Women in nearly all cultures have a tradition for celebrating the mother to be and soon to be born new baby. In the Navajo Native American tradition, a mother to be is sung over in a ceremony performed especially for expectant mothers. In this Native American culture, this is called the “dine bizzaad”, and is usually translated as a “Blessingway”.

One idea to make your baby shower fun is the create a peas in the pod activities for your guests or as some like to call them baby shower games. One such games is Name that Baby Food. The way it works is: you buy eight jars of baby fruits or vegetable. You cover each jar’s label with paper and number each jar. To play, you have to give each player a paper plate, a spoon and a pencil. Ask her to write the numbers 1 to 8 around the rim of the plate. Then stick a baby spoon in each jar and have the players pass the first jar around and place a spoonful of its contents near the number 1 on their plates. Then just repeat the process for all the baby food jars and ask the players to write down what they think each baby food is near the corresponding number on their plate.

Award a baby shower favors to the guests who get the most correct answers.

If you want to make this game even more challenging, choose baby foods that combine more than one fruit or vegetable in each jar.

So there you, these are some great baby shower games to entertain your guests and even have some fun for yourself. Your guests will love these ideas and activities and may actually enjoy going to more baby showers you host. Stay tuned for some ideas on how to create a theme for your baby shower gifts such as those baby gift baskets and baby gifts that your guests will bring and you can be sure the mom to be will be put them to good use.