Baby shower games have a reputation, and it is mostly earned by three or four that ask grown adults to do something undignified. These are the ones that hold up: quick, quiet enough to run alongside conversation, and several that leave the parents something they keep.
If you only run two, run a keepsake one and a mingling one. The keepsake gets reread for years. The mingling one solves the real problem at a shower, which is two families meeting for the first time in a room where nobody knows who is who.
01
Don’t Say Baby
Free
A clothespin for every guest at the door. Say the word "baby" and whoever catches you takes your pin.
5 min
5–200 people
Any age
No prep
Up and about
Inside or out
What you need
A clothespin per guest, or a ribbon · The rules sign by the door
How to play
1Clip a pin on every guest as they arrive and point them to the sign.
2The rule: nobody says the word "baby" for the whole party.
3Catch someone saying it and you take their pin and clip it on yourself.
4It runs all afternoon in the background. Nobody has to stop what they are doing.
How it ends
Whoever is wearing the most pins when the cake is cut wins.
02
Baby Bingo
Free
Guess what is in the gifts. Cross them off as they are opened.
30 min
6–200 people
Any age
Minutes to set up
Sit-down
Inside or out
What you need
A bingo card per guest · Pens
How to play
1Cards are filled with likely gifts — bodysuits, swaddles, a bath thermometer nobody will use.
2Hand them out before the presents are opened.
3Guests cross off what appears. It gives the gift-opening a shape, which it badly needs.
How it ends
First full line shouts. Small prize.
03
How Ready Is the Guest of Honor?
In the event kit
A quiz about the baby, keyed from the parents’ own answers — cravings, rejected names, the tired advice.
15 min
5–150 people
Any age
Minutes to set up
Sit-down
Inside or out
What you need
A question sheet per guest · Pens
How to play
1Fill in the answers about the baby on the Activities screen — the sheet prints with your key.
2Guests answer; the guest of honor confirms and tells the story behind each.
3Award the last question to whoever gives the advice the guest of honor is most tired of hearing, in chorus.
How it ends
Most right answers wins. The rejected names get a second vote, which changes nothing.
04
Guess the Price
In the event kit
Ten baby items on a table with the prices covered. Guess each one.
15 min
5–100 people
Any age
An evening of prep
Up and about
Inside or out
What you need
Ten baby items with prices covered · A sheet per guest · Pens
How to play
1Real items on a table, price tags hidden. Include one absurdly expensive thing.
2Guests circulate and write a guess for each.
3Closest total without going over, or nearest per item — say which before they start.
How it ends
Reveal each price. The items go to the parents afterward, so nothing is wasted.
05
Guess the Baby Food
Free
Eight jars of baby food with the labels covered. Taste, or just sniff, and name the flavor.
15 min
5–40 people
Any age
Minutes to set up
Sit-down
Inside or out
What you need
Eight jars of baby food, labels covered and numbered · Small tasting spoons, one per guest per jar · An answer sheet per guest · Pens
How to play
1Peel or cover the labels and number the jars one to eight. Keep the key.
2Mix easy flavors with hard ones: banana and peas, then pear, sweet potato, turkey dinner.
3Guests taste with a clean spoon each time, or sniff if they would rather not, and write their guess.
4Read the answers out jar by jar. Somebody always calls the turkey chocolate pudding.
How it ends
Most right wins. The faces are the point.
06
Wishes for the Baby
In the event kit
A wish written on a card, for a milestone birthday years away.
15 min
5–200 people
Any age
Minutes to set up
Sit-down
Inside or out
What you need
A card per guest · Pens · An envelope or box to seal them in
How to play
1Each guest writes a wish, addressed to the child at eighteen.
2Sign and date it. That is what makes it worth anything in eighteen years.
3Seal them into one envelope, to be opened on their eighteenth birthday.
How it ends
No winner. The best of the keepsake activities, because it has a date on it.
07
Predictions Board
Free
Date, weight, time, hair. Everyone commits in writing before the day.
10 min
5–200 people
Any age
Minutes to set up
Sit-down
Inside or out
What you need
A prediction card per guest · Pens · A board or box
How to play
1Date, time, weight, length, hair color, and who they will look like.
2Everyone fills one in on arrival. Pin them to a board so people can see the outliers.
3Take a photo of the board — the parents will want it after the birth.
How it ends
Nothing is settled at the shower. Closest guess is announced weeks later, which is half the appeal.
08
What’s in Your Purse?
Free
A list of things worth points. Everyone digs through their own bag, and the fullest bag wins.
10 min
5–150 people
Any age
No prep
Up and about
Inside or out
What you need
A list per guest · Pens · A small prize
How to play
1Everyone fetches their own bag. No borrowing from a neighbor, and no running to the car.
2Hand out the lists. Each thing in your bag scores the points beside it.
3Five minutes to tick off what you have and add up the total.
4Read out the highest score, then make the winner show the more surprising things.
How it ends
Highest total wins. The odd things people carry are the real entertainment.
Baby shower games have a reputation, and it is mostly earned by three or four that ask grown adults to do something undignified. These are the ones that hold up: quick, quiet enough to run alongside conversation, and several that leave the parents something they keep.
If you only run two, run a keepsake one and a mingling one. The keepsake gets reread for years. The mingling one solves the real problem at a shower, which is two families meeting for the first time in a room where nobody knows who is who.
01
Don’t Say Baby
Free
A clothespin for every guest at the door. Say the word "baby" and whoever catches you takes your pin.
5 min
5–200 people
Any age
No prep
Up and about
Inside or out
What you need
A clothespin per guest, or a ribbon · The rules sign by the door
How to play
1Clip a pin on every guest as they arrive and point them to the sign.
2The rule: nobody says the word "baby" for the whole party.
3Catch someone saying it and you take their pin and clip it on yourself.
4It runs all afternoon in the background. Nobody has to stop what they are doing.
How it ends
Whoever is wearing the most pins when the cake is cut wins.
02
Baby Bingo
Free
Guess what is in the gifts. Cross them off as they are opened.
30 min
6–200 people
Any age
Minutes to set up
Sit-down
Inside or out
What you need
A bingo card per guest · Pens
How to play
1Cards are filled with likely gifts — bodysuits, swaddles, a bath thermometer nobody will use.
2Hand them out before the presents are opened.
3Guests cross off what appears. It gives the gift-opening a shape, which it badly needs.
How it ends
First full line shouts. Small prize.
03
How Ready Is the Guest of Honor?
In the event kit
A quiz about the baby, keyed from the parents’ own answers — cravings, rejected names, the tired advice.
15 min
5–150 people
Any age
Minutes to set up
Sit-down
Inside or out
What you need
A question sheet per guest · Pens
How to play
1Fill in the answers about the baby on the Activities screen — the sheet prints with your key.
2Guests answer; the guest of honor confirms and tells the story behind each.
3Award the last question to whoever gives the advice the guest of honor is most tired of hearing, in chorus.
How it ends
Most right answers wins. The rejected names get a second vote, which changes nothing.
04
Guess the Price
In the event kit
Ten baby items on a table with the prices covered. Guess each one.
15 min
5–100 people
Any age
An evening of prep
Up and about
Inside or out
What you need
Ten baby items with prices covered · A sheet per guest · Pens
How to play
1Real items on a table, price tags hidden. Include one absurdly expensive thing.
2Guests circulate and write a guess for each.
3Closest total without going over, or nearest per item — say which before they start.
How it ends
Reveal each price. The items go to the parents afterward, so nothing is wasted.
05
Guess the Baby Food
Free
Eight jars of baby food with the labels covered. Taste, or just sniff, and name the flavor.
15 min
5–40 people
Any age
Minutes to set up
Sit-down
Inside or out
What you need
Eight jars of baby food, labels covered and numbered · Small tasting spoons, one per guest per jar · An answer sheet per guest · Pens
How to play
1Peel or cover the labels and number the jars one to eight. Keep the key.
2Mix easy flavors with hard ones: banana and peas, then pear, sweet potato, turkey dinner.
3Guests taste with a clean spoon each time, or sniff if they would rather not, and write their guess.
4Read the answers out jar by jar. Somebody always calls the turkey chocolate pudding.
How it ends
Most right wins. The faces are the point.
06
Wishes for the Baby
In the event kit
A wish written on a card, for a milestone birthday years away.
15 min
5–200 people
Any age
Minutes to set up
Sit-down
Inside or out
What you need
A card per guest · Pens · An envelope or box to seal them in
How to play
1Each guest writes a wish, addressed to the child at eighteen.
2Sign and date it. That is what makes it worth anything in eighteen years.
3Seal them into one envelope, to be opened on their eighteenth birthday.
How it ends
No winner. The best of the keepsake activities, because it has a date on it.
07
Predictions Board
Free
Date, weight, time, hair. Everyone commits in writing before the day.
10 min
5–200 people
Any age
Minutes to set up
Sit-down
Inside or out
What you need
A prediction card per guest · Pens · A board or box
How to play
1Date, time, weight, length, hair color, and who they will look like.
2Everyone fills one in on arrival. Pin them to a board so people can see the outliers.
3Take a photo of the board — the parents will want it after the birth.
How it ends
Nothing is settled at the shower. Closest guess is announced weeks later, which is half the appeal.
08
What’s in Your Purse?
Free
A list of things worth points. Everyone digs through their own bag, and the fullest bag wins.
10 min
5–150 people
Any age
No prep
Up and about
Inside or out
What you need
A list per guest · Pens · A small prize
How to play
1Everyone fetches their own bag. No borrowing from a neighbor, and no running to the car.
2Hand out the lists. Each thing in your bag scores the points beside it.
3Five minutes to tick off what you have and add up the total.
4Read out the highest score, then make the winner show the more surprising things.
How it ends
Highest total wins. The odd things people carry are the real entertainment.
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On the TV
The screen runs the game.
It reads out the rules, keeps the score and runs the clock, so whoever is hosting gets to play too. Open this page on the laptop or the TV and press Play.
Every game the TV hosts needs at least three players, so a night for two is played at the table. The best of it is just below.
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Or deal it out.
Card games, dice games and the ones that need nothing but a pen, each quick to learn and hard to stop playing. The rules are on every card.
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Why it exists
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Somebody has to work out how much chicken feeds thirty, whether the sprouts and the potatoes can share an oven, what a fourteen-year-old will find embarrassing, and which of the eleven things on the list has to happen before the invitations go out.
None of that is the fun part, and all of it is knowable. That is the whole idea behind Kit & Occasion: the answers exist, they are just spread across forty browser tabs and the memory of whoever hosted last year.
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What is free and what is not
The planning is free. All of it — the menus, the quantities, the guest list, the budget, the shopping list, the games, the checklist. Not a trial, and not capped at one event.
What costs money is the printing: a coordinated set of signs, labels, table cards and game materials in your own colours, sized correctly, with the paper worked out and the assembly written down. It is the gap between having a plan and having a party, and it is the part people dread. One payment, no subscription.
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