Just what is a Baby Safety Shower?

It's simply a Baby Shower where Baby's safety is the theme. Both parents and guests have fun with activities that revolve around home safety - and they leave with new ideas about keeping their babies safe at home.

Baby showers usually involve three things: games, gifts, and edible goodies. At a Baby Safety Shower, the games and other fun activities provide an effective way to teach and reinforce safety and health messages. The games included here focus on the theme of keeping your baby safe at home - and they're perfect for any Baby Shower!

Start by creating a gift basket for the new parents full of safety items like:
· cabinet locks
· outlet covers
· corner and edge bumpers
· refridgerator locks
· toilet locks
· door knob covers
· floating yellow duck bathtub thermometer
· door stops and door holders

Move The Basket Out Of Sight For A Fun Game Of Memory...

Set the gift basket out as a table centerpiece with the safety items unwrapped. During the shower it can be passed around for guests to look at, then moved out of sight for a fun game of Memory.

To play, guests are given 3 minutes to write down as many items as they can remember - all the while the basket is hidden out of sight. The most correct answers wins the game and the basket can be returned to it's centerpiece display - then sent home with the new parents at the end of the shower.

Other safety shower games include:

Safety Bingo
Can You Answer This?
Safety Sayings
Picture Safety

(All games below have been designed to print right from your computer and include a Baby Safety Checklist plus all the worksheets. For your free copy of these Print & Play Baby Safety Games, visit http://www.BabyShowerGamesAtoZ.com)

Safety Bingo

Before playing this game, review the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Baby Safety Checklist with your shower guests. In front of them will be a bingo card with answers in each square - which means your guests will want to pay attention because there's going to be a quiz!

As you read quiz questions aloud, each guest marks the right answer box, or uses a Hershey's Kiss to cover the appropriate square on their bingo card to match five in a row, up, down, or diagonal.

Clues include things like "One of these will prevent children from falling down stairs" and "If burst or uninflated, these can be a choking hazard to young children" - where the answers are "baby gate" and "balloons."

Can You Answer This? Bedroom Safety

Before playing this game, review the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Baby Safety Checklist with your shower guests.

Guests are split guests into two teams. The moderator asks Team 1 for the answer to one game question. For each correct answer, Team 1 gets one point. If Team 1 is stumped, Team 2 gets a chance to answer. The moderator then asks Team 2 one game question -- and so on.

Game includes questions like: "Can you name three things that describe an unsafe crib?" The moderator can award points for other common-sense answers not included in the Checklist.

Safety Sayings - Bathroom Safety

Before playing this game, review the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Baby Safety Checklist with your shower guests.

Guests are split into two teams. On a flip chart, draw the number of blank lines (similiar to the game of hangman) corresponding to the number of letters and spaces in the safety saying. Each team in turn guesses a letter to go in the spaces. Correct letters are written in the appropriate blanks.

When one team thinks it knows the saying, it calls out the answer. The team correctly guessing the most safety sayings, wins.

Picture Safety - Kitchen Safety

Before playing this game, review the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Baby Safety Checklist with your shower guests.

Again, guests are split into two teams. Teams sit facing each other and the flip charts are positioned back to back between the teams. The moderator selects a safety clue card and shows it to one person from each team. When the moderator says "go," each person draws a picture of the safety clue on her team's flip chart.

The first team to guess the picture wins 5 points. The team can win 5 more points if it correctly describes how the clue is safety related. The team with the most points wins. Safety Clue Cards include clues like: matches, knives, and dish detergents.

All games above have been designed to print right from your computer and include the Baby Safety Checklist plus all the worksheets. For your free copy of these Print & Play Baby Safety Games, visit http://www.BabyShowerGamesAtoZ.com