When it comes to finding the right games for any baby shower, it can be a little bit of a challenge. Saying this, finding virtual baby shower game ideas can be even harder! That’s why we’re here to help you. We know how challenging it can be to host a very special event online, and we want to help take the edge off and get you excited for your virtual baby shower!
The Best Virtual Baby Shower Game Ideas
Do you prefer guessing games or a more interactive virtual baby shower games? Will you have a big group attending or will you prefer to keep it intimate? Whatever you decide, we know these super fun (and super easy!) virtual baby shower game ideas will keep you and your guests laughing until the end. The best part? Over 70% of these virtual baby shower game ideas are Cotier Brand originals, so you’ll have something new AND unique to share with your nearest and dearest!
1. How Big Is Mommy’s Belly?
Required Materials: Toilet Paper
Game Length And Prep: 5-7 minutes, grab a roll of toilet paper and pre-measure the number of sheets that it takes to go around Mommy’s belly.
Why This Game Is Fun: It’s a great alternative to the traditional yarn measuring used. It’s also a great way for guests to get active and grab a roll to determine their guess.
Instructions:
- Using toilet paper, each guest must guess the number of perforated sheets it takes to cover Mommy’s belly.
- Once every guest has entered their guess within the chat, the host will measure mommy’s belly.
- The person with the closest guess wins!
2. Name That Baby Song!
Required Materials: Sheet of paper and a pen [guests], separate phone to play songs.
Game Length And Prep: 3-6 minutes, pre-make a playlist of 4-6 songs that have the word “baby” in the title somewhere e.g. Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice.
Why This Game Is Fun: Your guests will love showing off their musical prowess by guessing song titles and artist names. It’s also fun to add a little music to your virtual party!
Instructions:
- When everyone is ready, the host plays a song from their pre-made playlist for only 10 seconds.
- The guests have to guess what the title of the song is and who sings it.
- They then write down their guesses on a sheet of paper for the 4-6 songs played by the host.
- The person who has the most correct answers wins a baby shower prize!
3. Did Baby Poopie?
Required Materials: Did Baby Poopie? raffle tickets.
Game Length And Prep: 1-2 minutes, send raffle tickets to guests ahead of time with physical invites.
Why This Game Is Fun: Having your guests scratch to find the winning poop emoji raffle ticket is a great game to play because looking for poop is funny in itself and people love lotteries!
Instructions:
- Make sure all guests have their Did Baby Poopie? raffle tickets and a coin ready for scratching.
- Yell “Go!” and watch your guests frantically scratch to see if they’re a winner.
- There are 2 winning poop emoji tickets in each pack.
- The winner must scream “I got the poop!” to claim their prize!
4. The Price Is Right!
Required Materials: 4-7 baby shower items, sheet of paper and a pen [guests].
Game Length And Prep: 3-6 minutes, you will need to go to the store and pick up some common baby items.
Why This Game Is Fun: Your guests will love this game, especially the mommy’s on the call that haven’t been in “baby mode” for a while and are curious to see if they’re still in tune with prices.
Instructions:
- Ask each guest to grab a sheet of paper and a pen. Display each item one at a time on the screen and ask the guests to write down what they believe it costs.
- Go through your inventory a second time around, but this time supply the guests with the actual price. Ask the guests to write down the correct price next to their guesses.
- Award prizes for this baby shower game based on any or all of the following criteria: most accurate price guesses or the most inaccurate guesses.
Looking for more advice? Have a read on how to play a virtual baby shower AND have fun hosting it!
5. Guess Who: Mommy Or Daddy?
Required Materials: Sheet of paper and a pen [guests].
Game Length And Prep: 4-7 minutes, pre-make a list of 5-8 questions to ask guests.
Why This Game Is Fun: Your guests will love this game because there’s a sense of curiosity behind who knows Mommy and Daddy the best.
Instructions:
- Ask each guest to grab a sheet of paper and a pen.
- Go through and share all 5-8 questions and tell guests to record their answers.
- Now go through the questions and share the answers.
- The person who has the most correct answers wins a baby shower prize!
6. Oh Baby, True Or False?
Required Materials: Sheet of paper and a pen[guests].
Game Length And Prep: 4-7 minutes, pre-make a list of 5-8 questions to ask guests.
Why This Game Is Fun: Your guests will love showing off their baby knowledge. Who doesn’t want to be the smartest one in the room?
Instructions:
- Ask each guest to grab a sheet of paper and a pen.
- Go through and share all 5-8 questions and tell guests to record whether they believe it to be “True” or “False.”
- Now go through the questions and share the answers.
- The person who has the most correct answers wins a baby shower prize!
7. What’s In Your Phone?
Required Materials: Phone, sheet of paper and a pen [guests].
Game Length And Prep: 4-7 minutes, pre-make a list of 5-10 items to have in your phone.
Why This Game Is Fun: Your guests will love the spontaneity and pure thrill of this game!
Instructions:
- Start by telling everyone to grab their phone if they’re not already holding it for the streaming, paper, and a pen.
- Go through your list of 5-10 items with the associated points assigned to them.
- For each item the guest does have, tell them to write down the number of points and the associated item on their sheet of paper.
- The person with the highest score of points wins the baby shower game prize!
Can’t decide on a unique virtual baby shower game? You can’t go wrong with our Did Baby Poopie? raffle game!
8. Who Knows Mommy Best?
Required Materials: Sheet of paper and a pen [guests].
Game Length And Prep: 4-7 minutes, pre-make a list of 5-8 questions to ask guests.
Why This Game Is Fun: Your guests will love this game because there’s a sense of curiosity behind who knows Mommy the best.
Instructions:
- Ask each guest to grab a sheet of paper and a pen.
- Go through and share all 5-8 questions and tell guests to record their answers.
- Now go through the questions and share the answers.
- The person who has the most correct answers wins a baby shower prize!
9. Baby Shower Trivia
Required Materials: Sheet of paper and a pen [guests].
Game Length And Prep: 10-12 minutes, pre-make a list of 5-8 trivia questions to ask guests.
Why This Game Is Fun: Your guests will love showing off their trivia knowledge. Who doesn’t want to be the smartest one in the room?
Instructions:
- Ask each guest to grab a sheet of paper and a pen.
- Go through and share all 5-8 trivia questions and tell guests to record their multiple-choice answers.
- Now go through the trivia questions and share the answers.
- The person who has the most correct answers wins a baby shower prize!
10. Who Needs A Charge?
Required Materials: Phone.
Game Length And Prep: 2-3 minutes, no prep required.
Why This Game Is Fun: This game is totally original! We all have that one friend or family member whose phone is always dying. So let’s make fun of them for it and let them win a prize in the process!
Instructions:
- Ask each guest to check the battery percentage on their phone.
- Whoever has the lowest battery and needs to charge their phone wins the prize!
11. Baby Shower Charades
Required Materials: Creativity, silliness, and your imagination, guests will need paper and a pen.
Game Length And Prep: 8-15 minutes, pre-make a list of 5-8 activities to act out.
Why This Game Is Fun: Your guests will absolutely love this! This is a great opportunity for one of the co-hosts to be silly and act out a few phrases. Excellent way to start the party!
Instructions:
- Unlike the original gaming rules, this should be played individually due to the party being virtual.
- The co-host or one of the co-hosts will need to be the one to act out all the charades.
- Ask each guest to grab a sheet of paper and a pen. As each charade is acted out, guests will need to write their answers on their sheets.
- Once complete, go back through and share what each charade represented and have guests tally up how many they got correct.
- The person who has the most correct answers wins a baby shower prize!
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12. Guess How Many?
Required Materials: Clear jar and an a lot of candy.
Game Length And Prep: 2-5 minutes, purchase a clear jar and fill it with any candy type and be sure to count.
Why This Game Is Fun: Your guests will love guessing how many gummy bears or skittles are in the jar! It takes some serious skill and spatial intelligence to win this game.
Instructions:
- Fill up a clear jar with candies of your choice.
- Tell each guest to type in their guess in the group chat.
- The person with the most accurate guess wins the prize!
13. What’s In My Purse?
Required Materials: Sheet of paper, pen, and purse [guests].
Game Length And Prep: 4-7 minutes, pre-make a list of 5-10 items to have in your purse.
Why This Game Is Fun: Your guests will love the spontaneity and pure thrill of this game!
Instructions:
- Start by telling everyone to grab their nearby purse, paper, and a pen.
- Go through your list of 5-10 items with the associated points assigned to them.
- For each item the guest does have, tell them to write down the number of points and the associated item on their sheet of paper.
- The person with the highest score of points wins the baby shower game prize!
14. Did You Hear That?
Required Materials: Sheet of paper and a pen [guests].
Game Length And Prep: This played the entire time of the baby shower but concludes after gift opening. All you will need to do is determine your 5 words. Possible words could be baby, party, present, live, and diapers.
Why This Game Is Fun: This game is an alternative to “Don’t Say Baby!” The fact that this game is constantly running in the background makes it incredibly fun!
Instructions:
- At the beginning of the baby shower, let guests know that you’ll be giving them 5 words that you’ll randomly but naturally sprinkle into conversation throughout the shower.
- Share those 5 words with the guests and have them write them down.
- As you say each of these words throughout the shower, attentive guests will need to check them off the list of 5 total words.
- Once you say the last/5th word which could take place anytime while the shower is happening, the first guest to shout or message in the chat “I heard that!” wins the prize.
15. Lucky Gift Prediction
Required Materials: No materials required, except gifts for Mom-to-be.
Game Length And Prep: 1-3 minutes, no prep required.
Why This Game Is Fun: This game is fun because it gets guests contributing in an interactive way during the gift opening process.
Instructions:
- Let the guest know that you’re going to play a game where the first person to correctly guess what the first gift is during gift opening will win a prize.
- Note: If you want to give away any remaining prizes during this period then carry this game on to have people predict the first 2, 3 or 4 gifts being opened. It’s completely up to you!
Until Next Time…
Ultimately, some of the best virtual baby shower game ideas are what works for you and your shower, so go with what your instinct says. With that being said, we’re here to help! If you have any questions we can help with, please don’t hesitate to leave us a comment below!
Remember Momma bear, you got this! And we’re right here with you, every step (or belly shuffle) of the way.
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