Caught in the Middle

Have everybody sit in a circle. Get several brown lunch bags and put something in them (make-up, baby food, clothing items). Start some music and pass a bag around. When the music stops the person with the bag and the person who handed them the bag must go to the center. Both are blindfolded and then the contents of the bag are reveled. The one with the bag must do something with the object to the other person (feed baby food, put the lipstick on). It's really funny, especially when the person with the bag can't figure out what the object is.
 

Date game

Starting with the person sitting to the left of the bride, go around the room until each guests has told their birthday or the date of their wedding anniversary. The person whose date is closes to the wedding wins a prize.

Memories

This sentimental and emotional game. All the guests have to sit around in a circle and starting from the person to the left of the bride everyone states what they most fondly remember about the first time they met the bride or they're most cherished memory about friendship or their happiest memory. I suggest this game should be played at an only female shower since 99.9% everyone especially the bride dabs their eyes.

Caught you!

At the beginning of the shower give a gift to the second person arriving, and the fifth, and the eighth (whatever many you decide). And instruct everyone who arrives "not to cross their legs." If she is caught with her legs crossed she has to forfeit her gift to the one who caught her. Everyone keeps an eye on everyone, it is fun to see who has the gifts at the end of the party, then the girls open their gifts. This also includes the gifts from the other games played. It is a great ice-breaker and lots of fun.

Create the Future

Break the guests up into groups and give each group a stack of old magazines, scissors and a photo album page. Assign each group a topic i.e. the couples courtship, honeymoon, their home, kids, ect. Have each group make a collage pertaining to their topic by cutting pictures out of the magazines. Once finished, put all the pages into an album and pass it around. It is hilarious to see what everyone comes up with.

Operator (a variation)

All of the shower guest sat in a circle. The person to the left of the bride starts by saying, "My name is Mary and I am going to Jennifer's bridal shower and I brought many oven mitts" (The point is to make your "gift" start with the same letter of your first name. This is very important because it is a clue for the other part of this game.) Then the person to the left of Mary would say "My name is Sally and I am going to Jennifer's bridal shower and I brought seven silky slips and Mary brought many oven mitts." Continue around the circle with each person saying their name and "gift" and then also reciting the names and "gifts" of the people who had already taken a turn.

Pass It On!

Everyone should be sitting in a circle formation. Starting with the host of the shower, she states one word describing a wedding or bridal shower. The next says her word, plus the word from the previous person, i.e., 1st person: bridal gown; 2nd person: church, bridal gown; 3rd person: limousine, church, bridal shower, and so on.

Recipe for a Good Marriage

What you do is give everyone a piece of stationary and have them right down what they would consider a recipe for a good marriage would be. When everyone is done you have them fold their recipe in half and put it in a bowl or hat and you then draw the recipes out one by one and read them off and everyone has to guess who may have written the recipe. It is not only a good way to get to know each other and laugh but you can only imagine what kind of recipes you get.

Shower Name Game

This game works especially well at showers/parties where the guests don't know each other very well. Ahead of time, write names of famous people on name tags. The names can be real people, cartoon characters, etc. Some of famous people you can use are: Miss Piggy, Vanna White, Queen Elizabeth, Bill Clinton. As each guest arrives, attach the name tag to their back and explain the rules, which are each person is to try to figure out the name of the person on their back by asking the other guests questions. However, the only questions allowed must be able to be answered with a "yes" or a "no". For instance, they can ask, "Am I a female?", but they cannot ask, "What movie was I in?" This game gets people mingling and talking to each other. A prize is given to the first person to guess correctly.

What's hidden in the purse?

A fun, quick shower game is to have everyone get their purses out. Give them the name of an item they may have in their purse and give a prize to the first person to pull the item out of their purse. You can start with common things like a nail file or a hairbrush, but it starts to get crazy when you start asking for things like buttons, bobby pins, toothpicks, sewing kits, you name it!!! It is fun to see who has the craziest stuff in their purses!!! And it is one time when it can pay off to have everything but the kitchen sink in your purse!

What a Load!

This game requires a scale. The scale is placed in the center of the floor and everyone has to weigh their purses. It is great!!! I can not believe how heavy some women's purses are. Who needs to work out?!

The Toilet Paper Game

This is a great ice-breaker among people who do not always know each other.

Pass the roll of toilet paper around the circle of people. Tell each person to rip off however many pieces they want (this is what will determine the "length" of the game.) Don't tell anyone what they are doing, don't even let on that it is a game if you can help it, this makes it even more funny.

Once everyone is finished, you can explain the game. For every square they are holding, they have to tell the group something about themselves. The more sheets, the more facts needed. You just make your way around the circle getting to each person in turn.

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