In the middle of a pandemic is not an easy time to be pregnant. With the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warning that pregnant women may have an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19, even a simple idea like a baby shower seems fraught with risk. “Ideally, a baby shower should wait until after the pandemic risk has dropped significantly,” Jamie Bacharach of Acupuncture Jerusalem told Mom.com. “It's not written in stone that a baby shower needs to take place before the baby is born.”
But we know that isn’t going to be practical for many expecting moms who need the shower gifts to prepare for baby.
That's where socially distant and drive-by baby showers come in. Just because you can’t walk up and hug your favorite mom-to-be doesn’t mean you can’t have a a celebration that includes seeing friends, having good food and fun baby shower games to engage guests in a socially distant, virtual, or a drive-by baby shower.
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Virtual baby shower parent preparation games
A great baby show is more than just fun, it helps mom and dad learn some things about what they should expect when they become parents. Design a few games around practical parents must-knows.
Some fun games for parent preparation that can be done in a virtual baby shower:
- The Price is Right: Get popular baby items, big and small, and have guests guess the price of them. This will help mom and dad understand just how crazy expensive kids can be. The person who gets the closest overall wins a prize.
- Baby Gift Bingo: Have your guests download baby bingo cards ahead of time. As mom opens a baby shower gift, guests can check off the item from their card. The first to get a row or column gets a prize. You can also give prizes for the first to get both a row and column as well as anyone who gets a blackout.
- Baby Jeopardy: Create a baby jeopard board on a poster board with columns of subjects and rows of answers. Have guests use their names as a buzzer to answer ask the questions and win the box, then choose the next answer. According to mom Ivy Butler, Baby Jeopardy is “seriously the most fun game for a baby shower.”
Remember that you don’t need to do a lot of games to make the baby shower fun and memorable. The idea is to find a few things that resonate with mom to help her get into the fun.
