up a "cake bar" complete with bite-size cake pieces mini cupcakes, cake pops or cut-up pieces of regular cakes will do and remember all the flavors. Write out the flavor of each type of cake on an index card and place it in an envelope behind the bite-size pieces.
How to Play: Each player is blindfolded and walks down the table with one of the hosts, who notes the player's flavor guess.
The player takes sips of champagne between bites to cleanse the palate. Of course, hosts can sip champagne at any point in the game! Whoever guesses the most flavors correctly wins. The Gist: Have guests answer extreme read: hilarious etiquette questions. What to Prep: On index cards, write out a few wedding etiquette question—the more outrageous the better. Think of some nuptial nightmares, like what do you do if the best man sprays champagne all over the guests?
Or if you accidentally knock into the wedding cake? Or if two bridesmaids get into a fight at the altar? How to Play: Hand out one etiquette card to each guest and have her write down an honest response to the situation.
Then, have the bridal party gather all the cards and read the questions and answers aloud. The Gist: Works best at a lingerie shower. What to Prep: On the invitations, ask each guest to bring lingerie gifts that match their personality and style. While the bride isn't looking, hang them around the room. How to Play: Once everything is set up, have the bride go around the room considering each item.
Then, have her guess whom each gift is from. At the end of the day, she goes home with a new lingerie wardrobe perfect to bring on the honeymoon! The Gist: Make a wedding dress out of toilet paper What to Prep: For this bridal shower game, you'll need lots of rolls of toilet paper. Spice up this game by purchasing markers, stickers or—if you are very brave—glitter. How to Play: Divide groups into teams of at least three people. One team member will be the model.
The other team members will have to make her or him a wedding dress out of toilet paper and your other decorating supplies.
Set a timer for 10 to 15 minutes. When the time is up, the bride-to-be can choose her winner. The Gist: Steal rings and try to collect them all What to Prep: Purchase a plastic wedding ring for each guest. How to Play: For this fun bridal shower game, present each guest with a plastic wedding ring to wear. Pick one wedding-related word that guests cannot speak, such as bride, love, or wedding. If a guest overhears another guest speak the forbidden word, they can take that guest's ring.
The winner is the guest with the most rings by the end of the party. The Gist: Guess where the happy couple is based on pictures What to Prep: Time to start hunting around on social media. Dig up a handful of pictures of the couple at different locations. Print them out and hang them up.
You can punch holes in the pictures and hang them on a string, or tape them around the house. Number each picture and print out a sheet of paper. How to Play: To start this bridal shower activity, give each guest their answer form and a pen and then ask them to go around the room and guess where the couple is bride and groom are in each picture. Make sure to be specific about what kind of answer you want. Are you looking for country, state or even the specific restaurant?
An alternate way to play this game is to put all the images into a slide show. Now that you have a few great bridal shower game ideas to consider, think about what else you need to do to make your bridal shower shine. Our best bridal shower games are sure to be a big hit. Learn the dos and don'ts of planning a bridal shower.
This game can be tweaked to test shower guests' knowledge of the bride. Everyone answers basic trivia about her or completes a computer-generated crossword puzzle filled with questions about her likes, dislikes, phobias, family, alma mater and other assorted tidbits. The beauty of bridal shower Bingo is that you can reformat it to suit the party's needs.
Will many people be attending who don't know one another? Use Bingo as an icebreaker so everyone can meet and learn how they know the guest of honor. Simply create Bingo cards with phrases like "college friend," "relative," "also born in " or "shares an unnatural passion for shoes. The first guest to fill the card wins a fabulous prize. Scented body lotions are big at the showers we've been to. You can also play Bridal Bingo in the traditional way, using cards filled with wedding-related terms, rather than numbers.
Prep prior to party time by filling out slips of paper with wedding lingo or trivia, such as the name of the reception hall, the bride's engagement ring cut or the location of the honeymoon. As you draw and announce each one, the players mark the square using a plain old pen or something more imaginative, such as candy hearts, which the wedding gurus at The Knot suggest.
Everyone's favorite childhood party game goes bridal when guests pass a bouquet made from real flowers or the gift-bow variety 'round the room in Musical Chairs fashion. Music plays while the bouquet is handed from guest to guest, and the music stops at intermittent points. The guest holding the bouquet whenever it stops is eliminated, leaving the rest of the guests to duke it out in a friendly manner, naturally until all but one lucky player is eliminated.
Be sure to have plenty of snacks for guests to sample while playing this game -- it's guaranteed to work up a serious appetite.
Especially appropriate for kitchen-themed showers, Name That Herb is surprisingly easy to pull off. All you need are fresh aromatic herbs , such as basil, thyme and oregano, in numbered paper cups. The containers are then passed around the party as each guest tries her hand at identifying the mystery herb. Game purists might place a lid with holes over each cup or require guests to cover their eyes as they sniff, since some garden-savvy guests might know herbs by sight.
The winner is the guest to correctly match the most unidentified herbs with their proper names. Be sure to keep an extra herb or two handy in case of a tiebreaker. This game is the bride's last chance to grope other guys without so much as a smidgen of guilt! Invite the groom to drop by the shower for a few minutes, and recruit some other guys to stop by in the same time frame.
To play Guess the Groom, the blindfolded bride takes turns feeling the calves of each male model, finally making an educated -- if risky -- guess as to which legs belong to her groom. This game works particularly well at couples showers, where there's typically a plethora of willing if intoxicated participants to choose from. Couples showers also afford the bride the opportunity to turn the tables on the groom, who could be presented with the same sort of parade of legs or hands.
Unless the bride is a natural exhibitionist, this game will surely help her earn "blushing bride" status.
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