If you’ve been to my blog before you know I love to read. My passion for reading developed at a very early age. In elementary school, the one time I faked sick to stay home was so I could read a new book – #nerdalert!
I’m so happy that the trend of bringing a book instead of a card to baby showers has continued for a number of years now. What a sweet way to start building baby’s first library.
A simple baby shower game can also incorporate everyone’s love of children’s books. There are a number of ways you can play “Name That Book”. In each version, guests hear quotes from popular children’s books and try to guess the titles. Whoever correctly guesses the most titles wins!
Below I have included variations of ways you can play the game as well as a FREE PRINTABLE for those who want to make their baby shower planning process easy. Yes, the answers are included! I tried to pick book quotes that were very famous so the game would be fun (and competitive) to play.
Have a children’s book that you, or the mom-to-be, love that I didn’t include? Add more questions or create your own list of quotes that would be more personal to your party.
The shower host reads a book quote and the first person to correctly guess the title gets a point. The guests could raise their hands or shout out answers. It depends on how crazy you want this baby shower to get. If you need a tie-breaker or want to offer extra points, see if the guest knows the author of the children’s book.
The shower host reads a book quote and each guest writes down her guess on a blank piece of paper. The person with the most correct answers at the end of the game wins. Again, if you need a tie-breaker or want to offer extra points see if the guest knows the author of the children’s book.
Think some of your guests might struggle with this game? Make teams!
Print out my FREE PRINTABLE so each guest can visually see each children’s book quote and write their guesses down. It is nice to be able to think about some of the quotes for a while before answering (plus less repeating for the shower host!).
With the printed out form, you can hand this game out when people arrive at the baby shower to give them something to do until all the guests have arrived. This game can also be played at any point during the party.
*Answers are on the 2nd page*
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What a fun idea! I’d include “Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Talya - that's a great quote! I keep thinking of more I should include but then the game might last forever.
I love these! I would add this quote:
“On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon“
From the hungry caterpillar. It’s long but I loved that book as a child!
We read this book all the time, great quote!
What a great game idea! I've planned a couple of baby showers in the past year and always get stuck on the games. Definitely bookmarking this for the next one!
What a fun idea! I love books as well, wish I had read this before my baby shower!
I never played this baby shower game. I think I'll have it for one of my baby shower games coming up later this summer. Thanks for sharing!
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I had mentioned that my sister made me a labor-and-delivery playlist, and it was actually one of the things that I remember from labor and delivery the most. I had wanted personally very mellow, calming music. And to this day, I’m singing Frankie’s songs now that were on that playlist, and it’s really special. So I thought maybe we could all, everyone who participates in the shower could choose a song to help get rid of some of that fear from labor and delivery or distract from it at least. We can tell her why we chose that song. So that was my one idea so far for an activity that we can do.