Fun Ways To Give Away Prizes At Work

There are lots of fun ways to give away prizes at a baby shower without making your guests work too hard. Here are some ideas to get you started.

Guess who

You might learn something new about your guests if you go for this one.

Ask questions such as, "Who has the most children?", "Whose birthday is closest to the mum-to-be's due date?" or something else family-related. Anyone who thinks they may be the one is sure to speak up.

Someone might volunteer, "I have three kids!", then someone else will say, "I've just had my fourth!" Eventually, everyone will work out who'll win the prize, and with any luck your guests will get to know each other better.

Dish the dirt

Before your guests arrive, make little nappies out of white paper to pin to their clothes and wear during the shower. If not all the guests know each other, get them to write their names on the nappies and use them as name tags.

How to make the nappies:

Cut a piece of white paper into a square.
Fold it in half diagonally to make a triangle.
Position the triangle with the folded edge away from you.
Take the bottom point of the triangle and fold it up so that the tip touches the middle of the folded edge.
Take hold of the other two points of the triangle and fold them in along the edge so that the tips meet and just overlap. Hey presto, it's a nappy!

Before you fasten the nappies with safety pins, make a brown mark in one of them with a felt-tip pen. Don't tell anyone which nappy has the surprise in it!

At the end of the shower, ask your guests to unfasten their nappy and open it up. The one with the "dirty" nappy gets a prize.

Thank-you card prize

If you know the mum-to-be wants to write thank-you notes after the shower, she'll really appreciate this game.

Buy a box of thank-you cards. As guests arrive, give them each an envelope and ask them to address it to themselves and put all the envelopes in a bowl. At the end of the baby shower, pick out one of the envelopes at random and give that person a prize.

After the party is over, hand over the blank cards and addressed envelopes to the mum-to-be. She'll be thrilled at how easy it is to send thank-you notes to the guests.

Paper plate prize

This is ideal if you're planning to use paper plates for snacks or cake.

Before the party starts, put a little star or sticker on the bottom of one of the paper plates. While the guests are eating, and before anyone throws away their plate, ask them to look underneath to see who wins the prize.

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Francesca Whiting

Francesca Whiting is an editor at BabyCentre. She's responsible for making sure BabyCentre's health content is accurate, helpful and easy to understand.